Security Cleared Job Trends in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 80 71
Rank change year-on-year +50 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,346 487 792
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.78% 3.97% 3.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.67% 13.79% 14.30%
Number of salaries quoted 858 327 527
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.70% +5.22% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,695 3,531 5,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.17% 28.75% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,812 1,970 3,040
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,480
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +33 127 £75,000 +15.38% 139
South London -20 30 £55,000 -15.38% 12
West London -17 15 £85,000 +136.11% 42
North London +1 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -12 1 £110,000 - 27
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.26%) Apache
3 14 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.89%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.89%) Confluence
4 12 (0.89%) Mule
5 10 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.45%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) JBoss
11 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.074%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.074%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.15%) InVision
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.074%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.074%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.074%) Houdini
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) NUKE
4 1 (0.074%) Trello
4 1 (0.074%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Maximo
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.074%) Primavera
3 1 (0.074%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.074%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 420 (31.20%) AWS
2 261 (19.39%) Azure
3 105 (7.80%) GCP
4 80 (5.94%) Serverless
5 75 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 75 (5.57%) Cloud Computing
6 49 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 44 (3.27%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.97%) Amazon S3
10 37 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (2.30%) GitHub
12 27 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
15 23 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (1.49%) OCI
17 18 (1.34%) SaaS
18 17 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
19 15 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.71%) Network Security
2 31 (2.30%) Firewall
3 16 (1.19%) WAN
4 15 (1.11%) DNS
5 14 (1.04%) SSL
6 11 (0.82%) DHCP
7 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.74%) VPN
8 9 (0.67%) LAN
8 9 (0.67%) NGN
8 9 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.45%) SAN
10 6 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.45%) VSAN
11 5 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.37%) NAS
12 4 (0.30%) IPv4
12 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.90%) Power BI
2 31 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 29 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.08%) Metadata
4 28 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (1.71%) Big Data
7 18 (1.34%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.04%) MySQL
9 12 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.89%) Tableau
10 11 (0.82%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.74%) DTS
11 10 (0.74%) SQL Server
12 9 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.59%) Db2
14 6 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 62 (4.61%) Jenkins
2 59 (4.38%) Git
3 44 (3.27%) GitLab
4 31 (2.30%) JIRA
5 8 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 7 (0.52%) Balsamiq
6 7 (0.52%) Maven
6 7 (0.52%) Vite
7 6 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.37%) Gradle
8 5 (0.37%) Subversion
9 4 (0.30%) JMeter
10 3 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.22%) Taiga
10 3 (0.22%) VersionOne
General
1 335 (24.89%) Public Sector
2 268 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 176 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (9.96%) Law
5 121 (8.99%) Finance
6 112 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.86%) Legal
10 19 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 13 (0.97%) Military
12 12 (0.89%) Games
12 12 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.67%) Retail
14 8 (0.59%) Advertising
14 8 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.52%) Cyber-Physical System
15 7 (0.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 278 (20.65%) Senior
2 245 (18.20%) Architect
3 226 (16.79%) Consultant
4 117 (8.69%) Developer
5 111 (8.25%) Lead
6 105 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
7 85 (6.32%) Senior Consultant
8 73 (5.42%) Data Engineer
9 70 (5.20%) Analyst
10 60 (4.46%) AWS Architect
11 57 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 55 (4.09%) Software Engineer
13 48 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (3.57%) Senior Manager
14 47 (3.49%) AWS Solution Architect
14 47 (3.49%) Data Architect
15 44 (3.27%) Security Consultant
16 42 (3.12%) Business Analyst
17 39 (2.90%) IAM Consultant
18 38 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.82%) React
2 29 (2.15%) Kafka
3 28 (2.08%) Spring
4 25 (1.86%) .NET
5 22 (1.63%) HTML
6 20 (1.49%) CSS
6 20 (1.49%) Node.js
6 20 (1.49%) OAuth
7 19 (1.41%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.26%) REST
9 16 (1.19%) PySpark
10 13 (0.97%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.97%) JSON
10 13 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (0.97%) Web Services
10 13 (0.97%) YAML
11 12 (0.89%) JWT
11 12 (0.89%) OAuth2
11 12 (0.89%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 75 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.16%) Data Centre
4 49 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 41 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
9 25 (1.86%) Operational Technology
10 21 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
11 19 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.26%) Blog
14 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.97%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.97%) PKI
17 11 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 11 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.46%) Linux
2 72 (5.35%) Windows
3 32 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.67%) CentOS
5 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.30%) Unix
7 4 (0.30%) VMS
8 3 (0.22%) Android
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Rocky
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (22.66%) Agile
2 200 (14.86%) DevOps
3 194 (14.41%) AI
4 183 (13.60%) Mentoring
5 174 (12.93%) CI/CD
6 144 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
7 142 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (9.81%) Software Engineering
9 131 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (8.62%) Analytics
12 113 (8.40%) Community of Practice
13 105 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 104 (7.73%) Technology Strategy
15 101 (7.50%) Project Delivery
16 99 (7.36%) Migration
17 97 (7.21%) Roadmaps
18 87 (6.46%) Scrum
19 84 (6.24%) Microservices
20 81 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (15.16%) Python
2 138 (10.25%) Java
3 80 (5.94%) SQL
4 73 (5.42%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.64%) Bash
6 32 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.01%) C#
9 22 (1.63%) C++
10 16 (1.19%) Perl
11 15 (1.11%) Ruby
12 14 (1.04%) PHP
13 12 (0.89%) DataWeave
14 11 (0.82%) Rust
14 11 (0.82%) Scala
15 10 (0.74%) Go
16 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.45%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.45%) C
17 6 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 939 (69.76%) SC Cleared
2 302 (22.44%) DV Cleared
3 177 (13.15%) Degree
4 59 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.97%) CISSP
7 36 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.23%) CISM
9 23 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.26%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.97%) OSCP
13 12 (0.89%) CRISC
13 12 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.59%) PhD
15 7 (0.52%) CCNA
16 6 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.31%) NIST
2 55 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (3.12%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.60%) QA
5 29 (2.15%) NCSC
6 25 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.56%) GDPR
7 21 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (0.97%) GRC
9 10 (0.74%) WCAG
10 8 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.52%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 6 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.30%) PMO
13 4 (0.30%) RMADS
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
System Software
1 81 (6.02%) Docker
2 47 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.19%) vSphere
5 8 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.45%) KVM
8 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Squid
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.074%) Firmware
11 1 (0.074%) IAG
11 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (9.96%) Terraform
2 100 (7.43%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.64%) Ansible
4 23 (1.71%) Puppet
5 21 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.49%) Grafana
7 18 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.89%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.59%) Argo
12 6 (0.45%) CASB
12 6 (0.45%) Kibana
13 5 (0.37%) Packer
13 5 (0.37%) SCOM
13 5 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.30%) Nagios
15 3 (0.22%) Nessus
15 3 (0.22%) SCCM
15 3 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 128 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.86%) Google
2 52 (3.86%) Oracle
3 41 (3.05%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.05%) VMware
4 38 (2.82%) Databricks
5 36 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 26 (1.93%) SAP
7 19 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 18 (1.34%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.26%) Splunk
10 16 (1.19%) Cisco
10 16 (1.19%) Dell
10 16 (1.19%) Okta
11 15 (1.11%) Adobe
11 15 (1.11%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.11%) Palantir
12 12 (0.89%) Foundry
13 9 (0.67%) Remedy