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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +45 -1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,415 495 806
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.86% 4.14% 4.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.91% 14.22% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 906 342 484
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,813 £51,563 £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 £92,500 £85,000 £84,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +16.67% +2.04% -2.00%

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 4,731 3,480 5,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.59% 29.11% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,836 1,947 2,697
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,063 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,125 £114,250 £103,030
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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +35 128 £75,000 +15.38% 123
South London -20 27 £55,000 -15.38% 27
West London -19 10 £90,000 +146.58% 85
East London -8 1 £110,000 - 26
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 15 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.99%) Apache
3 13 (0.92%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.92%) Mule
3 13 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.85%) Confluence
4 12 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.42%) Camunda
5 6 (0.42%) SAS
6 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.071%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.071%) R Markdown
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.071%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.071%) Houdini
5 1 (0.071%) InVision
5 1 (0.071%) NUKE
5 1 (0.071%) Sketch
5 1 (0.071%) Trello
5 1 (0.071%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.35%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.071%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.071%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 441 (31.17%) AWS
2 256 (18.09%) Azure
3 110 (7.77%) GCP
4 80 (5.65%) Serverless
5 76 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
6 51 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (3.32%) Power Platform
8 46 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 42 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 37 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.40%) GitHub
12 30 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
15 23 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (1.48%) OCI
17 19 (1.34%) SaaS
18 16 (1.13%) Amazon EventBridge
19 15 (1.06%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.67%) Network Security
2 35 (2.47%) Firewall
3 16 (1.13%) SSL
3 16 (1.13%) WAN
4 12 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (0.64%) LAN
5 9 (0.64%) NGN
5 9 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.64%) VPN
6 8 (0.57%) DNS
7 7 (0.49%) DHCP
7 7 (0.49%) Wireshark
8 6 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.35%) MPLS
9 5 (0.35%) VSAN
10 4 (0.28%) BGP
10 4 (0.28%) IPv4
10 4 (0.28%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.76%) Power BI
2 33 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 32 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.12%) Metadata
5 28 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (1.70%) Big Data
7 23 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.34%) Tableau
10 15 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (0.99%) MySQL
12 13 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.85%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.71%) SQL Server
15 8 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.42%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 69 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 64 (4.52%) Git
3 49 (3.46%) GitLab
4 33 (2.33%) JIRA
5 10 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.57%) Maven
6 8 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.49%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.49%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.42%) Gradle
8 6 (0.42%) Vite
9 5 (0.35%) JUnit
9 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.28%) Axure RP
10 4 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.28%) Mockito
11 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.21%) Mercurial
General
1 340 (24.03%) Public Sector
2 282 (19.93%) Social Skills
3 180 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (10.25%) Finance
5 136 (9.61%) Law
6 132 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.63%) Legal
10 17 (1.20%) Military
11 16 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 14 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.92%) Marketing
14 11 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.64%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.64%) Retail
16 8 (0.57%) Banking
16 8 (0.57%) Electronics
17 7 (0.49%) Advertising
17 7 (0.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 271 (19.15%) Architect
2 262 (18.52%) Senior
3 225 (15.90%) Consultant
4 122 (8.62%) Developer
5 115 (8.13%) Lead
6 107 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (5.94%) Analyst
8 81 (5.72%) Senior Consultant
9 67 (4.73%) AWS Architect
10 65 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 55 (3.89%) Software Engineer
13 52 (3.67%) Data Architect
14 51 (3.60%) Business Analyst
15 48 (3.39%) AWS Solution Architect
16 47 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
17 45 (3.18%) Security Consultant
18 44 (3.11%) Security Architect
19 43 (3.04%) IAM Consultant
19 43 (3.04%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (9.68%) Terraform
2 39 (2.76%) React
3 38 (2.69%) Kafka
4 27 (1.91%) Spring
5 22 (1.55%) .NET
6 19 (1.34%) Node.js
7 18 (1.27%) AWS CDK
7 18 (1.27%) OAuth
8 17 (1.20%) HTML
8 17 (1.20%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.06%) CSS
9 15 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (1.06%) PySpark
9 15 (1.06%) REST
10 14 (0.99%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.92%) JSON
11 13 (0.92%) JWT
11 13 (0.92%) OAuth2
11 13 (0.92%) RAML
11 13 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 59 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 45 (3.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 44 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 26 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
10 23 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
12 18 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.99%) Blog
14 14 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.92%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.43%) Linux
2 69 (4.88%) Windows
3 28 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.78%) CentOS
6 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.35%) Unix
10 4 (0.28%) Rocky
11 3 (0.21%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.14%) VMS
13 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (21.77%) Agile
2 208 (14.70%) DevOps
3 206 (14.56%) AI
4 196 (13.85%) Mentoring
5 178 (12.58%) CI/CD
6 165 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
8 142 (10.04%) Software Engineering
9 139 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 123 (8.69%) Analytics
12 113 (7.99%) Roadmaps
12 113 (7.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 109 (7.70%) Migration
14 108 (7.63%) Project Delivery
15 106 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (7.42%) Community of Practice
17 104 (7.35%) Technology Strategy
18 101 (7.14%) Scrum
19 93 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 207 (14.63%) Python
2 135 (9.54%) Java
3 71 (5.02%) SQL
4 62 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 59 (4.17%) Bash
6 30 (2.12%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 24 (1.70%) C++
9 23 (1.63%) C#
10 19 (1.34%) Scala
11 17 (1.20%) Perl
11 17 (1.20%) Ruby
12 14 (0.99%) Go
12 14 (0.99%) PHP
13 13 (0.92%) DataWeave
14 12 (0.85%) C
15 10 (0.71%) Rust
16 9 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.49%) Groovy
18 6 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 966 (68.27%) SC Cleared
2 310 (21.91%) DV Cleared
3 175 (12.37%) Degree
4 68 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 56 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (3.39%) CISSP
7 40 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.54%) CISM
9 23 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.41%) OSCP
11 16 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.06%) CREST Certified
13 14 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.85%) CRISC
14 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.78%) CHECK Team Member
16 10 (0.71%) CISA
16 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.57%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (4.17%) NIST
3 51 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.04%) QA
5 38 (2.69%) NCSC
6 28 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.55%) GDPR
8 21 (1.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 13 (0.92%) GRC
10 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) PMO
13 5 (0.35%) WCAG
14 4 (0.28%) RMADS
15 3 (0.21%) COBIT
15 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 84 (5.94%) Docker
2 37 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.78%) vSphere
5 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.35%) KVM
7 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.28%) Squid
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.071%) Firmware
10 1 (0.071%) IAG
10 1 (0.071%) NFS
10 1 (0.071%) Samba
Systems Management
1 111 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.82%) Ansible
3 28 (1.98%) Grafana
4 24 (1.70%) Prometheus
4 24 (1.70%) Puppet
5 22 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 13 (0.92%) CloudHub
7 10 (0.71%) Argo
7 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.49%) Nmap
10 6 (0.42%) Nessus
10 6 (0.42%) Rancher
11 5 (0.35%) Kibana
11 5 (0.35%) Packer
12 4 (0.28%) Istio
12 4 (0.28%) linkerd
12 4 (0.28%) SCOM
12 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 128 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.96%) Oracle
3 55 (3.89%) ServiceNow
4 52 (3.67%) Google
5 40 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 37 (2.61%) Databricks
7 33 (2.33%) VMware
8 28 (1.98%) SAP
9 19 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.27%) Splunk
11 16 (1.13%) Cisco
11 16 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.13%) Palantir
12 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.99%) Foundry
13 14 (0.99%) Okta
14 13 (0.92%) CyberArk
15 11 (0.78%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Remedy
17 8 (0.57%) Dynatrace