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 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +50
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 705 738 934
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.58% 4.90% 4.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.22% 14.84% 16.12%
Number of salaries quoted 482 333 671
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,922 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.40% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £99,750 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,339 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +6.68% +1.68%

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 4,094 4,974 5,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.58% 33.02% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 1,990 4,177
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,898
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -23 99 £70,000 -8.50% 76
South London +1 22 £64,290 +4.29% 25
West London -26 7 £80,000 +38.72% 19
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 23 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.98%) Palantir Foundry
3 18 (2.55%) Confluence
4 10 (1.42%) Apache
4 10 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.28%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.40%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.71%) InVision
2 5 (0.71%) Sketch
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Weka
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.99%) Maximo
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 166 (23.55%) AWS
2 151 (21.42%) Azure
3 54 (7.66%) GCP
4 43 (6.10%) Power Platform
5 40 (5.67%) Serverless
6 33 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 27 (3.83%) PowerApps
9 25 (3.55%) Figma
10 24 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.98%) Entra ID
12 21 (2.98%) GitHub
13 20 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.84%) PaaS
16 13 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.26%) Firewall
2 18 (2.55%) VPN
3 15 (2.13%) Network Security
4 14 (1.99%) DNS
5 11 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
5 11 (1.56%) WAN
6 10 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.13%) SAN
9 7 (0.99%) LAN
9 7 (0.99%) Wireless
10 6 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.71%) WAAS
12 4 (0.57%) VoIP
13 3 (0.43%) DHCP
13 3 (0.43%) SMTP
13 3 (0.43%) VSAN
13 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.11%) Power BI
3 19 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 18 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.99%) MySQL
7 11 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.28%) Metadata
9 9 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.99%) DB2
11 7 (0.99%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.71%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.71%) Redis
14 4 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 42 (5.96%) Git
3 30 (4.26%) JIRA
4 21 (2.98%) Axure RP
5 19 (2.70%) Balsamiq
6 14 (1.99%) GitLab
6 14 (1.99%) JMeter
7 12 (1.70%) JUnit
8 9 (1.28%) Mockito
8 9 (1.28%) Selenium
9 8 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.85%) Vite
11 5 (0.71%) Maven
12 4 (0.57%) MLflow
12 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.57%) Subversion
12 4 (0.57%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 204 (28.94%) Public Sector
2 157 (22.27%) Social Skills
3 89 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (10.78%) Law
6 65 (9.22%) Finance
7 20 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.70%) Marketing
9 18 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.13%) Electronics
11 12 (1.70%) Legal
11 12 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.13%) Advertising
15 7 (0.99%) Military
16 6 (0.85%) Games
16 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (16.60%) Developer
2 95 (13.48%) Senior
3 77 (10.92%) Consultant
4 72 (10.21%) Architect
5 44 (6.24%) Software Engineer
6 43 (6.10%) Designer
7 36 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (4.96%) Java Developer
9 32 (4.54%) Analyst
10 31 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 30 (4.26%) Lead
12 24 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.12%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 21 (2.98%) User Researcher
14 21 (2.98%) UX Designer
15 20 (2.84%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (2.55%) Data Scientist
16 18 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.10%) React
2 38 (5.39%) HTML
3 33 (4.68%) Spring
4 29 (4.11%) CSS
5 28 (3.97%) REST
6 23 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.12%) Web Services
8 17 (2.41%) .NET
9 16 (2.27%) Node.js
10 15 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 15 (2.13%) XML
11 14 (1.99%) Hibernate
11 14 (1.99%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.84%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.70%) JSON
13 12 (1.70%) SOAP
14 11 (1.56%) Middleware
15 10 (1.42%) ActiveMQ
15 10 (1.42%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.98%) PKI
4 21 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.99%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.28%) CMDB
12 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.38%) Linux
2 43 (6.10%) Windows
3 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.42%) Unix
5 9 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.13%) VMS
7 7 (0.99%) Android
8 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.43%) CentOS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (29.36%) Agile
2 113 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (15.18%) AI
3 107 (15.18%) CI/CD
4 103 (14.61%) DevOps
5 90 (12.77%) Software Engineering
6 79 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (10.92%) Analytics
9 72 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 68 (9.65%) Community of Practice
10 68 (9.65%) Mentoring
11 64 (9.08%) User Experience
12 60 (8.51%) User Research
13 57 (8.09%) Technology Strategy
13 57 (8.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 55 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
14 55 (7.80%) Computer Science
15 54 (7.66%) Data Modelling
16 52 (7.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 162 (22.98%) Python
2 118 (16.74%) Java
3 106 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 77 (10.92%) SQL
5 53 (7.52%) C#
6 46 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.26%) Bash
9 19 (2.70%) C++
10 13 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.28%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.13%) Go
12 8 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.85%) Bicep
13 6 (0.85%) C
13 6 (0.85%) Ruby
13 6 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.71%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 477 (67.66%) SC Cleared
2 194 (27.52%) DV Cleared
3 136 (19.29%) Degree
4 30 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.40%) PhD
7 20 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.27%) CISSP
10 12 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.42%) CISM
12 8 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.85%) NVQ Level 3
14 6 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.57%) APMP
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.09%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.55%) WCAG
4 19 (2.70%) NIST
5 15 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.13%) QA
6 11 (1.56%) GRC
7 10 (1.42%) NCSC
8 9 (1.28%) GDPR
8 9 (1.28%) SLA
9 5 (0.71%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.43%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.28%) PMO
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (10.35%) Docker
2 25 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.13%) KVM
4 8 (1.13%) vSphere
5 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.85%) Firmware
7 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.14%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.49%) Terraform
3 29 (4.11%) Ansible
4 20 (2.84%) Grafana
5 13 (1.84%) Kibana
6 12 (1.70%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.42%) Argo
8 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.85%) SCCM
10 6 (0.85%) SCOM
11 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.71%) Istio
11 5 (0.71%) linkerd
11 5 (0.71%) Mesos
12 4 (0.57%) Puppet
12 4 (0.57%) WSUS
13 3 (0.43%) VxRail
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 71 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.54%) Google
3 31 (4.40%) Palantir
4 30 (4.26%) SAP
5 29 (4.11%) VMware
6 24 (3.40%) Adobe
7 21 (2.98%) Cisco
7 21 (2.98%) Foundry
8 19 (2.70%) Oracle
8 19 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.13%) Splunk
11 10 (1.42%) Dell
11 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.13%) IBM
13 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.99%) Databricks