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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 73 70
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,449 492 813
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.89% 4.11% 4.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.18% 14.20% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 932 335 469
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,875 £55,000
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 4,801 3,464 5,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.51% 28.96% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,880 1,924 2,607
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £37,283
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 £91,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £102,500
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 9 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 9 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 +39 128 £75,000 +15.38% 119
South London -20 27 £55,000 -15.38% 26
West London -15 10 £90,000 +146.58% 60
East London -9 2 £110,000 - 34
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 16 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.97%) Apache
3 13 (0.90%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.90%) Mule
3 13 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.83%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.41%) Camunda
5 6 (0.41%) SAS
6 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.069%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.069%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.62%) 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 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.069%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.069%) Houdini
5 1 (0.069%) InVision
5 1 (0.069%) NUKE
5 1 (0.069%) Sketch
5 1 (0.069%) Trello
5 1 (0.069%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.28%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.069%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 448 (30.92%) AWS
2 261 (18.01%) Azure
3 113 (7.80%) GCP
4 80 (5.52%) Serverless
5 77 (5.31%) Cloud Computing
6 76 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (3.38%) Power Platform
9 47 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 43 (2.97%) Entra ID
11 39 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
12 34 (2.35%) GitHub
13 31 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.73%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (1.45%) OCI
18 20 (1.38%) SaaS
19 16 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
20 15 (1.04%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.59%) Network Security
2 36 (2.48%) Firewall
3 16 (1.10%) SSL
3 16 (1.10%) WAN
4 12 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (0.62%) LAN
5 9 (0.62%) NGN
5 9 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.62%) VPN
6 8 (0.55%) DNS
6 8 (0.55%) Wireshark
7 7 (0.48%) DHCP
8 6 (0.41%) 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 41 (2.83%) Power BI
2 33 (2.28%) Data Lake
2 33 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (2.14%) Metadata
4 28 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (1.73%) Big Data
6 23 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 21 (1.45%) Tableau
9 20 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (0.97%) MySQL
12 13 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.90%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.69%) SQL Server
15 9 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.41%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 70 (4.83%) Jenkins
2 66 (4.55%) Git
3 49 (3.38%) GitLab
4 33 (2.28%) JIRA
5 10 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.55%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.55%) Maven
6 8 (0.55%) Metasploit
6 8 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.41%) Gradle
8 6 (0.41%) 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
1 351 (24.22%) Public Sector
2 293 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 182 (12.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 152 (10.49%) Finance
5 138 (9.52%) Law
6 136 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.59%) Legal
10 18 (1.24%) Military
11 16 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.90%) Marketing
14 11 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.62%) Retail
16 8 (0.55%) Banking
16 8 (0.55%) Electronics
17 7 (0.48%) Advertising
17 7 (0.48%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 276 (19.05%) Architect
2 274 (18.91%) Senior
3 231 (15.94%) Consultant
4 126 (8.70%) Developer
5 118 (8.14%) Lead
6 106 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
7 89 (6.14%) Analyst
8 83 (5.73%) Senior Consultant
9 67 (4.62%) AWS Architect
10 66 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (4.14%) Data Engineer
12 57 (3.93%) Software Engineer
13 52 (3.59%) Business Analyst
13 52 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 49 (3.38%) Security Consultant
15 48 (3.31%) AWS Solution Architect
16 47 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
17 46 (3.17%) IAM Consultant
17 46 (3.17%) Security Architect
18 45 (3.11%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (9.59%) Terraform
2 40 (2.76%) React
3 39 (2.69%) Kafka
4 27 (1.86%) Spring
5 22 (1.52%) .NET
6 20 (1.38%) Node.js
7 18 (1.24%) AWS CDK
7 18 (1.24%) OAuth
8 17 (1.17%) HTML
8 17 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 16 (1.10%) PySpark
9 16 (1.10%) REST
10 15 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.04%) CSS
10 15 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
11 14 (0.97%) YAML
12 13 (0.90%) JSON
12 13 (0.90%) OAuth2
12 13 (0.90%) RAML
12 13 (0.90%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 62 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 45 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 44 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.93%) Operational Technology
9 26 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 24 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
11 23 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.97%) Blog
15 14 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.42%) Linux
2 72 (4.97%) Windows
3 28 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.76%) CentOS
6 9 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.069%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (21.88%) Agile
2 210 (14.49%) DevOps
3 207 (14.29%) AI
4 202 (13.94%) Mentoring
5 181 (12.49%) CI/CD
6 175 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
7 169 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (10.01%) Software Engineering
10 137 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 124 (8.56%) Analytics
12 116 (8.01%) Roadmaps
13 115 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 114 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 113 (7.80%) Project Delivery
16 109 (7.52%) Migration
17 106 (7.32%) Community of Practice
18 105 (7.25%) Technology Strategy
19 104 (7.18%) Scrum
20 94 (6.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 212 (14.63%) Python
2 135 (9.32%) Java
3 73 (5.04%) SQL
4 65 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 60 (4.14%) Bash
6 31 (2.14%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 24 (1.66%) C#
8 24 (1.66%) C++
9 20 (1.38%) Scala
10 17 (1.17%) Perl
10 17 (1.17%) Ruby
11 14 (0.97%) Go
11 14 (0.97%) PHP
12 13 (0.90%) DataWeave
13 12 (0.83%) C
14 10 (0.69%) Rust
15 9 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.48%) Groovy
17 6 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 991 (68.39%) SC Cleared
2 311 (21.46%) DV Cleared
3 175 (12.08%) Degree
4 68 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 51 (3.52%) CISSP
7 41 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.48%) CISM
9 23 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.45%) OSCP
11 20 (1.38%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 17 (1.17%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
16 12 (0.83%) CRISC
16 12 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.69%) CISA
17 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (4.14%) NIST
3 53 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.97%) QA
5 41 (2.83%) NCSC
6 28 (1.93%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.52%) GDPR
8 21 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 15 (1.04%) GRC
10 9 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.55%) PMO
11 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
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 86 (5.94%) Docker
2 37 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.76%) vSphere
5 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.069%) Firmware
10 1 (0.069%) IAG
10 1 (0.069%) NFS
10 1 (0.069%) Samba
Systems Management
1 114 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.80%) Ansible
3 28 (1.93%) Grafana
4 24 (1.66%) Prometheus
4 24 (1.66%) Puppet
5 22 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 13 (0.90%) CloudHub
7 10 (0.69%) Argo
7 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.55%) Nmap
10 7 (0.48%) Nessus
11 6 (0.41%) Rancher
12 5 (0.35%) Kibana
12 5 (0.35%) Packer
13 4 (0.28%) Istio
13 4 (0.28%) linkerd
13 4 (0.28%) SCOM
13 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 132 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.28%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.86%) Oracle
4 54 (3.73%) Google
5 40 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.62%) Databricks
7 32 (2.21%) VMware
8 28 (1.93%) SAP
9 20 (1.38%) Splunk
10 18 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.10%) Cisco
11 16 (1.10%) Okta
11 16 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.10%) Palantir
12 15 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.97%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.97%) Foundry
14 11 (0.76%) Adobe
15 9 (0.62%) BeyondTrust
15 9 (0.62%) Remedy