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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +72
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 666 769 894
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.55% 4.95% 4.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.22% 15.09% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 455 344 636
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,088 £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 £88,356 £88,750
90th Percentile £99,200 £97,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% +1.81%

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 4,107 5,096 5,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.06% 32.79% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,160 2,011 3,939
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £37,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -15 100 £70,000 -7.28% 103
South London +4 24 £64,290 +4.29% 18
West London -20 7 £40,138 -30.40% 20
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 19 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.40%) Confluence
3 9 (1.35%) Apache
3 9 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.35%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.30%) Camunda
5 2 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (3.75%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.60%) InVision
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Sketch
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) Weka
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.75%) Maximo
2 5 (0.75%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 165 (24.77%) AWS
2 147 (22.07%) Azure
3 51 (7.66%) GCP
4 44 (6.61%) Serverless
5 40 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.05%) Power Automate
8 27 (4.05%) PowerApps
9 26 (3.90%) Figma
10 23 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (3.15%) Entra ID
13 20 (3.00%) GitHub
14 16 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.40%) PaaS
15 14 (2.10%) Amazon S3
16 12 (1.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.30%) Firewall
2 16 (2.40%) VPN
3 15 (2.25%) Network Security
4 11 (1.65%) DNS
4 11 (1.65%) Structured Cabling
4 11 (1.65%) WAN
5 9 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 9 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.05%) LAN
6 7 (1.05%) Wireless
7 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.75%) SAN
8 5 (0.75%) WAAS
9 4 (0.60%) VoIP
10 3 (0.45%) HTTP
10 3 (0.45%) SMTP
10 3 (0.45%) SSH
10 3 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.11%) Power BI
3 20 (3.00%) MongoDB
3 20 (3.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 13 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.80%) MySQL
6 11 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.65%) Metadata
6 11 (1.65%) RDBMS
7 8 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.05%) Pinecone
9 6 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.75%) DB2
10 5 (0.75%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.75%) Redis
11 3 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 49 (7.36%) Jenkins
2 40 (6.01%) Git
3 29 (4.35%) JIRA
4 23 (3.45%) Axure RP
5 21 (3.15%) Balsamiq
6 16 (2.40%) JMeter
7 14 (2.10%) GitLab
8 13 (1.95%) JUnit
9 11 (1.65%) Mockito
10 9 (1.35%) Selenium
11 8 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.90%) Vite
13 5 (0.75%) MLflow
14 4 (0.60%) gulp
14 4 (0.60%) Maven
14 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.60%) Subversion
14 4 (0.60%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 197 (29.58%) Public Sector
2 150 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 87 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (11.26%) Law
6 63 (9.46%) Finance
7 23 (3.45%) Marketing
8 22 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.00%) Electronics
9 20 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.80%) Legal
11 10 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.20%) Advertising
12 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Military
16 4 (0.60%) Banking
17 2 (0.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (16.97%) Developer
2 83 (12.46%) Senior
3 70 (10.51%) Architect
3 70 (10.51%) Consultant
4 43 (6.46%) Designer
5 42 (6.31%) Software Engineer
6 35 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (4.80%) Java Developer
8 30 (4.50%) Lead
9 28 (4.20%) Data Engineer
10 26 (3.90%) Analyst
11 25 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.00%) Service Designer
13 19 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 19 (2.85%) User Researcher
14 18 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (2.70%) UX Designer
15 17 (2.55%) Administrator
15 17 (2.55%) Business Analyst
15 17 (2.55%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.76%) React
2 41 (6.16%) HTML
3 33 (4.95%) Spring
4 30 (4.50%) CSS
5 26 (3.90%) REST
6 25 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 21 (3.15%) Web Services
9 18 (2.70%) Node.js
10 17 (2.55%) XML
11 15 (2.25%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (2.10%) .NET
12 14 (2.10%) FastAPI
12 14 (2.10%) Hibernate
12 14 (2.10%) JSON
12 14 (2.10%) PyTorch
13 13 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (1.80%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (1.65%) Vue
15 11 (1.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (2.70%) PKI
6 17 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.95%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.35%) CMDB
12 8 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.90%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.76%) Linux
2 42 (6.31%) Windows
3 12 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.50%) Unix
4 10 (1.50%) VMS
5 9 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Rocky
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (28.53%) Agile
2 122 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (16.52%) CI/CD
4 105 (15.77%) AI
5 101 (15.17%) DevOps
6 88 (13.21%) Software Engineering
7 81 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (11.86%) Analytics
9 77 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (10.06%) Mentoring
12 65 (9.76%) User Experience
13 60 (9.01%) Community of Practice
14 56 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
14 56 (8.41%) Workflow
15 55 (8.26%) User Research
16 53 (7.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 52 (7.81%) Technology Strategy
18 50 (7.51%) Computer Science
18 50 (7.51%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.92%) Python
2 115 (17.27%) Java
3 107 (16.07%) JavaScript
4 71 (10.66%) SQL
5 54 (8.11%) C#
6 48 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.75%) Bash
9 20 (3.00%) C++
10 14 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.20%) Go
11 8 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.20%) Ruby
12 7 (1.05%) Bicep
13 6 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.90%) C
13 6 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.90%) Scala
14 5 (0.75%) R
15 4 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 448 (67.27%) SC Cleared
2 182 (27.33%) DV Cleared
3 128 (19.22%) Degree
4 28 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (3.60%) PhD
6 19 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.40%) CISSP
8 14 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.50%) CISM
10 7 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.90%) NVQ Level 3
11 6 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.75%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.86%) Accessibility
2 28 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.90%) WCAG
4 19 (2.85%) NIST
5 16 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.25%) QA
7 11 (1.65%) GRC
8 10 (1.50%) NCSC
9 9 (1.35%) SLA
10 8 (1.20%) GDPR
11 5 (0.75%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.45%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.45%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (11.71%) Docker
2 21 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) KVM
5 7 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.90%) Firmware
7 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.60%) vSphere
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.15%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.15%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 88 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 81 (12.16%) Terraform
3 32 (4.80%) Ansible
4 20 (3.00%) Grafana
5 14 (2.10%) Kibana
6 13 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.50%) Argo
8 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.90%) SCCM
10 5 (0.75%) Istio
10 5 (0.75%) linkerd
10 5 (0.75%) Mesos
10 5 (0.75%) SCOM
11 4 (0.60%) Puppet
12 3 (0.45%) Nagios
12 3 (0.45%) VxRail
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 69 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.11%) Palantir
2 34 (5.11%) SAP
3 31 (4.65%) Google
4 26 (3.90%) VMware
5 25 (3.75%) Adobe
6 24 (3.60%) Foundry
7 22 (3.30%) Oracle
8 21 (3.15%) Cisco
9 20 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.70%) Atlassian
11 16 (2.40%) Splunk
12 15 (2.25%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.20%) OpenAI
16 7 (1.05%) Databricks
17 6 (0.90%) IBM
17 6 (0.90%) MuleSoft
18 5 (0.75%) Dell