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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 60 65
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 964 611 919
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.95% 4.73% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.38% 13.80% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 652 359 680
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,000 £55,000 £53,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.80% +8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

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 4,508 4,429 6,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.16% 34.27% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 2,048 4,235
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -10 101 £80,000 +10.34% 114
West London -39 16 £85,000 +47.39% 16
South London -25 15 £64,290 +3.57% 6
North London -3 1 £45,000 -32.08%
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 22 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.07%) Confluence
3 15 (1.56%) Apache
4 13 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.31%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (2.59%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.73%) InVision
2 7 (0.73%) Sketch
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Weka
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (1.45%) Maximo
2 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.10%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 228 (23.65%) AWS
2 190 (19.71%) Azure
3 74 (7.68%) GCP
4 41 (4.25%) Serverless
5 40 (4.15%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 28 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.59%) Figma
10 25 (2.59%) GitHub
11 22 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 14 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.35%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.80%) Firewall
2 20 (2.07%) Network Security
3 18 (1.87%) WAN
4 17 (1.76%) DNS
4 17 (1.76%) VPN
5 13 (1.35%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.24%) LAN
6 12 (1.24%) SAN
6 12 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.93%) DHCP
7 9 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (0.93%) Wireless
8 8 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.62%) VSAN
11 5 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.52%) SMTP
11 5 (0.52%) VoIP
11 5 (0.52%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.53%) Power BI
2 29 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.49%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 14 (1.45%) DB2
6 12 (1.24%) MySQL
7 11 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.14%) Metadata
8 10 (1.04%) DTS
8 10 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.04%) Pinecone
9 9 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.83%) SQL Server
11 7 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.62%) Tableau
13 5 (0.52%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (5.50%) Git
2 50 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.11%) JIRA
4 24 (2.49%) GitLab
5 21 (2.18%) Axure RP
6 18 (1.87%) Balsamiq
7 9 (0.93%) JMeter
7 9 (0.93%) Maven
7 9 (0.93%) Vite
8 8 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.52%) Gradle
10 5 (0.52%) JUnit
10 5 (0.52%) Subversion
11 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 261 (27.07%) Public Sector
2 190 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 129 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (8.92%) Law
5 85 (8.82%) Finance
6 82 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.28%) Legal
9 19 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.14%) Games
13 9 (0.93%) Advertising
13 9 (0.93%) Electronics
13 9 (0.93%) Marketing
13 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (17.84%) Senior
2 132 (13.69%) Architect
3 115 (11.93%) Consultant
4 106 (11.00%) Developer
5 56 (5.81%) Lead
5 56 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
6 52 (5.39%) Analyst
7 50 (5.19%) Designer
8 49 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 45 (4.67%) Software Engineer
10 42 (4.36%) Senior Consultant
11 41 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 37 (3.84%) Business Analyst
12 37 (3.84%) UX Designer
13 36 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.63%) Senior Manager
15 33 (3.42%) Java Developer
16 25 (2.59%) AWS Architect
16 25 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (2.59%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.25%) React
2 29 (3.01%) HTML
3 28 (2.90%) Spring
4 27 (2.80%) CSS
5 24 (2.49%) REST
6 22 (2.28%) .NET
6 22 (2.28%) Web Services
7 17 (1.76%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.76%) Spring Boot
8 16 (1.66%) Node.js
9 14 (1.45%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.35%) LangChain
11 12 (1.24%) FastAPI
11 12 (1.24%) Kafka
11 12 (1.24%) SAML
11 12 (1.24%) SOAP
12 11 (1.14%) LangGraph
12 11 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
12 11 (1.14%) Middleware
13 10 (1.04%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.28%) PKI
6 21 (2.18%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.14%) Blog
13 10 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.43%) Linux
2 52 (5.39%) Windows
3 21 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.93%) VMS
6 8 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.73%) Android
8 5 (0.52%) Unix
9 3 (0.31%) CentOS
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (23.96%) Agile
2 142 (14.73%) DevOps
3 139 (14.42%) AI
4 119 (12.34%) CI/CD
5 105 (10.89%) Software Engineering
6 103 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 102 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (9.85%) Community of Practice
9 93 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (9.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 85 (8.82%) Mentoring
12 79 (8.20%) Analytics
13 77 (7.99%) Technology Strategy
14 74 (7.68%) Computer Science
15 67 (6.95%) Collaborative Culture
15 67 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
16 66 (6.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 65 (6.74%) Containerisation
18 64 (6.64%) User Experience
19 62 (6.43%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 176 (18.26%) Python
2 140 (14.52%) Java
3 94 (9.75%) JavaScript
4 83 (8.61%) SQL
5 46 (4.77%) TypeScript
6 43 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 41 (4.25%) C#
8 29 (3.01%) Bash
9 19 (1.97%) C++
10 11 (1.14%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.83%) C
12 8 (0.83%) Go
13 7 (0.73%) Rust
14 6 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.52%) Bicep
15 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.41%) Groovy
16 4 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 670 (69.50%) SC Cleared
2 266 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 177 (18.36%) Degree
4 32 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.70%) CISSP
5 26 (2.70%) PhD
6 25 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.87%) CISM
9 16 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.35%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.83%) CRISC
12 8 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.73%) GSEC
14 6 (0.62%) CCIE
14 6 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (0.52%) CCNP
15 5 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 28 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.90%) NIST
3 25 (2.59%) WCAG
4 19 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.87%) QA
6 11 (1.14%) NCSC
7 10 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 9 (0.93%) GRC
8 9 (0.93%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.83%) SLA
10 7 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.52%) GDPR
12 4 (0.41%) PMO
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.21%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 87 (9.02%) Docker
2 36 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.66%) vSphere
5 8 (0.83%) KVM
6 6 (0.62%) Firmware
6 6 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.31%) Squid
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 102 (10.58%) Kubernetes
1 102 (10.58%) Terraform
2 37 (3.84%) Ansible
3 17 (1.76%) Grafana
4 12 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.93%) Argo
6 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.73%) SCCM
8 6 (0.62%) Kibana
8 6 (0.62%) WSUS
8 6 (0.62%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.52%) CASB
9 5 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.52%) Istio
9 5 (0.52%) linkerd
9 5 (0.52%) Mesos
9 5 (0.52%) Puppet
9 5 (0.52%) VxRail
10 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 83 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.67%) Google
3 36 (3.73%) VMware
4 32 (3.32%) Cisco
5 27 (2.80%) Adobe
6 24 (2.49%) Oracle
7 22 (2.28%) Palantir
8 21 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 20 (2.07%) Dell
10 16 (1.66%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.56%) Databricks
11 15 (1.56%) SAP
11 15 (1.56%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.45%) Foundry
12 14 (1.45%) IBM
12 14 (1.45%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.35%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.14%) Splunk
15 10 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 10 (1.04%) Okta