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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +55
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 698 750 950
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.61% 4.97% 4.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.09% 15.05% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 483 332 684
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,325 £46,250
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 £88,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,644 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +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 4,085 4,982 5,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.98% 33.02% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,151 1,968 4,198
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,588 £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 £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 9 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 9 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 -19 99 £70,000 -9.68% 93
South London +4 20 £64,290 +4.29% 26
West London -23 6 £60,069 +4.16% 23
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 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.01%) Palantir Foundry
3 18 (2.58%) Confluence
4 10 (1.43%) Apache
4 10 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.29%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.44%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.72%) InVision
2 5 (0.72%) Sketch
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Weka
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.00%) 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 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) 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
1 168 (24.07%) AWS
2 152 (21.78%) Azure
3 56 (8.02%) GCP
4 41 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 41 (5.87%) Serverless
5 33 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (3.87%) Power Automate
7 27 (3.87%) PowerApps
8 25 (3.58%) Figma
9 24 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.01%) Entra ID
11 21 (3.01%) GitHub
12 19 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (2.01%) PaaS
14 13 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 12 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.15%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) VPN
3 15 (2.15%) Network Security
4 12 (1.72%) DNS
5 11 (1.58%) Structured Cabling
5 11 (1.58%) WAN
6 9 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.15%) SAN
8 7 (1.00%) LAN
8 7 (1.00%) Wireless
9 6 (0.86%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.72%) WAAS
11 4 (0.57%) VoIP
12 3 (0.43%) VSAN
12 3 (0.43%) WLAN
13 2 (0.29%) NetScaler
13 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.87%) Power BI
3 20 (2.87%) MongoDB
4 19 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.01%) MySQL
7 11 (1.58%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.29%) Metadata
9 9 (1.29%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.00%) DB2
11 7 (1.00%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.72%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.72%) Redis
14 4 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.73%) Jenkins
2 43 (6.16%) Git
3 30 (4.30%) JIRA
4 21 (3.01%) Axure RP
5 19 (2.72%) Balsamiq
6 15 (2.15%) GitLab
7 14 (2.01%) JMeter
8 12 (1.72%) JUnit
9 9 (1.29%) Mockito
9 9 (1.29%) Selenium
10 8 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.86%) Vite
12 5 (0.72%) Maven
13 4 (0.57%) gulp
13 4 (0.57%) MLflow
13 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.57%) Subversion
13 4 (0.57%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 202 (28.94%) Public Sector
2 154 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 88 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (10.89%) Law
6 63 (9.03%) Finance
7 20 (2.87%) Marketing
8 19 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.29%) Electronics
11 12 (1.72%) Legal
12 11 (1.58%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Advertising
15 7 (1.00%) Military
16 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (17.19%) Developer
2 94 (13.47%) Senior
3 75 (10.74%) Consultant
4 70 (10.03%) Architect
5 44 (6.30%) Designer
5 44 (6.30%) Software Engineer
6 37 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (5.01%) Java Developer
8 32 (4.58%) Lead
9 30 (4.30%) Analyst
10 29 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.01%) Business Analyst
12 21 (3.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (3.01%) User Researcher
12 21 (3.01%) UX Designer
13 19 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 17 (2.44%) Administrator
14 17 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (2.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.45%) React
2 40 (5.73%) HTML
3 34 (4.87%) Spring
4 31 (4.44%) CSS
5 28 (4.01%) REST
6 24 (3.44%) AngularJS
6 24 (3.44%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.15%) Web Services
8 18 (2.58%) .NET
8 18 (2.58%) Node.js
9 15 (2.15%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (2.15%) XML
10 14 (2.01%) FastAPI
10 14 (2.01%) Hibernate
10 14 (2.01%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.72%) JSON
11 12 (1.72%) Middleware
11 12 (1.72%) SOAP
12 11 (1.58%) Vue
13 10 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.01%) PKI
4 21 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.29%) CMDB
10 9 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.86%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.86%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.45%) Linux
2 42 (6.02%) Windows
3 13 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.43%) Unix
5 9 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.15%) VMS
7 7 (1.00%) Android
8 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.43%) CentOS
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
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 7
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (29.23%) Agile
2 116 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (15.47%) CI/CD
4 103 (14.76%) AI
4 103 (14.76%) DevOps
5 91 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 81 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (10.89%) Analytics
9 73 (10.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 67 (9.60%) Community of Practice
11 67 (9.60%) User Experience
12 60 (8.60%) User Research
13 57 (8.17%) Technology Strategy
14 56 (8.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 54 (7.74%) Computer Science
16 53 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (7.59%) Data Modelling
17 51 (7.31%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 164 (23.50%) Python
2 121 (17.34%) Java
3 109 (15.62%) JavaScript
4 76 (10.89%) SQL
5 53 (7.59%) C#
6 47 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.87%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.30%) Bash
9 19 (2.72%) C++
10 13 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.15%) Go
12 8 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.86%) Bicep
13 6 (0.86%) C
13 6 (0.86%) Ruby
13 6 (0.86%) Scala
14 5 (0.72%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 472 (67.62%) SC Cleared
2 196 (28.08%) DV Cleared
3 136 (19.48%) Degree
4 30 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.44%) PhD
7 19 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.29%) CISSP
9 12 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.43%) CISM
11 8 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
13 6 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
16 3 (0.43%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.31%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.58%) WCAG
4 18 (2.58%) NIST
5 15 (2.15%) QA
6 14 (2.01%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.58%) GRC
8 10 (1.43%) NCSC
9 9 (1.29%) SLA
10 8 (1.15%) GDPR
11 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.43%) NEBOSH
14 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.29%) PMO
15 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 74 (10.60%) Docker
2 24 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.15%) KVM
5 7 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.00%) vSphere
6 6 (0.86%) Firmware
7 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.14%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 79 (11.32%) Terraform
3 29 (4.15%) Ansible
4 20 (2.87%) Grafana
5 13 (1.86%) Kibana
6 12 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.43%) Argo
8 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.86%) SCCM
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.72%) Istio
11 5 (0.72%) linkerd
11 5 (0.72%) Mesos
11 5 (0.72%) SCOM
12 4 (0.57%) Puppet
12 4 (0.57%) WSUS
13 3 (0.43%) VxRail
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 71 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.58%) Google
3 31 (4.44%) Palantir
4 30 (4.30%) SAP
5 29 (4.15%) VMware
6 24 (3.44%) Adobe
7 21 (3.01%) Cisco
7 21 (3.01%) Foundry
8 20 (2.87%) Oracle
9 19 (2.72%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.58%) Atlassian
11 15 (2.15%) Splunk
12 10 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.43%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.29%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.15%) IBM
14 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
15 7 (1.00%) Databricks
16 6 (0.86%) Dell