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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 74 58
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 -2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,545 493 854
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.93% 4.18% 4.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.84% 14.21% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 979 345 415
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,150
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 4,853 3,470 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.64% 29.44% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,846 1,923 2,315
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £91,188 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -1.71%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +45 126 £75,000 +25.00% 204
South London -18 27 £55,000 -15.38% 10
West London -13 11 £90,000 +146.58% 40
East London -10 3 £110,000 - 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 20 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 13 (0.84%) Anypoint
2 13 (0.84%) Apache
2 13 (0.84%) Mule
3 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.71%) Confluence
5 8 (0.52%) Camunda
5 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.065%) R Markdown
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.065%) Houdini
5 1 (0.065%) NUKE
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
5 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.13%) Maximo
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.13%) Primavera
4 1 (0.065%) C-CURE
4 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.065%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.065%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.065%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 462 (29.90%) AWS
2 283 (18.32%) Azure
3 123 (7.96%) GCP
4 91 (5.89%) Serverless
5 76 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
6 60 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 53 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 50 (3.24%) Entra ID
9 45 (2.91%) GitHub
10 42 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (1.88%) SaaS
14 25 (1.62%) Amazon EMR
15 23 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 18 (1.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.43%) Network Security
2 38 (2.46%) Firewall
3 16 (1.04%) VPN
4 15 (0.97%) SSL
5 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.91%) WAN
6 11 (0.71%) DNS
7 9 (0.58%) NGN
8 8 (0.52%) DHCP
8 8 (0.52%) LAN
8 8 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.26%) BGP
10 4 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.26%) NAS
10 4 (0.26%) OSPF
10 4 (0.26%) VSAN
10 4 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.24%) Power BI
2 45 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.27%) Metadata
5 33 (2.14%) Data Lake
6 31 (2.01%) Big Data
7 30 (1.94%) Tableau
8 27 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.10%) MySQL
11 17 (1.10%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.91%) SQL Server
14 13 (0.84%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.78%) Redis
16 8 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (5.18%) Git
1 80 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 46 (2.98%) GitLab
3 34 (2.20%) JIRA
4 11 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (0.58%) Burp Suite
5 9 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 8 (0.52%) Maven
7 7 (0.45%) Gradle
7 7 (0.45%) JUnit
7 7 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.39%) Mockito
8 6 (0.39%) Vite
9 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.32%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.32%) Selenium
10 4 (0.26%) Subversion
11 3 (0.19%) JMeter
11 3 (0.19%) Mercurial
General
1 366 (23.69%) Public Sector
2 332 (21.49%) Social Skills
3 180 (11.65%) Finance
4 177 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (8.54%) Law
7 48 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.55%) Military
10 22 (1.42%) Legal
11 17 (1.10%) Police
12 16 (1.04%) Marketing
13 15 (0.97%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.84%) Retail
15 9 (0.58%) Banking
15 9 (0.58%) Publishing
16 8 (0.52%) Electronics
16 8 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 291 (18.83%) Senior
2 288 (18.64%) Architect
3 235 (15.21%) Consultant
4 126 (8.16%) Developer
5 122 (7.90%) Lead
6 95 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 82 (5.31%) Analyst
8 78 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 77 (4.98%) Senior Consultant
10 69 (4.47%) Data Engineer
11 68 (4.40%) Software Engineer
12 65 (4.21%) Security Consultant
13 62 (4.01%) Data Architect
14 55 (3.56%) AWS Architect
14 55 (3.56%) Security Architect
15 49 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 46 (2.98%) Business Analyst
17 45 (2.91%) IAM Consultant
18 44 (2.85%) Senior Manager
19 43 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (9.84%) Terraform
2 47 (3.04%) Kafka
3 39 (2.52%) React
4 32 (2.07%) REST
5 28 (1.81%) Spring
6 26 (1.68%) .NET
7 23 (1.49%) Node.js
8 22 (1.42%) PySpark
9 21 (1.36%) OAuth
10 19 (1.23%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.17%) HTML
11 18 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.10%) AWS CDK
12 17 (1.10%) YAML
13 16 (1.04%) JSON
13 16 (1.04%) JWT
13 16 (1.04%) OAuth2
14 15 (0.97%) CSS
15 13 (0.84%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.84%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 43 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.94%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.81%) Operational Technology
9 27 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
10 23 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (0.97%) Blog
16 15 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 13 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.54%) Linux
2 83 (5.37%) Windows
3 32 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.78%) CentOS
6 9 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.52%) Unix
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (21.49%) Agile
2 236 (15.28%) AI
2 236 (15.28%) DevOps
3 223 (14.43%) Cybersecurity
4 214 (13.85%) CI/CD
5 213 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 181 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (11.00%) Software Engineering
9 155 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 154 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 147 (9.51%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.06%) Analytics
13 118 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 112 (7.25%) Migration
15 105 (6.80%) Project Delivery
16 102 (6.60%) Decision-Making
17 100 (6.47%) Community of Practice
18 97 (6.28%) Microservices
18 97 (6.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 235 (15.21%) Python
2 132 (8.54%) Java
3 85 (5.50%) SQL
4 66 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 63 (4.08%) Bash
6 29 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.81%) C#
8 26 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.49%) C++
9 23 (1.49%) Scala
10 18 (1.17%) Perl
10 18 (1.17%) Ruby
11 14 (0.91%) Bicep
11 14 (0.91%) Groovy
11 14 (0.91%) PHP
12 13 (0.84%) C
12 13 (0.84%) DataWeave
12 13 (0.84%) Go
13 9 (0.58%) Rust
14 7 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,051 (68.03%) SC Cleared
2 326 (21.10%) DV Cleared
3 158 (10.23%) Degree
4 64 (4.14%) AWS Certification
5 60 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 56 (3.62%) CISSP
7 38 (2.46%) CISM
8 33 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 22 (1.42%) CREST Certified
10 22 (1.42%) OSCP
11 21 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (1.23%) CHECK Team Member
13 11 (0.71%) CISA
13 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.71%) PhD
13 11 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 9 (0.58%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.01%) NIST
4 46 (2.98%) NCSC
4 46 (2.98%) QA
5 29 (1.88%) GDPR
6 28 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.29%) GRC
8 17 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 11 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (0.52%) PMO
11 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.26%) RMADS
13 4 (0.26%) WCAG
14 3 (0.19%) COBIT
14 3 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 101 (6.54%) Docker
2 39 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.65%) vSphere
5 8 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) IAG
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) Samba
Systems Management
1 131 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.62%) Ansible
3 43 (2.78%) Grafana
4 30 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.68%) Puppet
6 22 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.84%) CloudHub
8 12 (0.78%) Rancher
9 11 (0.71%) Argo
10 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.58%) Nmap
10 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.52%) Kibana
12 7 (0.45%) Nessus
13 5 (0.32%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) Istio
14 4 (0.26%) linkerd
14 4 (0.26%) Packer
14 4 (0.26%) QRadar
15 3 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 152 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.53%) ServiceNow
3 63 (4.08%) Oracle
4 52 (3.37%) Google
5 51 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.72%) Databricks
7 30 (1.94%) VMware
8 27 (1.75%) SAP
9 24 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.36%) Splunk
11 16 (1.04%) Okta
12 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco
15 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 10 (0.65%) Palantir
15 10 (0.65%) Remedy
16 9 (0.58%) Foundry