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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +51
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 693 763 941
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.59% 5.00% 4.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.89% 15.15% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 481 340 669
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,925 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,404 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.27% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,763 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +1.77%

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 4,104 5,036 5,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.19% 33.03% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,161 1,989 4,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £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 £118,814 £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 6 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 6 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 -23 99 £70,000 -8.50% 120
South London 0 20 £64,290 +4.29% 31
West London -24 6 £60,069 +4.16% 22
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 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.17%) Palantir Foundry
3 18 (2.60%) Confluence
4 9 (1.30%) Apache
4 9 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.30%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 23 (3.32%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.72%) InVision
2 5 (0.72%) Sketch
3 4 (0.58%) 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 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.87%) Maximo
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.58%) 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 (24.24%) AWS
2 153 (22.08%) Azure
3 56 (8.08%) GCP
4 42 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 42 (6.06%) Serverless
5 34 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.04%) Power Automate
6 28 (4.04%) PowerApps
7 25 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (3.46%) Figma
9 23 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 21 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.89%) GitHub
13 19 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.02%) PaaS
15 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (1.73%) OpenShift
16 12 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.17%) Firewall
2 17 (2.45%) VPN
3 15 (2.16%) Network Security
4 11 (1.59%) DNS
4 11 (1.59%) Structured Cabling
4 11 (1.59%) WAN
5 9 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 9 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.01%) LAN
6 7 (1.01%) SAN
6 7 (1.01%) Wireless
7 6 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.72%) WAAS
9 4 (0.58%) VoIP
10 3 (0.43%) VSAN
10 3 (0.43%) WLAN
11 2 (0.29%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.05%) Power BI
3 20 (2.89%) MongoDB
3 20 (2.89%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.02%) MySQL
6 11 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.30%) Metadata
7 9 (1.30%) RDBMS
8 8 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.01%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.87%) DB2
11 5 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.72%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.72%) Redis
12 4 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.64%) Jenkins
2 42 (6.06%) Git
3 30 (4.33%) JIRA
4 20 (2.89%) Axure RP
5 18 (2.60%) Balsamiq
6 15 (2.16%) GitLab
7 14 (2.02%) JMeter
8 12 (1.73%) JUnit
9 9 (1.30%) Mockito
9 9 (1.30%) Selenium
10 8 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.87%) Vite
12 5 (0.72%) Maven
13 4 (0.58%) gulp
13 4 (0.58%) MLflow
13 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.58%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.58%) webpack
14 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 201 (29.00%) Public Sector
2 155 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 86 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (10.82%) Law
6 65 (9.38%) Finance
7 23 (3.32%) Marketing
8 22 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.74%) Electronics
11 12 (1.73%) Legal
12 11 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.15%) Advertising
14 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.01%) Military
16 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (17.03%) Developer
2 92 (13.28%) Senior
3 74 (10.68%) Consultant
4 70 (10.10%) Architect
5 44 (6.35%) Software Engineer
6 42 (6.06%) Designer
7 35 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (4.76%) Java Developer
9 32 (4.62%) Lead
10 30 (4.33%) Analyst
11 29 (4.18%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.03%) User Researcher
14 19 (2.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (2.74%) UX Designer
15 18 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
15 18 (2.60%) Senior Manager
16 17 (2.45%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.64%) React
2 39 (5.63%) HTML
3 34 (4.91%) Spring
4 30 (4.33%) CSS
5 27 (3.90%) REST
6 24 (3.46%) AngularJS
6 24 (3.46%) Spring Boot
7 21 (3.03%) Web Services
8 19 (2.74%) Node.js
9 17 (2.45%) .NET
10 16 (2.31%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (2.16%) XML
12 14 (2.02%) FastAPI
12 14 (2.02%) Hibernate
12 14 (2.02%) PyTorch
13 12 (1.73%) JSON
14 11 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.59%) SOAP
14 11 (1.59%) Vue
15 10 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.89%) PKI
6 16 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.88%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.30%) CMDB
11 9 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.35%) Linux
2 42 (6.06%) Windows
3 13 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.44%) Unix
5 9 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.15%) VMS
7 7 (1.01%) Android
8 4 (0.58%) 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
1 200 (28.86%) Agile
2 118 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (15.73%) CI/CD
4 104 (15.01%) AI
5 103 (14.86%) DevOps
6 92 (13.28%) Software Engineering
7 82 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (10.97%) Analytics
10 71 (10.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (9.96%) Mentoring
12 64 (9.24%) Community of Practice
12 64 (9.24%) User Experience
13 58 (8.37%) User Research
14 57 (8.23%) Business Intelligence
15 55 (7.94%) Technology Strategy
15 55 (7.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 54 (7.79%) Workflow
17 53 (7.65%) Computer Science
18 52 (7.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 165 (23.81%) Python
2 117 (16.88%) Java
3 108 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 76 (10.97%) SQL
5 54 (7.79%) C#
6 48 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.75%) Bash
9 19 (2.74%) C++
10 12 (1.73%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.30%) Go
12 8 (1.15%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.01%) Bicep
14 6 (0.87%) C
14 6 (0.87%) Ruby
14 6 (0.87%) Scala
15 4 (0.58%) ABAP
15 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 466 (67.24%) SC Cleared
2 200 (28.86%) DV Cleared
3 132 (19.05%) Degree
4 31 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.46%) PhD
7 19 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.31%) CISSP
9 12 (1.73%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.44%) CISM
11 7 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
12 6 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.58%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.43%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.23%) Accessibility
2 28 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.46%) WCAG
4 19 (2.74%) NIST
5 15 (2.16%) QA
6 14 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.59%) GRC
8 10 (1.44%) NCSC
9 9 (1.30%) SLA
10 8 (1.15%) GDPR
11 5 (0.72%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.43%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 76 (10.97%) Docker
2 24 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.15%) KVM
5 7 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.87%) Firmware
6 6 (0.87%) vSphere
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
Systems Management
1 89 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.54%) Terraform
3 30 (4.33%) Ansible
4 20 (2.89%) Grafana
5 13 (1.88%) Kibana
6 12 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.44%) Argo
8 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.87%) SCCM
10 5 (0.72%) Istio
10 5 (0.72%) linkerd
10 5 (0.72%) Mesos
10 5 (0.72%) SCOM
11 4 (0.58%) Puppet
12 3 (0.43%) VxRail
12 3 (0.43%) WSUS
12 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 71 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.76%) SAP
3 32 (4.62%) Palantir
4 31 (4.47%) Google
5 27 (3.90%) VMware
6 23 (3.32%) Adobe
7 22 (3.17%) Foundry
8 21 (3.03%) Cisco
9 20 (2.89%) Oracle
10 19 (2.74%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.60%) Atlassian
11 18 (2.60%) Salesforce
12 15 (2.16%) Splunk
13 11 (1.59%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.30%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.30%) MuleSoft
15 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
16 7 (1.01%) IBM
17 6 (0.87%) Databricks
17 6 (0.87%) Dell