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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +53
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 705 740 939
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.60% 4.93% 4.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.13% 14.93% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 485 334 674
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,012 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,213 £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 £88,619 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,750
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 4,116 4,955 5,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.88% 33.00% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,165 1,974 4,182
10th Percentile £31,350 £42,000 £36,908
25th Percentile £51,000 £55,000 £50,313
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 £119,850 £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 11 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 11 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 -18 100 £70,000 -12.50% 87
South London +1 21 £64,290 +4.29% 27
West London -23 6 £80,000 +38.72% 24
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 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.98%) Palantir Foundry
3 18 (2.55%) Confluence
4 10 (1.42%) Apache
4 10 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.28%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) 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 (3.40%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.71%) InVision
2 5 (0.71%) Sketch
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Weka
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.99%) 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 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) 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 (23.83%) AWS
2 154 (21.84%) Azure
3 56 (7.94%) GCP
4 43 (6.10%) Power Platform
5 40 (5.67%) Serverless
6 33 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 27 (3.83%) PowerApps
9 25 (3.55%) Figma
10 24 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.98%) Entra ID
12 21 (2.98%) GitHub
13 20 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (1.99%) PaaS
16 13 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.26%) Firewall
2 18 (2.55%) VPN
3 15 (2.13%) Network Security
4 13 (1.84%) DNS
5 11 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
5 11 (1.56%) WAN
6 10 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.13%) SAN
9 7 (0.99%) LAN
9 7 (0.99%) Wireless
10 6 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.71%) WAAS
12 4 (0.57%) VoIP
13 3 (0.43%) SMTP
13 3 (0.43%) VSAN
13 3 (0.43%) WLAN
14 2 (0.28%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.11%) Power BI
3 19 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 18 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.99%) MySQL
7 11 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.28%) Metadata
9 9 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.99%) DB2
11 7 (0.99%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.71%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.71%) Redis
14 4 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 42 (5.96%) Git
3 30 (4.26%) JIRA
4 21 (2.98%) Axure RP
5 19 (2.70%) Balsamiq
6 14 (1.99%) GitLab
6 14 (1.99%) JMeter
7 12 (1.70%) JUnit
8 9 (1.28%) Mockito
8 9 (1.28%) Selenium
9 8 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.85%) Vite
11 5 (0.71%) Maven
12 4 (0.57%) MLflow
12 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.57%) Subversion
12 4 (0.57%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.43%) gulp
13 3 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 204 (28.94%) Public Sector
2 156 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 89 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (10.78%) Law
6 64 (9.08%) Finance
7 20 (2.84%) Marketing
8 19 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.13%) Electronics
11 12 (1.70%) Legal
12 11 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.13%) Advertising
15 7 (0.99%) Military
16 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Games
18 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (16.60%) Developer
2 94 (13.33%) Senior
3 76 (10.78%) Consultant
4 72 (10.21%) Architect
5 44 (6.24%) Designer
5 44 (6.24%) Software Engineer
6 36 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (4.96%) Java Developer
8 32 (4.54%) Analyst
8 32 (4.54%) Lead
9 30 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 24 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.12%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (2.98%) User Researcher
12 21 (2.98%) UX Designer
13 19 (2.70%) Senior Manager
14 18 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (2.55%) Data Scientist
15 17 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.10%) React
2 38 (5.39%) HTML
3 33 (4.68%) Spring
4 29 (4.11%) CSS
5 28 (3.97%) REST
6 23 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.12%) Web Services
8 18 (2.55%) .NET
9 16 (2.27%) Node.js
10 15 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 15 (2.13%) XML
11 14 (1.99%) Hibernate
11 14 (1.99%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.84%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.70%) JSON
13 12 (1.70%) Middleware
13 12 (1.70%) SOAP
14 10 (1.42%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (1.42%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.98%) PKI
6 16 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.70%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.28%) CMDB
12 9 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.85%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.38%) Linux
2 43 (6.10%) Windows
3 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.42%) Unix
5 9 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.13%) VMS
7 7 (0.99%) Android
8 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.43%) CentOS
10 2 (0.28%) 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
1 205 (29.08%) Agile
2 114 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (15.32%) CI/CD
4 106 (15.04%) AI
5 104 (14.75%) DevOps
6 91 (12.91%) Software Engineering
7 80 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (10.92%) Analytics
9 72 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 69 (9.79%) Mentoring
11 67 (9.50%) Community of Practice
12 64 (9.08%) User Experience
13 60 (8.51%) User Research
14 57 (8.09%) Technology Strategy
14 57 (8.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 55 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
15 55 (7.80%) Computer Science
16 54 (7.66%) Data Modelling
17 52 (7.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 162 (22.98%) Python
2 119 (16.88%) Java
3 106 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 77 (10.92%) SQL
5 53 (7.52%) C#
6 46 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.26%) Bash
9 19 (2.70%) C++
10 13 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.28%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.13%) Go
12 8 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.85%) Bicep
13 6 (0.85%) C
13 6 (0.85%) Ruby
13 6 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.71%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 478 (67.80%) SC Cleared
2 195 (27.66%) DV Cleared
3 137 (19.43%) Degree
4 30 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.40%) PhD
7 20 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.27%) CISSP
10 12 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.42%) CISM
12 8 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.85%) NVQ Level 3
14 6 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.57%) APMP
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.09%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.55%) WCAG
4 19 (2.70%) NIST
5 15 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.13%) QA
6 11 (1.56%) GRC
7 10 (1.42%) NCSC
8 9 (1.28%) GDPR
8 9 (1.28%) SLA
9 5 (0.71%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.43%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.28%) PMO
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 74 (10.50%) Docker
2 25 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.13%) KVM
5 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.99%) vSphere
6 6 (0.85%) Firmware
7 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.28%) 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 (12.48%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.49%) Terraform
3 29 (4.11%) Ansible
4 20 (2.84%) Grafana
5 13 (1.84%) Kibana
6 12 (1.70%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.42%) Argo
8 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.85%) SCCM
11 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.71%) Istio
11 5 (0.71%) linkerd
11 5 (0.71%) Mesos
11 5 (0.71%) SCOM
12 4 (0.57%) Puppet
12 4 (0.57%) WSUS
13 3 (0.43%) VxRail
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 72 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.54%) Google
3 31 (4.40%) Palantir
4 30 (4.26%) SAP
5 29 (4.11%) VMware
6 24 (3.40%) Adobe
7 21 (2.98%) Cisco
7 21 (2.98%) Foundry
8 19 (2.70%) Oracle
8 19 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.13%) Splunk
11 10 (1.42%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.28%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.13%) Dell
13 8 (1.13%) IBM
13 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.99%) Databricks