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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +36
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 744 702 902
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.67% 4.81% 4.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.89% 14.41% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 509 324 644
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,590 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% +2.68%

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 4,158 4,871 5,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.09% 33.39% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,212 1,972 4,108
10th Percentile £31,600 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £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 25 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 25 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 96 £70,000 -6.67% 84
South London -2 22 £61,145 -0.81% 14
West London -28 10 £85,000 +47.39% 17
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 25 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.69%) Palantir Foundry
3 19 (2.55%) Confluence
4 11 (1.48%) Apache
4 11 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.21%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.23%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.81%) InVision
2 6 (0.81%) Sketch
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) Weka
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Maximo
2 7 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 180 (24.19%) AWS
2 169 (22.72%) Azure
3 63 (8.47%) GCP
4 46 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 43 (5.78%) Serverless
6 34 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (3.76%) Power Automate
8 28 (3.76%) PowerApps
9 26 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 25 (3.36%) Figma
11 23 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.69%) GitHub
13 15 (2.02%) PaaS
13 15 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.49%) Firewall
2 19 (2.55%) VPN
3 18 (2.42%) DNS
4 17 (2.28%) Network Security
5 12 (1.61%) WAN
6 10 (1.34%) SAN
6 10 (1.34%) Structured Cabling
6 10 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
8 8 (1.08%) LAN
8 8 (1.08%) Wireless
9 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.81%) DHCP
11 5 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.67%) SMTP
11 5 (0.67%) WAAS
12 4 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.54%) VoIP
12 4 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.24%) Power BI
3 21 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 19 (2.55%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.88%) MySQL
7 13 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.21%) Metadata
9 9 (1.21%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.08%) DB2
10 8 (1.08%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.81%) DTS
13 5 (0.67%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 46 (6.18%) Git
3 32 (4.30%) JIRA
4 21 (2.82%) Axure RP
5 18 (2.42%) Balsamiq
6 15 (2.02%) JMeter
7 14 (1.88%) GitLab
8 12 (1.61%) JUnit
9 9 (1.21%) Mockito
10 8 (1.08%) Selenium
11 7 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.94%) Vite
12 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.67%) Maven
14 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.54%) Subversion
15 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.40%) Gradle
15 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 215 (28.90%) Public Sector
2 171 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 92 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (10.48%) Law
6 68 (9.14%) Finance
7 18 (2.42%) Legal
8 17 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.15%) Marketing
10 15 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.61%) Electronics
13 11 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.21%) Advertising
16 8 (1.08%) Games
17 7 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.81%) Military
18 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 2 (0.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (16.40%) Developer
2 115 (15.46%) Senior
3 83 (11.16%) Consultant
4 69 (9.27%) Architect
5 44 (5.91%) Designer
6 41 (5.51%) Software Engineer
7 38 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (4.97%) Analyst
8 37 (4.97%) Java Developer
9 34 (4.57%) Data Engineer
10 32 (4.30%) Lead
11 27 (3.63%) Senior Manager
12 25 (3.36%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.23%) User Researcher
14 23 (3.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 23 (3.09%) UX Designer
15 20 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.69%) Data Scientist
15 20 (2.69%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.65%) React
2 39 (5.24%) HTML
3 36 (4.84%) Spring
4 31 (4.17%) REST
5 30 (4.03%) CSS
6 26 (3.49%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.09%) Web Services
8 21 (2.82%) .NET
9 20 (2.69%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.15%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (2.15%) Node.js
11 15 (2.02%) XML
12 14 (1.88%) Hibernate
12 14 (1.88%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.88%) SOAP
13 13 (1.75%) FastAPI
13 13 (1.75%) Middleware
14 12 (1.61%) JSON
14 12 (1.61%) LangChain
14 12 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.96%) PKI
5 20 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 13 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.21%) CMDB
11 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.81%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.59%) Linux
2 46 (6.18%) Windows
3 14 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.48%) Unix
5 10 (1.34%) VMS
6 9 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.94%) Android
8 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (29.84%) Agile
2 117 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (15.59%) DevOps
4 113 (15.19%) AI
4 113 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 93 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 87 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (10.48%) Analytics
10 72 (9.68%) Mentoring
11 70 (9.41%) Community of Practice
12 66 (8.87%) User Experience
13 64 (8.60%) User Research
14 59 (7.93%) Computer Science
14 59 (7.93%) Technology Strategy
15 58 (7.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 57 (7.66%) Data Modelling
17 55 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
18 53 (7.12%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 166 (22.31%) Python
2 128 (17.20%) Java
3 108 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 83 (11.16%) SQL
5 57 (7.66%) C#
6 48 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 40 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.82%) Bash
9 20 (2.69%) C++
10 13 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.48%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.94%) Go
14 6 (0.81%) Bicep
14 6 (0.81%) Scala
15 5 (0.67%) C
15 5 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.67%) Ruby
15 5 (0.67%) Rust
16 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 507 (68.15%) SC Cleared
2 204 (27.42%) DV Cleared
3 142 (19.09%) Degree
4 30 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.23%) PhD
7 20 (2.69%) CISSP
8 19 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.61%) CISM
11 11 (1.48%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.81%) NVQ Level 3
14 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.54%) APMP
15 4 (0.54%) CRISC
15 4 (0.54%) ISACA
15 4 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.80%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.49%) WCAG
4 22 (2.96%) NIST
5 16 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.15%) QA
6 11 (1.48%) GRC
7 10 (1.34%) SLA
8 8 (1.08%) JSP 440
8 8 (1.08%) NCSC
9 7 (0.94%) GDPR
10 4 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.40%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.40%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (11.29%) Docker
2 32 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.34%) vSphere
5 8 (1.08%) KVM
6 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.81%) Firmware
8 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.13%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.13%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 86 (11.56%) Terraform
3 32 (4.30%) Ansible
4 19 (2.55%) Grafana
5 13 (1.75%) Kibana
6 12 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.21%) Argo
7 9 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.81%) SCCM
9 6 (0.81%) SCOM
10 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.67%) Istio
10 5 (0.67%) linkerd
10 5 (0.67%) Mesos
10 5 (0.67%) WSUS
11 4 (0.54%) Puppet
11 4 (0.54%) VxRail
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.38%) Google
3 32 (4.30%) Palantir
4 31 (4.17%) VMware
5 24 (3.23%) Adobe
6 23 (3.09%) Cisco
6 23 (3.09%) SAP
7 22 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.69%) Foundry
8 20 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.28%) Oracle
10 16 (2.15%) Atlassian
11 15 (2.02%) Splunk
12 13 (1.75%) Dell
13 11 (1.48%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.34%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 9 (1.21%) IBM
15 9 (1.21%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.94%) Databricks