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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 76 58
Rank change year-on-year +47 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,540 492 861
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.94% 4.16% 4.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.86% 14.19% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 972 348 421
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +0.42%

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 4,834 3,467 5,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.66% 29.30% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 1,929 2,356
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £37,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -3.36%

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 4 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 4 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 +42 127 £75,000 +25.00% 209
South London -16 27 £55,000 -15.38% 9
West London -11 12 £90,000 +146.58% 46
East London -10 3 £110,000 - 25
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 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 13 (0.84%) Anypoint
2 13 (0.84%) Apache
2 13 (0.84%) Mule
3 12 (0.78%) Confluence
3 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.52%) Camunda
4 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.32%) SAS
7 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.26%) JBoss
7 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.065%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
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 PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.065%) Houdini
6 1 (0.065%) NUKE
6 1 (0.065%) Trello
6 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.19%) Maximo
2 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
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
1 466 (30.26%) AWS
2 280 (18.18%) Azure
3 123 (7.99%) GCP
4 90 (5.84%) Serverless
5 77 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 76 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (3.83%) Power Platform
8 53 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (3.25%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 43 (2.79%) GitHub
12 42 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (1.82%) SaaS
15 25 (1.62%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 19 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.38%) Network Security
2 37 (2.40%) Firewall
3 15 (0.97%) SSL
3 15 (0.97%) VPN
4 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.91%) WAN
5 10 (0.65%) DNS
6 9 (0.58%) NGN
7 8 (0.52%) DHCP
7 8 (0.52%) LAN
7 8 (0.52%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.26%) NAS
10 4 (0.26%) OSPF
10 4 (0.26%) VSAN
10 4 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.18%) Power BI
2 45 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.27%) Metadata
5 34 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 29 (1.88%) Tableau
7 28 (1.82%) Big Data
8 27 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (1.10%) MySQL
12 17 (1.10%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.04%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (0.91%) SQL Server
16 13 (0.84%) MongoDB
17 12 (0.78%) Redis
18 8 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (5.26%) Git
1 81 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 47 (3.05%) GitLab
3 35 (2.27%) 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%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.45%) Gradle
7 7 (0.45%) JUnit
7 7 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.39%) Mockito
8 6 (0.39%) Vite
9 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.26%) Selenium
9 4 (0.26%) Subversion
10 3 (0.19%) JMeter
10 3 (0.19%) Mercurial
General
1 363 (23.57%) Public Sector
2 328 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 177 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 176 (11.43%) Finance
5 136 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (8.51%) Law
7 48 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.56%) Military
10 22 (1.43%) Legal
11 16 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.04%) Marketing
12 15 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (0.97%) Police
12 15 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.84%) Retail
14 9 (0.58%) Banking
14 9 (0.58%) Electronics
14 9 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 290 (18.83%) Senior
2 289 (18.77%) Architect
3 233 (15.13%) Consultant
4 127 (8.25%) Developer
5 124 (8.05%) Lead
6 97 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
7 82 (5.32%) Analyst
8 79 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
9 77 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 69 (4.48%) Data Engineer
10 69 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 62 (4.03%) Security Consultant
12 61 (3.96%) Data Architect
13 59 (3.83%) AWS Architect
14 54 (3.51%) Security Architect
15 49 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
16 46 (2.99%) Business Analyst
16 46 (2.99%) IAM Consultant
17 44 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
18 43 (2.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (9.81%) Terraform
2 47 (3.05%) Kafka
3 39 (2.53%) React
4 29 (1.88%) REST
5 28 (1.82%) Spring
6 26 (1.69%) .NET
7 23 (1.49%) Node.js
8 22 (1.43%) PySpark
9 20 (1.30%) 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 15 (0.97%) CSS
13 15 (0.97%) JSON
13 15 (0.97%) JWT
13 15 (0.97%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.84%) RAML
14 13 (0.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 86 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 44 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 26 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
11 23 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
12 22 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.97%) Blog
17 14 (0.91%) Security Posture
18 13 (0.84%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 99 (6.43%) Linux
2 83 (5.39%) Windows
3 33 (2.14%) 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
1 330 (21.43%) Agile
2 238 (15.45%) AI
3 233 (15.13%) DevOps
4 218 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
5 213 (13.83%) CI/CD
6 212 (13.77%) Mentoring
7 180 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (10.97%) Software Engineering
10 152 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 151 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 143 (9.29%) Roadmaps
13 137 (8.90%) Analytics
14 118 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 112 (7.27%) Migration
16 104 (6.75%) Project Delivery
17 101 (6.56%) Decision-Making
18 98 (6.36%) Scrum
19 97 (6.30%) Community of Practice
20 96 (6.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 233 (15.13%) Python
2 133 (8.64%) Java
3 81 (5.26%) SQL
4 66 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 63 (4.09%) Bash
6 29 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.82%) C#
8 26 (1.69%) 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%) Groovy
11 14 (0.91%) PHP
12 13 (0.84%) Bicep
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 1,049 (68.12%) SC Cleared
2 326 (21.17%) DV Cleared
3 156 (10.13%) Degree
4 65 (4.22%) AWS Certification
5 61 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 56 (3.64%) CISSP
7 38 (2.47%) CISM
8 33 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.49%) OSCP
11 22 (1.43%) CREST Certified
12 21 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (1.17%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (0.71%) CISA
14 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.71%) PhD
15 10 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 9 (0.58%) CHECK Team Leader
16 9 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 62 (4.03%) NIST
3 46 (2.99%) NCSC
4 45 (2.92%) QA
5 29 (1.88%) GDPR
6 27 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.30%) 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 (6.56%) Docker
2 40 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.71%) vSphere
5 10 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.26%) KVM
8 4 (0.26%) Squid
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.065%) Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) IAG
10 1 (0.065%) NFS
10 1 (0.065%) Samba
Systems Management
1 130 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.64%) Ansible
3 41 (2.66%) Grafana
4 30 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.62%) Puppet
6 22 (1.43%) 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%) Packer
13 5 (0.32%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) Istio
14 4 (0.26%) linkerd
14 4 (0.26%) QRadar
14 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 150 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 65 (4.22%) Oracle
4 52 (3.38%) Google
5 51 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.79%) Databricks
7 30 (1.95%) VMware
8 27 (1.75%) SAP
9 22 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.43%) Splunk
10 16 (1.04%) Okta
11 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 15 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.71%) Cisco
14 10 (0.65%) Adobe
14 10 (0.65%) Palantir
14 10 (0.65%) Remedy
15 9 (0.58%) Foundry