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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 78 61
Rank change year-on-year +46 -17 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,175 493 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.51% 4.04% 4.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.63% 12.92% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 806 319 699
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% +6.96% -4.17%

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 4,252 3,816 6,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.96% 31.24% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,658 1,820 4,141
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.46% -8.75%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +33 127 £80,000 +23.08% 86
South London -6 24 £55,000 -15.38% 3
West London -14 14 £85,000 +47.39% 30
North London +4 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
East London -9 1 £110,000 - 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 26 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.53%) Apache
3 16 (1.36%) Confluence
4 14 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.77%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) JBoss
10 3 (0.26%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 1 (0.085%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.28%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.51%) InVision
2 6 (0.51%) Sketch
3 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Weka
6 1 (0.085%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.94%) Maximo
2 6 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.085%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 310 (26.38%) AWS
2 235 (20.00%) Azure
3 91 (7.74%) GCP
4 56 (4.77%) Serverless
5 48 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 42 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.64%) GitHub
11 26 (2.21%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (1.36%) Figma
15 15 (1.28%) Google Analytics
15 15 (1.28%) OCI
16 13 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.11%) SaaS
17 12 (1.02%) PowerApps
17 12 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.38%) Network Security
2 26 (2.21%) Firewall
3 17 (1.45%) WAN
4 16 (1.36%) DNS
5 13 (1.11%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.02%) SAN
6 12 (1.02%) VPN
7 11 (0.94%) LAN
8 9 (0.77%) DHCP
9 8 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.68%) VSAN
10 7 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.43%) MPLS
11 5 (0.43%) SMTP
11 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.43%) Wireless
12 4 (0.34%) IPv4
12 4 (0.34%) SSL
13 3 (0.26%) BGP
13 3 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.40%) Power BI
2 25 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 24 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.36%) Metadata
4 16 (1.36%) MongoDB
5 15 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.94%) Db2
6 11 (0.94%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.94%) Tableau
7 10 (0.85%) DTS
7 10 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.77%) Big Data
8 9 (0.77%) MySQL
9 8 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.68%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.60%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 64 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 58 (4.94%) Git
3 36 (3.06%) GitLab
4 27 (2.30%) JIRA
5 11 (0.94%) Axure RP
6 10 (0.85%) Maven
7 9 (0.77%) Balsamiq
7 9 (0.77%) Vite
8 6 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.51%) Gradle
8 6 (0.51%) JMeter
9 5 (0.43%) JUnit
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) Subversion
10 4 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 303 (25.79%) Public Sector
2 223 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 160 (13.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (8.85%) Law
5 98 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (7.74%) Finance
7 38 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.79%) Legal
10 18 (1.53%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.02%) Games
13 8 (0.68%) Military
14 7 (0.60%) Cyber-Physical System
14 7 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.51%) Advertising
16 5 (0.43%) Banking
16 5 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 228 (19.40%) Senior
2 204 (17.36%) Architect
3 159 (13.53%) Consultant
4 125 (10.64%) Developer
5 93 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
6 75 (6.38%) Lead
7 70 (5.96%) Data Engineer
8 63 (5.36%) Analyst
9 55 (4.68%) Senior Consultant
10 48 (4.09%) AWS Architect
10 48 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 47 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 45 (3.83%) Senior Manager
13 41 (3.49%) AWS Solution Architect
14 39 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (3.23%) Designer
16 37 (3.15%) Business Analyst
17 33 (2.81%) Senior Developer
18 31 (2.64%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.74%) React
2 31 (2.64%) Spring
3 25 (2.13%) Kafka
4 24 (2.04%) .NET
4 24 (2.04%) HTML
4 24 (2.04%) REST
5 22 (1.87%) CSS
5 22 (1.87%) Spring Boot
6 21 (1.79%) Node.js
7 17 (1.45%) Web Services
8 16 (1.36%) JSON
9 15 (1.28%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.28%) PySpark
9 15 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.19%) SOAP
11 13 (1.11%) LangChain
11 13 (1.11%) Middleware
11 13 (1.11%) YAML
12 12 (1.02%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.02%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 23 (1.96%) PKI
6 21 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 21 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 19 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.53%) Operational Technology
10 16 (1.36%) Blog
10 16 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.77%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 79 (6.72%) Linux
2 63 (5.36%) Windows
3 31 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.51%) VMS
6 5 (0.43%) Android
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.26%) CentOS
8 3 (0.26%) Unix
9 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Rocky
9 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (22.64%) Agile
2 181 (15.40%) DevOps
3 150 (12.77%) AI
3 150 (12.77%) CI/CD
4 126 (10.72%) Mentoring
5 125 (10.64%) Software Engineering
6 124 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
10 103 (8.77%) Community of Practice
11 92 (7.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 92 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 90 (7.66%) Technology Strategy
13 87 (7.40%) Analytics
14 80 (6.81%) Collaborative Culture
15 79 (6.72%) Computer Science
15 79 (6.72%) Roadmaps
16 76 (6.47%) Microservices
17 71 (6.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.21%) Python
2 140 (11.91%) Java
3 91 (7.74%) SQL
4 83 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 38 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 32 (2.72%) Bash
7 32 (2.72%) C#
8 20 (1.70%) C++
9 11 (0.94%) Rust
10 10 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.85%) Go
11 8 (0.68%) C
11 8 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.51%) Groovy
13 6 (0.51%) Scala
13 6 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.43%) Bicep
14 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 853 (72.60%) SC Cleared
2 301 (25.62%) DV Cleared
3 181 (15.40%) Degree
4 36 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.98%) CISSP
6 33 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.13%) CISM
7 25 (2.13%) PhD
8 21 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 15 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.85%) CRISC
13 9 (0.77%) OSCP
14 7 (0.60%) GIAC
14 7 (0.60%) GSEC
15 6 (0.51%) CCIE
15 6 (0.51%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.91%) NIST
2 45 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.87%) QA
6 21 (1.79%) NCSC
7 16 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 14 (1.19%) WCAG
9 13 (1.11%) GDPR
10 9 (0.77%) GRC
11 8 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.60%) SLA
13 5 (0.43%) PMO
14 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.26%) RMADS
16 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 71 (6.04%) Docker
2 42 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.62%) vSphere
5 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.43%) KVM
8 4 (0.34%) Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) Squid
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.085%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.085%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.085%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 119 (10.13%) Terraform
2 91 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.49%) Ansible
4 23 (1.96%) Grafana
5 20 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.68%) Argo
9 7 (0.60%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.51%) Kibana
10 6 (0.51%) SCCM
10 6 (0.51%) WSUS
11 5 (0.43%) CASB
11 5 (0.43%) Packer
11 5 (0.43%) Puppet
11 5 (0.43%) VxRail
12 4 (0.34%) Nagios
12 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.26%) Mesos
13 3 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 112 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.91%) Google
3 42 (3.57%) VMware
4 39 (3.32%) Oracle
5 27 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.13%) Cisco
6 25 (2.13%) Databricks
7 23 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.62%) Adobe
8 19 (1.62%) Dell
9 18 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 18 (1.53%) Splunk
10 16 (1.36%) Palantir
11 12 (1.02%) Foundry
11 12 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.94%) IBM
12 11 (0.94%) Okta
12 11 (0.94%) SAP