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 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 76 65
Rank change year-on-year +48 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,521 479 825
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.99% 4.07% 4.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.35% 14.13% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 972 331 445
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £40,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,001 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,813 £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% - +1.74%

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 4,851 3,391 5,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.10% 28.81% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,873 1,876 2,479
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
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 £106,250 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.67% -5.82%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +40 127 £75,000 +25.00% 201
South London -17 27 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West London -10 11 £90,000 +146.58% 71
East London -7 3 £110,000 - 26
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 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.92%) Apache
3 13 (0.85%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.85%) Mule
4 12 (0.79%) Confluence
4 12 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.46%) Camunda
7 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.39%) SAS
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
8 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.066%) nginx
10 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.066%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.066%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.066%) Houdini
4 1 (0.066%) InVision
4 1 (0.066%) NUKE
4 1 (0.066%) Sketch
4 1 (0.066%) Trello
4 1 (0.066%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.26%) Maximo
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Primavera
5 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.066%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 470 (30.90%) AWS
2 277 (18.21%) Azure
3 115 (7.56%) GCP
4 93 (6.11%) Serverless
5 78 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 78 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
6 58 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (3.75%) Power Platform
8 50 (3.29%) Amazon S3
8 50 (3.29%) Entra ID
9 46 (3.02%) GitHub
10 40 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (1.78%) SaaS
13 26 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (1.31%) OCI
15 17 (1.12%) Azure Databricks
15 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.42%) Network Security
2 37 (2.43%) Firewall
3 16 (1.05%) SSL
3 16 (1.05%) WAN
4 13 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.85%) VPN
5 10 (0.66%) DNS
6 9 (0.59%) LAN
6 9 (0.59%) NGN
7 8 (0.53%) DHCP
7 8 (0.53%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.53%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.26%) BGP
10 4 (0.26%) IPv4
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.26%) NAS
10 4 (0.26%) OSPF
10 4 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.09%) Power BI
2 40 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 34 (2.24%) Metadata
5 27 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (1.78%) Big Data
5 27 (1.78%) Tableau
6 23 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.45%) DynamoDB
8 21 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 15 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.99%) MySQL
12 13 (0.85%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.85%) SQL Server
13 12 (0.79%) Redis
14 7 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 83 (5.46%) Jenkins
2 81 (5.33%) Git
3 49 (3.22%) GitLab
4 34 (2.24%) JIRA
5 11 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (0.59%) Burp Suite
6 9 (0.59%) Maven
6 9 (0.59%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.46%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.39%) Gradle
8 6 (0.39%) JUnit
8 6 (0.39%) Vite
9 5 (0.33%) Mockito
9 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.20%) Axure RP
11 3 (0.20%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.20%) Mercurial
General
1 368 (24.19%) Public Sector
2 320 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 182 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 168 (11.05%) Finance
5 135 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (8.74%) Law
7 50 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.58%) Military
10 19 (1.25%) Legal
11 16 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 15 (0.99%) Marketing
12 15 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.92%) Police
13 14 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.79%) Retail
15 9 (0.59%) Banking
15 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.53%) Electronics
16 8 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 299 (19.66%) Architect
2 286 (18.80%) Senior
3 227 (14.92%) Consultant
4 131 (8.61%) Developer
5 121 (7.96%) Lead
6 109 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (5.52%) Analyst
8 80 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
9 76 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 65 (4.27%) AWS Architect
10 65 (4.27%) Data Engineer
11 63 (4.14%) Software Engineer
12 56 (3.68%) Data Architect
13 54 (3.55%) Security Consultant
14 53 (3.48%) Security Architect
15 50 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
16 49 (3.22%) Business Analyst
17 47 (3.09%) IAM Consultant
18 46 (3.02%) AWS Solution Architect
19 42 (2.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.12%) Terraform
2 47 (3.09%) Kafka
3 42 (2.76%) React
4 27 (1.78%) Spring
5 25 (1.64%) .NET
5 25 (1.64%) REST
6 22 (1.45%) PySpark
7 20 (1.31%) Node.js
7 20 (1.31%) OAuth
8 19 (1.25%) Spring Boot
9 18 (1.18%) AWS CDK
10 17 (1.12%) HTML
11 16 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.05%) YAML
12 15 (0.99%) JSON
12 15 (0.99%) JWT
12 15 (0.99%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.92%) CSS
14 13 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (1.84%) Operational Technology
7 26 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 25 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 24 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
10 23 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (0.85%) Mainframe
15 13 (0.85%) Replication
15 13 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.25%) Linux
2 76 (5.00%) Windows
3 30 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.79%) CentOS
6 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.46%) Unix
7 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Rocky
10 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (21.96%) Agile
2 235 (15.45%) DevOps
3 223 (14.66%) AI
4 214 (14.07%) Mentoring
5 210 (13.81%) CI/CD
6 202 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
7 175 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 162 (10.65%) Software Engineering
9 153 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 141 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (8.94%) Roadmaps
12 134 (8.81%) Analytics
13 118 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 115 (7.56%) Migration
15 110 (7.23%) Project Delivery
16 109 (7.17%) Community of Practice
17 101 (6.64%) Decision-Making
17 101 (6.64%) Technology Strategy
18 100 (6.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 230 (15.12%) Python
2 134 (8.81%) Java
3 80 (5.26%) SQL
4 67 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 66 (4.34%) Bash
6 31 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.71%) C#
7 26 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 24 (1.58%) C++
9 23 (1.51%) Scala
10 17 (1.12%) Perl
10 17 (1.12%) Ruby
11 15 (0.99%) Groovy
12 14 (0.92%) Go
12 14 (0.92%) PHP
13 13 (0.85%) Bicep
13 13 (0.85%) DataWeave
14 12 (0.79%) C
15 10 (0.66%) Rust
16 8 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,045 (68.70%) SC Cleared
2 311 (20.45%) DV Cleared
3 167 (10.98%) Degree
4 69 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 58 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 53 (3.48%) CISSP
7 36 (2.37%) CISM
7 36 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.38%) OSCP
10 20 (1.31%) CREST Certified
10 20 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.05%) CHECK Team Member
12 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.66%) CISA
14 9 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.59%) CRISC
14 9 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.88%) NIST
4 46 (3.02%) NCSC
5 45 (2.96%) QA
6 27 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.71%) GDPR
8 18 (1.18%) GRC
8 18 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 11 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (0.53%) PMO
11 8 (0.53%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.26%) RMADS
13 4 (0.26%) WCAG
14 3 (0.20%) COBIT
14 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
System Software
1 102 (6.71%) Docker
2 37 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.66%) vSphere
5 9 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) KVM
8 4 (0.26%) Squid
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.066%) Firmware
10 1 (0.066%) IAG
10 1 (0.066%) NFS
10 1 (0.066%) Samba
Systems Management
1 130 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.81%) Ansible
3 41 (2.70%) Grafana
4 31 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.58%) Puppet
6 23 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.85%) CloudHub
8 12 (0.79%) Rancher
9 11 (0.72%) Argo
10 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.59%) Nmap
11 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.46%) Kibana
12 7 (0.46%) Nessus
13 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 5 (0.33%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) Istio
14 4 (0.26%) linkerd
14 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.20%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 142 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.80%) ServiceNow
3 59 (3.88%) Oracle
4 49 (3.22%) Google
5 44 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.83%) Databricks
7 28 (1.84%) VMware
8 27 (1.78%) SAP
9 22 (1.45%) Splunk
10 21 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.05%) Okta
12 16 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.99%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.92%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.85%) Cisco
16 11 (0.72%) Adobe
17 10 (0.66%) Palantir
17 10 (0.66%) Remedy
18 9 (0.59%) Foundry