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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 78 73
Rank change year-on-year +48 -5 -16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,426 495 786
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.96% 4.08% 4.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.78% 14.01% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 902 335 499
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 4,788 3,532 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.00% 29.12% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,844 1,943 2,831
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,713 £49,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +36 129 £75,000 +15.38% 93
South London -17 29 £55,000 -15.38% 29
West London -18 12 £73,750 +103.45% 36
North London 0 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -13 1 £110,000 - 22
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 17 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.12%) Apache
3 14 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.91%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.91%) Mule
5 12 (0.84%) Confluence
6 11 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.42%) Camunda
8 6 (0.42%) SAS
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.070%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) InVision
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.070%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.070%) Houdini
6 1 (0.070%) NUKE
6 1 (0.070%) Trello
6 1 (0.070%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) Maximo
2 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.070%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 437 (30.65%) AWS
2 260 (18.23%) Azure
3 107 (7.50%) GCP
4 80 (5.61%) Serverless
5 76 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
6 49 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 45 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 43 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 37 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (2.38%) GitHub
11 26 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
13 22 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (1.54%) OCI
14 21 (1.47%) SaaS
15 16 (1.12%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (1.05%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.58%) Network Security
2 33 (2.31%) Firewall
3 17 (1.19%) WAN
4 15 (1.05%) SSL
5 12 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.77%) LAN
7 10 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.63%) DNS
8 9 (0.63%) NGN
8 9 (0.63%) VPN
9 8 (0.56%) DHCP
10 6 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.42%) VSAN
11 5 (0.35%) MPLS
11 5 (0.35%) NAS
11 5 (0.35%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.28%) BGP
12 4 (0.28%) OSPF
12 4 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.81%) Power BI
2 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
3 31 (2.17%) Metadata
4 30 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (1.68%) Big Data
8 21 (1.47%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.19%) Tableau
11 14 (0.98%) MySQL
12 13 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.91%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.70%) SQL Server
15 9 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.49%) Db2
17 6 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.42%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 64 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 62 (4.35%) Git
3 48 (3.37%) GitLab
4 33 (2.31%) JIRA
5 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.49%) Maven
7 7 (0.49%) Vite
8 6 (0.42%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.35%) Gradle
9 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.28%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.21%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.21%) Mockito
11 3 (0.21%) Subversion
11 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
General
1 356 (24.96%) Public Sector
2 285 (19.99%) Social Skills
3 178 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (9.68%) Finance
5 137 (9.61%) Law
6 127 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.75%) Legal
10 20 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.05%) Military
12 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.70%) Marketing
13 10 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.63%) Retail
15 8 (0.56%) Electronics
15 8 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.49%) Advertising
16 7 (0.49%) Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (19.78%) Senior
2 266 (18.65%) Architect
3 227 (15.92%) Consultant
4 122 (8.56%) Developer
5 121 (8.49%) Lead
6 109 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
7 83 (5.82%) Analyst
8 82 (5.75%) Senior Consultant
9 68 (4.77%) Data Engineer
10 67 (4.70%) AWS Architect
11 60 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 59 (4.14%) Software Engineer
13 51 (3.58%) Data Architect
14 50 (3.51%) Business Analyst
15 49 (3.44%) AWS Solution Architect
16 48 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
17 45 (3.16%) Security Consultant
18 44 (3.09%) Senior Manager
19 42 (2.95%) Security Architect
20 41 (2.88%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.88%) React
2 32 (2.24%) Kafka
3 29 (2.03%) Spring
4 26 (1.82%) .NET
5 20 (1.40%) HTML
5 20 (1.40%) Node.js
5 20 (1.40%) Spring Boot
6 19 (1.33%) OAuth
7 18 (1.26%) AWS CDK
7 18 (1.26%) CSS
8 15 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (1.05%) PySpark
8 15 (1.05%) REST
9 14 (0.98%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.91%) JSON
10 13 (0.91%) JWT
10 13 (0.91%) MUnit
10 13 (0.91%) OAuth2
10 13 (0.91%) RAML
10 13 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.40%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 46 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 43 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
9 26 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
10 25 (1.75%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.05%) Blog
15 15 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.91%) Mainframe
18 12 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (6.31%) Linux
2 68 (4.77%) Windows
3 28 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.77%) CentOS
6 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.28%) Rocky
8 4 (0.28%) Unix
9 3 (0.21%) Android
9 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (22.02%) Agile
2 209 (14.66%) AI
3 208 (14.59%) DevOps
4 196 (13.74%) Mentoring
5 179 (12.55%) CI/CD
6 161 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
8 147 (10.31%) Software Engineering
9 138 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 134 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (8.91%) Analytics
12 113 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 109 (7.64%) Community of Practice
14 108 (7.57%) Project Delivery
15 107 (7.50%) Migration
16 106 (7.43%) Roadmaps
17 105 (7.36%) Technology Strategy
18 98 (6.87%) Scrum
18 98 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
19 89 (6.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 212 (14.87%) Python
2 139 (9.75%) Java
3 76 (5.33%) SQL
4 70 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 56 (3.93%) Bash
6 33 (2.31%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.82%) C#
9 23 (1.61%) C++
10 17 (1.19%) Scala
11 16 (1.12%) Perl
11 16 (1.12%) Ruby
12 14 (0.98%) Go
12 14 (0.98%) PHP
13 13 (0.91%) DataWeave
14 11 (0.77%) C
15 10 (0.70%) Rust
16 9 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.42%) Bicep
17 6 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 981 (68.79%) SC Cleared
2 313 (21.95%) DV Cleared
3 183 (12.83%) Degree
4 67 (4.70%) AWS Certification
5 54 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (3.16%) CISSP
7 41 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.38%) CISM
9 23 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.19%) OSCP
12 16 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.98%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.84%) CRISC
14 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.77%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.63%) CISA
17 7 (0.49%) CCIE
17 7 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (4.07%) NIST
3 49 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.81%) QA
5 34 (2.38%) NCSC
6 31 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.47%) GDPR
8 20 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 13 (0.91%) GRC
10 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.49%) WCAG
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) PMO
14 4 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.28%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.28%) RMADS
15 3 (0.21%) COBIT
15 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 85 (5.96%) Docker
2 40 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.91%) vSphere
5 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.42%) KVM
8 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.28%) Squid
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.070%) Firmware
11 1 (0.070%) IAG
Systems Management
1 139 (9.75%) Terraform
2 111 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.86%) Ansible
4 25 (1.75%) Puppet
5 24 (1.68%) Grafana
6 22 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.91%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.70%) Argo
10 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.42%) CASB
12 5 (0.35%) Kibana
12 5 (0.35%) Packer
12 5 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.28%) Istio
13 4 (0.28%) linkerd
13 4 (0.28%) Nessus
13 4 (0.28%) Nmap
13 4 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.93%) Oracle
3 55 (3.86%) Google
4 43 (3.02%) Salesforce
4 43 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 38 (2.66%) Databricks
5 38 (2.66%) VMware
6 28 (1.96%) SAP
7 19 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.26%) Cisco
9 17 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.19%) Splunk
10 16 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 16 (1.12%) Palantir
11 14 (0.98%) Okta
12 13 (0.91%) Adobe
12 13 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.91%) Foundry
13 9 (0.63%) Dell
13 9 (0.63%) Remedy