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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 76 61
Rank change year-on-year +44 -15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,188 497 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.55% 4.08% 4.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.92% 13.06% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 813 325 686
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,250 £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 4,255 3,805 6,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.87% 31.21% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 1,827 4,116
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 £89,375 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 16 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 16 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 +37 129 £80,000 +23.08% 72
South London -9 24 £55,000 -15.38% 4
West London -12 14 £85,000 +47.39% 30
North London +4 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
East London -12 1 £110,000 - 23
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 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.52%) Apache
3 16 (1.35%) Confluence
4 14 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) IIS
10 3 (0.25%) JBoss
10 3 (0.25%) Mule
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
12 1 (0.084%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.26%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.51%) InVision
2 6 (0.51%) Sketch
3 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.084%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.084%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Maximo
2 6 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.084%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.084%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 315 (26.52%) AWS
2 238 (20.03%) Azure
3 92 (7.74%) GCP
4 56 (4.71%) Serverless
5 48 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 43 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (3.20%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.61%) GitHub
11 27 (2.27%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.35%) Figma
14 15 (1.26%) Google Analytics
14 15 (1.26%) OCI
15 13 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.09%) SaaS
16 12 (1.01%) PaaS
16 12 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.44%) Network Security
2 26 (2.19%) Firewall
3 17 (1.43%) WAN
4 16 (1.35%) DNS
5 13 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.01%) SAN
6 12 (1.01%) VPN
7 11 (0.93%) LAN
8 9 (0.76%) DHCP
9 8 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.67%) VSAN
10 7 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.42%) MPLS
11 5 (0.42%) SMTP
11 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.42%) Wireless
12 4 (0.34%) IPv4
12 4 (0.34%) SSL
13 3 (0.25%) BGP
13 3 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.28%) Power BI
2 25 (2.10%) NoSQL
3 24 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.43%) Metadata
5 16 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 15 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.93%) Db2
7 11 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 11 (0.93%) Tableau
8 10 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.84%) DTS
8 10 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.76%) Big Data
9 9 (0.76%) MySQL
10 8 (0.67%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.51%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 64 (5.39%) Jenkins
2 58 (4.88%) Git
3 36 (3.03%) GitLab
4 28 (2.36%) JIRA
5 11 (0.93%) Axure RP
6 10 (0.84%) Maven
7 9 (0.76%) Balsamiq
7 9 (0.76%) Vite
8 6 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.51%) Gradle
8 6 (0.51%) JMeter
9 5 (0.42%) JUnit
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) Subversion
10 4 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 305 (25.67%) Public Sector
2 224 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 162 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (8.84%) Law
5 99 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (7.74%) Finance
7 39 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.77%) Legal
10 18 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.01%) Games
13 8 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.67%) Military
14 7 (0.59%) Cyber-Physical System
15 6 (0.51%) Advertising
16 5 (0.42%) Banking
16 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 230 (19.36%) Senior
2 209 (17.59%) Architect
3 160 (13.47%) Consultant
4 125 (10.52%) Developer
5 95 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 78 (6.57%) Lead
7 72 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 64 (5.39%) Analyst
9 55 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
10 50 (4.21%) AWS Architect
10 50 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (3.87%) Senior Manager
11 46 (3.87%) Software Engineer
12 42 (3.54%) AWS Solution Architect
13 39 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (3.20%) Designer
15 37 (3.11%) Business Analyst
16 33 (2.78%) Data Architect
16 33 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.62%) React
2 31 (2.61%) Spring
3 25 (2.10%) Kafka
4 24 (2.02%) .NET
4 24 (2.02%) HTML
4 24 (2.02%) REST
5 22 (1.85%) CSS
5 22 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 21 (1.77%) Node.js
7 17 (1.43%) Web Services
8 16 (1.35%) JSON
9 15 (1.26%) PySpark
9 15 (1.26%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.18%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.18%) SOAP
11 13 (1.09%) LangChain
11 13 (1.09%) Middleware
11 13 (1.09%) YAML
12 12 (1.01%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.01%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 97 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.10%) Data Centre
5 23 (1.94%) PKI
6 21 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 20 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 19 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.35%) Blog
11 16 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.76%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.73%) Linux
2 64 (5.39%) Windows
3 32 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.51%) VMS
6 5 (0.42%) Android
6 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.25%) CentOS
7 3 (0.25%) Unix
8 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.084%) Rocky
8 1 (0.084%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (22.64%) Agile
2 186 (15.66%) DevOps
3 155 (13.05%) CI/CD
4 152 (12.79%) AI
5 125 (10.52%) Mentoring
5 125 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (10.44%) Software Engineering
7 115 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
9 104 (8.75%) Community of Practice
10 94 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 92 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 91 (7.66%) Technology Strategy
13 89 (7.49%) Analytics
14 81 (6.82%) Roadmaps
15 80 (6.73%) Collaborative Culture
16 79 (6.65%) Computer Science
17 76 (6.40%) Microservices
18 71 (5.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 212 (17.85%) Python
2 137 (11.53%) Java
3 90 (7.58%) SQL
4 82 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 38 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 36 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 33 (2.78%) Bash
8 31 (2.61%) C#
9 20 (1.68%) C++
10 11 (0.93%) Rust
11 10 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.84%) Go
12 8 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.59%) C
13 7 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.51%) Groovy
14 6 (0.51%) Scala
14 6 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.42%) Bicep
16 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 868 (73.06%) SC Cleared
2 302 (25.42%) DV Cleared
3 182 (15.32%) Degree
4 37 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.03%) CISSP
6 33 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.19%) CISM
8 25 (2.10%) PhD
9 22 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.35%) DBS Check
12 15 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.84%) CRISC
15 9 (0.76%) OSCP
16 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.59%) GIAC
16 7 (0.59%) GSEC
17 6 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.96%) NIST
2 46 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.85%) NCSC
5 22 (1.85%) QA
6 17 (1.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (1.18%) WCAG
8 13 (1.09%) GDPR
9 9 (0.76%) GRC
10 8 (0.67%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.59%) SLA
12 5 (0.42%) PMO
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 3 (0.25%) RMADS
15 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 70 (5.89%) Docker
2 43 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.60%) vSphere
5 9 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.42%) KVM
8 4 (0.34%) Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) Squid
9 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.084%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.084%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.084%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 120 (10.10%) Terraform
2 90 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.54%) Ansible
4 23 (1.94%) Grafana
5 20 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.67%) Argo
9 7 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.51%) Kibana
10 6 (0.51%) SCCM
10 6 (0.51%) WSUS
11 5 (0.42%) CASB
11 5 (0.42%) Packer
11 5 (0.42%) Puppet
11 5 (0.42%) VxRail
12 4 (0.34%) Nagios
12 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.25%) Mesos
13 3 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 112 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.87%) Google
3 42 (3.54%) VMware
4 39 (3.28%) Oracle
5 28 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.10%) Cisco
6 25 (2.10%) Databricks
7 23 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.60%) Adobe
8 19 (1.60%) Dell
9 18 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 18 (1.52%) Splunk
10 16 (1.35%) Palantir
11 12 (1.01%) Foundry
11 12 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.93%) IBM
12 11 (0.93%) Okta
12 11 (0.93%) SAP