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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 77 61
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 +2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,201 497 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.57% 4.08% 4.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.96% 13.20% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 811 325 693
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £53,751
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -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 4,296 3,766 6,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.94% 30.91% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,671 1,839 4,120
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,981 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +2.79% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,063
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,275
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,099
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.66% -9.83%

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 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 19 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 +41 136 £82,500 +26.92% 59
South London -4 26 £55,000 -15.38% 7
West London -16 13 £85,000 +47.39% 19
North London +4 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
East London -8 1 £110,000 - 16
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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.50%) Apache
3 16 (1.33%) Confluence
4 14 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) IIS
10 3 (0.25%) JBoss
10 3 (0.25%) Mule
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 1 (0.083%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.083%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.50%) InVision
2 6 (0.50%) Sketch
3 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Weka
7 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.083%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Maximo
2 6 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.083%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.083%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 325 (27.06%) AWS
2 235 (19.57%) Azure
3 93 (7.74%) GCP
4 58 (4.83%) Serverless
5 49 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 37 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 34 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (2.50%) GitHub
10 27 (2.25%) Amazon S3
11 22 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.25%) Figma
13 15 (1.25%) OCI
14 14 (1.17%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.08%) SaaS
16 12 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.58%) Network Security
2 26 (2.16%) Firewall
3 16 (1.33%) DNS
4 15 (1.25%) WAN
5 12 (1.00%) VPN
6 11 (0.92%) LAN
6 11 (0.92%) SAN
6 11 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.75%) DHCP
8 8 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.58%) VSAN
10 5 (0.42%) MPLS
10 5 (0.42%) SMTP
10 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.33%) IPv4
11 4 (0.33%) SSL
12 3 (0.25%) BGP
12 3 (0.25%) OSPF
12 3 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.25%) Power BI
2 25 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 25 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.58%) Metadata
4 18 (1.50%) Data Lake
5 16 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 11 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (0.92%) Db2
8 11 (0.92%) Tableau
9 10 (0.83%) Big Data
9 10 (0.83%) DTS
9 10 (0.83%) MySQL
9 10 (0.83%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.67%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.58%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 63 (5.25%) Jenkins
2 58 (4.83%) Git
3 37 (3.08%) GitLab
4 29 (2.41%) JIRA
5 10 (0.83%) Axure RP
5 10 (0.83%) Maven
6 9 (0.75%) Vite
7 8 (0.67%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.50%) Gradle
8 6 (0.50%) JMeter
9 5 (0.42%) JUnit
9 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.33%) Subversion
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
1 311 (25.90%) Public Sector
2 228 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 159 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (8.66%) Law
5 96 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (7.74%) Finance
7 39 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.75%) Legal
10 19 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.00%) Games
13 8 (0.67%) Military
14 7 (0.58%) Cyber-Physical System
14 7 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.42%) Banking
15 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.33%) Advertising
16 4 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 237 (19.73%) Senior
2 212 (17.65%) Architect
3 167 (13.91%) Consultant
4 128 (10.66%) Developer
5 97 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
6 78 (6.49%) Lead
7 71 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 63 (5.25%) Analyst
9 61 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
10 51 (4.25%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (3.91%) Senior Manager
12 47 (3.91%) Software Engineer
13 42 (3.50%) AWS Solution Architect
14 40 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
15 39 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 37 (3.08%) Data Architect
16 37 (3.08%) Designer
17 33 (2.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.58%) React
2 31 (2.58%) Spring
3 25 (2.08%) Kafka
4 24 (2.00%) .NET
4 24 (2.00%) REST
5 23 (1.92%) HTML
6 22 (1.83%) Spring Boot
7 21 (1.75%) CSS
8 20 (1.67%) Node.js
9 17 (1.42%) Web Services
10 16 (1.33%) JSON
11 15 (1.25%) PySpark
11 15 (1.25%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.17%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.17%) SOAP
13 13 (1.08%) LangChain
13 13 (1.08%) Middleware
13 13 (1.08%) YAML
14 12 (1.00%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 27 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 23 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (1.92%) PKI
7 20 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 20 (1.67%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
9 17 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.33%) Blog
11 15 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.91%) Linux
2 64 (5.33%) Windows
3 31 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.50%) VMS
6 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.25%) Android
7 3 (0.25%) CentOS
7 3 (0.25%) Unix
8 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.083%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.083%) Rocky
9 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (22.90%) Agile
2 186 (15.49%) DevOps
3 162 (13.49%) AI
4 157 (13.07%) CI/CD
5 133 (11.07%) Mentoring
6 127 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 126 (10.49%) Software Engineering
8 113 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
10 103 (8.58%) Community of Practice
11 95 (7.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 94 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 92 (7.66%) Analytics
14 91 (7.58%) Technology Strategy
15 82 (6.83%) Computer Science
16 80 (6.66%) Collaborative Culture
16 80 (6.66%) Roadmaps
17 76 (6.33%) Microservices
18 73 (6.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 217 (18.07%) Python
2 140 (11.66%) Java
3 89 (7.41%) SQL
4 81 (6.74%) JavaScript
5 35 (2.91%) Bash
5 35 (2.91%) PowerShell
5 35 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 32 (2.66%) C#
7 22 (1.83%) C++
8 11 (0.92%) Rust
9 10 (0.83%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.83%) Go
10 9 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.58%) C
13 6 (0.50%) Groovy
13 6 (0.50%) Scala
13 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.42%) Bicep
15 4 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 871 (72.52%) SC Cleared
2 302 (25.15%) DV Cleared
3 182 (15.15%) Degree
4 37 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.91%) CISSP
6 34 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 25 (2.08%) CISM
8 25 (2.08%) PhD
9 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.83%) CRISC
15 9 (0.75%) OSCP
16 7 (0.58%) GIAC
16 7 (0.58%) GSEC
17 6 (0.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.83%) NIST
2 43 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 23 (1.92%) QA
6 21 (1.75%) NCSC
7 17 (1.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (1.08%) WCAG
9 12 (1.00%) GDPR
10 8 (0.67%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.58%) GRC
12 5 (0.42%) PMO
13 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.25%) RMADS
14 3 (0.25%) SLA
15 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 72 (6.00%) Docker
2 43 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.50%) vSphere
5 9 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.50%) KVM
7 4 (0.33%) Squid
8 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.083%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.083%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.083%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 124 (10.32%) Terraform
2 93 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.50%) Ansible
4 24 (2.00%) Grafana
5 20 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.67%) Argo
8 8 (0.67%) Puppet
9 7 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.58%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.50%) Kibana
10 6 (0.50%) WSUS
11 5 (0.42%) CASB
11 5 (0.42%) Packer
12 4 (0.33%) Nagios
12 4 (0.33%) SCCM
12 4 (0.33%) VxRail
13 3 (0.25%) CloudHub
13 3 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 110 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.91%) Google
3 42 (3.50%) VMware
4 40 (3.33%) Oracle
5 27 (2.25%) Databricks
5 27 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.67%) Cisco
8 19 (1.58%) Adobe
8 19 (1.58%) Splunk
9 18 (1.50%) Dell
9 18 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.33%) Palantir
11 12 (1.00%) Foundry
11 12 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.92%) IBM
12 11 (0.92%) Okta
12 11 (0.92%) SAP