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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 74 62
Rank change year-on-year +42 -12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,212 509 996
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.58% 4.17% 4.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.77% 13.48% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 811 335 682
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,250 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,371 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% +8.47% -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 4,365 3,776 6,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.09% 30.96% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,709 1,862 4,080
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +2.24% -0.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 25 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 25 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 +35 132 £82,500 +26.92% 72
South London -6 26 £55,000 -15.38% 4
West London -13 13 £85,000 +47.39% 27
North London +3 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
East London -1 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 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.49%) Apache
3 14 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.16%) Confluence
4 11 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.33%) Mule
7 4 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.083%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.083%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (0.99%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.41%) InVision
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.41%) Sketch
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Weka
5 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.083%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.91%) 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
1 337 (27.81%) AWS
2 241 (19.88%) Azure
3 93 (7.67%) GCP
4 61 (5.03%) Serverless
5 54 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 39 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 36 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (2.48%) GitHub
10 28 (2.31%) Amazon S3
10 28 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (1.40%) OCI
14 15 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (1.24%) SaaS
15 14 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.16%) Google Analytics
16 13 (1.07%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.72%) Network Security
2 25 (2.06%) Firewall
3 16 (1.32%) DNS
4 15 (1.24%) WAN
5 12 (0.99%) VPN
6 11 (0.91%) LAN
6 11 (0.91%) SAN
6 11 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.74%) DHCP
8 7 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.58%) VSAN
9 5 (0.41%) MPLS
9 5 (0.41%) SMTP
9 5 (0.41%) SSL
9 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.33%) IPv4
10 4 (0.33%) NGN
11 3 (0.25%) NAS
11 3 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.05%) Power BI
2 26 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (2.06%) NoSQL
4 20 (1.65%) Data Lake
4 20 (1.65%) Metadata
5 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.07%) DynamoDB
8 12 (0.99%) Big Data
9 11 (0.91%) Db2
9 11 (0.91%) MySQL
9 11 (0.91%) Tableau
10 10 (0.83%) DTS
10 10 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.66%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.58%) SQL Server
13 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 63 (5.20%) Jenkins
2 59 (4.87%) Git
3 37 (3.05%) GitLab
4 28 (2.31%) JIRA
5 10 (0.83%) Maven
6 9 (0.74%) Axure RP
6 9 (0.74%) Vite
7 7 (0.58%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.50%) Gradle
8 6 (0.50%) JMeter
9 5 (0.41%) JUnit
9 5 (0.41%) Subversion
9 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
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
1 308 (25.41%) Public Sector
2 233 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 159 (13.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 103 (8.50%) Law
5 98 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.09%) Finance
6 40 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (1.82%) Legal
8 19 (1.57%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (0.99%) Games
11 8 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.66%) Military
12 7 (0.58%) Cyber-Physical System
13 5 (0.41%) Advertising
13 5 (0.41%) Banking
13 5 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.33%) Marketing
14 4 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 245 (20.21%) Senior
2 217 (17.90%) Architect
3 173 (14.27%) Consultant
4 130 (10.73%) Developer
5 99 (8.17%) Solutions Architect
6 83 (6.85%) Lead
7 69 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 65 (5.36%) Senior Consultant
9 63 (5.20%) Analyst
10 52 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 51 (4.21%) AWS Architect
12 46 (3.80%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.80%) Software Engineer
13 42 (3.47%) AWS Solution Architect
14 40 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
15 39 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (3.14%) Data Architect
17 37 (3.05%) Business Analyst
18 35 (2.89%) Designer
19 34 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.55%) React
2 31 (2.56%) Spring
3 25 (2.06%) Kafka
4 24 (1.98%) .NET
4 24 (1.98%) REST
5 23 (1.90%) HTML
6 22 (1.82%) Spring Boot
7 21 (1.73%) CSS
8 20 (1.65%) Node.js
9 17 (1.40%) Web Services
10 16 (1.32%) JSON
11 15 (1.24%) PySpark
12 14 (1.16%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.16%) Middleware
12 14 (1.16%) SOAP
13 13 (1.07%) LangChain
13 13 (1.07%) PyTorch
13 13 (1.07%) YAML
14 12 (0.99%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.99%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 48 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.90%) PKI
8 19 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
10 17 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (1.32%) Blog
12 15 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.01%) Linux
2 66 (5.45%) Windows
3 32 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.50%) VMS
5 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.25%) Android
6 3 (0.25%) CentOS
6 3 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.083%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.083%) Rocky
8 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (23.02%) Agile
2 189 (15.59%) DevOps
3 170 (14.03%) AI
4 161 (13.28%) CI/CD
5 139 (11.47%) Mentoring
6 129 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 128 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (10.23%) Software Engineering
9 113 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
11 101 (8.33%) Community of Practice
12 97 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 94 (7.76%) Analytics
14 93 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 90 (7.43%) Technology Strategy
16 84 (6.93%) Roadmaps
17 82 (6.77%) Computer Science
18 81 (6.68%) Collaborative Culture
19 77 (6.35%) Microservices
20 74 (6.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.07%) Python
2 143 (11.80%) Java
3 86 (7.10%) SQL
4 81 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 39 (3.22%) Bash
6 35 (2.89%) PowerShell
6 35 (2.89%) TypeScript
7 31 (2.56%) C#
8 22 (1.82%) C++
9 11 (0.91%) Rust
10 10 (0.83%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.83%) Go
11 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
13 7 (0.58%) C
14 6 (0.50%) Groovy
14 6 (0.50%) Perl
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
14 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 875 (72.19%) SC Cleared
2 302 (24.92%) DV Cleared
3 178 (14.69%) Degree
4 37 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 35 (2.89%) CISSP
6 34 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.06%) CISM
8 23 (1.90%) PhD
9 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.83%) CRISC
14 9 (0.74%) OSCP
15 7 (0.58%) GIAC
15 7 (0.58%) GSEC
16 6 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.96%) NIST
2 45 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.98%) QA
6 21 (1.73%) NCSC
7 17 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 14 (1.16%) GDPR
9 12 (0.99%) WCAG
10 9 (0.74%) GRC
11 8 (0.66%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.41%) PMO
14 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.25%) RMADS
15 3 (0.25%) SLA
16 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
System Software
1 73 (6.02%) Docker
2 44 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.49%) vSphere
5 9 (0.74%) 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
1 126 (10.40%) Terraform
2 95 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.47%) Ansible
4 24 (1.98%) Grafana
5 20 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.99%) Puppet
7 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.74%) Argo
10 7 (0.58%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.50%) Kibana
11 6 (0.50%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) CASB
12 5 (0.41%) Packer
13 4 (0.33%) CloudHub
13 4 (0.33%) Nagios
13 4 (0.33%) SCCM
13 4 (0.33%) VxRail
14 3 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.88%) Google
3 43 (3.55%) Oracle
4 42 (3.47%) VMware
5 29 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.31%) Databricks
7 26 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.57%) Cisco
8 19 (1.57%) Splunk
9 18 (1.49%) Dell
9 18 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.40%) Adobe
11 16 (1.32%) Palantir
12 13 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.99%) Foundry
13 12 (0.99%) SAP
14 11 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.91%) IBM
14 11 (0.91%) Okta