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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 74 63
Rank change year-on-year +42 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,230 513 987
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.64% 4.20% 4.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.02% 13.64% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 817 339 675
10th Percentile £48,450 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,375 £83,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% -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 4,390 3,762 6,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.14% 30.80% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,722 1,870 4,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,225 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,813 £51,694 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £66,697
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.20% -1.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,000
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 28 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 28 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 +34 135 £80,000 +23.08% 75
South London -6 28 £55,000 -15.38% 4
West London -15 13 £85,000 +47.39% 22
North London +5 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
East London -4 1 £110,000 - 15
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 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.46%) Apache
3 14 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.14%) Confluence
4 11 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.49%) Mule
7 4 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.24%) Camunda
8 3 (0.24%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.081%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.081%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.41%) InVision
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.41%) Sketch
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Weka
5 1 (0.081%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.081%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.89%) Maximo
2 6 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.081%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.081%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 348 (28.29%) AWS
2 245 (19.92%) Azure
3 95 (7.72%) GCP
4 62 (5.04%) Serverless
5 55 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 40 (3.25%) Entra ID
8 39 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 31 (2.52%) GitHub
12 29 (2.36%) Amazon S3
13 23 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.54%) OCI
16 15 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (1.22%) SaaS
17 14 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.85%) Network Security
2 26 (2.11%) Firewall
3 17 (1.38%) DNS
4 15 (1.22%) WAN
5 12 (0.98%) VPN
6 11 (0.89%) LAN
6 11 (0.89%) SAN
6 11 (0.89%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.81%) DHCP
8 8 (0.65%) VSAN
9 7 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.57%) SSL
10 5 (0.41%) MPLS
10 5 (0.41%) NGN
10 5 (0.41%) SMTP
10 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.33%) IPv4
12 3 (0.24%) BGP
12 3 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.01%) Power BI
2 26 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (1.95%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.54%) Metadata
6 18 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 14 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.06%) Big Data
9 13 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 11 (0.89%) Db2
10 11 (0.89%) MySQL
10 11 (0.89%) Tableau
11 10 (0.81%) DTS
11 10 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.65%) Pinecone
13 7 (0.57%) SQL Server
14 6 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (5.20%) Jenkins
2 60 (4.88%) Git
3 39 (3.17%) GitLab
4 29 (2.36%) JIRA
5 10 (0.81%) Maven
6 9 (0.73%) Vite
7 8 (0.65%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.49%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.49%) Gradle
8 6 (0.49%) JMeter
9 5 (0.41%) JUnit
9 5 (0.41%) Subversion
9 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.16%) Mockito
General
1 314 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 241 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 159 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (8.70%) Law
5 102 (8.29%) Finance
6 100 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (1.79%) Legal
10 21 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (0.98%) Games
13 9 (0.73%) Military
14 8 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.57%) Cyber-Physical System
16 5 (0.41%) Advertising
16 5 (0.41%) Banking
16 5 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Marketing
16 5 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (19.92%) Senior
2 217 (17.64%) Architect
3 176 (14.31%) Consultant
4 134 (10.89%) Developer
5 99 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
6 86 (6.99%) Lead
7 69 (5.61%) Data Engineer
8 64 (5.20%) Analyst
9 63 (5.12%) Senior Consultant
10 53 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 51 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 47 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 46 (3.74%) Senior Manager
14 43 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
15 42 (3.41%) AWS Solution Architect
16 39 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (3.09%) Business Analyst
18 37 (3.01%) Data Architect
19 35 (2.85%) Senior Developer
20 34 (2.76%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.50%) React
2 31 (2.52%) Spring
3 25 (2.03%) Kafka
4 24 (1.95%) .NET
4 24 (1.95%) REST
5 22 (1.79%) HTML
5 22 (1.79%) Spring Boot
6 20 (1.63%) CSS
6 20 (1.63%) Node.js
7 17 (1.38%) Web Services
8 16 (1.30%) JSON
9 15 (1.22%) PySpark
10 14 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.14%) Middleware
10 14 (1.14%) SOAP
11 13 (1.06%) LangChain
11 13 (1.06%) YAML
12 12 (0.98%) FastAPI
12 12 (0.98%) LangGraph
12 12 (0.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 48 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.87%) PKI
8 19 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 19 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 19 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (1.30%) Blog
12 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.07%) Linux
2 68 (5.53%) Windows
3 33 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.49%) VMS
5 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.24%) Unix
8 2 (0.16%) Android
8 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.081%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.081%) Rocky
9 1 (0.081%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (23.41%) Agile
2 191 (15.53%) DevOps
3 169 (13.74%) AI
4 165 (13.41%) CI/CD
5 144 (11.71%) Mentoring
6 131 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 125 (10.16%) Software Engineering
9 118 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
11 103 (8.37%) Community of Practice
12 99 (8.05%) Full-Stack Development
13 96 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 94 (7.64%) Technology Strategy
15 93 (7.56%) Analytics
16 85 (6.91%) Collaborative Culture
17 82 (6.67%) Roadmaps
18 81 (6.59%) Computer Science
19 79 (6.42%) Microservices
20 78 (6.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 218 (17.72%) Python
2 143 (11.63%) Java
3 87 (7.07%) SQL
4 80 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 39 (3.17%) Bash
6 35 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 34 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.52%) C#
9 22 (1.79%) C++
10 11 (0.89%) Rust
11 10 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.81%) Go
12 9 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
14 7 (0.57%) C
15 6 (0.49%) DataWeave
15 6 (0.49%) Perl
15 6 (0.49%) Scala
15 6 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 881 (71.63%) SC Cleared
2 308 (25.04%) DV Cleared
3 176 (14.31%) Degree
4 38 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.01%) CISSP
6 35 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.20%) CISM
8 19 (1.54%) PhD
9 18 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.81%) CRISC
13 10 (0.81%) OSCP
14 7 (0.57%) GIAC
14 7 (0.57%) GSEC
15 6 (0.49%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.07%) NIST
2 45 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.11%) QA
5 22 (1.79%) NCSC
6 18 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 15 (1.22%) GDPR
8 11 (0.89%) WCAG
9 8 (0.65%) GRC
9 8 (0.65%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.41%) PMO
12 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.33%) RMADS
12 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 74 (6.02%) Docker
2 46 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.54%) vSphere
5 10 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.49%) KVM
7 4 (0.33%) Squid
7 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.081%) Firmware
9 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 128 (10.41%) Terraform
2 97 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.66%) Ansible
4 24 (1.95%) Grafana
5 20 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.06%) Puppet
7 11 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
9 9 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.49%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.49%) Kibana
11 6 (0.49%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) CASB
12 5 (0.41%) Packer
13 4 (0.33%) Nagios
13 4 (0.33%) SCOM
13 4 (0.33%) VxRail
14 3 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 116 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.82%) Google
3 46 (3.74%) Oracle
4 43 (3.50%) VMware
5 31 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.28%) Databricks
8 19 (1.54%) Splunk
9 18 (1.46%) Cisco
9 18 (1.46%) Dell
9 18 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.30%) Adobe
10 16 (1.30%) Palantir
11 15 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.22%) SAP
12 13 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.06%) Okta
13 12 (0.98%) Foundry
14 11 (0.89%) IBM