Security Cleared Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 46 212
Rank change year-on-year -15 +166 -59
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 898 1,441 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.33% 5.31% 2.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.57% 20.35% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 544 887 808
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £27,515
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.59% -3.46%
75th Percentile £83,563 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -3.36%

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 5,766 7,082 16,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.80% 26.11% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 4,957 7,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,300 £112,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -14 172 £65,000 - 57
South London -12 36 £72,500 +15.54% 8
North London +15 18 £55,000 +77.42% 3
West London -33 10 £37,500 -34.78% 15
East London +20 1 £28,000 - 11
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.00%) Apache
2 18 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 18 (2.00%) GeoServer
3 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.34%) Confluence
5 11 (1.22%) IIS
6 8 (0.89%) JBoss
6 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.89%) Sketch
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.45%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.45%) InVision
7 1 (0.11%) Blender
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.67%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.45%) Maximo
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.33%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (23.50%) Azure
2 155 (17.26%) AWS
3 69 (7.68%) Power Platform
4 61 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (4.45%) PowerApps
7 39 (4.34%) Power Automate
8 32 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (3.56%) GCP
8 32 (3.56%) Serverless
9 27 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (2.78%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.45%) SaaS
12 21 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (1.56%) PaaS
16 13 (1.45%) Azure Storage
16 13 (1.45%) OCI
17 12 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.02%) Firewall
2 41 (4.57%) WAN
3 36 (4.01%) LAN
4 32 (3.56%) VPN
5 27 (3.01%) Internet
6 18 (2.00%) Network Security
7 12 (1.34%) DNS
7 12 (1.34%) SD-WAN
7 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (1.22%) SSL
9 10 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.00%) Wireless
11 8 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (0.78%) BGP
13 6 (0.67%) IPsec
13 6 (0.67%) IPv4
13 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.56%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.46%) Power BI
2 46 (5.12%) Relational Database
3 41 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.56%) Oracle Database
6 20 (2.23%) GIS
7 18 (2.00%) QGIS
8 16 (1.78%) Tableau
9 11 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.11%) Big Data
11 8 (0.89%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
13 6 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.67%) MySQL
13 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (5.57%) Jenkins
2 41 (4.57%) Git
3 25 (2.78%) JIRA
4 17 (1.89%) JUnit
5 15 (1.67%) GitLab
6 10 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.89%) Maven
7 8 (0.89%) Selenium
8 7 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.78%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.67%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.67%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.67%) TestNG
10 5 (0.56%) Gradle
11 4 (0.45%) Axure RP
12 3 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.11%) Bugzilla
General
1 235 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 191 (21.27%) Public Sector
3 116 (12.92%) Finance
4 81 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.23%) Law
7 41 (4.57%) Police
8 40 (4.45%) Retail
9 20 (2.23%) Banking
10 18 (2.00%) Military
11 17 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.78%) Local Government
12 16 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.56%) Automotive
14 13 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.22%) Marketing
17 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 160 (17.82%) Senior
2 146 (16.26%) Architect
3 103 (11.47%) Consultant
4 102 (11.36%) Developer
5 63 (7.02%) Analyst
6 54 (6.01%) Lead
7 49 (5.46%) Software Engineer
8 43 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
9 42 (4.68%) Technical Architect
10 37 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
12 35 (3.90%) Security Consultant
13 34 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (3.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 31 (3.45%) Administrator
16 29 (3.23%) Project Manager
17 25 (2.78%) Technical Consultant
18 23 (2.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 22 (2.45%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.01%) HTML
2 47 (5.23%) CSS
3 42 (4.68%) .NET
4 40 (4.45%) React
5 27 (3.01%) Web Services
6 25 (2.78%) Spring
7 22 (2.45%) Node.js
7 22 (2.45%) Spring Boot
8 21 (2.34%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.23%) REST
10 19 (2.12%) .NET Core
11 18 (2.00%) Leaflet
11 18 (2.00%) OpenLayers
11 18 (2.00%) PostGIS
12 17 (1.89%) RESTful
13 16 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.67%) ARM Templates
15 11 (1.22%) JSON
15 11 (1.22%) XML
16 10 (1.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.68%) Product Ownership
2 35 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 30 (3.34%) PKI
4 26 (2.90%) Cyberattack
5 25 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.78%) IoT
8 14 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.34%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.11%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
13 8 (0.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.89%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 148 (16.48%) Windows
2 123 (13.70%) Linux
3 33 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.45%) VMS
5 29 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 21 (2.34%) Unix
7 20 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.89%) Solaris
9 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.45%) Debian
11 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.11%) Android
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (35.08%) Agile
2 181 (20.16%) DevOps
3 122 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
5 102 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 102 (11.36%) Mentoring
6 95 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
7 90 (10.02%) Scrum
8 80 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 79 (8.80%) Analytics
10 76 (8.46%) Project Management
11 73 (8.13%) Software Engineering
12 67 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 66 (7.35%) Project Delivery
14 63 (7.02%) Coaching
15 60 (6.68%) Computer Science
16 59 (6.57%) SIEM
17 58 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 57 (6.35%) Machine Learning
19 56 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 106 (11.80%) Python
2 100 (11.14%) JavaScript
3 82 (9.13%) SQL
4 66 (7.35%) C#
5 57 (6.35%) Java
6 31 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.23%) Bash
8 15 (1.67%) C++
9 14 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.89%) Groovy
12 7 (0.78%) COBOL
13 6 (0.67%) Bicep
13 6 (0.67%) Scala
14 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.56%) VBA
15 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.33%) R
17 2 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 523 (58.24%) SC Cleared
2 224 (24.94%) DV Cleared
3 158 (17.59%) Degree
4 47 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.68%) Azure Certification
6 39 (4.34%) CISSP
7 35 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (3.23%) AWS Certification
10 20 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.89%) CISM
12 17 (1.89%) CREST Certified
13 13 (1.45%) CCNP
13 13 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
14 12 (1.34%) CCIE
15 11 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 29 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.01%) QA
4 25 (2.78%) GDPR
5 24 (2.67%) NIST
6 16 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.45%) NCSC
8 9 (1.00%) PMO
9 8 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.89%) SLA
10 5 (0.56%) WCAG
11 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 31000
11 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.33%) COBIT
12 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (8.69%) Docker
2 70 (7.80%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.56%) vSphere
7 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.33%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) KVM
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 91 (10.13%) Terraform
2 77 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 72 (8.02%) Ansible
4 21 (2.34%) Puppet
5 16 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.67%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.56%) Kibana
8 5 (0.56%) QRadar
8 5 (0.56%) SCCM
9 4 (0.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.45%) Grafana
9 4 (0.45%) Packer
9 4 (0.45%) WSUS
10 3 (0.33%) Nagios
10 3 (0.33%) OpenView
10 3 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 136 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.57%) Oracle
3 34 (3.79%) Juniper
3 34 (3.79%) VMware
4 31 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.12%) Cisco
6 18 (2.00%) ESRI
7 17 (1.89%) BMC
7 17 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.89%) Remedy
7 17 (1.89%) SAP
7 17 (1.89%) Splunk
8 15 (1.67%) IBM
8 15 (1.67%) NEC
9 12 (1.34%) Aruba
9 12 (1.34%) Databricks
9 12 (1.34%) F5
10 11 (1.22%) CheckPoint
10 11 (1.22%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.22%) Palo Alto