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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 66 61
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 852 573 937
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.77% 4.42% 4.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.47% 13.10% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 575 346 672
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.80% +8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

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 4,376 4,373 6,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.52% 33.76% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 2,020 4,212
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,550 £118,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.14% -4.35%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -15 90 £75,000 +2.04% 111
South London -14 17 £69,445 +12.65% 10
West London -35 15 £85,000 +47.39% 21
North London 0 1 £45,000 -32.08%
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 28 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.23%) Confluence
3 17 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 13 (1.53%) Apache
5 12 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.06%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.94%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.35%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (3.05%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.82%) InVision
2 7 (0.82%) Sketch
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.23%) Weka
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Maximo
2 7 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 200 (23.47%) AWS
2 182 (21.36%) Azure
3 69 (8.10%) GCP
4 49 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 45 (5.28%) Serverless
6 33 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (3.05%) Figma
8 26 (3.05%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.05%) PowerApps
9 25 (2.93%) Entra ID
10 24 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.70%) GitHub
12 18 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.76%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (1.53%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.40%) Firewall
2 18 (2.11%) Network Security
3 17 (2.00%) DNS
3 17 (2.00%) WAN
4 16 (1.88%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) LAN
5 12 (1.41%) SAN
5 12 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.29%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.06%) Wireless
8 8 (0.94%) DHCP
9 7 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.59%) SMTP
10 5 (0.59%) VoIP
10 5 (0.59%) WAAS
10 5 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
1 41 (4.81%) Power BI
2 21 (2.46%) NoSQL
3 18 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 15 (1.76%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.64%) MySQL
6 13 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.41%) DB2
8 11 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.29%) Metadata
9 10 (1.17%) DTS
10 9 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.94%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.94%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.70%) Tableau
13 5 (0.59%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (5.75%) Git
2 45 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.52%) JIRA
4 22 (2.58%) Axure RP
5 19 (2.23%) Balsamiq
6 17 (2.00%) GitLab
7 12 (1.41%) JMeter
8 8 (0.94%) JUnit
9 7 (0.82%) Vite
10 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.70%) Maven
11 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.59%) Mockito
12 4 (0.47%) Selenium
12 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.47%) Subversion
13 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 249 (29.23%) Public Sector
2 186 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 108 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (9.74%) Law
6 73 (8.57%) Finance
7 20 (2.35%) Legal
8 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.64%) Marketing
11 13 (1.53%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.29%) Games
13 10 (1.17%) Electronics
14 9 (1.06%) Advertising
15 6 (0.70%) Military
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (17.61%) Senior
2 116 (13.62%) Developer
3 100 (11.74%) Consultant
4 97 (11.38%) Architect
5 47 (5.52%) Analyst
5 47 (5.52%) Designer
6 46 (5.40%) Data Engineer
7 45 (5.28%) Software Engineer
8 39 (4.58%) Lead
9 38 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.11%) Java Developer
12 32 (3.76%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.76%) Senior Consultant
12 32 (3.76%) Senior Manager
12 32 (3.76%) UX Designer
13 28 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.17%) User Researcher
15 20 (2.35%) Data Scientist
15 20 (2.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.05%) React
2 37 (4.34%) HTML
3 34 (3.99%) Spring
4 32 (3.76%) CSS
5 27 (3.17%) REST
6 22 (2.58%) AngularJS
6 22 (2.58%) Web Services
7 21 (2.46%) .NET
7 21 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 16 (1.88%) Node.js
9 15 (1.76%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (1.64%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.41%) FastAPI
11 12 (1.41%) Middleware
11 12 (1.41%) SAML
11 12 (1.41%) SOAP
12 11 (1.29%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.29%) LangChain
12 11 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 24 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.70%) PKI
5 20 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.76%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.41%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.82%) Blog
14 7 (0.82%) CMDB
14 7 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.81%) Linux
2 48 (5.63%) Windows
3 14 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.17%) VMS
5 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.06%) Unix
6 7 (0.82%) Android
7 4 (0.47%) CentOS
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Rocky
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (26.53%) Agile
2 125 (14.67%) DevOps
3 123 (14.44%) AI
4 114 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 102 (11.97%) Software Engineering
7 91 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 86 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 84 (9.86%) Community of Practice
10 79 (9.27%) Analytics
10 79 (9.27%) Mentoring
11 72 (8.45%) Computer Science
12 69 (8.10%) Technology Strategy
13 66 (7.75%) User Experience
14 65 (7.63%) User Research
15 59 (6.92%) Data Modelling
16 57 (6.69%) Containerisation
17 54 (6.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 54 (6.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 165 (19.37%) Python
2 132 (15.49%) Java
3 104 (12.21%) JavaScript
4 86 (10.09%) SQL
5 52 (6.10%) C#
6 47 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.58%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.70%) Bash
9 17 (2.00%) C++
10 11 (1.29%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.70%) Go
13 6 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.59%) C
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 4 (0.47%) ABAP
15 4 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.47%) Ruby
15 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 591 (69.37%) SC Cleared
2 240 (28.17%) DV Cleared
3 163 (19.13%) Degree
4 37 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.82%) PhD
7 21 (2.46%) CISSP
8 18 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.53%) CISM
11 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.82%) CRISC
13 7 (0.82%) GSEC
14 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.70%) CCIE
14 6 (0.70%) CCNP
14 6 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.05%) WCAG
3 25 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.70%) NIST
5 19 (2.23%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.64%) QA
7 10 (1.17%) GRC
8 9 (1.06%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.94%) SLA
10 7 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
10 7 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.70%) GDPR
11 6 (0.70%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.35%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.35%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) COBIT
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 84 (9.86%) Docker
2 29 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.41%) vSphere
5 9 (1.06%) KVM
6 6 (0.70%) Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.45%) Terraform
3 31 (3.64%) Ansible
4 16 (1.88%) Grafana
5 11 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.06%) Argo
6 9 (1.06%) Kibana
6 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.70%) SCCM
7 6 (0.70%) WSUS
8 5 (0.59%) CASB
8 5 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.59%) Istio
8 5 (0.59%) linkerd
8 5 (0.59%) Mesos
8 5 (0.59%) Puppet
8 5 (0.59%) VxRail
9 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 80 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.40%) Google
3 33 (3.87%) VMware
4 30 (3.52%) Cisco
5 28 (3.29%) Palantir
6 26 (3.05%) Adobe
7 22 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.46%) SAP
9 20 (2.35%) Dell
10 19 (2.23%) Oracle
11 18 (2.11%) Foundry
12 15 (1.76%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.76%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.76%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.53%) IBM
14 11 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 11 (1.29%) Splunk
15 10 (1.17%) Databricks
15 10 (1.17%) MuleSoft
16 9 (1.06%) Zscaler