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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 80 69
Rank change year-on-year +49 -11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,356 487 778
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.81% 3.98% 3.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.98% 13.78% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 865 325 513
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,850 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -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 4,679 3,533 5,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.06% 28.88% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,798 1,968 2,948
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,714
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +34 127 £75,000 +15.38% 127
South London -15 31 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West London -21 16 £85,000 +134.48% 41
North London -1 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -13 1 £110,000 - 25
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 20 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.25%) Apache
3 14 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.88%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.88%) Confluence
4 12 (0.88%) Mule
5 10 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) Camunda
7 6 (0.44%) SAS
8 4 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) JBoss
10 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.074%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.074%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Adobe XD
1 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.15%) InVision
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.074%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.074%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.074%) Houdini
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) NUKE
4 1 (0.074%) Trello
4 1 (0.074%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Maximo
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.074%) Primavera
3 1 (0.074%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.074%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 421 (31.05%) AWS
2 261 (19.25%) Azure
3 105 (7.74%) GCP
4 80 (5.90%) Serverless
5 76 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
7 49 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (3.54%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.24%) Entra ID
10 40 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 37 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (2.29%) GitHub
13 27 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (1.47%) OCI
18 18 (1.33%) SaaS
19 17 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
20 15 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.69%) Network Security
2 31 (2.29%) Firewall
3 16 (1.18%) WAN
4 15 (1.11%) DNS
5 14 (1.03%) SSL
6 11 (0.81%) DHCP
7 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.74%) VPN
8 9 (0.66%) LAN
8 9 (0.66%) NGN
9 7 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.44%) SAN
10 6 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.44%) VSAN
11 5 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.37%) NAS
12 4 (0.29%) IPv4
12 4 (0.29%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.95%) Power BI
2 32 (2.36%) Data Lake
3 29 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.06%) Metadata
4 28 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (1.70%) Big Data
7 18 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.03%) MySQL
9 12 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.88%) Tableau
10 11 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.74%) DTS
11 10 (0.74%) SQL Server
12 9 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.59%) Db2
14 6 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 62 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 59 (4.35%) Git
3 43 (3.17%) GitLab
4 31 (2.29%) JIRA
5 8 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 7 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (0.52%) Balsamiq
6 7 (0.52%) Maven
6 7 (0.52%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.52%) Vite
7 6 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.37%) Gradle
8 5 (0.37%) Subversion
9 4 (0.29%) JMeter
9 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.22%) Taiga
10 3 (0.22%) VersionOne
General
1 340 (25.07%) Public Sector
2 268 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 176 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (9.88%) Law
5 119 (8.78%) Finance
6 116 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.84%) Legal
10 18 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 12 (0.88%) Games
11 12 (0.88%) Military
12 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.66%) Retail
14 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.59%) Advertising
15 8 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.52%) Cyber-Physical System
16 7 (0.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 284 (20.94%) Senior
2 245 (18.07%) Architect
3 228 (16.81%) Consultant
4 118 (8.70%) Developer
5 110 (8.11%) Lead
6 105 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
7 85 (6.27%) Senior Consultant
8 72 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 71 (5.24%) Analyst
10 60 (4.42%) AWS Architect
11 57 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 57 (4.20%) Software Engineer
12 48 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (3.54%) Data Architect
12 48 (3.54%) Senior Manager
13 47 (3.47%) AWS Solution Architect
14 45 (3.32%) Security Consultant
15 43 (3.17%) Business Analyst
16 39 (2.88%) IAM Consultant
17 38 (2.80%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.80%) React
2 30 (2.21%) Kafka
3 28 (2.06%) Spring
4 25 (1.84%) .NET
5 22 (1.62%) HTML
6 20 (1.47%) CSS
6 20 (1.47%) Node.js
6 20 (1.47%) OAuth
7 19 (1.40%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.40%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.33%) REST
9 16 (1.18%) PySpark
10 13 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.96%) JSON
10 13 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (0.96%) Web Services
10 13 (0.96%) YAML
11 12 (0.88%) JWT
11 12 (0.88%) OAuth2
11 12 (0.88%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 55 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 51 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 41 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
9 25 (1.84%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
11 20 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.25%) Blog
14 16 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (0.96%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.96%) PKI
17 12 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.42%) Linux
2 71 (5.24%) Windows
3 31 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.66%) CentOS
6 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.37%) Unix
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) Android
9 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (22.71%) Agile
2 203 (14.97%) DevOps
3 199 (14.68%) AI
4 186 (13.72%) Mentoring
5 177 (13.05%) CI/CD
6 148 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
6 148 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (10.10%) Software Engineering
8 134 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 124 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (8.78%) Analytics
11 111 (8.19%) Community of Practice
12 103 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 103 (7.60%) Technology Strategy
13 101 (7.45%) Project Delivery
14 99 (7.30%) Migration
15 97 (7.15%) Roadmaps
16 89 (6.56%) Scrum
17 84 (6.19%) Microservices
18 83 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (15.12%) Python
2 140 (10.32%) Java
3 80 (5.90%) SQL
4 74 (5.46%) JavaScript
5 48 (3.54%) Bash
6 32 (2.36%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.92%) C#
9 22 (1.62%) C++
10 16 (1.18%) Perl
11 15 (1.11%) Ruby
12 14 (1.03%) PHP
13 12 (0.88%) DataWeave
13 12 (0.88%) Scala
14 11 (0.81%) Rust
15 10 (0.74%) Go
16 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.44%) C
17 6 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 949 (69.99%) SC Cleared
2 298 (21.98%) DV Cleared
3 176 (12.98%) Degree
4 60 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.02%) CISSP
7 37 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.29%) CISM
9 23 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.96%) CRISC
13 13 (0.96%) OSCP
14 12 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.59%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.59%) PhD
16 7 (0.52%) CCNA
16 7 (0.52%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.35%) NIST
2 56 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.65%) QA
5 30 (2.21%) NCSC
6 25 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.55%) GDPR
7 21 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (0.96%) GRC
9 10 (0.74%) WCAG
10 8 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (0.52%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) PMO
13 4 (0.29%) RMADS
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
System Software
1 81 (5.97%) Docker
2 47 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.18%) vSphere
5 8 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.44%) KVM
8 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.29%) Squid
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.074%) Firmware
11 1 (0.074%) IAG
11 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (10.03%) Terraform
2 101 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.69%) Ansible
4 23 (1.70%) Puppet
5 21 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.47%) Grafana
7 17 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.88%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.59%) Argo
12 6 (0.44%) CASB
13 5 (0.37%) Kibana
13 5 (0.37%) Packer
13 5 (0.37%) SCOM
13 5 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.22%) Nessus
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
14 3 (0.22%) SCCM
14 3 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 129 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.06%) Google
3 52 (3.83%) Oracle
4 41 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 40 (2.95%) VMware
6 39 (2.88%) Databricks
7 36 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.92%) SAP
9 18 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.25%) Cisco
11 16 (1.18%) Okta
11 16 (1.18%) Splunk
12 15 (1.11%) Adobe
12 15 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.11%) Dell
12 15 (1.11%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.11%) Palantir
13 12 (0.88%) Foundry
14 9 (0.66%) Remedy