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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 73 63
Rank change year-on-year +37 -10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,016 539 937
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.12% 4.20% 4.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.47% 12.45% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 689 356 687
10th Percentile £46,939 £43,227 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,751
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,375 £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 4,521 4,331 6,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.77% 33.79% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 2,033 4,277
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.86%

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 April 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 April 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 +7 112 £80,000 +14.29% 123
West London -22 16 £85,000 +47.39% 18
South London -21 15 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North London -3 1 £45,000 -32.08%
East London -15 1 £110,000 - 22
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 21 (2.07%) Confluence
1 21 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.38%) Apache
3 12 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
4 9 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Camunda
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (2.36%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.69%) InVision
2 7 (0.69%) Sketch
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) Weka
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Maximo
2 8 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.098%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.098%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.098%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 232 (22.83%) AWS
2 190 (18.70%) Azure
3 74 (7.28%) GCP
4 40 (3.94%) Serverless
5 37 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (2.95%) Entra ID
8 28 (2.76%) GitHub
8 28 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.36%) Figma
11 21 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 14 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.28%) OCI
14 13 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.46%) Firewall
2 23 (2.26%) Network Security
3 18 (1.77%) WAN
4 16 (1.57%) DNS
5 14 (1.38%) SD-WAN
5 14 (1.38%) VPN
6 12 (1.18%) SAN
7 11 (1.08%) LAN
7 11 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
8 9 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
9 8 (0.79%) DHCP
9 8 (0.79%) Wireless
10 7 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.69%) VSAN
10 7 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.49%) MPLS
11 5 (0.49%) SMTP
11 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.49%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.25%) Power BI
2 25 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 13 (1.28%) DB2
6 11 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.08%) Metadata
6 11 (1.08%) MySQL
7 10 (0.98%) DTS
7 10 (0.98%) Pinecone
8 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.79%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.59%) Tableau
11 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (5.22%) Git
2 49 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.05%) JIRA
4 25 (2.46%) GitLab
5 20 (1.97%) Axure RP
6 17 (1.67%) Balsamiq
7 10 (0.98%) Maven
8 9 (0.89%) Vite
9 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.59%) Gradle
10 6 (0.59%) JMeter
11 5 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.49%) Subversion
12 4 (0.39%) JUnit
12 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.30%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 258 (25.39%) Public Sector
2 189 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 145 (14.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (8.66%) Finance
5 86 (8.46%) Law
6 84 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (2.26%) Legal
9 19 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (1.67%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.08%) Games
14 9 (0.89%) Advertising
14 9 (0.89%) Electronics
15 8 (0.79%) Marketing
15 8 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.69%) Cyber-Physical System
17 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (17.52%) Senior
2 148 (14.57%) Architect
3 128 (12.60%) Consultant
4 106 (10.43%) Developer
5 66 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
6 60 (5.91%) Lead
7 53 (5.22%) Analyst
8 51 (5.02%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.82%) Designer
10 47 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
11 42 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 38 (3.74%) Business Analyst
13 36 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (3.54%) UX Designer
14 34 (3.35%) Senior Manager
15 33 (3.25%) Java Developer
16 32 (3.15%) AWS Architect
16 32 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
17 28 (2.76%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.94%) React
2 29 (2.85%) HTML
3 28 (2.76%) CSS
4 25 (2.46%) Spring
5 23 (2.26%) REST
6 20 (1.97%) .NET
6 20 (1.97%) Web Services
7 18 (1.77%) Node.js
8 17 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.48%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.28%) LangChain
11 13 (1.28%) SOAP
12 12 (1.18%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.18%) Kafka
12 12 (1.18%) Middleware
13 11 (1.08%) LangGraph
13 11 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (1.08%) SAML
14 10 (0.98%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.36%) PKI
6 23 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.48%) Blog
9 15 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.98%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.79%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.00%) Linux
2 52 (5.12%) Windows
3 22 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.79%) VMS
6 7 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.59%) Android
8 3 (0.30%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Unix
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.098%) Rocky
9 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (22.93%) Agile
2 155 (15.26%) AI
3 138 (13.58%) DevOps
4 113 (11.12%) CI/CD
5 108 (10.63%) Software Engineering
6 104 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 103 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (9.25%) Community of Practice
9 93 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (8.76%) Mentoring
11 86 (8.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 79 (7.78%) Computer Science
13 78 (7.68%) Technology Strategy
14 77 (7.58%) Analytics
14 77 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
15 75 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 70 (6.89%) Collaborative Culture
17 66 (6.50%) User Experience
18 65 (6.40%) Containerisation
19 63 (6.20%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 185 (18.21%) Python
2 134 (13.19%) Java
3 93 (9.15%) JavaScript
4 82 (8.07%) SQL
5 46 (4.53%) TypeScript
6 41 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 38 (3.74%) C#
8 28 (2.76%) Bash
9 20 (1.97%) C++
10 11 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.98%) C
11 10 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.89%) Go
12 9 (0.89%) Rust
13 7 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.49%) Bicep
14 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.39%) Groovy
15 4 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 707 (69.59%) SC Cleared
2 273 (26.87%) DV Cleared
3 185 (18.21%) Degree
4 32 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.85%) CISSP
6 28 (2.76%) PhD
7 24 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.97%) CISM
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.77%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.89%) CRISC
15 7 (0.69%) GSEC
16 6 (0.59%) CCIE
16 6 (0.59%) GIAC
16 6 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 31 (3.05%) NIST
3 29 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.26%) WCAG
5 20 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.57%) QA
7 14 (1.38%) NCSC
8 11 (1.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (0.98%) GRC
10 8 (0.79%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.79%) SLA
11 7 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.49%) GDPR
13 4 (0.39%) PMO
14 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.20%) RMADS
15 1 (0.098%) COBIT
15 1 (0.098%) GAAP
System Software
1 81 (7.97%) Docker
2 36 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.77%) vSphere
5 8 (0.79%) KVM
5 8 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.59%) Firmware
7 4 (0.39%) Squid
8 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.098%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.098%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.098%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.098%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (9.94%) Terraform
2 97 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 37 (3.64%) Ansible
4 16 (1.57%) Grafana
5 13 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.79%) Argo
7 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.69%) SCCM
8 7 (0.69%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.59%) WSUS
10 5 (0.49%) CASB
10 5 (0.49%) Puppet
10 5 (0.49%) VxRail
11 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.39%) Istio
11 4 (0.39%) Kibana
11 4 (0.39%) linkerd
11 4 (0.39%) Mesos
11 4 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 84 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.13%) Google
3 39 (3.84%) VMware
4 32 (3.15%) Cisco
5 29 (2.85%) Oracle
6 26 (2.56%) Adobe
7 21 (2.07%) Palantir
7 21 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.97%) Dell
9 17 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.57%) Databricks
10 16 (1.57%) SAP
11 14 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.28%) Foundry
12 13 (1.28%) IBM
13 12 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.98%) Splunk
15 8 (0.79%) CyberArk