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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 74 57
Rank change year-on-year +45 -17 +2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,531 480 858
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.91% 4.08% 4.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.92% 13.95% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 969 336 418
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 4,797 3,440 5,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.52% 29.26% 28.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,823 1,922 2,301
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £118,625 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +46 122 £73,750 +22.92% 219
South London -18 27 £55,000 -15.38% 11
West London -16 11 £90,000 +146.58% 41
East London -10 3 £110,000 - 29
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 19 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 13 (0.85%) Anypoint
2 13 (0.85%) Mule
3 12 (0.78%) Apache
3 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.72%) Confluence
5 8 (0.52%) Camunda
5 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.33%) SAS
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.065%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.065%) Houdini
5 1 (0.065%) NUKE
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
5 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.13%) Maximo
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.13%) Primavera
3 1 (0.065%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.065%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.065%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.065%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 459 (29.98%) AWS
2 283 (18.48%) Azure
3 123 (8.03%) GCP
4 88 (5.75%) Serverless
5 76 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
6 75 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 51 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 50 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 45 (2.94%) GitHub
11 42 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (1.96%) SaaS
15 25 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
18 20 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 18 (1.18%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.59%) Network Security
2 38 (2.48%) Firewall
3 16 (1.05%) VPN
4 15 (0.98%) SSL
4 15 (0.98%) WAN
5 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.65%) DNS
7 9 (0.59%) LAN
7 9 (0.59%) NGN
8 8 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 7 (0.46%) DHCP
10 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.26%) BGP
11 4 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.26%) HTTP
11 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.26%) NAS
11 4 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.40%) Power BI
2 45 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.29%) Metadata
5 34 (2.22%) Tableau
6 33 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.09%) Big Data
8 27 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.11%) MySQL
12 16 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.05%) Relational Database
13 15 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 14 (0.91%) SQL Server
15 13 (0.85%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.78%) Redis
17 9 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (5.09%) Git
2 77 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.94%) GitLab
4 34 (2.22%) JIRA
5 12 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (0.59%) Burp Suite
6 9 (0.59%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.46%) JUnit
7 7 (0.46%) Maven
7 7 (0.46%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.39%) Gradle
8 6 (0.39%) Mockito
8 6 (0.39%) Vite
9 5 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.33%) Selenium
10 3 (0.20%) JMeter
10 3 (0.20%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 358 (23.38%) Public Sector
2 333 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 178 (11.63%) Finance
4 170 (11.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (8.30%) Law
7 45 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.57%) Military
10 22 (1.44%) Legal
11 17 (1.11%) Marketing
11 17 (1.11%) Police
11 17 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.91%) Retail
15 11 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.65%) Banking
16 10 (0.65%) Public Speaking
17 9 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 287 (18.75%) Senior
2 284 (18.55%) Architect
3 237 (15.48%) Consultant
4 122 (7.97%) Developer
5 119 (7.77%) Lead
6 92 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
7 79 (5.16%) Analyst
8 76 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
9 75 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (4.44%) Data Engineer
11 67 (4.38%) Security Consultant
12 65 (4.25%) Software Engineer
13 62 (4.05%) Data Architect
14 56 (3.66%) Security Architect
15 54 (3.53%) AWS Architect
16 47 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
17 45 (2.94%) IAM Consultant
18 44 (2.87%) Senior Manager
19 43 (2.81%) Business Analyst
20 41 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.60%) Terraform
2 45 (2.94%) Kafka
3 36 (2.35%) React
4 32 (2.09%) REST
5 28 (1.83%) Spring
6 25 (1.63%) .NET
7 23 (1.50%) Node.js
8 22 (1.44%) PySpark
9 21 (1.37%) OAuth
10 19 (1.24%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.18%) HTML
11 18 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.11%) AWS CDK
13 16 (1.05%) JWT
13 16 (1.05%) OAuth2
13 16 (1.05%) YAML
14 15 (0.98%) CSS
14 15 (0.98%) JSON
15 14 (0.91%) SailPoint
16 13 (0.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 53 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 43 (2.81%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.02%) Operational Technology
9 30 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
11 23 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
12 21 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (1.11%) Blog
16 17 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (0.98%) Security Posture
18 13 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.66%) Linux
2 82 (5.36%) Windows
3 31 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.78%) CentOS
6 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.52%) Unix
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.33%) Rocky
10 3 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (21.29%) Agile
2 236 (15.41%) AI
3 230 (15.02%) Cybersecurity
3 230 (15.02%) DevOps
4 213 (13.91%) Mentoring
5 209 (13.65%) CI/CD
6 181 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (10.84%) Software Engineering
9 155 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 153 (9.99%) Roadmaps
11 151 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 141 (9.21%) Analytics
13 116 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 110 (7.18%) Migration
15 104 (6.79%) Decision-Making
15 104 (6.79%) Project Delivery
16 94 (6.14%) Community of Practice
17 93 (6.07%) Microservices
18 92 (6.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 235 (15.35%) Python
2 127 (8.30%) Java
3 85 (5.55%) SQL
4 64 (4.18%) Bash
5 63 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 31 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.89%) C#
8 25 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.50%) Scala
10 22 (1.44%) C++
11 19 (1.24%) Perl
11 19 (1.24%) Ruby
12 14 (0.91%) Groovy
12 14 (0.91%) PHP
13 13 (0.85%) Bicep
13 13 (0.85%) C
13 13 (0.85%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.85%) Go
14 8 (0.52%) Rust
15 7 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,036 (67.67%) SC Cleared
2 326 (21.29%) DV Cleared
3 154 (10.06%) Degree
4 65 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 64 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.98%) CISSP
7 41 (2.68%) CISM
8 31 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.50%) CREST Certified
10 23 (1.50%) OSCP
11 21 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (1.31%) CHECK Team Member
13 13 (0.85%) PhD
14 12 (0.78%) CISA
15 11 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.18%) NIST
4 47 (3.07%) NCSC
5 45 (2.94%) QA
6 30 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.89%) GDPR
8 22 (1.44%) GRC
9 17 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 11 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.46%) PMO
14 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.26%) WCAG
16 3 (0.20%) COBIT
16 3 (0.20%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 101 (6.60%) Docker
2 39 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.59%) vSphere
5 8 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.20%) Squid
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) IAG
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) Samba
Systems Management
1 129 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.66%) Ansible
3 42 (2.74%) Grafana
4 29 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.63%) Puppet
6 22 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.85%) CloudHub
8 11 (0.72%) Rancher
9 10 (0.65%) Argo
9 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.59%) Kibana
10 9 (0.59%) Nmap
10 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.46%) Nessus
12 4 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.26%) linkerd
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.26%) SCOM
12 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 154 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.77%) ServiceNow
3 61 (3.98%) Oracle
4 53 (3.46%) Google
5 51 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.68%) Databricks
7 30 (1.96%) VMware
8 27 (1.76%) SAP
9 24 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.37%) Splunk
11 17 (1.11%) Okta
12 15 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.72%) Cisco
15 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 10 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
15 10 (0.65%) Palantir
15 10 (0.65%) Remedy