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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 77 64
Rank change year-on-year +45 -13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,130 489 943
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.42% 4.10% 4.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.95% 12.54% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 771 326 682
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,251 £50,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 4,355 3,898 6,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.88% 32.66% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,572 1,791 4,218
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £35,595
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
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 £103,650 £112,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.01% -8.34%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +25 120 £80,000 +23.08% 123
South London -19 21 £55,000 -15.38% 9
West London -13 15 £85,000 +47.39% 28
North London +3 1 £45,000 -32.08% 2
East London -13 1 £110,000 - 19
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 25 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.86%) Confluence
3 16 (1.42%) Apache
4 14 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) IIS
9 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) Camunda
10 2 (0.18%) Mule
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
11 1 (0.088%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 19 (1.68%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.62%) InVision
2 7 (0.62%) Sketch
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.088%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.088%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (0.97%) Maximo
2 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.088%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.088%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 283 (25.04%) AWS
2 219 (19.38%) Azure
3 83 (7.35%) GCP
4 56 (4.96%) Serverless
5 46 (4.07%) Power Platform
6 40 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 35 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.74%) GitHub
11 21 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 21 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.68%) Figma
13 15 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.33%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.15%) SaaS
16 12 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.12%) Network Security
2 23 (2.04%) Firewall
3 15 (1.33%) DNS
3 15 (1.33%) WAN
4 13 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.06%) SAN
5 12 (1.06%) VPN
6 9 (0.80%) LAN
6 9 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.71%) DHCP
8 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.62%) VSAN
9 5 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.44%) SMTP
9 5 (0.44%) WAAS
9 5 (0.44%) Wireless
10 4 (0.35%) IPv4
10 4 (0.35%) MPLS
10 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.45%) Power BI
2 24 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.33%) Metadata
4 15 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 11 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.97%) DB2
5 11 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 10 (0.88%) DTS
6 10 (0.88%) MySQL
7 9 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.80%) Tableau
8 8 (0.71%) Pinecone
8 8 (0.71%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.62%) Big Data
9 7 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 63 (5.58%) Jenkins
2 57 (5.04%) Git
3 31 (2.74%) GitLab
3 31 (2.74%) JIRA
4 15 (1.33%) Axure RP
5 12 (1.06%) Balsamiq
6 10 (0.88%) Maven
7 9 (0.80%) Vite
8 7 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.53%) Gradle
9 6 (0.53%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) JUnit
11 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.35%) Subversion
11 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 283 (25.04%) Public Sector
2 217 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 152 (13.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (8.67%) Law
5 91 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (7.79%) Finance
7 36 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.77%) Legal
10 17 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.97%) Games
13 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.62%) Cyber-Physical System
14 7 (0.62%) Military
15 6 (0.53%) Advertising
15 6 (0.53%) Electronics
15 6 (0.53%) Marketing
15 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (18.05%) Senior
2 189 (16.73%) Architect
3 149 (13.19%) Consultant
4 124 (10.97%) Developer
5 89 (7.88%) Solutions Architect
6 70 (6.19%) Lead
7 59 (5.22%) Analyst
8 57 (5.04%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.60%) Senior Consultant
10 46 (4.07%) AWS Architect
11 43 (3.81%) Designer
11 43 (3.81%) Software Engineer
12 42 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
12 42 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (3.36%) Senior Manager
14 37 (3.27%) AWS Solution Architect
15 36 (3.19%) Business Analyst
16 34 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (3.01%) Java Developer
16 34 (3.01%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.81%) React
2 29 (2.57%) Spring
3 24 (2.12%) .NET
3 24 (2.12%) HTML
4 23 (2.04%) Node.js
4 23 (2.04%) REST
5 22 (1.95%) CSS
6 21 (1.86%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.68%) Kafka
8 18 (1.59%) Web Services
9 16 (1.42%) JSON
10 15 (1.33%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.24%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.24%) SOAP
12 13 (1.15%) PySpark
13 12 (1.06%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.06%) LangChain
13 12 (1.06%) Middleware
13 12 (1.06%) YAML
14 11 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.12%) PKI
5 23 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 17 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.42%) Blog
10 14 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.88%) CMDB
13 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.46%) Linux
2 59 (5.22%) Windows
3 29 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.71%) VMS
6 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.53%) Android
8 3 (0.27%) CentOS
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.088%) Rocky
10 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (22.30%) Agile
2 161 (14.25%) DevOps
3 157 (13.89%) AI
4 134 (11.86%) CI/CD
5 117 (10.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (10.27%) Software Engineering
7 114 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 106 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 98 (8.67%) Community of Practice
11 94 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
12 93 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 89 (7.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 86 (7.61%) Analytics
15 84 (7.43%) Technology Strategy
16 77 (6.81%) Collaborative Culture
16 77 (6.81%) Computer Science
17 76 (6.73%) Roadmaps
18 74 (6.55%) User Experience
19 73 (6.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 205 (18.14%) Python
2 135 (11.95%) Java
3 91 (8.05%) SQL
4 87 (7.70%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.89%) TypeScript
6 39 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 35 (3.10%) C#
8 27 (2.39%) Bash
9 20 (1.77%) C++
10 11 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.97%) Rust
11 8 (0.71%) C
11 8 (0.71%) Go
12 7 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.44%) Bicep
14 5 (0.44%) Groovy
14 5 (0.44%) Scala
14 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 809 (71.59%) SC Cleared
2 293 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 180 (15.93%) Degree
4 33 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (2.92%) CISSP
5 29 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.48%) PhD
7 23 (2.04%) CISM
7 23 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.80%) CRISC
14 8 (0.71%) OSCP
15 7 (0.62%) GIAC
15 7 (0.62%) GSEC
16 6 (0.53%) RHCE
17 5 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.27%) NIST
2 36 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.59%) NCSC
5 18 (1.59%) QA
5 18 (1.59%) WCAG
6 14 (1.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 9 (0.80%) GRC
7 9 (0.80%) SLA
8 8 (0.71%) GDPR
8 8 (0.71%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.44%) PMO
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.18%) RMADS
13 1 (0.088%) Def Stans
System Software
1 72 (6.37%) Docker
2 41 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.59%) vSphere
5 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.53%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.44%) KVM
8 4 (0.35%) Squid
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.088%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.088%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.088%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 110 (9.73%) Terraform
2 88 (7.79%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.36%) Ansible
4 18 (1.59%) Grafana
5 15 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.71%) SCCM
9 7 (0.62%) Argo
9 7 (0.62%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.53%) WSUS
11 5 (0.44%) CASB
11 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 5 (0.44%) Puppet
11 5 (0.44%) VxRail
12 4 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.35%) Istio
12 4 (0.35%) linkerd
12 4 (0.35%) Mesos
12 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 106 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.89%) Google
3 40 (3.54%) VMware
4 33 (2.92%) Oracle
5 27 (2.39%) Cisco
5 27 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.04%) Adobe
6 23 (2.04%) Databricks
6 23 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.77%) Dell
7 20 (1.77%) Palantir
8 19 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.33%) Foundry
11 14 (1.24%) Splunk
12 13 (1.15%) SAP
13 12 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.97%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.97%) Okta