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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 76 62
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,288 521 956
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.78% 4.15% 4.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.38% 13.85% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 822 347 655
10th Percentile £48,875 £42,500 £41,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £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 £87,500 £80,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -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 4,538 3,762 6,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.37% 29.94% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,735 1,981 3,793
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £35,631
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +36 127 £76,250 +17.31% 153
South London -13 28 £55,000 -15.38% 8
West London -10 13 £85,000 +134.48% 36
North London +6 1 £45,000 -32.08% 1
East London -6 1 £110,000 - 18
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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.55%) Apache
3 14 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.01%) Confluence
5 11 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.70%) Anypoint
6 9 (0.70%) Mule
7 7 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) SAS
9 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.23%) Camunda
10 3 (0.23%) IIS
10 3 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) InVision
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Sketch
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Weka
6 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.078%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.078%) Houdini
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) NUKE
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Maximo
2 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.078%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.078%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 404 (31.37%) AWS
2 257 (19.95%) Azure
3 101 (7.84%) GCP
4 81 (6.29%) Serverless
5 79 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
7 50 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.34%) Entra ID
10 37 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 31 (2.41%) GitHub
13 29 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
17 20 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (1.55%) OCI
18 16 (1.24%) AWS Control Tower
18 16 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.73%) Network Security
2 31 (2.41%) Firewall
3 18 (1.40%) DNS
4 17 (1.32%) WAN
5 15 (1.16%) VPN
6 11 (0.85%) DHCP
6 11 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.85%) SSL
7 10 (0.78%) LAN
8 9 (0.70%) SAN
9 8 (0.62%) NGN
9 8 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.47%) VSAN
12 5 (0.39%) MPLS
12 5 (0.39%) NAS
12 5 (0.39%) SMTP
13 4 (0.31%) IPv4
13 4 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.80%) Power BI
2 29 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 27 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.86%) Metadata
6 22 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (1.63%) Big Data
8 20 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.40%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.24%) MySQL
11 14 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.85%) Tableau
13 10 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.78%) Db2
13 10 (0.78%) DTS
13 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.78%) SQL Server
14 7 (0.54%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 65 (5.05%) Jenkins
2 63 (4.89%) Git
3 42 (3.26%) GitLab
4 33 (2.56%) JIRA
5 10 (0.78%) Maven
6 9 (0.70%) Vite
7 6 (0.47%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.47%) Gradle
7 6 (0.47%) JMeter
7 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.39%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.39%) JUnit
8 5 (0.39%) Subversion
9 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.23%) Taiga
10 3 (0.23%) VersionOne
10 3 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 323 (25.08%) Public Sector
2 258 (20.03%) Social Skills
3 166 (12.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (9.01%) Finance
5 114 (8.85%) Law
6 101 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (1.86%) Legal
9 23 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.01%) Games
13 9 (0.70%) Military
14 8 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.54%) Advertising
15 7 (0.54%) Cyber-Physical System
16 6 (0.47%) Banking
16 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Retail
17 5 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 270 (20.96%) Senior
2 228 (17.70%) Architect
3 209 (16.23%) Consultant
4 129 (10.02%) Developer
5 98 (7.61%) Lead
5 98 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
6 84 (6.52%) Senior Consultant
7 68 (5.28%) Data Engineer
8 64 (4.97%) Analyst
9 57 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 53 (4.11%) AWS Architect
10 53 (4.11%) Software Engineer
11 48 (3.73%) Senior Manager
12 47 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (3.26%) AWS Solution Architect
14 41 (3.18%) Data Architect
15 38 (2.95%) Business Analyst
16 37 (2.87%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 34 (2.64%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.26%) React
2 29 (2.25%) Spring
3 26 (2.02%) Kafka
4 25 (1.94%) .NET
5 24 (1.86%) REST
6 21 (1.63%) Node.js
7 20 (1.55%) HTML
7 20 (1.55%) Spring Boot
8 19 (1.48%) AWS CDK
9 18 (1.40%) CSS
10 17 (1.32%) OAuth
11 16 (1.24%) JSON
11 16 (1.24%) Web Services
12 15 (1.16%) PySpark
13 14 (1.09%) Middleware
13 14 (1.09%) SOAP
14 13 (1.01%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.01%) SAML
14 13 (1.01%) YAML
15 11 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.08%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 49 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 44 (3.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 39 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.55%) PKI
11 19 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
14 16 (1.24%) Blog
14 16 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (0.93%) Mainframe
18 10 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 93 (7.22%) Linux
2 75 (5.82%) Windows
3 33 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.54%) VMS
7 5 (0.39%) CentOS
8 3 (0.23%) Unix
9 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.078%) Android
10 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.078%) Rocky
10 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (23.99%) Agile
2 194 (15.06%) DevOps
3 178 (13.82%) AI
4 174 (13.51%) Mentoring
5 172 (13.35%) CI/CD
6 140 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 136 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (10.02%) Software Engineering
9 126 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
10 125 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (8.31%) Community of Practice
12 103 (8.00%) Analytics
13 102 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 99 (7.69%) Migration
14 99 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
15 94 (7.30%) Project Delivery
16 93 (7.22%) Roadmaps
17 89 (6.91%) Collaborative Culture
18 88 (6.83%) Full-Stack Development
19 84 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 226 (17.55%) Python
2 148 (11.49%) Java
3 84 (6.52%) SQL
4 80 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.96%) Bash
6 35 (2.72%) TypeScript
7 30 (2.33%) C#
7 30 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 24 (1.86%) C++
9 16 (1.24%) Perl
10 15 (1.16%) Ruby
11 14 (1.09%) PHP
12 12 (0.93%) Rust
13 11 (0.85%) Go
14 10 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.70%) DataWeave
16 8 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
17 6 (0.47%) C
17 6 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 892 (69.25%) SC Cleared
2 314 (24.38%) DV Cleared
3 174 (13.51%) Degree
4 58 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.03%) CISSP
6 37 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.25%) CISM
9 24 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.16%) PhD
12 14 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.01%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.93%) OSCP
15 10 (0.78%) CRISC
16 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.54%) GIAC
16 7 (0.54%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.04%) NIST
2 48 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.41%) QA
5 22 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.63%) NCSC
7 20 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 19 (1.48%) GDPR
9 9 (0.70%) GRC
9 9 (0.70%) WCAG
10 8 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.39%) PMO
14 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.31%) RMADS
15 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 81 (6.29%) Docker
2 50 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.40%) vSphere
5 10 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.54%) KVM
7 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.31%) Squid
8 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.078%) IAG
11 1 (0.078%) Xen
Systems Management
1 140 (10.87%) Terraform
2 106 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 53 (4.11%) Ansible
4 26 (2.02%) Grafana
5 24 (1.86%) Puppet
6 22 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.78%) Argo
9 10 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.70%) CloudHub
11 7 (0.54%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.47%) CASB
12 6 (0.47%) Kibana
12 6 (0.47%) WSUS
13 5 (0.39%) Packer
14 4 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.31%) Mesos
14 4 (0.31%) Nagios
14 4 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.19%) Oracle
3 46 (3.57%) Google
4 43 (3.34%) VMware
5 37 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.17%) Databricks
8 19 (1.48%) SAP
8 19 (1.48%) Splunk
9 18 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.24%) Dell
11 16 (1.24%) Palantir
12 15 (1.16%) Cisco
12 15 (1.16%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.16%) Okta
13 14 (1.09%) Adobe
14 13 (1.01%) Foundry
15 10 (0.78%) IBM