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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 54 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +67
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 601 762 817
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.26% 4.91% 4.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.98% 15.22% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 418 339 565
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,875 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,495
% change year-on-year - +4.36% +3.40%

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 4,013 5,007 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.45% 32.27% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 2,016 3,535
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,125 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -20 96 £70,000 -12.50% 96
South London +9 23 £58,000 -5.91% 16
West London -18 6 £40,138 -27.68% 10
East London -14 2 - - 12
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 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.66%) Confluence
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.00%) Apache
5 6 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (4.16%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.67%) InVision
2 4 (0.67%) Sketch
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.67%) Maximo
3 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.67%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 150 (24.96%) AWS
2 129 (21.46%) Azure
3 44 (7.32%) Serverless
4 41 (6.82%) GCP
5 39 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 30 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.49%) Power Automate
7 27 (4.49%) PowerApps
8 26 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (4.33%) Figma
9 23 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (3.66%) GitHub
11 20 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (3.00%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 16 (2.66%) PaaS
14 12 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.33%) Firewall
2 15 (2.50%) Network Security
2 15 (2.50%) VPN
3 11 (1.83%) Structured Cabling
3 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.50%) DNS
4 9 (1.50%) WAN
4 9 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.16%) Wireless
6 6 (1.00%) LAN
7 5 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.83%) WAAS
8 4 (0.67%) SAN
9 3 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (0.50%) HTTP
9 3 (0.50%) SSH
9 3 (0.50%) VoIP
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.49%) Power BI
3 21 (3.49%) MongoDB
4 20 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 19 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.00%) Metadata
7 12 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.83%) MySQL
8 11 (1.83%) RDBMS
9 9 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.16%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.16%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.83%) Redis
14 4 (0.67%) DB2
14 4 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 46 (7.65%) Jenkins
2 33 (5.49%) Git
3 28 (4.66%) JIRA
4 23 (3.83%) Axure RP
5 21 (3.49%) Balsamiq
6 15 (2.50%) GitLab
7 14 (2.33%) JMeter
8 11 (1.83%) JUnit
8 11 (1.83%) Mockito
9 9 (1.50%) Selenium
10 8 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.00%) Vite
12 5 (0.83%) gulp
12 5 (0.83%) MLflow
12 5 (0.83%) webpack
13 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.67%) WebDriver
14 3 (0.50%) Subversion
15 2 (0.33%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 185 (30.78%) Public Sector
2 133 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 83 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (12.48%) Law
6 50 (8.32%) Finance
7 22 (3.66%) Marketing
7 22 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.33%) Electronics
8 20 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.83%) Legal
10 8 (1.33%) Advertising
10 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Military
13 3 (0.50%) Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (16.81%) Developer
2 72 (11.98%) Senior
3 65 (10.82%) Architect
4 62 (10.32%) Consultant
5 42 (6.99%) Designer
6 39 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 32 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (4.99%) Lead
9 26 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.33%) Java Developer
10 23 (3.83%) Analyst
11 22 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Service Designer
13 19 (3.16%) Administrator
14 18 (3.00%) User Researcher
15 17 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
15 17 (2.83%) UX Designer
16 16 (2.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 16 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.50%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.32%) React
2 42 (6.99%) HTML
3 32 (5.32%) Spring
4 31 (5.16%) CSS
5 26 (4.33%) Spring Boot
6 24 (3.99%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.66%) REST
8 19 (3.16%) Node.js
8 19 (3.16%) Web Services
9 15 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (2.33%) FastAPI
10 14 (2.33%) Hibernate
10 14 (2.33%) XML
11 12 (2.00%) .NET
11 12 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (2.00%) Vue
12 11 (1.83%) Apache Camel
12 11 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (1.83%) jQuery
12 11 (1.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (2.50%) PKI
6 14 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.16%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.50%) CMDB
10 8 (1.33%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.99%) Windows
2 31 (5.16%) Linux
3 12 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.66%) Unix
5 7 (1.16%) Android
5 7 (1.16%) VMS
6 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (28.62%) Agile
2 110 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (16.64%) CI/CD
4 92 (15.31%) AI
4 92 (15.31%) DevOps
5 80 (13.31%) Software Engineering
6 76 (12.65%) Analytics
7 70 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (11.15%) User Experience
9 63 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 60 (9.98%) Community of Practice
10 60 (9.98%) Mentoring
11 57 (9.48%) Workflow
12 55 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
13 53 (8.82%) User Research
14 52 (8.65%) Technology Strategy
14 52 (8.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 44 (7.32%) Containerisation
15 44 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 143 (23.79%) Python
2 102 (16.97%) JavaScript
3 99 (16.47%) Java
4 66 (10.98%) SQL
5 50 (8.32%) C#
6 48 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 32 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.49%) Bash
9 18 (3.00%) C++
10 13 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.33%) Bicep
11 8 (1.33%) Ruby
12 6 (1.00%) Go
12 6 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.00%) MATLAB
12 6 (1.00%) Scala
13 5 (0.83%) C
13 5 (0.83%) R
14 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 412 (68.55%) SC Cleared
2 162 (26.96%) DV Cleared
3 117 (19.47%) Degree
4 28 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.83%) PhD
7 16 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.66%) CISSP
10 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.16%) CISM
12 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.00%) NVQ Level 3
13 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.83%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.67%) CCNP
15 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.48%) Accessibility
2 25 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.16%) WCAG
3 17 (2.83%) NIST
4 16 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.33%) QA
6 13 (2.16%) GRC
7 11 (1.83%) SLA
8 10 (1.66%) NCSC
9 8 (1.33%) GDPR
10 4 (0.67%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.50%) NEBOSH
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 70 (11.65%) Docker
2 18 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.16%) KVM
5 6 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.50%) vSphere
8 2 (0.33%) pfSense
9 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.17%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.17%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 74 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 71 (11.81%) Terraform
3 23 (3.83%) Ansible
4 15 (2.50%) Grafana
5 14 (2.33%) Kibana
6 10 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.33%) Argo
7 8 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.00%) SCCM
9 5 (0.83%) SCOM
10 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.67%) Nagios
11 3 (0.50%) Istio
11 3 (0.50%) linkerd
11 3 (0.50%) Mesos
11 3 (0.50%) VxRail
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
13 1 (0.17%) Ambari
13 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 67 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.66%) SAP
3 32 (5.32%) Palantir
4 26 (4.33%) Google
5 25 (4.16%) Adobe
6 22 (3.66%) Cisco
6 22 (3.66%) Foundry
6 22 (3.66%) VMware
7 20 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 19 (3.16%) Oracle
9 16 (2.66%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.33%) Splunk
11 13 (2.16%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.83%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.33%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.16%) Databricks
14 7 (1.16%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.83%) Dell
15 5 (0.83%) IBM
15 5 (0.83%) MuleSoft