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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 76 73
Rank change year-on-year +45 -3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,412 494 785
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.93% 4.06% 4.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.53% 13.89% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 897 334 507
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,563 £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 £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,425 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 4,781 3,556 5,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.07% 29.19% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,835 1,967 2,883
10th Percentile £41,100 £40,000 £36,550
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £49,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,200 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,500 £102,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 +35 129 £75,000 +15.38% 110
South London -17 30 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West London -16 15 £73,750 +102.05% 46
North London 0 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -14 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 20 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.13%) Apache
3 14 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.92%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.92%) Confluence
4 13 (0.92%) Mule
5 11 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.42%) Camunda
7 6 (0.42%) SAS
8 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) JBoss
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.071%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.071%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.57%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) InVision
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.071%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.071%) Houdini
6 1 (0.071%) NUKE
6 1 (0.071%) Trello
6 1 (0.071%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Maximo
2 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.071%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.071%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 439 (31.09%) AWS
2 270 (19.12%) Azure
3 111 (7.86%) GCP
4 81 (5.74%) Serverless
5 77 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
6 76 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (3.47%) Power Platform
9 45 (3.19%) Entra ID
10 42 (2.97%) Amazon S3
11 38 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.34%) GitHub
13 27 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (1.49%) SaaS
17 20 (1.42%) OCI
18 16 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
18 16 (1.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.61%) Network Security
2 33 (2.34%) Firewall
3 18 (1.27%) WAN
4 15 (1.06%) SSL
5 12 (0.85%) DNS
5 12 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.78%) LAN
6 11 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.71%) DHCP
8 9 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (0.64%) NGN
8 9 (0.64%) VPN
9 6 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.42%) VSAN
10 5 (0.35%) MPLS
10 5 (0.35%) NAS
10 5 (0.35%) SAN
11 4 (0.28%) BGP
11 4 (0.28%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.83%) Power BI
2 32 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 30 (2.12%) Metadata
4 29 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (1.70%) Big Data
8 20 (1.42%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 14 (0.99%) MySQL
10 14 (0.99%) Tableau
11 13 (0.92%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.85%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.78%) SQL Server
14 10 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.50%) Db2
17 6 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.42%) DTS
Development Applications
1 65 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 63 (4.46%) Git
3 45 (3.19%) GitLab
4 34 (2.41%) JIRA
5 8 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.50%) Axure RP
6 7 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.50%) Maven
6 7 (0.50%) Vite
7 6 (0.42%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.35%) Gradle
8 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.28%) JMeter
10 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Mockito
10 3 (0.21%) Subversion
10 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
General
1 353 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 282 (19.97%) Social Skills
3 181 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (9.63%) Law
5 133 (9.42%) Finance
6 120 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.77%) Legal
10 20 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 14 (0.99%) Military
12 10 (0.71%) Retail
13 9 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.64%) Marketing
13 9 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.64%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.57%) Advertising
14 8 (0.57%) Electronics
14 8 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 291 (20.61%) Senior
2 259 (18.34%) Architect
3 229 (16.22%) Consultant
4 124 (8.78%) Developer
5 117 (8.29%) Lead
6 108 (7.65%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (5.95%) Senior Consultant
8 80 (5.67%) Analyst
9 69 (4.89%) Data Engineer
10 66 (4.67%) AWS Architect
11 59 (4.18%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 50 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 50 (3.54%) Data Architect
14 49 (3.47%) AWS Solution Architect
15 48 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 48 (3.40%) Senior Manager
16 44 (3.12%) Security Consultant
17 40 (2.83%) IAM Consultant
17 40 (2.83%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.83%) React
2 32 (2.27%) Kafka
3 29 (2.05%) Spring
4 28 (1.98%) .NET
5 21 (1.49%) HTML
5 21 (1.49%) Node.js
5 21 (1.49%) OAuth
6 20 (1.42%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.35%) CSS
8 17 (1.20%) REST
9 15 (1.06%) PySpark
10 14 (0.99%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.92%) JSON
11 13 (0.92%) JWT
11 13 (0.92%) MUnit
11 13 (0.92%) OAuth2
11 13 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.92%) RAML
11 13 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 46 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 43 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
9 26 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
10 24 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.20%) Blog
12 17 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.92%) Mainframe
15 13 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.44%) Linux
2 69 (4.89%) Windows
3 29 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.71%) CentOS
6 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) Unix
9 4 (0.28%) Rocky
9 4 (0.28%) VMS
10 3 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (22.52%) Agile
2 210 (14.87%) DevOps
3 205 (14.52%) AI
4 195 (13.81%) Mentoring
5 180 (12.75%) CI/CD
6 158 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
7 157 (11.12%) Cybersecurity
8 150 (10.62%) Software Engineering
9 137 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 130 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (8.92%) Analytics
12 110 (7.79%) Community of Practice
13 106 (7.51%) Project Delivery
13 106 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 105 (7.44%) Roadmaps
14 105 (7.44%) Technology Strategy
15 103 (7.29%) Migration
16 97 (6.87%) Scrum
17 95 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 88 (6.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 213 (15.08%) Python
2 143 (10.13%) Java
3 78 (5.52%) SQL
4 74 (5.24%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.68%) Bash
6 34 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.05%) C#
8 28 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.63%) C++
10 16 (1.13%) Scala
11 15 (1.06%) Perl
11 15 (1.06%) Ruby
12 14 (0.99%) PHP
13 13 (0.92%) DataWeave
14 12 (0.85%) Go
15 10 (0.71%) Rust
16 9 (0.64%) C
16 9 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.42%) Bicep
17 6 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 980 (69.41%) SC Cleared
2 311 (22.03%) DV Cleared
3 181 (12.82%) Degree
4 65 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (3.05%) CISSP
7 38 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.34%) CISM
9 23 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.42%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.99%) CRISC
12 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.92%) OSCP
14 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.57%) CISA
15 8 (0.57%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.50%) CCNA
16 7 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.25%) NIST
2 58 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.83%) QA
5 32 (2.27%) NCSC
6 31 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.49%) GDPR
7 21 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (0.92%) GRC
9 9 (0.64%) WCAG
10 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.42%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) PMO
14 4 (0.28%) RMADS
15 3 (0.21%) COBIT
15 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 89 (6.30%) Docker
2 44 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.99%) vSphere
5 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.42%) KVM
8 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.28%) Squid
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.071%) Firmware
11 1 (0.071%) IAG
Systems Management
1 135 (9.56%) Terraform
2 112 (7.93%) Kubernetes
3 52 (3.68%) Ansible
4 24 (1.70%) Puppet
5 22 (1.56%) Grafana
6 21 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.92%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.57%) Argo
12 6 (0.42%) CASB
13 5 (0.35%) Kibana
13 5 (0.35%) Packer
13 5 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) Nagios
15 3 (0.21%) Nessus
15 3 (0.21%) Nmap
15 3 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.18%) Google
3 53 (3.75%) Oracle
4 44 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 41 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.76%) Databricks
6 39 (2.76%) VMware
7 28 (1.98%) SAP
8 19 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 18 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.20%) Cisco
10 17 (1.20%) Palantir
10 17 (1.20%) Splunk
11 16 (1.13%) Okta
11 16 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.99%) Adobe
12 14 (0.99%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.92%) Foundry
14 11 (0.78%) Dell
15 9 (0.64%) Remedy