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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 61 61
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +32
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 767 666 910
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.69% 4.71% 4.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.30% 14.13% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 520 317 637
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,590 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.10% +6.09% +3.60%

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 4,192 4,715 5,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.64% 33.37% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,219 1,944 4,129
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 94 £70,000 -6.67% 110
South London -3 21 £64,290 +4.29% 21
West London -27 11 £85,000 +47.39% 15
North London +1 1 £45,000 -32.08% 1
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 27 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.61%) Confluence
2 20 (2.61%) Palantir Foundry
3 11 (1.43%) Apache
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.13%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.78%) InVision
2 6 (0.78%) Sketch
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) Weka
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Maximo
2 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 181 (23.60%) AWS
2 168 (21.90%) Azure
3 63 (8.21%) GCP
4 49 (6.39%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.48%) Serverless
6 33 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (3.65%) Power Automate
8 28 (3.65%) PowerApps
9 27 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (3.26%) Entra ID
10 25 (3.26%) Figma
11 22 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.48%) GitHub
14 18 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (1.96%) PaaS
15 15 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 13 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.52%) Firewall
2 20 (2.61%) DNS
3 19 (2.48%) VPN
4 16 (2.09%) Network Security
5 12 (1.56%) SAN
5 12 (1.56%) WAN
6 11 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
7 10 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (1.04%) LAN
9 8 (1.04%) Wireless
10 7 (0.91%) DHCP
10 7 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.65%) SMTP
11 5 (0.65%) WAAS
12 4 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.52%) VoIP
12 4 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.35%) Power BI
3 21 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 19 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.83%) MySQL
7 13 (1.69%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.17%) DB2
9 9 (1.17%) Metadata
10 8 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.04%) DTS
10 8 (1.04%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.04%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.91%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.65%) Redis
13 5 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.13%) Git
1 47 (6.13%) Jenkins
2 32 (4.17%) JIRA
3 21 (2.74%) Axure RP
4 18 (2.35%) Balsamiq
5 15 (1.96%) JMeter
6 13 (1.69%) GitLab
7 11 (1.43%) JUnit
8 8 (1.04%) Mockito
8 8 (1.04%) Selenium
9 7 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.91%) Vite
10 6 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.65%) Maven
12 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.52%) Subversion
13 3 (0.39%) Gradle
13 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 228 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 176 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 95 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (10.56%) Law
6 69 (9.00%) Finance
7 18 (2.35%) Legal
8 17 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.09%) Marketing
10 15 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.69%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.56%) Electronics
14 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.30%) Games
16 9 (1.17%) Advertising
16 9 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.65%) Military
17 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (16.82%) Senior
2 120 (15.65%) Developer
3 84 (10.95%) Consultant
4 71 (9.26%) Architect
5 47 (6.13%) Designer
6 44 (5.74%) Software Engineer
7 38 (4.95%) Analyst
7 38 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 37 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 34 (4.43%) Lead
10 28 (3.65%) Senior Manager
11 27 (3.52%) User Researcher
12 26 (3.39%) UX Designer
13 25 (3.26%) Business Analyst
14 23 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 21 (2.74%) Senior Consultant
16 20 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (2.61%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.48%) React
2 38 (4.95%) HTML
3 35 (4.56%) Spring
4 30 (3.91%) CSS
5 29 (3.78%) REST
6 25 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 22 (2.87%) Web Services
8 21 (2.74%) .NET
9 20 (2.61%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.09%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (2.09%) Node.js
11 14 (1.83%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.83%) XML
12 13 (1.69%) FastAPI
12 13 (1.69%) Hibernate
12 13 (1.69%) SOAP
13 12 (1.56%) LangChain
13 12 (1.56%) Middleware
13 12 (1.56%) SAML
14 11 (1.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.00%) PKI
5 20 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 13 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.04%) CMDB
12 7 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.78%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.65%) Linux
2 48 (6.26%) Windows
3 15 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.43%) Unix
5 10 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.30%) VMS
6 7 (0.91%) Android
6 7 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (29.34%) Agile
2 119 (15.51%) AI
3 118 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (14.99%) DevOps
5 112 (14.60%) CI/CD
6 97 (12.65%) Software Engineering
7 88 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 84 (10.95%) Analytics
10 82 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (9.52%) Community of Practice
12 72 (9.39%) Mentoring
13 69 (9.00%) User Experience
14 68 (8.87%) User Research
15 62 (8.08%) Computer Science
15 62 (8.08%) Technology Strategy
16 59 (7.69%) Data Modelling
17 58 (7.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 57 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
19 53 (6.91%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (21.38%) Python
2 129 (16.82%) Java
3 107 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 86 (11.21%) SQL
5 57 (7.43%) C#
6 49 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 40 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.74%) Bash
9 20 (2.61%) C++
10 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.43%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.78%) Bicep
13 6 (0.78%) Go
13 6 (0.78%) Scala
14 5 (0.65%) C
14 5 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.65%) Ruby
15 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 524 (68.32%) SC Cleared
2 213 (27.77%) DV Cleared
3 145 (18.90%) Degree
4 32 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.13%) PhD
7 19 (2.48%) CISSP
8 18 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.56%) CISM
10 10 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
13 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.52%) APMP
14 4 (0.52%) CRISC
14 4 (0.52%) ISACA
14 4 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.56%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.39%) WCAG
3 21 (2.74%) NIST
4 16 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.09%) QA
5 11 (1.43%) GRC
6 10 (1.30%) SLA
7 8 (1.04%) GDPR
7 8 (1.04%) JSP 440
7 8 (1.04%) NCSC
8 4 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.39%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 85 (11.08%) Docker
2 32 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.43%) vSphere
5 8 (1.04%) KVM
6 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.78%) Firmware
8 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.13%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.13%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (12.65%) Kubernetes
2 86 (11.21%) Terraform
3 31 (4.04%) Ansible
4 19 (2.48%) Grafana
5 13 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.56%) Kibana
7 9 (1.17%) Argo
7 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.78%) SCCM
9 6 (0.78%) SCOM
9 6 (0.78%) WSUS
10 5 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.65%) Istio
10 5 (0.65%) linkerd
10 5 (0.65%) Mesos
10 5 (0.65%) Puppet
11 4 (0.52%) VxRail
11 4 (0.52%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 76 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.08%) Google
3 32 (4.17%) Palantir
3 32 (4.17%) VMware
4 24 (3.13%) Adobe
5 23 (3.00%) Cisco
5 23 (3.00%) SAP
6 22 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.61%) Foundry
7 20 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.35%) Oracle
9 16 (2.09%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.96%) Dell
11 14 (1.83%) Splunk
12 10 (1.30%) IBM
12 10 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.04%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.91%) Databricks