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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 79 64
Rank change year-on-year +48 -15 -6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,325 501 833
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.80% 4.07% 4.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.67% 14.08% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 849 335 558
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,000 £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 £83,125 £83,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.82% +6.96% -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 4,622 3,557 5,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.24% 28.89% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,787 1,974 3,224
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,680 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £102,200
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 26 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 26 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 +32 126 £75,000 +15.38% 87
South London -14 29 £55,000 -15.38% 4
West London -13 14 £85,000 +136.11% 33
North London +4 1 £45,000 -35.71% 1
East London -13 1 £110,000 - 21
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 23 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.28%) Apache
3 15 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.98%) Confluence
5 11 (0.83%) Anypoint
5 11 (0.83%) Mule
5 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) SAS
8 5 (0.38%) Camunda
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) IIS
10 3 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.075%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Adobe XD
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.23%) InVision
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.23%) Sketch
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.075%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.075%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.075%) Houdini
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.075%) NUKE
4 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Maximo
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.075%) Primavera
3 1 (0.075%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.075%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 413 (31.17%) AWS
2 258 (19.47%) Azure
3 104 (7.85%) GCP
4 80 (6.04%) Serverless
5 75 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
6 74 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (3.55%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 39 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (2.26%) GitHub
13 27 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
14 24 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.51%) OCI
16 18 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.21%) SaaS
17 16 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.77%) Network Security
2 30 (2.26%) Firewall
3 17 (1.28%) DNS
4 16 (1.21%) WAN
5 13 (0.98%) SSL
6 11 (0.83%) DHCP
6 11 (0.83%) VPN
7 10 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.68%) LAN
8 9 (0.68%) NGN
9 8 (0.60%) SAN
9 8 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.45%) VSAN
11 5 (0.38%) MPLS
11 5 (0.38%) NAS
12 4 (0.30%) IPv4
12 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.30%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.87%) Power BI
2 30 (2.26%) Data Lake
3 29 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.04%) Metadata
6 24 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (1.66%) Big Data
8 18 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 17 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.13%) MySQL
11 13 (0.98%) Tableau
12 12 (0.91%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.75%) DTS
14 10 (0.75%) SQL Server
15 9 (0.68%) Db2
16 8 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 61 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 58 (4.38%) Git
3 43 (3.25%) GitLab
4 32 (2.42%) JIRA
5 7 (0.53%) Axure RP
5 7 (0.53%) Maven
5 7 (0.53%) Vite
6 6 (0.45%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.38%) Gradle
7 5 (0.38%) Subversion
8 4 (0.30%) JMeter
9 3 (0.23%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.23%) JUnit
9 3 (0.23%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.23%) VersionOne
General
1 330 (24.91%) Public Sector
2 264 (19.92%) Social Skills
3 171 (12.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 129 (9.74%) Law
5 115 (8.68%) Finance
6 112 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.89%) Legal
10 17 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (0.91%) Games
12 12 (0.91%) Military
13 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.60%) Advertising
14 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.60%) Retail
15 7 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 277 (20.91%) Senior
2 238 (17.96%) Architect
3 225 (16.98%) Consultant
4 120 (9.06%) Developer
5 107 (8.08%) Lead
6 102 (7.70%) Solutions Architect
7 87 (6.57%) Senior Consultant
8 72 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 71 (5.36%) Analyst
10 57 (4.30%) AWS Architect
11 56 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 55 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (3.62%) Senior Manager
14 47 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 45 (3.40%) AWS Solution Architect
16 44 (3.32%) Business Analyst
16 44 (3.32%) Security Consultant
17 37 (2.79%) IAM Consultant
18 35 (2.64%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.87%) React
2 29 (2.19%) Spring
3 28 (2.11%) Kafka
4 26 (1.96%) .NET
5 21 (1.58%) Node.js
6 20 (1.51%) HTML
6 20 (1.51%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.43%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.43%) OAuth
7 19 (1.43%) REST
8 18 (1.36%) CSS
9 16 (1.21%) PySpark
10 14 (1.06%) Web Services
11 13 (0.98%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.98%) JSON
11 13 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.98%) YAML
12 12 (0.91%) SAML
13 11 (0.83%) Middleware
13 11 (0.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 50 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 40 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
9 25 (1.89%) Operational Technology
10 19 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.28%) Blog
13 15 (1.13%) PKI
13 15 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.98%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (6.34%) Linux
2 74 (5.58%) Windows
3 34 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.53%) CentOS
7 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.30%) Unix
7 4 (0.30%) VMS
8 2 (0.15%) Android
8 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Rocky
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (23.55%) Agile
2 199 (15.02%) DevOps
3 185 (13.96%) AI
4 184 (13.89%) Mentoring
5 172 (12.98%) CI/CD
6 141 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
8 132 (9.96%) Software Engineering
9 129 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 125 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (8.60%) Community of Practice
12 112 (8.45%) Analytics
13 104 (7.85%) Technology Strategy
14 103 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 99 (7.47%) Project Delivery
16 97 (7.32%) Migration
16 97 (7.32%) Roadmaps
17 91 (6.87%) Scrum
18 83 (6.26%) Microservices
19 81 (6.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 202 (15.25%) Python
2 140 (10.57%) Java
3 81 (6.11%) SQL
4 73 (5.51%) JavaScript
5 47 (3.55%) Bash
6 32 (2.42%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.04%) C#
9 22 (1.66%) C++
10 16 (1.21%) Perl
11 15 (1.13%) Ruby
12 14 (1.06%) PHP
13 11 (0.83%) DataWeave
13 11 (0.83%) Rust
13 11 (0.83%) Scala
14 10 (0.75%) Go
15 8 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.45%) Bicep
17 6 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 921 (69.51%) SC Cleared
2 306 (23.09%) DV Cleared
3 172 (12.98%) Degree
4 58 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.02%) CISSP
6 37 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.26%) CISM
9 23 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.28%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.98%) OSCP
14 12 (0.91%) CRISC
14 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.60%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.53%) CCNA
16 7 (0.53%) PhD
17 6 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.38%) NIST
2 53 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.57%) QA
5 29 (2.19%) NCSC
6 24 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.58%) GDPR
7 21 (1.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (0.98%) GRC
9 9 (0.68%) WCAG
10 7 (0.53%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.38%) PMO
13 4 (0.30%) RMADS
14 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
System Software
1 78 (5.89%) Docker
2 49 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.36%) vSphere
5 8 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.45%) KVM
8 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Squid
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.075%) Firmware
11 1 (0.075%) IAG
11 1 (0.075%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (9.96%) Terraform
2 97 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 47 (3.55%) Ansible
4 23 (1.74%) Puppet
5 21 (1.58%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.51%) Grafana
7 18 (1.36%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.83%) CloudHub
9 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.60%) Argo
11 6 (0.45%) CASB
11 6 (0.45%) Kibana
12 5 (0.38%) Packer
12 5 (0.38%) SCOM
12 5 (0.38%) WSUS
12 5 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.30%) Nagios
14 3 (0.23%) Nessus
14 3 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 125 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.92%) Oracle
3 48 (3.62%) Google
4 42 (3.17%) VMware
5 41 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.57%) Databricks
8 23 (1.74%) SAP
9 19 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 17 (1.28%) Splunk
12 16 (1.21%) Cisco
12 16 (1.21%) Dell
12 16 (1.21%) Palantir
13 15 (1.13%) Adobe
13 15 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 15 (1.13%) Okta
14 14 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.98%) Foundry
16 9 (0.68%) IBM