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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 63 62
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 879 570 932
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.78% 4.42% 4.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.02% 13.04% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 590 348 675
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,251 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,150
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

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 4,390 4,370 6,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.87% 33.86% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,367 2,022 4,221
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.19% +1.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,100 £117,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,670 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.29% +4.85% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -9 90 £75,000 +4.52% 111
South London -17 16 £69,445 +12.65% 10
West London -30 16 £85,000 +47.39% 21
North London 0 1 £45,000 -32.08%
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 26 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.93%) Confluence
3 14 (1.59%) Apache
3 14 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.34%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (2.84%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.80%) InVision
2 7 (0.80%) Sketch
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Weka
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) Maximo
2 7 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 211 (24.00%) AWS
2 184 (20.93%) Azure
3 71 (8.08%) GCP
4 46 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 42 (4.78%) Serverless
6 34 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.84%) Figma
11 23 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.62%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.62%) PowerApps
12 22 (2.50%) GitHub
13 17 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.71%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.48%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.07%) Firewall
2 17 (1.93%) DNS
2 17 (1.93%) Network Security
2 17 (1.93%) VPN
2 17 (1.93%) WAN
3 12 (1.37%) LAN
3 12 (1.37%) SAN
3 12 (1.37%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
6 9 (1.02%) Wireless
7 8 (0.91%) DHCP
7 8 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.57%) SMTP
9 5 (0.57%) VoIP
9 5 (0.57%) WAAS
9 5 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.44%) Power BI
2 35 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (2.39%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 13 (1.48%) DB2
6 12 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (1.37%) MySQL
6 12 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.25%) Metadata
7 11 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.14%) DTS
8 10 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.91%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.68%) Tableau
12 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.57%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (5.35%) Git
2 45 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.07%) JIRA
4 21 (2.39%) Axure RP
5 18 (2.05%) Balsamiq
5 18 (2.05%) GitLab
6 11 (1.25%) JMeter
7 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.80%) JUnit
7 7 (0.80%) Maven
7 7 (0.80%) Vite
8 6 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.46%) Mockito
10 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.46%) Subversion
11 3 (0.34%) Gradle
11 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 251 (28.56%) Public Sector
2 184 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (9.44%) Law
5 82 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (8.76%) Finance
7 21 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.28%) Legal
9 18 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.37%) Marketing
12 11 (1.25%) Games
12 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.02%) Advertising
13 9 (1.02%) Electronics
14 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (17.75%) Senior
2 109 (12.40%) Architect
2 109 (12.40%) Developer
3 104 (11.83%) Consultant
4 47 (5.35%) Analyst
4 47 (5.35%) Designer
5 46 (5.23%) Data Engineer
6 43 (4.89%) Software Engineer
7 42 (4.78%) Lead
7 42 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (3.98%) Java Developer
9 35 (3.98%) Senior Consultant
10 34 (3.87%) UX Designer
11 33 (3.75%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.64%) Senior Manager
13 28 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (2.96%) User Researcher
15 22 (2.50%) AWS Architect
15 22 (2.50%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.44%) React
2 32 (3.64%) HTML
3 30 (3.41%) Spring
4 28 (3.19%) CSS
5 26 (2.96%) REST
6 22 (2.50%) Web Services
7 19 (2.16%) .NET
7 19 (2.16%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.93%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.59%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (1.48%) Node.js
11 12 (1.37%) Middleware
11 12 (1.37%) SAML
11 12 (1.37%) SOAP
12 11 (1.25%) LangChain
12 11 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.14%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.14%) OpenID
13 10 (1.14%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 26 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.62%) PKI
6 21 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.80%) Blog
15 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.83%) Linux
2 47 (5.35%) Windows
3 15 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.02%) VMS
6 8 (0.91%) Unix
7 7 (0.80%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) CentOS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) Debian
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (25.60%) Agile
2 130 (14.79%) DevOps
3 122 (13.88%) AI
4 113 (12.86%) CI/CD
5 104 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (11.15%) Software Engineering
7 95 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 88 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (9.90%) Community of Practice
9 87 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 79 (8.99%) Mentoring
11 73 (8.30%) Analytics
12 71 (8.08%) Computer Science
12 71 (8.08%) Technology Strategy
13 62 (7.05%) User Experience
14 61 (6.94%) User Research
15 58 (6.60%) Collaborative Culture
15 58 (6.60%) Data Modelling
16 57 (6.48%) Containerisation
16 57 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 163 (18.54%) Python
2 131 (14.90%) Java
3 96 (10.92%) JavaScript
4 81 (9.22%) SQL
5 47 (5.35%) C#
6 44 (5.01%) TypeScript
7 41 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.07%) Bash
9 16 (1.82%) C++
10 11 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.02%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.68%) Go
12 6 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.57%) C
14 4 (0.46%) ABAP
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 4 (0.46%) Groovy
14 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 612 (69.62%) SC Cleared
2 239 (27.19%) DV Cleared
3 164 (18.66%) Degree
4 34 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.73%) PhD
7 22 (2.50%) CISSP
8 18 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.59%) CISM
11 13 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.80%) CRISC
12 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.80%) GSEC
12 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.68%) CCIE
13 6 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.57%) CCNP
14 5 (0.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.89%) Accessibility
2 26 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.84%) WCAG
4 24 (2.73%) NIST
5 19 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.82%) QA
7 10 (1.14%) GRC
8 9 (1.02%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.91%) SLA
10 7 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
10 7 (0.80%) NCSC
11 6 (0.68%) GDPR
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.34%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.34%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.11%) COBIT
14 1 (0.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 84 (9.56%) Docker
2 30 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.48%) vSphere
5 9 (1.02%) KVM
6 6 (0.68%) Firmware
7 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 93 (10.58%) Terraform
3 33 (3.75%) Ansible
4 17 (1.93%) Grafana
5 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.02%) Kibana
7 9 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.91%) Argo
9 6 (0.68%) SCCM
9 6 (0.68%) WSUS
10 5 (0.57%) CASB
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.57%) Istio
10 5 (0.57%) linkerd
10 5 (0.57%) Mesos
10 5 (0.57%) Puppet
10 5 (0.57%) VxRail
10 5 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 80 (9.10%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.23%) Google
3 33 (3.75%) VMware
4 31 (3.53%) Cisco
5 25 (2.84%) Adobe
5 25 (2.84%) Palantir
6 22 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.28%) Dell
8 19 (2.16%) Oracle
8 19 (2.16%) SAP
9 16 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.71%) Foundry
10 15 (1.71%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.48%) IBM
12 12 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.25%) Databricks
13 11 (1.25%) Splunk
14 10 (1.14%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.14%) Okta