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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +45 -1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,426 499 780
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.96% 4.10% 4.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.70% 14.04% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 905 338 501
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £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 £97,500 £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 4,801 3,553 5,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.06% 29.16% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,856 1,971 2,848
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £67,850
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -0.52% -3.07%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,625
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 16 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 16 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 +38 129 £75,000 +15.38% 97
South London -17 30 £55,000 -15.38% 10
West London -20 14 £62,500 +72.41% 39
North London 0 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -14 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 19 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.12%) Apache
3 14 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.91%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.91%) Mule
5 12 (0.84%) Confluence
6 11 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.42%) Camunda
8 6 (0.42%) SAS
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.070%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.49%) 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 (0.070%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.070%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.070%) Houdini
6 1 (0.070%) NUKE
6 1 (0.070%) Trello
6 1 (0.070%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) Maximo
2 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.070%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 440 (30.86%) AWS
2 265 (18.58%) Azure
3 109 (7.64%) GCP
4 81 (5.68%) Serverless
5 76 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
6 50 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (3.44%) Power Platform
8 44 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 43 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.38%) GitHub
12 27 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (1.47%) SaaS
17 20 (1.40%) OCI
18 16 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
19 15 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.65%) Network Security
2 33 (2.31%) Firewall
3 18 (1.26%) WAN
4 15 (1.05%) SSL
5 11 (0.77%) LAN
5 11 (0.77%) SD-WAN
5 11 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.70%) DNS
7 9 (0.63%) DHCP
7 9 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (0.63%) NGN
7 9 (0.63%) VPN
8 6 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.42%) VSAN
9 5 (0.35%) MPLS
9 5 (0.35%) NAS
9 5 (0.35%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.28%) BGP
10 4 (0.28%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.81%) Power BI
2 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
3 31 (2.17%) Metadata
4 30 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (1.68%) Big Data
8 20 (1.40%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.33%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.05%) Tableau
11 14 (0.98%) MySQL
12 13 (0.91%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.84%) Relational Database
14 11 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.70%) SQL Server
16 9 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (0.49%) Db2
19 6 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
19 6 (0.42%) DTS
Development Applications
1 65 (4.56%) Jenkins
2 63 (4.42%) Git
3 46 (3.23%) GitLab
4 33 (2.31%) JIRA
5 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.49%) Maven
7 7 (0.49%) Vite
8 6 (0.42%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.35%) Gradle
9 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.28%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.21%) JUnit
11 3 (0.21%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.21%) Mockito
11 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
General
1 355 (24.89%) Public Sector
2 285 (19.99%) Social Skills
3 180 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (9.61%) Law
5 135 (9.47%) Finance
6 124 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.75%) Legal
10 20 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 14 (0.98%) Military
12 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (0.70%) Retail
12 10 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.63%) Marketing
13 9 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.56%) Advertising
14 8 (0.56%) Electronics
14 8 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 286 (20.06%) Senior
2 265 (18.58%) Architect
3 230 (16.13%) Consultant
4 125 (8.77%) Developer
5 119 (8.35%) Lead
6 108 (7.57%) Solutions Architect
7 83 (5.82%) Analyst
7 83 (5.82%) Senior Consultant
8 69 (4.84%) Data Engineer
9 67 (4.70%) AWS Architect
10 59 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (4.14%) Software Engineer
11 52 (3.65%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.65%) Data Architect
12 49 (3.44%) AWS Solution Architect
12 49 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (3.23%) Senior Manager
14 45 (3.16%) Security Consultant
15 41 (2.88%) IAM Consultant
15 41 (2.88%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.81%) React
2 32 (2.24%) Kafka
3 29 (2.03%) Spring
4 26 (1.82%) .NET
5 21 (1.47%) Node.js
6 20 (1.40%) HTML
6 20 (1.40%) OAuth
6 20 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.33%) AWS CDK
8 18 (1.26%) CSS
9 15 (1.05%) PySpark
9 15 (1.05%) REST
10 14 (0.98%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.91%) JSON
11 13 (0.91%) JWT
11 13 (0.91%) MUnit
11 13 (0.91%) OAuth2
11 13 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.91%) RAML
11 13 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 58 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 46 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 43 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
9 26 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
10 25 (1.75%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.12%) Blog
14 16 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.91%) Mainframe
17 12 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (6.31%) Linux
2 68 (4.77%) Windows
3 28 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.77%) CentOS
6 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.28%) Rocky
8 4 (0.28%) Unix
9 3 (0.21%) Android
9 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (22.23%) Agile
2 210 (14.73%) AI
2 210 (14.73%) DevOps
3 195 (13.67%) Mentoring
4 177 (12.41%) CI/CD
5 160 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
6 158 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
7 150 (10.52%) Software Engineering
8 137 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 134 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 126 (8.84%) Analytics
11 111 (7.78%) Community of Practice
12 109 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 108 (7.57%) Project Delivery
14 107 (7.50%) Technology Strategy
15 105 (7.36%) Roadmaps
16 104 (7.29%) Migration
17 99 (6.94%) Scrum
18 96 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
19 89 (6.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 211 (14.80%) Python
2 140 (9.82%) Java
3 75 (5.26%) SQL
4 72 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 53 (3.72%) Bash
6 32 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.96%) C#
8 27 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.61%) C++
10 17 (1.19%) Scala
11 16 (1.12%) Perl
11 16 (1.12%) Ruby
12 14 (0.98%) PHP
13 13 (0.91%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.91%) Go
14 10 (0.70%) C
14 10 (0.70%) Rust
15 9 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.42%) Bicep
16 6 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 984 (69.00%) SC Cleared
2 314 (22.02%) DV Cleared
3 184 (12.90%) Degree
4 66 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 54 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (3.16%) CISSP
7 41 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.38%) CISM
9 23 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.12%) OSCP
12 14 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.91%) CRISC
14 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.70%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.63%) CISA
17 7 (0.49%) CHECK Team Leader
17 7 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 60 (4.21%) NIST
2 46 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.81%) QA
4 33 (2.31%) NCSC
5 31 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.47%) GDPR
6 21 (1.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (0.91%) GRC
8 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.56%) WCAG
9 7 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.35%) PMO
12 4 (0.28%) RMADS
13 3 (0.21%) COBIT
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 85 (5.96%) Docker
2 41 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.91%) vSphere
5 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.49%) 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 (0.070%) Firmware
11 1 (0.070%) IAG
Systems Management
1 137 (9.61%) Terraform
2 110 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.86%) Ansible
4 24 (1.68%) Puppet
5 23 (1.61%) Grafana
6 21 (1.47%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.91%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.63%) 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%) Nessus
14 4 (0.28%) Nmap
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) linkerd
15 3 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.93%) Google
3 53 (3.72%) Oracle
4 44 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 43 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.66%) Databricks
6 38 (2.66%) VMware
7 28 (1.96%) SAP
8 19 (1.33%) Cisco
8 19 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.19%) Splunk
10 16 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 16 (1.12%) Palantir
11 15 (1.05%) Okta
12 13 (0.91%) Adobe
12 13 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.91%) Foundry
13 11 (0.77%) Dell
14 9 (0.63%) Remedy