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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 77 60
Rank change year-on-year +50 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,534 490 843
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.98% 4.13% 4.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.58% 14.33% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 978 341 442
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +1.27%

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 4,858 3,419 5,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.95% 28.80% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,870 1,903 2,473
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £37,326
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -5.79%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +40 128 £72,500 +20.83% 197
South London -17 27 £55,000 -15.38% 11
West London -13 12 £90,000 +146.58% 63
East London -6 3 £110,000 - 24
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 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.91%) Apache
3 13 (0.85%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.85%) Mule
4 12 (0.78%) Confluence
4 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.46%) Camunda
7 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.39%) SAS
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
8 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.065%) nginx
10 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.065%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.065%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.065%) Houdini
5 1 (0.065%) InVision
5 1 (0.065%) NUKE
5 1 (0.065%) Sketch
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
5 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.26%) Maximo
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Primavera
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.065%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 470 (30.64%) AWS
2 281 (18.32%) Azure
3 119 (7.76%) GCP
4 92 (6.00%) Serverless
5 78 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 78 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
6 59 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 57 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (3.32%) Entra ID
9 49 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 45 (2.93%) GitHub
11 40 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 35 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (1.76%) SaaS
14 25 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
15 20 (1.30%) OCI
16 17 (1.11%) Azure Databricks
16 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.46%) Network Security
2 37 (2.41%) Firewall
3 16 (1.04%) WAN
4 15 (0.98%) SSL
5 13 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.85%) VPN
6 10 (0.65%) DNS
7 9 (0.59%) LAN
7 9 (0.59%) NGN
8 8 (0.52%) DHCP
8 8 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 7 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.26%) BGP
11 4 (0.26%) IPv4
11 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.26%) NAS
11 4 (0.26%) OSPF
11 4 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.19%) Power BI
2 41 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 34 (2.22%) Metadata
5 29 (1.89%) Tableau
6 27 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (1.76%) Big Data
7 23 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 22 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 20 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 15 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.98%) MySQL
13 13 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.85%) SQL Server
14 12 (0.78%) Redis
15 7 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (5.35%) Git
1 82 (5.35%) Jenkins
2 49 (3.19%) GitLab
3 34 (2.22%) JIRA
4 11 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (0.59%) Burp Suite
5 9 (0.59%) Maven
5 9 (0.59%) Metasploit
6 7 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.39%) Gradle
7 6 (0.39%) JUnit
7 6 (0.39%) Vite
8 5 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.33%) Mockito
8 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.20%) Taiga
General
1 371 (24.19%) Public Sector
2 324 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 184 (11.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 171 (11.15%) Finance
5 135 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (8.74%) Law
7 52 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.56%) Military
10 20 (1.30%) Legal
11 16 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 15 (0.98%) Marketing
12 15 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.91%) Police
13 14 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.78%) Retail
15 9 (0.59%) Banking
15 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.52%) Electronics
17 7 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 299 (19.49%) Architect
2 286 (18.64%) Senior
3 230 (14.99%) Consultant
4 133 (8.67%) Developer
5 121 (7.89%) Lead
6 106 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (5.48%) Analyst
8 79 (5.15%) Senior Consultant
9 75 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 66 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 65 (4.24%) Software Engineer
12 64 (4.17%) AWS Architect
13 57 (3.72%) Data Architect
14 54 (3.52%) Security Architect
14 54 (3.52%) Security Consultant
15 50 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 49 (3.19%) Business Analyst
17 47 (3.06%) IAM Consultant
18 46 (3.00%) AWS Solution Architect
19 43 (2.80%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.04%) Terraform
2 47 (3.06%) Kafka
3 43 (2.80%) React
4 27 (1.76%) REST
4 27 (1.76%) Spring
5 25 (1.63%) .NET
6 22 (1.43%) PySpark
7 21 (1.37%) Node.js
8 20 (1.30%) OAuth
9 19 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.17%) AWS CDK
11 17 (1.11%) HTML
11 17 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.04%) YAML
13 15 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 15 (0.98%) JSON
13 15 (0.98%) JWT
13 15 (0.98%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.91%) CSS
14 14 (0.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 26 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
9 23 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
13 17 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.91%) Blog
14 14 (0.91%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.26%) Linux
2 78 (5.08%) Windows
3 30 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.78%) CentOS
6 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.46%) Unix
7 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Rocky
10 3 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (21.97%) Agile
2 231 (15.06%) DevOps
3 226 (14.73%) AI
4 215 (14.02%) Mentoring
5 213 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 206 (13.43%) Cybersecurity
7 176 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (10.76%) Software Engineering
9 164 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 154 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 145 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 137 (8.93%) Roadmaps
13 136 (8.87%) Analytics
14 119 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 115 (7.50%) Migration
16 111 (7.24%) Project Delivery
17 108 (7.04%) Community of Practice
18 101 (6.58%) Decision-Making
18 101 (6.58%) Scrum
19 100 (6.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 233 (15.19%) Python
2 136 (8.87%) Java
3 80 (5.22%) SQL
4 68 (4.43%) JavaScript
5 66 (4.30%) Bash
6 32 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.76%) C#
8 26 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.56%) C++
10 23 (1.50%) Scala
11 17 (1.11%) Perl
11 17 (1.11%) Ruby
12 15 (0.98%) Groovy
13 14 (0.91%) Go
13 14 (0.91%) PHP
14 13 (0.85%) Bicep
14 13 (0.85%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.78%) C
16 10 (0.65%) Rust
17 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,049 (68.38%) SC Cleared
2 319 (20.80%) DV Cleared
3 167 (10.89%) Degree
4 68 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 59 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (3.52%) CISSP
7 37 (2.41%) CISM
8 36 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 22 (1.43%) OSCP
11 21 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.37%) CREST Certified
12 16 (1.04%) CHECK Team Member
13 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.65%) CISA
14 10 (0.65%) PhD
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.85%) NIST
4 49 (3.19%) QA
5 47 (3.06%) NCSC
6 27 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.69%) GDPR
8 18 (1.17%) GRC
8 18 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 11 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.46%) PMO
13 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.26%) RMADS
14 4 (0.26%) WCAG
15 3 (0.20%) COBIT
15 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
System Software
1 102 (6.65%) Docker
2 38 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.65%) vSphere
5 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) KVM
7 4 (0.26%) Squid
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) IAG
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) Samba
Systems Management
1 132 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.78%) Ansible
3 41 (2.67%) Grafana
4 31 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.63%) Puppet
6 23 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.85%) CloudHub
8 12 (0.78%) Rancher
9 11 (0.72%) Argo
10 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.59%) Nmap
11 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.46%) Kibana
12 7 (0.46%) Nessus
13 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 5 (0.33%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) Istio
14 4 (0.26%) linkerd
14 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.20%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 145 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 60 (3.91%) Oracle
4 53 (3.46%) Google
5 47 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.87%) Databricks
7 29 (1.89%) VMware
8 27 (1.76%) SAP
9 22 (1.43%) Splunk
10 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.11%) Okta
12 16 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 15 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.85%) Cisco
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
16 10 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
16 10 (0.65%) Palantir
16 10 (0.65%) Remedy