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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 77 56
Rank change year-on-year +49 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,546 458 850
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.93% 3.93% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.90% 13.44% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 970 330 415
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +1.78%

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 4,846 3,407 5,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.60% 29.22% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 1,913 2,266
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,097 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +49 120 £73,750 +22.92% 207
South London -17 27 £55,000 -15.38% 5
West London -14 11 £90,000 +146.58% 32
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 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 13 (0.84%) Anypoint
2 13 (0.84%) Mule
2 13 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.78%) Apache
4 11 (0.71%) Confluence
5 8 (0.52%) Camunda
5 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.19%) IIS
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.065%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.19%) 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%) NUKE
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
5 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.13%) Maximo
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.13%) Primavera
3 1 (0.065%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.065%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.065%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.065%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 464 (30.01%) AWS
2 286 (18.50%) Azure
3 126 (8.15%) GCP
4 88 (5.69%) Serverless
5 76 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
6 75 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 53 (3.43%) Entra ID
9 52 (3.36%) Amazon S3
10 51 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (2.98%) GitHub
12 43 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (2.01%) SaaS
16 25 (1.62%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
19 20 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
20 18 (1.16%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.49%) Network Security
2 38 (2.46%) Firewall
3 17 (1.10%) VPN
4 15 (0.97%) SSL
4 15 (0.97%) WAN
5 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.71%) DNS
7 9 (0.58%) LAN
7 9 (0.58%) NGN
8 8 (0.52%) DHCP
8 8 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.26%) HTTP
11 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.26%) NAS
11 4 (0.26%) OSPF
11 4 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.43%) Power BI
2 49 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.26%) Metadata
5 34 (2.20%) Tableau
6 33 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.07%) Big Data
8 28 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.10%) MySQL
12 16 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 15 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 14 (0.91%) SQL Server
15 13 (0.84%) MongoDB
15 13 (0.84%) Redis
16 9 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (5.11%) Git
2 77 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.91%) GitLab
4 34 (2.20%) JIRA
5 13 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 9 (0.58%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.45%) JUnit
7 7 (0.45%) Maven
7 7 (0.45%) Selenium
7 7 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.39%) Gradle
8 6 (0.39%) Mockito
8 6 (0.39%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.32%) Vite
10 3 (0.19%) Axure RP
10 3 (0.19%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 364 (23.54%) Public Sector
2 336 (21.73%) Social Skills
3 181 (11.71%) Finance
4 169 (10.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (8.28%) Law
7 45 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.55%) Military
10 22 (1.42%) Legal
11 19 (1.23%) Police
12 17 (1.10%) Marketing
12 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.91%) Retail
16 11 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.65%) Banking
17 10 (0.65%) Public Speaking
18 9 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 291 (18.82%) Senior
2 283 (18.31%) Architect
3 240 (15.52%) Consultant
4 119 (7.70%) Developer
5 116 (7.50%) Lead
6 88 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
7 81 (5.24%) Analyst
8 76 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 76 (4.92%) Senior Consultant
9 69 (4.46%) Data Engineer
9 69 (4.46%) Security Consultant
10 66 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 61 (3.95%) Data Architect
12 57 (3.69%) Security Architect
13 53 (3.43%) AWS Architect
14 47 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 46 (2.98%) IAM Consultant
15 46 (2.98%) Senior Manager
16 45 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (2.85%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.70%) Terraform
2 46 (2.98%) Kafka
3 35 (2.26%) React
3 35 (2.26%) REST
4 28 (1.81%) Spring
5 25 (1.62%) .NET
6 24 (1.55%) Node.js
7 22 (1.42%) OAuth
7 22 (1.42%) PySpark
8 19 (1.23%) Spring Boot
9 18 (1.16%) HTML
9 18 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
10 17 (1.10%) AWS CDK
11 16 (1.03%) JWT
11 16 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 16 (1.03%) YAML
12 15 (0.97%) CSS
12 15 (0.97%) JSON
13 14 (0.91%) LangChain
13 14 (0.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 138 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
5 45 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 31 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 31 (2.01%) Operational Technology
8 28 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
9 23 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.10%) Blog
13 17 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (0.97%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.84%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.86%) Linux
2 84 (5.43%) Windows
3 31 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.84%) CentOS
6 9 (0.58%) macOS
7 8 (0.52%) Unix
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.19%) 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
1 327 (21.15%) Agile
2 241 (15.59%) AI
3 232 (15.01%) Cybersecurity
4 231 (14.94%) DevOps
5 214 (13.84%) CI/CD
5 214 (13.84%) Mentoring
6 185 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 169 (10.93%) Software Engineering
9 163 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 155 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 154 (9.96%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.06%) Analytics
13 117 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 108 (6.99%) Migration
15 105 (6.79%) Decision-Making
15 105 (6.79%) Project Delivery
16 95 (6.14%) Microservices
17 93 (6.02%) Community of Practice
17 93 (6.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 243 (15.72%) Python
2 125 (8.09%) Java
3 91 (5.89%) SQL
4 65 (4.20%) Bash
5 63 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 30 (1.94%) C#
8 26 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.49%) Scala
10 21 (1.36%) C++
11 19 (1.23%) Perl
11 19 (1.23%) Ruby
12 14 (0.91%) Groovy
12 14 (0.91%) PHP
13 13 (0.84%) Bicep
13 13 (0.84%) C
13 13 (0.84%) DataWeave
14 12 (0.78%) Go
15 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,046 (67.66%) SC Cleared
2 326 (21.09%) DV Cleared
3 154 (9.96%) Degree
4 66 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.95%) CISSP
7 41 (2.65%) CISM
8 31 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.49%) CREST Certified
11 21 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.36%) OSCP
12 20 (1.29%) CHECK Team Member
13 13 (0.84%) PhD
14 12 (0.78%) CISA
15 11 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.14%) NIST
4 48 (3.10%) QA
5 47 (3.04%) NCSC
6 30 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.88%) GDPR
8 23 (1.49%) GRC
9 16 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 11 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.45%) PMO
14 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.26%) WCAG
16 3 (0.19%) COBIT
16 3 (0.19%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 105 (6.79%) Docker
2 39 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.58%) vSphere
5 8 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Squid
10 1 (0.065%) Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) IAG
10 1 (0.065%) LXC
10 1 (0.065%) NFS
10 1 (0.065%) Samba
Systems Management
1 131 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.62%) Ansible
3 43 (2.78%) Grafana
4 30 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.68%) Puppet
6 22 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.84%) CloudHub
8 11 (0.71%) Argo
8 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.71%) Rancher
9 10 (0.65%) Kibana
10 9 (0.58%) Nmap
10 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.45%) Nessus
12 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) linkerd
13 4 (0.26%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.26%) QRadar
13 4 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 155 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.79%) ServiceNow
3 61 (3.95%) Oracle
4 54 (3.49%) Google
5 51 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.59%) Databricks
7 31 (2.01%) VMware
8 27 (1.75%) SAP
9 24 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.29%) Splunk
11 17 (1.10%) Okta
12 15 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco
15 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 10 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
15 10 (0.65%) Palantir
15 10 (0.65%) Remedy