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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 63 62
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 871 564 935
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.79% 4.39% 4.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.84% 12.98% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 586 344 671
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,718 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £98,750 £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 4,344 6,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.15% 33.84% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,369 2,001 4,232
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% +2.22%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -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 3 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 3 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 -5 89 £75,000 +3.98% 111
South London -14 16 £69,445 +12.65% 10
West London -33 15 £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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.84%) Confluence
3 15 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
4 14 (1.61%) Apache
5 12 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.92%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.34%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (2.87%) 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 12 (1.38%) 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
1 207 (23.77%) AWS
2 185 (21.24%) Azure
3 72 (8.27%) GCP
4 47 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 43 (4.94%) Serverless
6 34 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
8 27 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 25 (2.87%) Figma
10 24 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 24 (2.76%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.64%) GitHub
12 17 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (1.72%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.21%) Firewall
2 19 (2.18%) Network Security
3 18 (2.07%) WAN
4 17 (1.95%) DNS
4 17 (1.95%) VPN
5 13 (1.49%) LAN
6 12 (1.38%) SAN
6 12 (1.38%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.38%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.03%) Wireless
8 8 (0.92%) DHCP
9 7 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.57%) VoIP
10 5 (0.57%) VSAN
10 5 (0.57%) WAAS
10 5 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.48%) Power BI
2 36 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 12 (1.38%) DB2
5 12 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.38%) MySQL
5 12 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.26%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.26%) Metadata
6 11 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.15%) DTS
8 8 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.92%) Pinecone
9 6 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.69%) Tableau
10 5 (0.57%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (5.51%) Git
2 44 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.99%) JIRA
4 21 (2.41%) Axure RP
5 18 (2.07%) Balsamiq
6 17 (1.95%) GitLab
7 11 (1.26%) JMeter
8 7 (0.80%) JUnit
8 7 (0.80%) Maven
8 7 (0.80%) Vite
9 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.46%) Mockito
10 4 (0.46%) Selenium
10 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.46%) Subversion
11 3 (0.34%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 252 (28.93%) Public Sector
2 189 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (9.64%) Law
6 78 (8.96%) Finance
7 21 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.30%) Legal
9 17 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.49%) Marketing
13 12 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.26%) Games
15 9 (1.03%) Advertising
15 9 (1.03%) Electronics
16 5 (0.57%) Military
16 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (17.45%) Senior
2 112 (12.86%) Developer
3 103 (11.83%) Architect
4 101 (11.60%) Consultant
5 47 (5.40%) Analyst
5 47 (5.40%) Designer
6 46 (5.28%) Data Engineer
7 44 (5.05%) Software Engineer
8 41 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (4.48%) Lead
10 38 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.02%) Java Developer
12 34 (3.90%) UX Designer
13 33 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 33 (3.79%) Senior Consultant
14 32 (3.67%) Senior Manager
15 28 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
16 26 (2.99%) User Researcher
17 20 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (2.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.82%) React
2 34 (3.90%) HTML
3 31 (3.56%) Spring
4 30 (3.44%) CSS
5 26 (2.99%) REST
6 21 (2.41%) Web Services
7 20 (2.30%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.18%) .NET
8 19 (2.18%) Spring Boot
9 14 (1.61%) Node.js
9 14 (1.61%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.38%) Middleware
11 12 (1.38%) SAML
11 12 (1.38%) SOAP
12 11 (1.26%) LangChain
12 11 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.15%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.15%) OpenID
13 10 (1.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 25 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 25 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.76%) PKI
5 21 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.26%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.80%) Blog
13 7 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.77%) Linux
2 48 (5.51%) Windows
3 14 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.03%) VMS
6 8 (0.92%) 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
1 228 (26.18%) Agile
2 131 (15.04%) DevOps
3 122 (14.01%) AI
4 112 (12.86%) CI/CD
5 108 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (11.25%) Software Engineering
7 93 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 91 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (10.10%) Community of Practice
9 88 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 81 (9.30%) Mentoring
11 76 (8.73%) Analytics
12 73 (8.38%) Computer Science
13 72 (8.27%) Technology Strategy
14 63 (7.23%) User Experience
15 61 (7.00%) User Research
16 59 (6.77%) Data Modelling
17 58 (6.66%) Collaborative Culture
18 57 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 56 (6.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (18.83%) Python
2 132 (15.15%) Java
3 99 (11.37%) JavaScript
4 84 (9.64%) SQL
5 48 (5.51%) C#
6 46 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 26 (2.99%) Bash
9 17 (1.95%) C++
10 11 (1.26%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.69%) Go
12 6 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.57%) C
14 4 (0.46%) ABAP
14 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.46%) Scala
14 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 607 (69.69%) SC Cleared
2 240 (27.55%) DV Cleared
3 166 (19.06%) Degree
4 36 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.76%) PhD
7 22 (2.53%) CISSP
8 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.61%) CISM
11 13 (1.49%) 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 (0.69%) CCIE
13 6 (0.69%) CCNP
13 6 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 26 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.87%) WCAG
4 24 (2.76%) NIST
5 19 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.95%) QA
7 10 (1.15%) GRC
8 9 (1.03%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.92%) SLA
10 7 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
10 7 (0.80%) NCSC
11 6 (0.69%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 84 (9.64%) Docker
2 29 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.38%) vSphere
5 9 (1.03%) KVM
6 6 (0.69%) Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 91 (10.45%) Terraform
3 32 (3.67%) Ansible
4 17 (1.95%) Grafana
5 11 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.03%) Argo
7 9 (1.03%) Kibana
7 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.69%) SCCM
8 6 (0.69%) WSUS
9 5 (0.57%) CASB
9 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.57%) Istio
9 5 (0.57%) linkerd
9 5 (0.57%) Mesos
9 5 (0.57%) Puppet
9 5 (0.57%) VxRail
10 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.40%) Google
3 32 (3.67%) VMware
4 31 (3.56%) Cisco
5 26 (2.99%) Palantir
6 25 (2.87%) Adobe
7 22 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.30%) Dell
8 20 (2.30%) SAP
9 17 (1.95%) Oracle
10 16 (1.84%) Foundry
10 16 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.49%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.38%) IBM
14 11 (1.26%) OpenAI
15 10 (1.15%) Databricks
15 10 (1.15%) MuleSoft
15 10 (1.15%) Okta
15 10 (1.15%) Splunk