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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 79 71
Rank change year-on-year +49 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,450 491 817
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.87% 4.10% 4.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.52% 14.19% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 933 336 469
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,823 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £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% - -

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 4,751 3,461 5,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.22% 28.89% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 1,933 2,614
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,075
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £102,675
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -6.78%

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 12 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 12 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 +37 129 £75,000 +15.38% 157
South London -17 27 £55,000 -15.38% 10
West London -12 10 £90,000 +146.58% 75
East London -8 3 £110,000 - 36
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 18 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.97%) Apache
3 13 (0.90%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.90%) Mule
4 12 (0.83%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.41%) SAS
7 5 (0.34%) Camunda
8 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.069%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.069%) R Markdown
Applications
1 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.069%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.069%) Houdini
5 1 (0.069%) InVision
5 1 (0.069%) NUKE
5 1 (0.069%) Sketch
5 1 (0.069%) Trello
5 1 (0.069%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.28%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.069%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 450 (31.03%) AWS
2 260 (17.93%) Azure
3 112 (7.72%) GCP
4 82 (5.66%) Serverless
5 78 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
6 74 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (3.59%) Power Platform
9 47 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 42 (2.90%) Entra ID
11 37 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 34 (2.34%) GitHub
13 32 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (1.45%) OCI
18 20 (1.38%) SaaS
19 16 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
19 16 (1.10%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.52%) Network Security
2 35 (2.41%) Firewall
3 16 (1.10%) SSL
4 15 (1.03%) WAN
5 11 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.62%) NGN
7 8 (0.55%) DNS
7 8 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (0.55%) LAN
7 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.55%) VPN
7 8 (0.55%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.48%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.28%) IPv4
10 4 (0.28%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.28%) NAS
10 4 (0.28%) VSAN
11 3 (0.21%) MPLS
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.03%) Power BI
2 37 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (2.34%) Data Lake
4 32 (2.21%) Metadata
5 31 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (1.79%) Big Data
7 24 (1.66%) Tableau
8 22 (1.52%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.97%) MySQL
12 14 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 13 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.69%) SQL Server
16 8 (0.55%) Redis
17 6 (0.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (5.03%) Jenkins
2 72 (4.97%) Git
3 46 (3.17%) GitLab
4 33 (2.28%) JIRA
5 10 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.55%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.55%) Maven
6 8 (0.55%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.41%) Gradle
8 6 (0.41%) Vite
9 5 (0.34%) JUnit
9 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.28%) Axure RP
10 4 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.28%) Mockito
11 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
General
1 347 (23.93%) Public Sector
2 290 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 185 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 155 (10.69%) Finance
5 136 (9.38%) Law
6 133 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (1.52%) Legal
10 18 (1.24%) Military
11 16 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.97%) Marketing
14 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.69%) Retail
16 9 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.55%) Banking
17 8 (0.55%) Electronics
18 7 (0.48%) Cyber-Physical System
19 6 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 278 (19.17%) Architect
2 274 (18.90%) Senior
3 229 (15.79%) Consultant
4 126 (8.69%) Developer
5 118 (8.14%) Lead
6 106 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
7 83 (5.72%) Analyst
7 83 (5.72%) Senior Consultant
8 67 (4.62%) AWS Architect
8 67 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 64 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 58 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 52 (3.59%) Data Architect
12 51 (3.52%) Security Consultant
13 50 (3.45%) Business Analyst
14 48 (3.31%) AWS Solution Architect
15 46 (3.17%) IAM Consultant
16 45 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
16 45 (3.10%) Security Architect
17 43 (2.97%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (9.52%) Terraform
2 43 (2.97%) Kafka
3 39 (2.69%) React
4 25 (1.72%) Spring
5 22 (1.52%) .NET
6 20 (1.38%) Node.js
7 19 (1.31%) PySpark
8 18 (1.24%) AWS CDK
8 18 (1.24%) OAuth
9 17 (1.17%) HTML
9 17 (1.17%) Spring Boot
10 15 (1.03%) CSS
10 15 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.03%) REST
10 15 (1.03%) YAML
11 14 (0.97%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.90%) JWT
12 13 (0.90%) OAuth2
12 13 (0.90%) RAML
12 13 (0.90%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 61 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 45 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 44 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.93%) Operational Technology
9 26 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 24 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
11 23 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.90%) Blog
17 13 (0.90%) Mainframe
17 13 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 90 (6.21%) Linux
2 69 (4.76%) Windows
3 27 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.76%) CentOS
6 9 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.34%) Unix
10 4 (0.28%) Rocky
11 3 (0.21%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.14%) VMS
13 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (21.93%) Agile
2 210 (14.48%) DevOps
3 209 (14.41%) AI
4 203 (14.00%) Mentoring
5 184 (12.69%) CI/CD
6 174 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 165 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 137 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 124 (8.55%) Analytics
12 120 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 119 (8.21%) Roadmaps
14 113 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 112 (7.72%) Project Delivery
16 107 (7.38%) Migration
17 105 (7.24%) Community of Practice
18 104 (7.17%) Technology Strategy
19 102 (7.03%) Scrum
20 95 (6.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 214 (14.76%) Python
2 130 (8.97%) Java
3 72 (4.97%) SQL
4 65 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 63 (4.34%) Bash
6 30 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 24 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 23 (1.59%) C#
8 23 (1.59%) C++
9 21 (1.45%) Scala
10 17 (1.17%) Perl
10 17 (1.17%) Ruby
11 14 (0.97%) Go
11 14 (0.97%) PHP
12 13 (0.90%) DataWeave
13 12 (0.83%) C
14 10 (0.69%) Groovy
14 10 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 993 (68.48%) SC Cleared
2 302 (20.83%) DV Cleared
3 170 (11.72%) Degree
4 67 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 51 (3.52%) CISSP
7 39 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.48%) CISM
9 21 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.45%) OSCP
10 20 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 19 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 13 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.76%) CRISC
14 11 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.69%) CISA
15 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (4.07%) NIST
3 57 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.97%) QA
5 42 (2.90%) NCSC
6 26 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.66%) GDPR
8 20 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 17 (1.17%) GRC
10 9 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.55%) PMO
11 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.34%) WCAG
14 4 (0.28%) RMADS
15 3 (0.21%) COBIT
15 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 88 (6.07%) Docker
2 36 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) vSphere
5 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.28%) KVM
8 4 (0.28%) Squid
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.069%) Firmware
10 1 (0.069%) IAG
10 1 (0.069%) NFS
10 1 (0.069%) Samba
Systems Management
1 113 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.79%) Ansible
3 30 (2.07%) Grafana
4 27 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.66%) Puppet
6 22 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.90%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.69%) Argo
9 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.62%) Rancher
10 8 (0.55%) Nmap
10 8 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.48%) Nessus
12 5 (0.34%) Kibana
12 5 (0.34%) Packer
13 4 (0.28%) Istio
13 4 (0.28%) linkerd
13 4 (0.28%) SCOM
13 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (9.10%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.62%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.86%) Oracle
4 52 (3.59%) Google
5 42 (2.90%) Databricks
6 40 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.00%) VMware
8 28 (1.93%) SAP
9 20 (1.38%) Splunk
10 17 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.10%) Okta
11 16 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.97%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.83%) Cisco
15 11 (0.76%) Adobe
15 11 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.76%) Palantir
16 9 (0.62%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (0.62%) Foundry