Security Cleared Jobs 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 55 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +156
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 491 1,066 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.92% 4.48% 4.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.50% 15.81% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 323 686 977
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,125 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 4,269 6,741 8,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.12% 28.34% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 4,198 5,492
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,250 £87,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -33 75 £65,000 +5.69% 56
South London -10 61 £65,000 -16.13% 17
West London +27 11 £57,670 +53.79% 173
East London -14 3 - - 10
North London -37 2 £66,250 +20.45%
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (2.65%) JBoss
1 13 (2.65%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.02%) Apache
6 4 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.61%) CMS
7 3 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.61%) WinCC
8 2 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.41%) Confluence
9 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) Drupal
9 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Adobe XD
2 7 (1.43%) InVision
2 7 (1.43%) Sketch
3 4 (0.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.81%) Maximo
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.20%) Primavera
6 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 141 (28.72%) AWS
2 119 (24.24%) Azure
3 53 (10.79%) Serverless
4 45 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (7.74%) Power Platform
6 33 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (5.30%) GCP
9 25 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (4.07%) AWS KMS
13 18 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (2.85%) OCI
16 12 (2.44%) Figma
17 11 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (2.24%) SaaS
18 10 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.46%) Firewall
2 16 (3.26%) Network Security
3 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.83%) Link 16
4 9 (1.83%) Tactical Data Link
5 8 (1.63%) VLAN
6 7 (1.43%) RS-232
6 7 (1.43%) RS-485
7 6 (1.22%) Intranet
7 6 (1.22%) SSL
8 5 (1.02%) LAN
8 5 (1.02%) WAN
9 4 (0.81%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.81%) VPN
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.61%) DNS
10 3 (0.61%) Internet
10 3 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.31%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.48%) Power BI
4 20 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.24%) MySQL
7 10 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.43%) Big Data
9 7 (1.43%) Metadata
10 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.02%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.81%) DB2
12 4 (0.81%) GIS
12 4 (0.81%) Tableau
13 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.61%) Redis
13 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (8.76%) Git
2 41 (8.35%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.89%) JUnit
4 20 (4.07%) JMeter
5 12 (2.44%) JIRA
6 11 (2.24%) Selenium
7 10 (2.04%) GitLab
8 8 (1.63%) Axure RP
8 8 (1.63%) Mockito
8 8 (1.63%) Postman
9 7 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.22%) Gatling
10 6 (1.22%) Locust
11 5 (1.02%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.61%) Maven
13 3 (0.61%) Storybook
13 3 (0.61%) TestRail
14 2 (0.41%) Gradle
General
1 139 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 136 (27.70%) Public Sector
3 83 (16.90%) Finance
4 63 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (8.76%) Law
6 26 (5.30%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.46%) Military
8 14 (2.85%) Marketing
9 13 (2.65%) Electronics
9 13 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.43%) Police
13 6 (1.22%) Retail
14 5 (1.02%) Local Government
15 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.81%) Aviation
15 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (20.16%) Developer
2 82 (16.70%) Architect
3 60 (12.22%) Senior
4 54 (11.00%) Consultant
5 34 (6.92%) Java Developer
6 33 (6.72%) Lead
6 33 (6.72%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.30%) Analyst
9 21 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
10 20 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 18 (3.67%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (2.85%) AWS Architect
13 14 (2.85%) Designer
13 14 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 13 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
14 13 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.76%) HTML
2 37 (7.54%) Spring
3 36 (7.33%) CSS
4 33 (6.72%) REST
5 31 (6.31%) RESTful
5 31 (6.31%) Spring Boot
5 31 (6.31%) Web Services
6 30 (6.11%) React
7 24 (4.89%) AngularJS
8 23 (4.68%) .NET
8 23 (4.68%) PySpark
9 22 (4.48%) Kafka
10 21 (4.28%) Apache Camel
10 21 (4.28%) Node.js
11 17 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (3.26%) SOAP
13 14 (2.85%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.65%) J2EE
15 12 (2.44%) Pandas
16 10 (2.04%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.54%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.09%) Cyberattack
4 24 (4.89%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.22%) NHS
11 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (0.81%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.18%) Linux
2 26 (5.30%) Windows
3 17 (3.46%) Android
3 17 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.43%) Unix
5 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.81%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.61%) CentOS
8 2 (0.41%) HPUX
8 2 (0.41%) Solaris
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (39.10%) Agile
2 129 (26.27%) DevOps
3 105 (21.38%) CI/CD
4 97 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (17.72%) Mentoring
6 61 (12.42%) Scrum
7 52 (10.59%) Microservices
7 52 (10.59%) Software Engineering
8 49 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (8.55%) Design Patterns
10 39 (7.94%) Kanban
11 38 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (7.54%) Collaborative Working
12 37 (7.54%) Containerisation
13 36 (7.33%) Coaching
13 36 (7.33%) Project Delivery
14 34 (6.92%) Computer Science
14 34 (6.92%) Project Management
14 34 (6.92%) Risk Management
15 33 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (21.18%) Python
2 94 (19.14%) Java
3 80 (16.29%) JavaScript
4 70 (14.26%) SQL
5 31 (6.31%) C#
6 26 (5.30%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.28%) Go
8 20 (4.07%) C++
9 16 (3.26%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.05%) R
11 13 (2.65%) Rust
12 11 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 10 (2.04%) Bash
13 10 (2.04%) C
14 9 (1.83%) Scala
15 8 (1.63%) Ruby
16 5 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.61%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.61%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 318 (64.77%) SC Cleared
2 103 (20.98%) DV Cleared
3 83 (16.90%) Degree
4 31 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.70%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.24%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.83%) CISSP
12 8 (1.63%) CCNA
12 8 (1.63%) CCNP
12 8 (1.63%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.43%) GSEC
13 7 (1.43%) SSCP
14 6 (1.22%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.70%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.28%) GDPR
3 19 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.26%) SLA
6 15 (3.05%) NIST
7 14 (2.85%) HIPAA
8 12 (2.44%) WCAG
9 11 (2.24%) PMBOK
10 9 (1.83%) QA
11 8 (1.63%) NCSC
12 7 (1.43%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.41%) GRC
14 2 (0.41%) P3O
14 2 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (18.74%) Docker
2 25 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 88 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 69 (14.05%) Terraform
3 43 (8.76%) Ansible
4 17 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.26%) Grafana
6 12 (2.44%) Kibana
7 5 (1.02%) Nessus
8 4 (0.81%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.61%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.61%) Nagios
9 3 (0.61%) Puppet
9 3 (0.61%) QRadar
10 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.20%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 68 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.52%) Oracle
3 26 (5.30%) SAP
4 23 (4.68%) Splunk
5 21 (4.28%) Google
6 17 (3.46%) VMware
7 15 (3.05%) Databricks
8 10 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.83%) Adobe
9 9 (1.83%) Palantir
9 9 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.43%) Cisco
11 6 (1.22%) Juniper
11 6 (1.22%) Siemens
12 5 (1.02%) Intel
12 5 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.81%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.81%) F5
13 4 (0.81%) IBM