Security Cleared Jobs in South London

Security Clearance
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 61 58 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 8.89% 6.53% 4.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.59% 14.01% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24 42 23
10th Percentile £50,750 £63,000 £42,631
25th Percentile £57,688 £67,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% +69.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £88,125
90th Percentile - £86,000 £95,750
London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 418 414 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 60.93% 46.62% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 57 133 102
10th Percentile £26,375 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,707 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +19.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £79,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in South London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in South London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South London over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in South London

Security Cleared
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Croydon -9 30 - - 9
Kingston Upon Thames +24 22 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Merton -9 8 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Bromley -6 2 - -
Sutton - 2 - -
Security Cleared
London

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 14 (22.95%) JBoss
1 14 (22.95%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (3.28%) WinCC
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (59.02%) AWS
2 35 (57.38%) Serverless
3 27 (44.26%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (40.98%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (27.87%) Azure
6 11 (18.03%) Azure App Service
6 11 (18.03%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (11.48%) Azure Functions
8 7 (11.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (11.48%) SaaS
9 5 (8.20%) AWS KMS
9 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.56%) Azure Storage
10 4 (6.56%) Azure Table
10 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
10 4 (6.56%) GCP
10 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) SSL
3 1 (1.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.64%) HTTP
3 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.64%) Modbus
3 1 (1.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.64%) SAN
3 1 (1.64%) VLAN
3 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.70%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (37.70%) Relational Database
2 9 (14.75%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (45.90%) Jenkins
2 23 (37.70%) JUnit
3 15 (24.59%) Git
4 9 (14.75%) JMeter
4 9 (14.75%) Mockito
5 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.64%) JIRA
6 1 (1.64%) Maven
6 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (37.70%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (40.98%) Developer
2 23 (37.70%) Java Developer
3 9 (14.75%) Analyst
4 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Data Analyst
5 7 (11.48%) Monitoring Analyst
5 7 (11.48%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Control Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.70%) Apache Camel
1 23 (37.70%) REST
1 23 (37.70%) Spring
1 23 (37.70%) Spring Boot
1 23 (37.70%) Web Services
2 14 (22.95%) J2EE
2 14 (22.95%) RESTful
2 14 (22.95%) SOAP
3 9 (14.75%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (14.75%) Hibernate
3 9 (14.75%) HTML
3 9 (14.75%) jQuery
3 9 (14.75%) WireMock
4 2 (3.28%) .NET
4 2 (3.28%) Node.js
4 2 (3.28%) Pandas
5 1 (1.64%) JSON
5 1 (1.64%) LDAP
5 1 (1.64%) XML
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.70%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (14.75%) Cyberattack
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) SCADA
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.56%) Windows
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.28%) Android
6 1 (1.64%) CentOS
6 1 (1.64%) Debian
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (60.66%) Agile
2 31 (50.82%) DevOps
3 25 (40.98%) Microservices
4 24 (39.34%) Kanban
5 23 (37.70%) BDD
5 23 (37.70%) TDD
6 22 (36.07%) Scrum
7 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
8 12 (19.67%) Resource Management
9 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (16.39%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (14.75%) Architectural Design
11 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.75%) Process Management
11 9 (14.75%) Workflow
12 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (13.11%) High Availability
13 7 (11.48%) Cost Management
13 7 (11.48%) Culture Change
13 7 (11.48%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Java
2 23 (37.70%) Python
3 17 (27.87%) SQL
4 14 (22.95%) Shell Script
5 11 (18.03%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.84%) C#
8 4 (6.56%) C++
9 2 (3.28%) Go
9 2 (3.28%) Rust
9 2 (3.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (55.74%) SC Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Degree
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) SLA
2 7 (11.48%) PMBOK
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (50.82%) Docker
2 10 (16.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (32.79%) Ansible
3 11 (18.03%) Terraform
4 9 (14.75%) Kibana
5 5 (8.20%) Nessus
6 4 (6.56%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.28%) Functional Safety
8 1 (1.64%) Grafana
8 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (26.23%) Splunk
3 9 (14.75%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.56%) Google
4 4 (6.56%) Juniper
4 4 (6.56%) Siemens
5 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Rockwell
6 2 (3.28%) VMware
7 1 (1.64%) Sophos
7 1 (1.64%) Sun