Security Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 196 358 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.21% 9.60% 7.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.09% 45.61% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 210 209
10th Percentile £405 £413 £368
25th Percentile £463 £468 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £744 £720
London median daily rate £538 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £18.22 -
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £19.35 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -73.31% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £20.39 £78.75
90th Percentile - £20.87 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -63.33% +34.83% -10.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 477 785 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.97% 21.05% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 467 573
10th Percentile £366 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £700 £640
90th Percentile £775 £805 £725
London median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.81% +3.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 20
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £23.91 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% -18.87% +122.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.50 £56.13
90th Percentile £38.73 £68.75 £72.45
London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -6 168 £523 -9.13% 33
City of Westminster -3 9 - - 1
West End of London -4 9 £252 -50.31% 1
Security Cleared
London

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.53%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.53%) Site Server
3 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.51%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.43%) AWS
2 13 (6.63%) Amazon S3
2 13 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (6.63%) Azure
2 13 (6.63%) Serverless
3 7 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
3 7 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.06%) GitHub
5 5 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.53%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.53%) IaaS
7 2 (1.02%) GCP
7 2 (1.02%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.02%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.12%) Firewall
2 9 (4.59%) WAN
3 8 (4.08%) LAN
4 3 (1.53%) DNS
4 3 (1.53%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.02%) BGP
5 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.02%) CTI
5 2 (1.02%) H.323
5 2 (1.02%) Softphone
5 2 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.02%) VoIP
5 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.02%) Wireless
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.51%) HSRP
6 1 (0.51%) NAS
6 1 (0.51%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.08%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.57%) Parquet
5 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.06%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (3.06%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (3.06%) Metadata
6 6 (3.06%) Power BI
6 6 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.55%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.04%) GIS
9 3 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.53%) Tableau
10 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Git
1 8 (4.08%) JIRA
1 8 (4.08%) Selenium
2 6 (3.06%) Cucumber
3 4 (2.04%) GitLab
3 4 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.04%) JUnit
3 4 (2.04%) Postman
3 4 (2.04%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.53%) Mockito
4 3 (1.53%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.53%) TestNG
4 3 (1.53%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.02%) Appium
5 2 (1.02%) eggPlant
5 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.02%) SOAtest
5 2 (1.02%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.51%) Darcs
6 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 77 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 32 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Finance
4 9 (4.59%) Law
5 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.06%) Banking
6 6 (3.06%) Police
7 5 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Publishing
8 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Military
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (16.84%) Developer
2 23 (11.73%) Architect
3 18 (9.18%) Analyst
4 15 (7.65%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.14%) Consultant
5 14 (7.14%) Senior
6 12 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.61%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.57%) Network Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
11 6 (3.06%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.06%) Lead
12 5 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.55%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.55%) Designer
12 5 (2.55%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.04%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.14%) Kafka
2 13 (6.63%) CSS
2 13 (6.63%) HTML
3 10 (5.10%) JSON
4 9 (4.59%) Spring
4 9 (4.59%) XML
5 8 (4.08%) REST
5 8 (4.08%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.57%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.57%) Node.js
6 7 (3.57%) OpenID
6 7 (3.57%) SAML
7 6 (3.06%) .NET
7 6 (3.06%) XACML
8 5 (2.55%) React
9 4 (2.04%) jQuery
9 4 (2.04%) RESTful
10 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.53%) JAX-RS
10 3 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.55%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.02%) CBDC
3 2 (1.02%) Clustering
3 2 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.02%) PKI
3 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.02%) Social Media
4 1 (0.51%) CCTV
4 1 (0.51%) CMDB
4 1 (0.51%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.51%) IoT
4 1 (0.51%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.63%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.53%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.02%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.51%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.90%) Agile
2 21 (10.71%) DevOps
3 16 (8.16%) Data Modelling
4 15 (7.65%) ETL
5 14 (7.14%) Project Management
6 13 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (6.63%) Test Automation
7 11 (5.61%) CI/CD
8 10 (5.10%) Data Ingestion
8 10 (5.10%) Scrum
8 10 (5.10%) Web Development
9 9 (4.59%) Migration
9 9 (4.59%) Project Delivery
9 9 (4.59%) Roadmaps
9 9 (4.59%) Security Architecture
9 9 (4.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (4.08%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (4.08%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.29%) Python
2 24 (12.24%) SQL
3 20 (10.20%) Java
4 15 (7.65%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.06%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.06%) XPath
5 6 (3.06%) XQuery
6 5 (2.55%) C#
7 4 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.53%) Bash
8 3 (1.53%) Korn
9 2 (1.02%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Rust
10 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 146 (74.49%) SC Cleared
2 31 (15.82%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.14%) Degree
4 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.04%) ACCA
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.53%) CCNA
6 3 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.53%) CISM
6 3 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) MBA
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
8 1 (0.51%) SANS
8 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.59%) QA
2 6 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.04%) NIST
4 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.53%) PMO
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (5.10%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.02%) vSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.63%) Terraform
3 11 (5.61%) Ansible
4 8 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.02%) Packer
5 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.02%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) Consul
6 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Grafana
6 1 (0.51%) Kibana
6 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.51%) logstash
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (10.20%) Oracle
2 11 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.10%) SAP
4 8 (4.08%) Cisco
5 6 (3.06%) Okta
6 5 (2.55%) IBM
6 5 (2.55%) Sparx
6 5 (2.55%) VMware
7 4 (2.04%) ESRI
8 3 (1.53%) Avaya
8 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.02%) Dell
9 2 (1.02%) Google
9 2 (1.02%) Proofpoint
9 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.02%) Siebel
10 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto