Security Cleared Contracts in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 14 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,088 2,771 2,677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.95% 10.73% 6.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.22% 49.39% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,869 1,941
10th Percentile £350 £400 £399
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +2.73% +8.91%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £705
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 45
10th Percentile £14.36 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £41.17 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.33% +34.83% -10.38%
75th Percentile £24.18 £75.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £87.50 £63.15
England median hourly rate £56.15 £60.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -6.43% +19.08% +25.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,158 5,611 6,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.79% 21.72% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,825 3,813 4,619
10th Percentile £325 £363 £365
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 77 151
10th Percentile £14.19 £20.00 £24.69
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.84
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.86% -3.37% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £85.25 £66.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.93
% change year-on-year -23.81% +28.28% +8.71%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London +1 208 £513 -6.82% 42
South London +1 116 £510 -7.27% 23
West London +25 28 £500 -16.67% 16
East London - 13 £537 - 10
North London -3 1 £385 -4.64% 1
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 81 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.50%) Confluence
3 49 (2.35%) Apache
4 38 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.34%) nginx
6 20 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
7 18 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
8 12 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.57%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
11 5 (0.24%) CMS
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 4 (0.19%) Camunda
12 4 (0.19%) SAS
12 4 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 40 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.096%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.048%) InVision
9 1 (0.048%) Sketch
9 1 (0.048%) SPSS
9 1 (0.048%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.048%) Weka
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.096%) Maximo
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.096%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.096%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 533 (25.53%) AWS
2 273 (13.07%) Azure
3 94 (4.50%) Serverless
4 90 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (3.59%) Amazon S3
7 59 (2.83%) Power Platform
8 49 (2.35%) GCP
9 45 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (1.87%) GitHub
12 35 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (1.63%) OCI
14 33 (1.58%) PaaS
15 32 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
17 30 (1.44%) SaaS
18 25 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.41%) Firewall
2 28 (1.34%) WAN
3 24 (1.15%) DNS
3 24 (1.15%) LAN
4 22 (1.05%) VPN
4 22 (1.05%) Wireless
5 18 (0.86%) VoIP
6 17 (0.81%) Network Security
6 17 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.72%) HTTP
8 14 (0.67%) Skype
9 11 (0.53%) SSL
9 11 (0.53%) WLAN
10 10 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.48%) OSPF
11 9 (0.43%) BGP
12 7 (0.34%) Internet
12 7 (0.34%) IPsec
13 6 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 64 (3.07%) NoSQL
4 63 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (1.96%) Power BI
7 39 (1.87%) Flink
7 39 (1.87%) Metadata
7 39 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.63%) Data Vault
9 33 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 29 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.20%) Big Data
11 25 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
13 20 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 122 (5.84%) JIRA
2 121 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 109 (5.22%) Git
4 63 (3.02%) GitLab
5 43 (2.06%) Selenium
6 37 (1.77%) JUnit
7 36 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.96%) TestNG
9 18 (0.86%) Postman
10 16 (0.77%) JMeter
10 16 (0.77%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.72%) Maven
12 14 (0.67%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.62%) Mockito
13 13 (0.62%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.53%) Appium
14 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.48%) eggPlant
15 10 (0.48%) SOAtest
16 9 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 611 (29.26%) Public Sector
2 336 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 245 (11.73%) Finance
4 120 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (2.97%) Telecoms
6 48 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 48 (2.30%) Marketing
7 45 (2.16%) Banking
7 45 (2.16%) Electronics
8 38 (1.82%) Law
9 36 (1.72%) Military
10 34 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 26 (1.25%) Police
13 19 (0.91%) Legal
14 15 (0.72%) Publishing
15 13 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 325 (15.57%) Architect
2 256 (12.26%) Developer
3 174 (8.33%) Senior
4 153 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 134 (6.42%) Analyst
6 107 (5.12%) Consultant
7 96 (4.60%) Data Engineer
8 95 (4.55%) Lead
9 81 (3.88%) Java Developer
9 81 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 69 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 65 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
12 64 (3.07%) Data Architect
13 62 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
14 59 (2.83%) Business Analyst
15 57 (2.73%) Network Engineer
16 55 (2.63%) Technical Architect
17 47 (2.25%) Support Engineer
18 44 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
18 44 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (4.41%) Kafka
2 87 (4.17%) React
3 75 (3.59%) Spring Boot
4 74 (3.54%) Spring
5 65 (3.11%) REST
6 61 (2.92%) HTML
7 56 (2.68%) CSS
8 41 (1.96%) JSON
9 40 (1.92%) Node.js
10 38 (1.82%) .NET
11 27 (1.29%) RESTful
12 26 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
13 23 (1.10%) Hibernate
13 23 (1.10%) JPA
14 21 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (1.01%) Laravel
14 21 (1.01%) Web Services
15 19 (0.91%) OpenID
16 18 (0.86%) Apache Avro
16 18 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (3.21%) Data Centre
2 62 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 29 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 28 (1.34%) Reference Data
5 26 (1.25%) Replication
6 25 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.15%) Product Ownership
8 18 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 18 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (0.77%) PKI
10 16 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.67%) Security Posture
11 14 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.62%) Clustering
12 13 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.57%) Blockchain
14 11 (0.53%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.67%) Linux
2 176 (8.43%) Windows
3 60 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.16%) Unix
5 32 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 28 (1.34%) Windows 7
7 24 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.96%) Android
9 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
9 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.57%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.43%) VMS
13 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.24%) CentOS
15 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.096%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (18.82%) Agile
2 275 (13.17%) DevOps
3 221 (10.58%) CI/CD
4 172 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (6.75%) Migration
7 107 (5.12%) Roadmaps
8 106 (5.08%) Project Management
9 105 (5.03%) Microservices
10 104 (4.98%) ITIL
11 101 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
12 100 (4.79%) Data Modelling
13 97 (4.65%) Test Automation
14 95 (4.55%) Analytics
14 95 (4.55%) Scrum
15 94 (4.50%) Business Intelligence
16 86 (4.12%) Service Management
17 85 (4.07%) Change Management
17 85 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 80 (3.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 248 (11.88%) Python
2 238 (11.40%) Java
3 195 (9.34%) SQL
4 138 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 61 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 56 (2.68%) C#
7 52 (2.49%) Bash
8 50 (2.39%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.29%) Go
10 20 (0.96%) PHP
11 17 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.48%) Ruby
14 9 (0.43%) C++
14 9 (0.43%) Perl
15 8 (0.38%) C
16 7 (0.34%) ABAP
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.34%) XPath
16 7 (0.34%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1,611 (77.16%) SC Cleared
2 439 (21.02%) DV Cleared
3 100 (4.79%) Degree
4 55 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.29%) CTC Cleared
7 23 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 19 (0.91%) PMP
9 18 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.38%) CCNA
15 7 (0.34%) CCNP
15 7 (0.34%) CISM
15 7 (0.34%) CISSP
15 7 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.83%) QA
2 47 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 37 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.39%) PMO
4 29 (1.39%) SLA
5 18 (0.86%) NIST
6 17 (0.81%) NCSC
7 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.53%) GDPR
9 6 (0.29%) WCAG
10 4 (0.19%) GRC
10 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.14%) COBIT
11 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.096%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.048%) IFRS
13 1 (0.048%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.048%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.048%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (7.14%) Docker
2 97 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.53%) vSphere
7 5 (0.24%) Firmware
8 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) UAG
9 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) Lustre
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.048%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 210 (10.06%) Terraform
2 194 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 111 (5.32%) Ansible
4 30 (1.44%) Grafana
5 29 (1.39%) Puppet
6 28 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.15%) SCCM
9 21 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.72%) Packer
12 12 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.53%) Consul
14 9 (0.43%) VxRail
15 8 (0.38%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.34%) Nagios
17 6 (0.29%) Kibana
18 5 (0.24%) Data Guard
18 5 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 187 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.42%) Oracle
3 73 (3.50%) SAP
4 67 (3.21%) VMware
5 51 (2.44%) Cisco
6 35 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.44%) Dell
7 30 (1.44%) Sparx
8 24 (1.15%) Splunk
9 21 (1.01%) IBM
10 19 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 19 (0.91%) Databricks
10 19 (0.91%) Juniper
10 19 (0.91%) NetApp
10 19 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 19 (0.91%) Veeam
11 15 (0.72%) Apple
11 15 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 14 (0.67%) F5
12 14 (0.67%) Red Hat