Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Central London

Security Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 420 209 221
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.89% 10.60% 9.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.42% 42.22% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 149 138
10th Percentile £423 £362 £400
25th Percentile £466 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -0.74% -0.46%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
London median daily rate £550 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £23.05 £18.67 -
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.06 £20.22
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.08 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +61.52% +20.47% -55.24%
75th Percentile £54.38 £45.34 £21.41
90th Percentile £60.75 £57.48 -
London median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +136.58% +4.01% -59.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central 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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 652 495 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.23% 25.10% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 327 331
10th Percentile £404 £314 £363
25th Percentile £463 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £743 £750
London median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £19.44 £25.04 £20.31
25th Percentile £24.25 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £32.29
% change year-on-year +108.75% -22.11% -41.29%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared

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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 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +8 375 £550 +3.92% 133
City of Westminster +2 31 £575 -4.17% 22
West End of London +3 30 £600 - 13
Southwark - 9 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 - -
Security Cleared
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 17 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.86%) Confluence
3 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Revit
3 2 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.71%) Exchequer
3 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) iTrent
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Findur
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.05%) Azure
2 58 (13.81%) AWS
3 39 (9.29%) GCP
4 34 (8.10%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.86%) GitHub
6 26 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.38%) Azure Databricks
10 10 (2.38%) PaaS
10 10 (2.38%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.38%) SaaS
11 9 (2.14%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.14%) Serverless
12 8 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.90%) OCI
13 7 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.29%) DNS
2 17 (4.05%) Firewall
3 10 (2.38%) VPN
4 8 (1.90%) Network Security
5 6 (1.43%) Internet
6 5 (1.19%) DHCP
7 4 (0.95%) LAN
8 3 (0.71%) SMTP
9 2 (0.48%) FTP
9 2 (0.48%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.48%) NGFW
9 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.48%) SAN
9 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.48%) WAN
10 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.24%) NAS
10 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.24%) SSH
10 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.52%) Power BI
2 17 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.43%) Metadata
4 6 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.71%) Big Data
7 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.71%) Tableau
8 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 25 (5.95%) Git
2 20 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.57%) JIRA
4 14 (3.33%) GitLab
5 7 (1.67%) Postman
5 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.43%) Selenium
7 5 (1.19%) JMeter
7 5 (1.19%) JUnit
7 5 (1.19%) Mockito
7 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.48%) eggPlant
10 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 119 (28.33%) Public Sector
2 93 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.24%) Finance
4 35 (8.33%) Military
5 24 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.29%) Law
7 17 (4.05%) Banking
8 14 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.14%) Police
10 7 (1.67%) Legal
10 7 (1.67%) Retail
11 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.19%) Marketing
13 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.95%) Local Government
14 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (21.19%) Architect
2 47 (11.19%) Developer
3 39 (9.29%) Lead
4 37 (8.81%) Senior
5 25 (5.95%) Data Architect
6 24 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (5.48%) Analyst
8 21 (5.00%) Consultant
9 19 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.10%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.62%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.62%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.62%) Tester
14 10 (2.38%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 9 (2.14%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.14%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.24%) Terraform
2 23 (5.48%) REST
3 19 (4.52%) .NET
4 14 (3.33%) SOAP
5 11 (2.62%) Spring
5 11 (2.62%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.38%) RESTful
6 10 (2.38%) XML
7 9 (2.14%) HTML
7 9 (2.14%) Kafka
8 8 (1.90%) JSON
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.90%) Web Services
9 7 (1.67%) PySpark
10 6 (1.43%) Middleware
10 6 (1.43%) Node.js
10 6 (1.43%) React
10 6 (1.43%) Swagger
11 5 (1.19%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.43%) Clustering
7 6 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.43%) Replication
8 5 (1.19%) PKI
9 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.95%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.71%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.38%) Windows
2 23 (5.48%) Linux
3 17 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.95%) VMS
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.48%) zOS
7 1 (0.24%) AIX
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) MVS
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.71%) CI/CD
2 86 (20.48%) DevOps
3 69 (16.43%) Agile
4 56 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (12.86%) AI
5 54 (12.86%) Migration
5 54 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (11.90%) Containerisation
7 44 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (7.38%) Data Modelling
10 30 (7.14%) Microservices
10 30 (7.14%) Test Automation
11 26 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (5.71%) Analytics
13 24 (5.71%) Decision-Making
13 24 (5.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 24 (5.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.43%) Python
2 39 (9.29%) SQL
3 31 (7.38%) Java
4 26 (6.19%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.95%) C#
6 18 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.62%) Bash
9 7 (1.67%) Bicep
10 5 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.95%) Ruby
12 3 (0.71%) R
13 2 (0.48%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.48%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.48%) JCL
13 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.24%) REXX
14 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 335 (79.76%) SC Cleared
2 56 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 14 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.62%) Degree
5 7 (1.67%) CISSP
6 6 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.19%) CISM
7 5 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CEH
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) GIAC
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.48%) OSCP
10 2 (0.48%) PMP
10 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISEB
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.14%) QA
2 17 (4.05%) NCSC
3 16 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.10%) NIST
5 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.19%) GDPR
7 5 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.95%) SLA
9 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) GxP
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (5.95%) Docker
2 20 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.95%) vSphere
8 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.24%) UAG
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.76%) Ansible
3 12 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.38%) Grafana
5 8 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.67%) SCCM
7 6 (1.43%) Puppet
8 4 (0.95%) Istio
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.71%) Nagios
9 3 (0.71%) SCOM
9 3 (0.71%) vMotion
9 3 (0.71%) WSUS
10 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 77 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.90%) Oracle
3 27 (6.43%) Google
4 24 (5.71%) VMware
5 21 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 20 (4.76%) Databricks
7 11 (2.62%) SAP
8 7 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.43%) webMethods
10 5 (1.19%) IBM
10 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.19%) Splunk
11 4 (0.95%) Citrix
11 4 (0.95%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.95%) Remedy
12 3 (0.71%) Cisco
12 3 (0.71%) Foundry
12 3 (0.71%) Symantec