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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 430 214 194
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 17.22% 11.34% 8.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.55% 47.14% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 143 120
10th Percentile £428 £420 £405
25th Percentile £473 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £705 £753
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £34.54 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £47.69 £22.76 £20.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 £23.54 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +165.53% +13.08% +0.53%
75th Percentile £67.94 £24.33 £21.41
90th Percentile £73.23 £24.80 -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -64.80%

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 656 454 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.27% 24.06% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 302 302
10th Percentile £406 £375 £364
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £645
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £530 £536
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.12% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £23.52 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £25.63 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £28.61 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +45.94% +19.67% -53.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.08 £31.19
90th Percentile £68.53 £81.88 £38.73
London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.28 £25.50
% change year-on-year +94.48% +10.90% -46.32%

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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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +13 399 £538 -2.27% 51
City of Westminster +1 18 £607 -6.54% 3
West End of London +4 16 £607 +4.74% 3
Lambeth - 1 £475 -
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 12 (2.79%) Confluence
2 11 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.47%) Revit
3 2 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.47%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.47%) iTrent
2 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 103 (23.95%) Azure
2 70 (16.28%) AWS
3 33 (7.67%) GCP
4 28 (6.51%) GitHub
5 20 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.56%) Serverless
7 10 (2.33%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.09%) SaaS
9 8 (1.86%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.40%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.40%) OCI
11 6 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.56%) Network Security
2 10 (2.33%) Firewall
3 9 (2.09%) LAN
4 8 (1.86%) WAN
5 7 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.16%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) NGFW
7 3 (0.70%) SAN
8 2 (0.47%) Internet
8 2 (0.47%) NAS
8 2 (0.47%) VPN
8 2 (0.47%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) 4G
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.23%) LTE
9 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.02%) Power BI
2 8 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (1.40%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.16%) Metadata
5 4 (0.93%) Tableau
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.47%) MySQL
7 2 (0.47%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (5.12%) JIRA
2 20 (4.65%) Git
3 16 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.56%) GitLab
5 5 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.16%) Postman
6 4 (0.93%) JMeter
6 4 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.70%) JUnit
7 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.70%) Mockito
8 2 (0.47%) Ant
8 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (19.53%) Public Sector
2 73 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.60%) Finance
4 23 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.88%) Military
6 13 (3.02%) Banking
7 8 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.63%) Retail
9 6 (1.40%) Police
10 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Law
10 4 (0.93%) Marketing
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Legal
11 3 (0.70%) Publishing
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 104 (24.19%) Architect
2 46 (10.70%) Developer
3 40 (9.30%) Senior
4 31 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (6.98%) Analyst
5 30 (6.98%) Lead
6 22 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (4.88%) Consultant
8 20 (4.65%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.49%) Data Architect
12 15 (3.49%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.26%) Applications Architect
13 14 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.79%) Security Architect
15 11 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.56%) Network Architect
15 11 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.26%) PySpark
2 11 (2.56%) Spring
3 10 (2.33%) React
4 9 (2.09%) REST
4 9 (2.09%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.86%) Kafka
6 7 (1.63%) .NET
6 7 (1.63%) RESTful
7 6 (1.40%) JSON
7 6 (1.40%) Node.js
7 6 (1.40%) Swagger
8 5 (1.16%) HTML
9 4 (0.93%) Pandas
9 4 (0.93%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.70%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.70%) GeoJSON
10 3 (0.70%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.70%) Plotly
10 3 (0.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.93%) LIMS
6 4 (0.93%) NHS
6 4 (0.93%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.70%) CMDB
7 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (0.70%) Replication
8 2 (0.47%) PKI
8 2 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.42%) Linux
2 8 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.47%) VMS
4 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.23%) AIX
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Solaris
5 1 (0.23%) SUSE
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.16%) DevOps
2 66 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (14.88%) CI/CD
4 48 (11.16%) Migration
5 46 (10.70%) Agile
6 42 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (9.07%) Containerisation
8 34 (7.91%) AI
9 30 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (6.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (5.81%) Analytics
11 25 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (5.58%) Data Modelling
13 21 (4.88%) Roadmaps
14 20 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (4.65%) Microservices
14 20 (4.65%) Test Automation
15 18 (4.19%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (4.19%) Observability
16 17 (3.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (10.23%) Python
2 26 (6.05%) Java
3 23 (5.35%) SQL
4 17 (3.95%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.56%) C#
5 11 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.09%) Bash
7 7 (1.63%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.40%) Ruby
8 6 (1.40%) Scala
9 3 (0.70%) Bicep
9 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.23%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) R
11 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 376 (87.44%) SC Cleared
2 31 (7.21%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.33%) Degree
5 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.40%) CTC Cleared
5 6 (1.40%) GIAC
6 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.93%) CISSP
7 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.70%) APMP
8 3 (0.70%) PMP
8 3 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.47%) CEH
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.47%) ISACA
9 2 (0.47%) OSCP
9 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.12%) QA
2 18 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.33%) NIST
5 9 (2.09%) NCSC
6 6 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
9 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
10 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (5.81%) Docker
2 11 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.47%) vSphere
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) XenApp
5 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 43 (10.00%) Terraform
3 15 (3.49%) Ansible
4 11 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.09%) Grafana
6 6 (1.40%) SCCM
7 3 (0.70%) Istio
8 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.47%) Puppet
8 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.47%) vRealize
9 1 (0.23%) Consul
9 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.23%) linkerd
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.21%) Databricks
3 19 (4.42%) Oracle
4 14 (3.26%) Google
5 13 (3.02%) VMware
6 12 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.40%) Cisco
8 6 (1.40%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.40%) SAP
9 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.16%) IBM
10 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.93%) Pure Storage
11 3 (0.70%) Citrix
11 3 (0.70%) LogRhythm
11 3 (0.70%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.70%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.70%) Splunk
11 3 (0.70%) webMethods