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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 409 205 229
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.58% 10.59% 9.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.51% 42.36% 42.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 147 140
10th Percentile £418 £382 £363
25th Percentile £466 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £620
90th Percentile £700 £679 £700
London median daily rate £550 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £23.05 £18.67 -
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.06 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.08 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.52% -77.61% +140.86%
75th Percentile £54.38 £45.34 -
90th Percentile £60.75 £57.48 -
London median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +136.58% -54.27% -4.35%

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 644 484 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.10% 25.00% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 322 333
10th Percentile £400 £315 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £750
London median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £28.05 £24.24 £23.10
25th Percentile £34.46 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £31.32 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.83% +15.98% +50.00%
75th Percentile £132.76 £47.74 £112.00
90th Percentile £155.34 £69.02 -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.75
% change year-on-year +114.71% -29.65% -24.74%

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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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 367 £538 +2.38% 161
West End of London +4 29 £600 - 13
City of Westminster +3 26 £584 -2.71% 19
Southwark - 9 £600 - 1
Lambeth - 1 - -
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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 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.69%) Confluence
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
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 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Revit
3 2 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.73%) Exchequer
3 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.49%) iTrent
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.49%) SAP Travel Management
4 2 (0.49%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.24%) Maximo
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 120 (29.34%) Azure
2 58 (14.18%) AWS
3 35 (8.56%) GCP
3 35 (8.56%) Power Platform
4 34 (8.31%) GitHub
5 27 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.67%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.44%) SaaS
11 10 (2.44%) Serverless
12 9 (2.20%) Azure Databricks
12 9 (2.20%) PaaS
12 9 (2.20%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.71%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.40%) DNS
2 16 (3.91%) Firewall
3 9 (2.20%) VPN
4 7 (1.71%) Network Security
5 6 (1.47%) Internet
6 5 (1.22%) DHCP
7 3 (0.73%) LAN
7 3 (0.73%) SMTP
8 2 (0.49%) FTP
8 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.49%) NGFW
8 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.49%) SAN
8 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) WAN
9 1 (0.24%) HTTP
9 1 (0.24%) NAS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.65%) Power BI
2 17 (4.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.71%) Metadata
3 7 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.98%) Tableau
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
7 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (6.60%) Git
2 22 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.91%) JIRA
4 13 (3.18%) GitLab
5 10 (2.44%) Postman
6 7 (1.71%) Selenium
6 7 (1.71%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.47%) JMeter
8 5 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.98%) JUnit
9 4 (0.98%) Mockito
9 4 (0.98%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.73%) eggPlant
10 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.49%) Gradle
11 2 (0.49%) LoadRunner
General
1 113 (27.63%) Public Sector
2 91 (22.25%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.27%) Finance
4 34 (8.31%) Military
5 23 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.91%) Banking
6 16 (3.91%) Law
7 15 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.96%) Legal
9 7 (1.71%) Police
10 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.22%) Local Government
11 5 (1.22%) Retail
12 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Marketing
12 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (20.29%) Architect
2 43 (10.51%) Lead
3 42 (10.27%) Developer
4 36 (8.80%) Senior
5 25 (6.11%) Data Architect
6 22 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (5.38%) Consultant
7 21 (5.13%) Analyst
8 19 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.93%) Data Engineer
11 12 (2.93%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.69%) Tester
13 10 (2.44%) Designer
13 10 (2.44%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.44%) Support Engineer
14 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
14 8 (1.96%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.51%) Terraform
2 25 (6.11%) REST
3 18 (4.40%) .NET
4 15 (3.67%) SOAP
5 12 (2.93%) Kafka
6 11 (2.69%) Middleware
6 11 (2.69%) Spring
6 11 (2.69%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.44%) HTML
7 10 (2.44%) XML
8 9 (2.20%) JSON
9 8 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.96%) PySpark
9 8 (1.96%) RESTful
9 8 (1.96%) Web Services
10 6 (1.47%) Node.js
10 6 (1.47%) Swagger
11 5 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (1.22%) Playwright
12 4 (0.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.47%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.22%) Clustering
8 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.22%) Replication
9 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) PKI
9 4 (0.98%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.09%) Windows
2 22 (5.38%) Linux
3 16 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.98%) Unix
5 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.73%) VMS
6 2 (0.49%) Android
6 2 (0.49%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.49%) zOS
7 1 (0.24%) AIX
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) MVS
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (22.00%) CI/CD
2 86 (21.03%) DevOps
3 71 (17.36%) Agile
4 54 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (12.71%) Migration
6 51 (12.47%) AI
6 51 (12.47%) Containerisation
7 43 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 36 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (7.33%) Data Modelling
10 30 (7.33%) Test Automation
11 27 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (6.60%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 27 (6.60%) Microservices
12 25 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (6.11%) Roadmaps
13 24 (5.87%) Observability
14 23 (5.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.22%) Python
2 42 (10.27%) SQL
3 31 (7.58%) Java
4 25 (6.11%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.87%) C#
6 19 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.69%) Bash
9 7 (1.71%) Bicep
10 5 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.73%) R
11 3 (0.73%) Ruby
12 2 (0.49%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.49%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.49%) JCL
12 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) REXX
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 329 (80.44%) SC Cleared
2 55 (13.45%) DV Cleared
3 14 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.93%) Degree
5 7 (1.71%) CISSP
6 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.22%) CISM
6 5 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CEH
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.49%) GIAC
8 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.49%) OSCP
8 2 (0.49%) PMP
8 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.58%) QA
2 17 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.16%) NCSC
3 14 (3.42%) NIST
4 12 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.47%) GDPR
6 5 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.98%) SLA
8 3 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.49%) GRC
9 2 (0.49%) GxP
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (6.60%) Docker
2 19 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.73%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.73%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.73%) vSphere
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) UAG
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.65%) Ansible
3 12 (2.93%) Grafana
3 12 (2.93%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.71%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.47%) Puppet
5 6 (1.47%) SCCM
6 4 (0.98%) Istio
6 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) Nagios
7 3 (0.73%) SCOM
7 3 (0.73%) vMotion
7 3 (0.73%) WSUS
8 2 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 77 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.09%) Oracle
3 26 (6.36%) Google
4 23 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.38%) VMware
6 18 (4.40%) Databricks
7 12 (2.93%) SAP
8 9 (2.20%) IBM
9 8 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.71%) Splunk
11 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.47%) webMethods
12 4 (0.98%) Citrix
12 4 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.98%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.98%) Remedy
13 3 (0.73%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.73%) HP
13 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft