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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 424 217 200
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 17.04% 11.55% 8.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.23% 46.87% 41.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 147 125
10th Percentile £431 £413 £408
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £703 £765
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.37% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £33.62 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £45.39 £22.76 £20.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.54 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +176.16% +13.08% +0.53%
75th Percentile £70.88 £24.33 £21.41
90th Percentile £74.40 £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 650 463 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.13% 24.65% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 307 306
10th Percentile £409 £360 £378
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +3.00% -6.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £645
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £531 £538
% change year-on-year -1.18% -1.16% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.52 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.63 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.61 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +19.67% -53.58%
75th Percentile £58.58 £55.08 £31.19
90th Percentile £69.70 £81.88 £38.73
London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.00
% change year-on-year +93.59% +13.64% -47.37%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +13 392 £550 - 94
City of Westminster +2 19 £607 -6.54% 7
West End of London +4 17 £607 +4.74% 7
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 (2.83%) Confluence
2 9 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 104 (24.53%) Azure
2 67 (15.80%) AWS
3 34 (8.02%) GCP
4 27 (6.37%) GitHub
5 22 (5.19%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (2.59%) Serverless
8 10 (2.36%) Azure AKS
8 10 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.12%) PowerApps
9 9 (2.12%) SaaS
10 8 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.89%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.42%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.42%) OCI
13 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.59%) Network Security
2 9 (2.12%) Firewall
2 9 (2.12%) LAN
3 8 (1.89%) WAN
4 7 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.94%) DNS
6 3 (0.71%) Internet
6 3 (0.71%) SAN
7 2 (0.47%) NAS
7 2 (0.47%) NGFW
7 2 (0.47%) VPN
7 2 (0.47%) VSAN
8 1 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.24%) LTE
8 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
8 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.07%) Power BI
2 7 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.18%) Metadata
4 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.94%) Tableau
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.71%) 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 (5.19%) JIRA
2 19 (4.48%) Git
3 16 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.59%) GitLab
5 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.18%) Postman
6 4 (0.94%) JMeter
6 4 (0.94%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) JUnit
7 3 (0.71%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) ERwin
9 1 (0.24%) Gradle
9 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (19.58%) Public Sector
2 71 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.73%) Finance
4 22 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.95%) Military
6 13 (3.07%) Banking
7 8 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.65%) Retail
9 5 (1.18%) Police
10 4 (0.94%) Law
10 4 (0.94%) Marketing
10 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Legal
11 3 (0.71%) Publishing
11 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 101 (23.82%) Architect
2 46 (10.85%) Developer
3 43 (10.14%) Senior
4 31 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (6.84%) Analyst
5 29 (6.84%) Lead
6 21 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 19 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (4.48%) Consultant
9 17 (4.01%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (3.54%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.54%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.30%) Applications Architect
12 14 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.83%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (2.83%) Security Architect
14 11 (2.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.59%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.30%) PySpark
2 11 (2.59%) Spring
3 10 (2.36%) React
4 9 (2.12%) REST
4 9 (2.12%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.89%) Kafka
6 7 (1.65%) RESTful
7 6 (1.42%) .NET
7 6 (1.42%) JSON
7 6 (1.42%) Node.js
7 6 (1.42%) Swagger
8 5 (1.18%) HTML
8 5 (1.18%) Pandas
8 5 (1.18%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.71%) GeoJSON
9 3 (0.71%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (0.71%) NumPy
9 3 (0.71%) pytest
9 3 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
4 6 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.94%) LIMS
6 4 (0.94%) NHS
6 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.71%) CMDB
7 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (0.71%) Replication
8 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.65%) Windows
3 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.47%) VMS
3 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) AIX
4 1 (0.24%) CentOS
4 1 (0.24%) Solaris
4 1 (0.24%) SUSE
4 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.46%) DevOps
2 66 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (15.09%) CI/CD
4 46 (10.85%) Migration
5 44 (10.38%) Agile
6 41 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (9.20%) Containerisation
8 38 (8.96%) AI
9 29 (6.84%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (6.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (5.90%) Analytics
12 24 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (5.19%) Data Modelling
14 21 (4.95%) Roadmaps
15 20 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (4.72%) Observability
16 19 (4.48%) Microservices
16 19 (4.48%) Test Automation
17 18 (4.25%) Data Pipeline
18 16 (3.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (10.38%) Python
2 25 (5.90%) Java
3 22 (5.19%) SQL
4 17 (4.01%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.59%) C#
5 11 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.12%) Bash
7 7 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.42%) Scala
9 5 (1.18%) Ruby
10 3 (0.71%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.24%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 372 (87.74%) SC Cleared
2 31 (7.31%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.12%) Degree
5 6 (1.42%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
5 6 (1.42%) GIAC
6 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.94%) CISSP
7 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.71%) APMP
8 3 (0.71%) PMP
8 3 (0.71%) 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 21 (4.95%) QA
2 17 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.36%) NCSC
4 10 (2.36%) NIST
5 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.71%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (5.90%) Docker
2 10 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.24%) NFS
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) XenApp
6 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (12.74%) Kubernetes
2 44 (10.38%) Terraform
3 15 (3.54%) Ansible
4 11 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.12%) Grafana
6 6 (1.42%) SCCM
7 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Consul
9 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.24%) linkerd
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.31%) Databricks
3 18 (4.25%) Oracle
4 15 (3.54%) Google
5 12 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.83%) VMware
6 7 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.42%) SAP
8 5 (1.18%) Cisco
8 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.18%) IBM
9 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.94%) Pure Storage
10 3 (0.71%) Citrix
10 3 (0.71%) Foundry
10 3 (0.71%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.71%) Splunk
10 3 (0.71%) webMethods