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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 450 207 198
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 17.20% 10.14% 8.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.89% 41.07% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 138 124
10th Percentile £425 £350 £405
25th Percentile £465 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £542 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +3.19% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £722 £738
London median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £26.60 £18.67 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £21.06 £20.22
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.08 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +139.28% +20.47% +15.64%
75th Percentile £70.88 £45.34 £21.41
90th Percentile £74.40 £57.48 -
London median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +127.63% +14.32% -63.33%

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 683 504 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.11% 24.68% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 335 335
10th Percentile £405 £328 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £644 £675 £673
90th Percentile £734 £756 £775
London median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £19.47 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.19% +43.67% -31.91%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
% change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%

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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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +14 402 £550 +3.92% 96
City of Westminster +2 32 £600 - 7
West End of London +2 29 £604 +4.09% 5
Southwark - 9 £600 - 1
Lambeth - 2 £475 - 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 15 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.11%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.44%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.44%) Revit
2 2 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) iTrent
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.22%) Findur
4 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 109 (24.22%) Azure
2 69 (15.33%) AWS
3 41 (9.11%) GCP
4 33 (7.33%) GitHub
5 27 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.89%) Azure AKS
7 13 (2.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.67%) SaaS
9 11 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.22%) PaaS
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.78%) OCI
12 8 (1.78%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.56%) Firewall
2 13 (2.89%) DNS
3 12 (2.67%) Network Security
4 10 (2.22%) VPN
5 4 (0.89%) DHCP
5 4 (0.89%) Internet
5 4 (0.89%) LAN
6 3 (0.67%) NGFW
6 3 (0.67%) SAN
6 3 (0.67%) SMTP
7 2 (0.44%) FTP
7 2 (0.44%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.44%) NAS
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) VSAN
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.33%) Power BI
2 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.33%) Metadata
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.89%) Big Data
6 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.44%) OLAP
8 2 (0.44%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (6.00%) Git
2 20 (4.44%) JIRA
3 18 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.67%) GitLab
5 6 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.11%) JUnit
6 5 (1.11%) Mockito
7 4 (0.89%) JMeter
7 4 (0.89%) Postman
7 4 (0.89%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.89%) Selenium
8 3 (0.67%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.44%) Ant
9 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.22%) Appium
10 1 (0.22%) Gradle
10 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (23.78%) Public Sector
2 96 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.89%) Finance
4 28 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.89%) Military
6 14 (3.11%) Banking
7 12 (2.67%) Law
8 11 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Police
10 7 (1.56%) Retail
10 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.89%) Legal
13 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Publishing
14 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.44%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (22.67%) Architect
2 48 (10.67%) Developer
3 41 (9.11%) Lead
4 40 (8.89%) Senior
5 29 (6.44%) Analyst
6 27 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.33%) Consultant
8 22 (4.89%) Data Architect
8 22 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.56%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.11%) Applications Architect
13 13 (2.89%) Data Engineer
13 13 (2.89%) Technical Architect
14 12 (2.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.67%) GCP Engineer
14 12 (2.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.56%) REST
2 12 (2.67%) Spring
3 11 (2.44%) .NET
3 11 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.00%) React
4 9 (2.00%) RESTful
5 8 (1.78%) Kafka
5 8 (1.78%) Node.js
5 8 (1.78%) PySpark
5 8 (1.78%) SOAP
6 7 (1.56%) HTML
7 6 (1.33%) JSON
7 6 (1.33%) Swagger
8 5 (1.11%) Playwright
8 5 (1.11%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.89%) Pandas
9 4 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.11%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.33%) LIMS
6 6 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.11%) PKI
7 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.89%) Clustering
8 4 (0.89%) CMDB
8 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.89%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.89%) NHS
9 3 (0.67%) Replication
9 3 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.67%) Windows
2 20 (4.44%) Linux
3 11 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.44%) VMS
4 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.22%) AIX
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) CentOS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) SUSE
5 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.11%) DevOps
2 84 (18.67%) CI/CD
3 65 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (13.11%) Agile
5 52 (11.56%) Migration
5 52 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (11.11%) AI
6 50 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 36 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (6.89%) Data Modelling
9 31 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (6.00%) Microservices
11 25 (5.56%) Test Automation
12 24 (5.33%) Observability
13 23 (5.11%) Analytics
13 23 (5.11%) Event-Driven
14 22 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (4.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.44%) Python
2 29 (6.44%) Java
2 29 (6.44%) SQL
3 19 (4.22%) C#
4 17 (3.78%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.44%) Bash
7 9 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.11%) Ruby
9 4 (0.89%) Bicep
9 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.67%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.44%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.44%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.44%) R
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 377 (83.78%) SC Cleared
2 53 (11.78%) DV Cleared
3 18 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.22%) Degree
5 7 (1.56%) CISSP
6 6 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.11%) CISM
7 5 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.89%) GIAC
9 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CEH
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.44%) OSCP
10 2 (0.44%) PMP
10 2 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.67%) QA
2 16 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.33%) NCSC
4 12 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.22%) NIST
6 8 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.89%) GDPR
9 4 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.44%) GMP
11 2 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) GxP
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.22%) GLP
12 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (5.78%) Docker
2 17 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.11%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.22%) Firmware
9 1 (0.22%) NFS
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.22%) UAG
9 1 (0.22%) XenApp
9 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.44%) Terraform
3 20 (4.44%) Ansible
4 14 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.67%) Grafana
6 9 (2.00%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.33%) Puppet
7 6 (1.33%) SCCM
8 5 (1.11%) Istio
9 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.89%) vMotion
10 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.67%) Nagios
11 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.22%) linkerd
12 1 (0.22%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.22%) Salt
12 1 (0.22%) SELinux
12 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 62 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.56%) Google
3 22 (4.89%) Oracle
4 21 (4.67%) Databricks
5 20 (4.44%) VMware
6 14 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.56%) SAP
9 6 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.33%) Splunk
9 6 (1.33%) webMethods
10 5 (1.11%) Citrix
10 5 (1.11%) Pure Storage
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco
11 4 (0.89%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.89%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.67%) Foundry
12 3 (0.67%) OpenAI