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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 437 205 202
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.74% 10.68% 8.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.32% 43.80% 40.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 137 122
10th Percentile £445 £413 £406
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £691 £717 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £31.62 £28.72 -
25th Percentile £40.39 £34.24 £20.22
Median hourly rate £60.00 £44.40 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +113.28% +7.56%
75th Percentile £70.88 £55.46 £21.41
90th Percentile £74.40 £61.53 -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +166.40% +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 669 468 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.62% 24.38% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 314 312
10th Percentile £405 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £19.13 £26.45 £20.22
25th Percentile £26.58 £28.23 £20.29
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.44 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +114.33% -33.52%
75th Percentile £57.69 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £66.18 £79.34 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £27.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year +100.00% +6.93% -51.21%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +14 405 £550 - 48
City of Westminster 0 19 £607 -0.82% 2
West End of London +2 18 £607 +5.19% 1
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 13 (2.97%) Confluence
2 12 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) 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 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.46%) Revit
2 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.46%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.46%) iTrent
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 108 (24.71%) Azure
2 72 (16.48%) AWS
3 36 (8.24%) GCP
4 29 (6.64%) GitHub
5 23 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.75%) Azure AKS
9 11 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.29%) SaaS
11 9 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.06%) Serverless
12 8 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (1.83%) PaaS
12 8 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.60%) OCI
13 7 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.20%) Firewall
2 10 (2.29%) Network Security
3 8 (1.83%) DNS
4 6 (1.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.14%) LAN
6 4 (0.92%) DHCP
6 4 (0.92%) WAN
7 3 (0.69%) NGFW
7 3 (0.69%) SAN
7 3 (0.69%) SMTP
7 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.46%) FTP
8 2 (0.46%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.46%) Internet
8 2 (0.46%) NAS
8 2 (0.46%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) 4G
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.75%) Power BI
2 10 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.14%) Metadata
5 5 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.92%) Big Data
6 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.49%) JIRA
2 20 (4.58%) Git
3 16 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.20%) GitLab
5 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.14%) JUnit
5 5 (1.14%) Mockito
5 5 (1.14%) Postman
6 4 (0.92%) JMeter
6 4 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.69%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.46%) Ant
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 92 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 88 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.78%) Finance
4 23 (5.26%) Military
5 22 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.20%) Banking
7 9 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.60%) Police
8 7 (1.60%) Retail
9 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.14%) Law
11 4 (0.92%) Marketing
11 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.69%) Publishing
12 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (22.65%) Architect
2 48 (10.98%) Developer
3 41 (9.38%) Senior
4 35 (8.01%) Lead
5 29 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.18%) Analyst
7 24 (5.49%) Consultant
7 24 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (4.58%) Data Architect
10 16 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (3.43%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.43%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Applications Architect
12 14 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.52%) GCP Engineer
14 11 (2.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.97%) Spring
2 12 (2.75%) Spring Boot
3 10 (2.29%) REST
4 9 (2.06%) PySpark
4 9 (2.06%) React
4 9 (2.06%) RESTful
5 7 (1.60%) .NET
5 7 (1.60%) JSON
5 7 (1.60%) Kafka
6 6 (1.37%) Node.js
6 6 (1.37%) Swagger
7 5 (1.14%) HTML
8 4 (0.92%) Pandas
8 4 (0.92%) Playwright
8 4 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.92%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.69%) Plotly
9 3 (0.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.20%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.14%) PKI
5 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.92%) Clustering
6 4 (0.92%) LIMS
7 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (0.69%) NHS
7 3 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.66%) Linux
2 14 (3.20%) Windows
3 8 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.46%) VMS
4 2 (0.46%) 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 2003
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (21.51%) DevOps
2 69 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 66 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (12.59%) Agile
5 46 (10.53%) Migration
5 46 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (9.84%) AI
7 41 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 32 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (7.09%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (5.49%) Data Modelling
11 24 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (5.26%) Microservices
13 22 (5.03%) Analytics
14 20 (4.58%) Test Automation
15 19 (4.35%) Software Engineering
16 18 (4.12%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (4.12%) Decision-Making
17 17 (3.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.38%) Python
2 26 (5.95%) Java
3 23 (5.26%) SQL
4 16 (3.66%) C#
4 16 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.66%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.29%) Bash
6 8 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.92%) Ruby
8 3 (0.69%) Bicep
8 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.46%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.46%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.46%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 373 (85.35%) SC Cleared
2 32 (7.32%) DV Cleared
3 13 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.52%) Degree
5 6 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
6 5 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.92%) CISSP
7 4 (0.92%) GIAC
8 3 (0.69%) APMP
8 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.69%) PMP
8 3 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.46%) CEH
9 2 (0.46%) CISM
9 2 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.81%) QA
2 14 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.29%) NCSC
5 8 (1.83%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) GDPR
8 2 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (5.95%) Docker
2 15 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.69%) vSphere
7 2 (0.46%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) XenApp
8 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.30%) Terraform
3 20 (4.58%) Ansible
4 12 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.29%) Grafana
6 6 (1.37%) SCCM
6 6 (1.37%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.14%) Puppet
8 4 (0.92%) vMotion
9 3 (0.69%) Istio
9 3 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) vRealize
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 45 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.72%) Databricks
3 18 (4.12%) Google
4 17 (3.89%) VMware
5 16 (3.66%) Oracle
6 11 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.60%) SAP
9 6 (1.37%) Cisco
9 6 (1.37%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.14%) Citrix
10 5 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.14%) IBM
10 5 (1.14%) webMethods
11 4 (0.92%) HP
11 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.92%) Pure Storage
11 4 (0.92%) Splunk
12 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.69%) Symantec