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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 392 204 240
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.46% 10.73% 10.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.12% 43.13% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 146 145
10th Percentile £413 £379 £389
25th Percentile £475 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £689 £736
London median daily rate £550 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £23.05 £18.67 £47.40
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.06 £71.63
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 £55.00 £25.15 £33.75
% change year-on-year +118.69% -25.48% -43.75%

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 631 473 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.49% 24.87% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 318 334
10th Percentile £381 £336 £363
25th Percentile £462 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £650
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
London median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £15.90 £23.45 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £34.48 £92.44
90th Percentile £155.34 £54.84 £112.00
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -31.10% -30.48%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +8 350 £550 - 184
West End of London +2 29 £600 +4.35% 8
City of Westminster 0 26 £584 +1.52% 21
Southwark - 9 £600 - 1
Lambeth - 1 - - 4
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 17 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.55%) Confluence
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.02%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.51%) Revit
3 2 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.77%) Exchequer
3 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.51%) iTrent
4 2 (0.51%) Maximo
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.51%) SAP Travel Management
4 2 (0.51%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.32%) Azure
2 54 (13.78%) AWS
3 36 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 33 (8.42%) GCP
4 33 (8.42%) GitHub
5 25 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (3.06%) Azure AKS
8 12 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.81%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.30%) SaaS
11 8 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.04%) PaaS
11 8 (2.04%) Serverless
12 7 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.36%) DNS
2 16 (4.08%) Firewall
3 11 (2.81%) VPN
4 7 (1.79%) Network Security
5 6 (1.53%) DHCP
5 6 (1.53%) Internet
6 3 (0.77%) LAN
6 3 (0.77%) SMTP
7 2 (0.51%) FTP
7 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.51%) NGFW
7 2 (0.51%) SAN
7 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.51%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.10%) Power BI
2 18 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.04%) Metadata
4 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.77%) Big Data
8 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.77%) Tableau
9 2 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (6.63%) Git
2 21 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.83%) JIRA
4 12 (3.06%) GitLab
5 10 (2.55%) Postman
6 8 (2.04%) Selenium
7 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.53%) JMeter
9 5 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.02%) JUnit
10 4 (1.02%) Mockito
10 4 (1.02%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.77%) eggPlant
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.51%) Gradle
12 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 112 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 89 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.22%) Finance
4 34 (8.67%) Military
5 22 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.34%) Banking
6 17 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.83%) Law
8 7 (1.79%) Legal
8 7 (1.79%) Police
9 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.28%) Local Government
11 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.02%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (20.15%) Architect
2 43 (10.97%) Lead
3 38 (9.69%) Developer
4 29 (7.40%) Senior
5 24 (6.12%) Data Architect
6 21 (5.36%) Consultant
7 20 (5.10%) Analyst
8 18 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.06%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.06%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.81%) Tester
13 10 (2.55%) Designer
13 10 (2.55%) Support Engineer
14 9 (2.30%) Security Architect
15 8 (2.04%) Business Analyst
16 7 (1.79%) GCP Engineer
16 7 (1.79%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.97%) Terraform
2 25 (6.38%) REST
3 18 (4.59%) .NET
4 15 (3.83%) SOAP
5 12 (3.06%) Kafka
6 11 (2.81%) Middleware
7 10 (2.55%) HTML
7 10 (2.55%) JSON
7 10 (2.55%) Spring
7 10 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.55%) XML
8 8 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (2.04%) RESTful
8 8 (2.04%) Web Services
9 7 (1.79%) Playwright
10 6 (1.53%) PySpark
10 6 (1.53%) Swagger
11 5 (1.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (1.28%) Node.js
12 4 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.28%) Clustering
9 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.28%) Replication
10 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) PKI
11 3 (0.77%) CMDB
11 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.91%) Windows
2 21 (5.36%) Linux
3 17 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.77%) Unix
4 3 (0.77%) VMS
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) OpenVMS
5 2 (0.51%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.51%) zOS
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) MVS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (22.96%) CI/CD
2 81 (20.66%) DevOps
3 67 (17.09%) Agile
4 57 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (13.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (12.76%) AI
6 50 (12.76%) Migration
7 46 (11.73%) Containerisation
8 45 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (8.42%) Test Automation
12 30 (7.65%) Data Modelling
13 28 (7.14%) Roadmaps
14 26 (6.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 25 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (6.12%) Decision-Making
16 24 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (6.12%) Microservices
17 22 (5.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (11.48%) SQL
2 44 (11.22%) Python
3 27 (6.89%) Java
3 27 (6.89%) PowerShell
4 24 (6.12%) C#
5 20 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.30%) Bash
8 6 (1.53%) Bicep
9 5 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.77%) R
10 3 (0.77%) Ruby
11 2 (0.51%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.51%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.51%) JCL
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) REXX
12 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 312 (79.59%) SC Cleared
2 54 (13.78%) DV Cleared
3 15 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (3.06%) Degree
5 7 (1.79%) CISSP
6 6 (1.53%) CISM
7 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.51%) CEH
10 2 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) GIAC
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.51%) PMP
10 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.16%) QA
2 17 (4.34%) NCSC
3 15 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.32%) NIST
5 12 (3.06%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.53%) GDPR
8 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.28%) SLA
9 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.51%) GRC
10 2 (0.51%) GxP
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (5.87%) Docker
2 19 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.02%) vSphere
8 3 (0.77%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.77%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) UAG
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.59%) Ansible
3 11 (2.81%) Grafana
4 9 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.79%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.28%) Puppet
6 5 (1.28%) SCCM
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.77%) Istio
8 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.77%) Nagios
8 3 (0.77%) SCOM
8 3 (0.77%) vMotion
8 3 (0.77%) WSUS
9 2 (0.51%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.51%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 77 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.14%) Oracle
3 26 (6.63%) Google
4 24 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.36%) VMware
6 14 (3.57%) Databricks
7 12 (3.06%) SAP
8 10 (2.55%) IBM
9 7 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.79%) Splunk
10 6 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.53%) webMethods
11 4 (1.02%) Citrix
11 4 (1.02%) Foundry
11 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.02%) Remedy
12 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.77%) HP
12 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.77%) Palo Alto