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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 425 210 196
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.89% 11.15% 8.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.20% 46.36% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 142 121
10th Percentile £444 £420 £405
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £714 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £34.54 - -
25th Percentile £47.69 £25.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.08 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +149.25% +20.47% +7.56%
75th Percentile £67.94 £25.11 £21.41
90th Percentile £73.23 - -
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 662 453 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.30% 24.04% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 301 304
10th Percentile £405 £375 £366
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.24% -7.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £646
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £527 £525
% change year-on-year -0.32% +0.32% -7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £25.98 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £27.39 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £29.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +43.63% +21.59% -33.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £31.19
90th Percentile £68.53 £85.50 £38.73
London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.28 £25.50
% change year-on-year +94.48% +10.90% -49.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +13 396 £538 -2.27% 93
City of Westminster +1 18 £607 -6.54% 7
West End of London +3 16 £607 +4.74% 6
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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 11 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.71%) 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
1 103 (24.24%) Azure
2 68 (16.00%) AWS
3 32 (7.53%) GCP
4 28 (6.59%) GitHub
5 20 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.35%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.12%) SaaS
8 9 (2.12%) Serverless
9 8 (1.88%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.88%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.65%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.41%) OCI
12 5 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.59%) Firewall
1 11 (2.59%) Network Security
2 9 (2.12%) LAN
3 8 (1.88%) WAN
4 7 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.18%) DNS
6 3 (0.71%) NGFW
6 3 (0.71%) SAN
6 3 (0.71%) VPN
7 2 (0.47%) Internet
7 2 (0.47%) NAS
7 2 (0.47%) VSAN
8 1 (0.24%) 4G
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.24%) LTE
8 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.06%) Power BI
2 8 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.18%) Metadata
5 4 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.71%) Tableau
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.47%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.24%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.24%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 22 (5.18%) JIRA
2 18 (4.24%) Git
3 15 (3.53%) 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 85 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 74 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.24%) Finance
4 25 (5.88%) Military
5 22 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.06%) Banking
7 8 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.65%) Retail
9 6 (1.41%) Police
10 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Law
11 4 (0.94%) Marketing
11 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
12 3 (0.71%) Publishing
12 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 103 (24.24%) Architect
2 44 (10.35%) Developer
3 39 (9.18%) Senior
4 32 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (7.29%) Lead
6 29 (6.82%) Analyst
7 22 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (4.71%) Consultant
9 19 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 17 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (3.76%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.29%) Applications Architect
12 14 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.82%) Security Architect
14 11 (2.59%) GCP Engineer
14 11 (2.59%) Network Architect
14 11 (2.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.82%) PySpark
1 12 (2.82%) Spring
2 10 (2.35%) React
2 10 (2.35%) Spring Boot
3 9 (2.12%) REST
4 7 (1.65%) .NET
4 7 (1.65%) Kafka
4 7 (1.65%) Node.js
4 7 (1.65%) RESTful
5 6 (1.41%) JSON
5 6 (1.41%) Swagger
6 5 (1.18%) HTML
7 4 (0.94%) Pandas
7 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.71%) GeoJSON
8 3 (0.71%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.71%) Plotly
8 3 (0.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.94%) LIMS
6 4 (0.94%) NHS
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%) CMDB
8 2 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.24%) Linux
2 8 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.47%) VMS
4 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Solaris
5 1 (0.24%) SUSE
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (21.65%) DevOps
2 67 (15.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (15.06%) CI/CD
4 49 (11.53%) Agile
5 48 (11.29%) Migration
6 41 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (9.41%) Containerisation
8 35 (8.24%) AI
9 30 (7.06%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (5.41%) Data Modelling
13 22 (5.18%) Analytics
14 21 (4.94%) Roadmaps
15 20 (4.71%) Microservices
15 20 (4.71%) Test Automation
16 18 (4.24%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (4.24%) Decision-Making
16 18 (4.24%) Observability
17 17 (4.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.12%) Python
2 27 (6.35%) Java
3 22 (5.18%) SQL
4 17 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.59%) C#
5 11 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.12%) Bash
7 8 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.18%) Ruby
8 5 (1.18%) Scala
9 3 (0.71%) Bicep
9 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.24%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 370 (87.06%) SC Cleared
2 30 (7.06%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.88%) Degree
5 6 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
6 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.94%) CISSP
7 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.94%) GIAC
8 3 (0.71%) APMP
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.47%) OSCP
9 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.18%) QA
2 15 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.12%) NIST
5 8 (1.88%) NCSC
6 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.71%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
9 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (5.65%) Docker
2 11 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.47%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) XenApp
5 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.88%) Terraform
3 15 (3.53%) Ansible
4 12 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.35%) Grafana
6 6 (1.41%) 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 (10.35%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.82%) Databricks
3 18 (4.24%) Oracle
4 14 (3.29%) Google
5 12 (2.82%) VMware
6 11 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.41%) Cisco
7 6 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.41%) SAP
7 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.18%) IBM
9 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.94%) Pure Storage
9 4 (0.94%) Splunk
10 3 (0.71%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.71%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.71%) webMethods
11 2 (0.47%) Remedy