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 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 13 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 417 240 212
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 17.10% 12.00% 8.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.71% 48.39% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 165 132
10th Percentile £413 £405 £401
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.91% -6.69%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £621
90th Percentile £717 £700 £749
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £33.62 - £19.45
25th Percentile £45.39 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £22.00 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +195.45% +5.69% +0.53%
75th Percentile £70.88 - £65.00
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
London median hourly rate £58.74 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.68% +69.32% -61.74%

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 665 496 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 27.27% 24.80% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 333 318
10th Percentile £376 £365 £368
25th Percentile £457 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +4.48% -7.89%
75th Percentile £643 £660 £645
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £18.92 £24.16 £19.96
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.39 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +7.67% -47.57%
75th Percentile £52.16 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £85.50 £66.75
London median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +76.67% +15.38% -42.54%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +10 393 £538 +2.38% 48
City of Westminster +5 14 £629 +9.35% 4
West End of London +9 12 £650 +12.55% 3
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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 11 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.48%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) Revit
2 2 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.24%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.48%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (23.74%) Azure
2 72 (17.27%) AWS
3 32 (7.67%) GCP
4 31 (7.43%) GitHub
5 24 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (3.84%) Serverless
9 11 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.64%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.40%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.16%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.68%) SaaS
14 6 (1.44%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (1.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.16%) Firewall
2 8 (1.92%) LAN
2 8 (1.92%) Network Security
2 8 (1.92%) WAN
3 7 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.96%) SAN
5 3 (0.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.72%) NAS
6 2 (0.48%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.48%) VPN
6 2 (0.48%) VSAN
7 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.24%) 5G
7 1 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.24%) NGFW
7 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.12%) Power BI
2 7 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.44%) Metadata
4 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.72%) Tableau
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.48%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.48%) MySQL
6 2 (0.48%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (5.52%) JIRA
2 18 (4.32%) Git
3 12 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.92%) GitLab
5 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.96%) Selenium
7 3 (0.72%) JUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.72%) Mockito
8 2 (0.48%) Ant
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.24%) ERwin
9 1 (0.24%) Gradle
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 87 (20.86%) Public Sector
2 72 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.87%) Finance
4 30 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.04%) Military
6 11 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.40%) Banking
8 7 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.68%) Retail
9 5 (1.20%) Police
10 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Law
10 4 (0.96%) Legal
11 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.72%) Marketing
11 3 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 89 (21.34%) Architect
2 53 (12.71%) Senior
3 50 (11.99%) Developer
4 35 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (8.15%) Analyst
6 24 (5.76%) Business Analyst
7 21 (5.04%) Data Engineer
7 21 (5.04%) Lead
8 20 (4.80%) Consultant
9 17 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.36%) Applications Architect
11 14 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.12%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.88%) Security Architect
14 11 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (2.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.64%) PySpark
2 10 (2.40%) React
2 10 (2.40%) REST
3 8 (1.92%) Kafka
3 8 (1.92%) Node.js
3 8 (1.92%) Spring
4 7 (1.68%) JSON
4 7 (1.68%) Pandas
4 7 (1.68%) scikit-learn
5 6 (1.44%) .NET
5 6 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.20%) HTML
6 5 (1.20%) NumPy
6 5 (1.20%) RESTful
7 4 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.96%) OAuth
8 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.72%) JWT
8 3 (0.72%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.68%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.96%) LIMS
7 4 (0.96%) NHS
8 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.72%) Replication
9 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.60%) Linux
2 8 (1.92%) Windows
3 3 (0.72%) VMS
4 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
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 84 (20.14%) DevOps
2 64 (15.35%) CI/CD
2 64 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (13.43%) Agile
4 43 (10.31%) Migration
5 39 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (9.11%) AI
7 29 (6.95%) Containerisation
8 27 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (6.00%) Analytics
9 25 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (5.28%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (5.04%) Data Modelling
12 20 (4.80%) Observability
13 19 (4.56%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (4.56%) Microservices
14 18 (4.32%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (4.32%) Data Science
14 18 (4.32%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (4.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 46 (11.03%) Python
2 21 (5.04%) Java
2 21 (5.04%) SQL
3 18 (4.32%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.64%) C#
4 11 (2.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.68%) Bash
6 6 (1.44%) Ruby
6 6 (1.44%) Scala
7 5 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.72%) Bicep
8 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.24%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 360 (86.33%) SC Cleared
2 34 (8.15%) DV Cleared
3 15 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
4 8 (1.92%) Degree
5 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.44%) GIAC
6 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (0.96%) CISSP
8 3 (0.72%) APMP
8 3 (0.72%) ISACA
8 3 (0.72%) PMP
8 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.48%) IIBA
9 2 (0.48%) OSCP
9 2 (0.48%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.32%) Data Quality
1 18 (4.32%) QA
2 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.92%) NIST
4 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.44%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.72%) SLA
5 3 (0.72%) WCAG
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (6.47%) Docker
2 12 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.72%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Firmware
6 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (11.99%) Terraform
2 46 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.60%) Ansible
4 8 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.68%) SCCM
6 6 (1.44%) Grafana
7 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.72%) vRealize
9 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.48%) Puppet
10 1 (0.24%) Consul
10 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.24%) VxRail
10 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.95%) Databricks
3 15 (3.60%) Oracle
4 14 (3.36%) Google
4 14 (3.36%) VMware
5 11 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.44%) IBM
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco
8 5 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.96%) Foundry
9 4 (0.96%) Pure Storage
9 4 (0.96%) Splunk
10 3 (0.72%) Axway
10 3 (0.72%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.72%) SAP
10 3 (0.72%) webMethods
11 2 (0.48%) CyberArk