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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 436 218 210
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 17.13% 10.81% 9.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.76% 43.08% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 149 136
10th Percentile £425 £350 £406
25th Percentile £466 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +3.37%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
London median daily rate £550 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
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 £59.75 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +137.57% +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 663 506 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.05% 25.10% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 336 343
10th Percentile £405 £313 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £734 £744 £774
London median daily rate £545 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £19.45 £25.04 £20.33
25th Percentile £26.63 £26.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.53 £34.48 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +27.70% +53.19%
75th Percentile £60.31 £57.96 -
90th Percentile £68.53 £65.57 £37.05
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £30.81
% change year-on-year +114.71% -18.37% -43.98%

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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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +12 390 £550 +4.76% 79
City of Westminster +2 32 £575 -4.17% 1
West End of London +3 30 £600 +3.45% 4
Southwark - 9 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 - -
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 19 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.98%) Confluence
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Revit
3 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) iTrent
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.23%) Findur
5 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 123 (28.21%) Azure
2 65 (14.91%) AWS
3 42 (9.63%) GCP
4 36 (8.26%) GitHub
5 34 (7.80%) Power Platform
6 28 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.44%) Azure AKS
9 13 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (2.52%) PaaS
11 11 (2.52%) SaaS
11 11 (2.52%) Serverless
12 10 (2.29%) OCI
12 10 (2.29%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.29%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.61%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.13%) DNS
1 18 (4.13%) Firewall
2 10 (2.29%) VPN
3 8 (1.83%) Network Security
4 6 (1.38%) Internet
5 5 (1.15%) DHCP
6 4 (0.92%) LAN
7 3 (0.69%) NGFW
7 3 (0.69%) SMTP
8 2 (0.46%) FTP
8 2 (0.46%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.46%) SAN
8 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.46%) VSAN
8 2 (0.46%) WAN
9 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.23%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.13%) Power BI
2 16 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.15%) Metadata
6 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.69%) Big Data
7 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.69%) Tableau
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (6.42%) Git
2 20 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.90%) JIRA
4 14 (3.21%) GitLab
5 7 (1.61%) Postman
5 7 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.38%) Selenium
7 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.15%) JMeter
7 5 (1.15%) JUnit
7 5 (1.15%) Mockito
7 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) eggPlant
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 113 (25.92%) Public Sector
2 93 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.63%) Finance
4 28 (6.42%) Military
5 26 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.90%) Law
7 16 (3.67%) Banking
8 13 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.29%) Police
10 6 (1.38%) Retail
10 6 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.15%) Legal
12 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.92%) Marketing
13 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
13 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (20.87%) Architect
2 56 (12.84%) Developer
3 42 (9.63%) Lead
4 40 (9.17%) Senior
5 28 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (5.50%) Analyst
7 23 (5.28%) Data Architect
8 22 (5.05%) Consultant
9 19 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (3.21%) Technical Architect
12 13 (2.98%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.52%) Tester
14 10 (2.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (2.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.55%) Terraform
2 21 (4.82%) REST
3 20 (4.59%) .NET
4 13 (2.98%) SOAP
5 11 (2.52%) Spring
5 11 (2.52%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.29%) HTML
6 10 (2.29%) RESTful
7 9 (2.06%) Kafka
8 8 (1.83%) JSON
8 8 (1.83%) PySpark
8 8 (1.83%) React
8 8 (1.83%) Web Services
8 8 (1.83%) XML
9 7 (1.61%) Node.js
10 6 (1.38%) Middleware
10 6 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.38%) Swagger
11 5 (1.15%) Playwright
12 4 (0.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) Clustering
8 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.15%) PKI
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Replication
10 4 (0.92%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.88%) Windows
2 24 (5.50%) Linux
3 17 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.92%) VMS
5 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.46%) Android
6 2 (0.46%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (21.33%) DevOps
2 91 (20.87%) CI/CD
3 70 (16.06%) Agile
4 64 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (12.61%) Migration
6 52 (11.93%) AI
6 52 (11.93%) Containerisation
6 52 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 34 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (7.57%) Test Automation
11 32 (7.34%) Data Modelling
12 31 (7.11%) Microservices
13 28 (6.42%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (5.73%) Analytics
15 25 (5.73%) Observability
16 24 (5.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 52 (11.93%) Python
2 42 (9.63%) SQL
3 34 (7.80%) Java
4 29 (6.65%) C#
5 24 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 21 (4.82%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.21%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.52%) Bash
9 7 (1.61%) Bicep
10 5 (1.15%) Ruby
11 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.92%) R
12 3 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.46%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.46%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.23%) C++
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 362 (83.03%) SC Cleared
2 53 (12.16%) DV Cleared
3 13 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.06%) Degree
5 7 (1.61%) CISSP
6 6 (1.38%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.15%) CISM
7 5 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) CEH
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.46%) GIAC
9 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.46%) OSCP
9 2 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.23%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.11%) QA
2 17 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.67%) NCSC
4 13 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.98%) NIST
5 11 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.15%) GDPR
7 5 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.92%) SLA
9 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.46%) GRC
10 2 (0.46%) GxP
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (5.96%) Docker
2 19 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.23%) UAG
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (15.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.82%) Ansible
3 13 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.52%) Grafana
5 9 (2.06%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.61%) SCCM
7 6 (1.38%) Puppet
8 5 (1.15%) Istio
9 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.69%) Nagios
10 3 (0.69%) vMotion
10 3 (0.69%) WSUS
11 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.46%) SCOM
12 1 (0.23%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 75 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.88%) Oracle
3 27 (6.19%) Google
4 24 (5.50%) VMware
5 20 (4.59%) Databricks
5 20 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.29%) SAP
7 7 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.38%) Splunk
8 6 (1.38%) webMethods
9 4 (0.92%) Citrix
9 4 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.92%) Remedy
10 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.69%) HP
10 3 (0.69%) Symantec