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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 445 206 195
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.93% 10.36% 8.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.83% 41.96% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 136 121
10th Percentile £425 £416 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £723 £750
London median daily rate £533 £525 £528
% change year-on-year +1.43% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £21.38 £18.67 -
25th Percentile £24.20 £21.06 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.89 £25.08 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +71.03% +20.47% +7.56%
75th Percentile £67.94 £45.34 £21.41
90th Percentile £73.23 £57.48 -
London median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% +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 676 491 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.72% 24.69% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 325 319
10th Percentile £402 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £733 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile £19.34 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% -33.52%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.50
% change year-on-year +104.47% +3.57% -52.78%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +13 412 £550 - 111
City of Westminster +1 22 £600 -2.04% 33
West End of London +3 20 £607 +4.74% 31
Lambeth - 2 £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 14 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.92%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.45%) Revit
2 2 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.45%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.45%) iTrent
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Findur
3 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 107 (24.04%) Azure
2 70 (15.73%) AWS
3 37 (8.31%) GCP
4 30 (6.74%) GitHub
5 25 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.92%) Azure AKS
8 13 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.47%) SaaS
10 9 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.02%) PaaS
10 9 (2.02%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.80%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.80%) Serverless
12 7 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.57%) OCI
13 6 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.60%) Firewall
2 12 (2.70%) Network Security
3 11 (2.47%) DNS
4 8 (1.80%) VPN
5 5 (1.12%) LAN
6 4 (0.90%) DHCP
6 4 (0.90%) WAN
7 3 (0.67%) NGFW
7 3 (0.67%) SMTP
8 2 (0.45%) FTP
8 2 (0.45%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.45%) Internet
8 2 (0.45%) NAS
8 2 (0.45%) SAN
8 2 (0.45%) VSAN
8 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.92%) Power BI
2 10 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.12%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.12%) Metadata
5 5 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.90%) Big Data
6 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.45%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.39%) Git
2 23 (5.17%) JIRA
3 18 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.15%) GitLab
5 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.35%) Selenium
7 5 (1.12%) JUnit
7 5 (1.12%) Mockito
7 5 (1.12%) Postman
7 5 (1.12%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.90%) JMeter
9 3 (0.67%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.45%) Ant
10 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 97 (21.80%) Public Sector
2 92 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.99%) Finance
4 25 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.17%) Military
6 16 (3.60%) Banking
7 8 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.57%) Police
8 7 (1.57%) Retail
9 6 (1.35%) Law
10 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.67%) Legal
10 3 (0.67%) Local Government
10 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.67%) Publishing
10 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 101 (22.70%) Architect
2 46 (10.34%) Developer
3 41 (9.21%) Senior
4 37 (8.31%) Lead
5 30 (6.74%) Analyst
6 25 (5.62%) Consultant
7 24 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (4.49%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.82%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.15%) Applications Architect
14 13 (2.92%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.92%) Technical Architect
15 12 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Senior Developer
16 11 (2.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.70%) Spring
2 11 (2.47%) REST
2 11 (2.47%) Spring Boot
3 9 (2.02%) React
3 9 (2.02%) RESTful
4 8 (1.80%) PySpark
5 7 (1.57%) .NET
5 7 (1.57%) Node.js
6 6 (1.35%) HTML
6 6 (1.35%) JSON
6 6 (1.35%) Kafka
6 6 (1.35%) Playwright
6 6 (1.35%) Swagger
7 4 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.90%) Pandas
7 4 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.90%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.67%) Django
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.37%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
4 7 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.12%) PKI
6 5 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 4 (0.90%) Clustering
7 4 (0.90%) LIMS
8 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.67%) NHS
8 3 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.27%) Linux
1 19 (4.27%) Windows
2 10 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) VMS
3 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.22%) AIX
4 1 (0.22%) CentOS
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Solaris
4 1 (0.22%) SUSE
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (20.00%) DevOps
2 77 (17.30%) CI/CD
3 63 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (12.81%) Agile
5 49 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (10.56%) AI
7 44 (9.89%) Migration
8 43 (9.66%) Containerisation
9 33 (7.42%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (5.84%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (5.62%) Data Modelling
12 25 (5.62%) Test Automation
13 24 (5.39%) Microservices
14 21 (4.72%) Software Engineering
15 20 (4.49%) Analytics
15 20 (4.49%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (4.49%) Observability
16 17 (3.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 46 (10.34%) Python
2 28 (6.29%) Java
3 23 (5.17%) SQL
4 17 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 16 (3.60%) C#
6 11 (2.47%) Bash
7 9 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.12%) Ruby
9 3 (0.67%) Bicep
9 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.45%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Scala
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 376 (84.49%) SC Cleared
2 35 (7.87%) DV Cleared
3 17 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.47%) Degree
5 6 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
6 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.90%) CISSP
7 4 (0.90%) GIAC
8 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.45%) APMP
9 2 (0.45%) CEH
9 2 (0.45%) CISM
9 2 (0.45%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.45%) OSCP
9 2 (0.45%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.94%) QA
2 14 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.47%) NCSC
5 9 (2.02%) NIST
6 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.90%) GDPR
9 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.22%) GLP
11 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (5.62%) Docker
2 17 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.90%) vSphere
8 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.22%) Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) UAG
10 1 (0.22%) XenApp
10 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.89%) Terraform
3 20 (4.49%) Ansible
4 14 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.70%) Grafana
6 9 (2.02%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.35%) Puppet
7 6 (1.35%) SCCM
8 4 (0.90%) vMotion
9 3 (0.67%) Istio
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.67%) Nagios
9 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) vRealize
11 1 (0.22%) Consul
11 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.22%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.94%) Databricks
3 20 (4.49%) Google
3 20 (4.49%) VMware
4 18 (4.04%) Oracle
5 10 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.57%) SAP
7 6 (1.35%) Cisco
7 6 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.35%) Splunk
7 6 (1.35%) webMethods
8 5 (1.12%) Citrix
9 4 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.90%) HP
9 4 (0.90%) IBM
9 4 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.90%) Pure Storage
10 3 (0.67%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.67%) Palo Alto