Security Cleared Contracts 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 205 209 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 10.76% 8.65% 9.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.66% 41.55% 44.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 130 203
10th Percentile £413 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £717 £764 £738
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.22
25th Percentile £25.04 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £25.08 £20.82 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year +20.47% +7.56% -
75th Percentile £25.11 £21.41 £20.39
90th Percentile - - £20.87
London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -63.33% +34.83%

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 459 503 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.09% 20.83% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 316 454
10th Percentile £362 £369 £325
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -7.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £698
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £526 £525 £564
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.87% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £25.98 - £17.31
25th Percentile £27.39 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £29.07 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -41.83% -18.87%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £37.05 £68.75
London median hourly rate £28.38 £25.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year +13.50% -51.46% +16.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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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 12 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 12 June 2025. 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 +1 181 £550 +4.76% 60
City of Westminster +5 10 £613 -
West End of London +2 9 £578 +129.00% 8
Camden - 1 £580 - 2
Security Cleared
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) nginx
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.46%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) Documentum
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) SPSS
3 1 (0.49%) Stata
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.98%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.17%) AWS
2 24 (11.71%) Azure
3 15 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.83%) Serverless
5 12 (5.85%) Amazon S3
5 12 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.39%) GCP
7 7 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (3.41%) OCI
8 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.44%) GitHub
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.95%) SaaS
10 4 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (1.46%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon Macie
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.80%) Firewall
2 7 (3.41%) VPN
3 6 (2.93%) DNS
3 6 (2.93%) Network Security
4 4 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.95%) WAN
5 3 (1.46%) BGP
5 3 (1.46%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.46%) LAN
5 3 (1.46%) OSPF
5 3 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.98%) HTTP
6 2 (0.98%) MPLS
6 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.98%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.49%) DHCP
7 1 (0.49%) SSL
7 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.49%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.83%) MongoDB
2 14 (6.83%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.34%) Power BI
4 8 (3.90%) Redis
5 6 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.93%) Tableau
6 5 (2.44%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.95%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.46%) MySQL
8 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.98%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.98%) Metadata
10 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (6.83%) JIRA
2 13 (6.34%) Git
3 8 (3.90%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.44%) GitLab
6 4 (1.95%) Selenium
7 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.98%) JUnit
7 2 (0.98%) MSI
7 2 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.49%) ESLint
8 1 (0.49%) Gatling
8 1 (0.49%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Postman
8 1 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 52 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.20%) Finance
5 11 (5.37%) Military
6 10 (4.88%) Police
7 6 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.44%) Banking
8 5 (2.44%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.44%) Law
9 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 38 (18.54%) Architect
1 38 (18.54%) Developer
2 19 (9.27%) Senior
3 15 (7.32%) Analyst
3 15 (7.32%) Lead
4 14 (6.83%) Java Developer
4 14 (6.83%) Security Architect
5 12 (5.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 9 (4.39%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.39%) Data Engineer
7 8 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.41%) Technical Architect
9 6 (2.93%) Change Manager
9 6 (2.93%) Network Architect
10 5 (2.44%) Consultant
10 5 (2.44%) Data Scientist
10 5 (2.44%) JavaScript Engineer
10 5 (2.44%) Senior Architect
11 4 (1.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.24%) React
2 17 (8.29%) Kafka
3 14 (6.83%) Spring
3 14 (6.83%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.34%) Node.js
5 10 (4.88%) HTML
6 8 (3.90%) CSS
7 7 (3.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (2.93%) REST
9 5 (2.44%) Pandas
9 5 (2.44%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.44%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.44%) XML
10 4 (1.95%) .NET
10 4 (1.95%) OAuth
11 3 (1.46%) OpenID
11 3 (1.46%) RESTful
11 3 (1.46%) SAML
11 3 (1.46%) Web Services
11 3 (1.46%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.90%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.95%) PKI
6 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.98%) Clustering
7 2 (0.98%) CMDB
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.29%) Linux
2 16 (7.80%) Windows
3 6 (2.93%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.46%) AIX
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) SUSE
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.39%) Agile
2 39 (19.02%) DevOps
3 35 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (13.66%) Microservices
5 26 (12.68%) CI/CD
6 18 (8.78%) Project Management
7 17 (8.29%) Migration
8 15 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (6.83%) API Development
9 14 (6.83%) Mentoring
9 14 (6.83%) SOLID
9 14 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (6.34%) Clean Code
10 13 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (6.34%) Decision-Making
11 12 (5.85%) Analytics
11 12 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (5.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (5.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (5.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.56%) Python
2 34 (16.59%) SQL
3 31 (15.12%) Java
4 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.39%) Bash
6 7 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.93%) C#
8 5 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.44%) R
9 3 (1.46%) Go
9 3 (1.46%) Ruby
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.98%) Groovy
10 2 (0.98%) Scala
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 172 (83.90%) SC Cleared
2 19 (9.27%) Degree
3 15 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.41%) CISSP
8 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.95%) CCNP
9 4 (1.95%) CISM
10 3 (1.46%) OCP
10 3 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.98%) CCIE
11 2 (0.98%) VCAP
11 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.41%) GDPR
2 6 (2.93%) NIST
3 5 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.95%) QA
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.46%) PMO
5 3 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (6.83%) Docker
2 8 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.49%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (15.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.27%) Terraform
3 13 (6.34%) Ansible
4 5 (2.44%) SCCM
5 3 (1.46%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.46%) Grafana
5 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.98%) Kibana
6 2 (0.98%) WSUS
7 1 (0.49%) CASB
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.49%) Nessus
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.29%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) Cisco
4 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.44%) Google
5 5 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.95%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.95%) SAP
7 3 (1.46%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.46%) Citrix
7 3 (1.46%) Databricks
7 3 (1.46%) F5
7 3 (1.46%) Juniper
7 3 (1.46%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.46%) UiPath
7 3 (1.46%) VMware
8 2 (0.98%) Atempo
8 2 (0.98%) Mellanox
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) Splunk