Security Cleared Contracts in the City of London

Security Clearance
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 175 305 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.08% 8.70% 7.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.05% 43.20% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 174 201
10th Percentile £413 £415 £363
25th Percentile £459 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £673
90th Percentile £775 £772 £725
Central London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £21.19 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
% change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 437 706 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.18% 20.14% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 406 533
10th Percentile £379 £383 £370
25th Percentile £453 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £710 £650
90th Percentile £775 £823 £735
Central London median daily rate £530 £567 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% +3.14% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 19
10th Percentile - £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £37.75
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +13.19% +68.52%
75th Percentile £24.20 £53.75 £57.00
90th Percentile £25.88 £71.75 £66.95
Central London median hourly rate £23.91 £51.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -53.58% +13.19% +127.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 14 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
3 3 (1.71%) nginx
3 3 (1.71%) Site Server
4 2 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Camunda
5 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.57%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Moodle
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.43%) AWS
2 14 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 14 (8.00%) Azure
3 13 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (7.43%) Serverless
4 7 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.86%) GitHub
7 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.71%) IaaS
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.14%) GCP
9 2 (1.14%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.14%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) Firewall
2 7 (4.00%) WAN
3 5 (2.86%) LAN
4 3 (1.71%) DNS
5 2 (1.14%) BGP
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.14%) CTI
5 2 (1.14%) H.323
5 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.14%) VLAN
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.57%) HSRP
6 1 (0.57%) NAS
6 1 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.57%) Skype
6 1 (0.57%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.57%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.00%) Parquet
7 6 (3.43%) Metadata
8 5 (2.86%) Data Vault
8 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.29%) GIS
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.71%) Tableau
11 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.14%) MySQL
11 2 (1.14%) Siebel EIM
12 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.57%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Selenium
2 9 (5.14%) Git
3 8 (4.57%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.43%) GitLab
4 6 (3.43%) JIRA
4 6 (3.43%) JUnit
5 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.29%) Postman
6 4 (2.29%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.29%) TestNG
6 4 (2.29%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.71%) JMeter
7 3 (1.71%) Mockito
7 3 (1.71%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.14%) Appium
8 2 (1.14%) eggPlant
8 2 (1.14%) Maven
8 2 (1.14%) SOAtest
9 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
General
1 75 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.14%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Finance
4 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.86%) Publishing
6 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.71%) Police
6 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.14%) Banking
7 2 (1.14%) Law
7 2 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (17.14%) Developer
2 20 (11.43%) Architect
3 14 (8.00%) Senior
4 13 (7.43%) Data Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.71%) Consultant
7 9 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.57%) Security Architect
9 7 (4.00%) Analyst
9 7 (4.00%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.00%) Network Operations Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.43%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.86%) Designer
12 4 (2.29%) Applications Developer
12 4 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) Senior Developer
13 3 (1.71%) Operations Manager
13 3 (1.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.00%) Kafka
2 11 (6.29%) CSS
2 11 (6.29%) HTML
3 10 (5.71%) JSON
3 10 (5.71%) REST
3 10 (5.71%) Spring
4 9 (5.14%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.00%) Apache Avro
5 7 (4.00%) Node.js
5 7 (4.00%) OpenID
5 7 (4.00%) SAML
6 6 (3.43%) .NET
6 6 (3.43%) XACML
7 5 (2.86%) React
8 4 (2.29%) JAX-RS
8 4 (2.29%) RESTful
9 3 (1.71%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.71%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.71%) Laravel
9 3 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.86%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.14%) Clustering
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.14%) PKI
4 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.14%) Social Media
5 1 (0.57%) CBDC
5 1 (0.57%) CCTV
5 1 (0.57%) CMDB
5 1 (0.57%) Digital Currency
5 1 (0.57%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.57%) Linux
2 9 (5.14%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Unix
3 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.71%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.57%) Agile
2 19 (10.86%) DevOps
3 16 (9.14%) Test Automation
4 15 (8.57%) ETL
5 14 (8.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (6.29%) CI/CD
6 11 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (5.71%) Data Ingestion
8 9 (5.14%) Microservices
8 9 (5.14%) Project Delivery
8 9 (5.14%) Security Architecture
8 9 (5.14%) Web Development
9 8 (4.57%) SFIA
10 7 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (4.00%) Data Lineage
10 7 (4.00%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (4.00%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (4.00%) TDD
11 6 (3.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.57%) Python
2 23 (13.14%) Java
3 21 (12.00%) SQL
4 14 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.86%) C#
7 4 (2.29%) Bash
8 3 (1.71%) Korn
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) PHP
9 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) Rust
10 1 (0.57%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 135 (77.14%) SC Cleared
2 28 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.00%) Degree
4 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.71%) CCNA
4 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.71%) CISM
4 3 (1.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) MBA
5 1 (0.57%) SANS
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.29%) NIST
4 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.86%) Docker
2 6 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) Lustre
4 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.43%) Terraform
3 11 (6.29%) Ansible
4 9 (5.14%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.14%) Packer
5 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.57%) Consul
6 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
6 1 (0.57%) logstash
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.57%) SCCM
6 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (6.86%) Microsoft
1 12 (6.86%) Oracle
2 7 (4.00%) Cisco
2 7 (4.00%) IBM
3 6 (3.43%) Okta
4 5 (2.86%) Sparx
5 4 (2.29%) ESRI
5 4 (2.29%) SAP
5 4 (2.29%) VMware
6 3 (1.71%) Avaya
7 2 (1.14%) Brandwatch
7 2 (1.14%) Dell
7 2 (1.14%) Google
7 2 (1.14%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.14%) Siebel
8 1 (0.57%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.57%) Kenna