Security Cleared Contracts in the City of London

Security Clearance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 17 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 181 181 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.60% 8.31% 9.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.58% 39.43% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 118 178
10th Percentile £413 £413 £418
25th Percentile £456 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.69% +3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £675
90th Percentile £703 £775 £746
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.22
25th Percentile - £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate - £20.82 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year - +7.56% -
75th Percentile - £21.41 £20.39
90th Percentile - - £20.87
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £20.82 £19.35
% change year-on-year +20.47% +7.56% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 406 459 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.77% 21.08% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 294 405
10th Percentile £388 £382 £394
25th Percentile £463 £455 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £676 £655 £700
90th Percentile £764 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £531 £575
% change year-on-year +3.53% -7.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £34.16 - £17.31
25th Percentile £44.32 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.91 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +198.94% -42.09% -18.87%
75th Percentile £81.88 £22.88 £53.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £25.35 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £21.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +38.43% -41.83% -18.87%

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 12 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the City of London

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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 10 (5.52%) Confluence
2 4 (2.21%) Apache
3 3 (1.66%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.55%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.46%) AWS
2 22 (12.15%) Azure
3 13 (7.18%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.18%) Serverless
4 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.97%) GCP
7 7 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.76%) GitHub
8 5 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.21%) OCI
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon Macie
11 2 (1.10%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) Firewall
2 6 (3.31%) Network Security
2 6 (3.31%) VPN
3 5 (2.76%) DNS
4 4 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.66%) LAN
5 3 (1.66%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.10%) HTTP
6 2 (1.10%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) BGP
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.55%) MGCP
7 1 (0.55%) OSPF
7 1 (0.55%) SAN
7 1 (0.55%) SSL
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.73%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.63%) Power BI
4 8 (4.42%) Redis
5 6 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.31%) Tableau
6 5 (2.76%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.66%) MySQL
8 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.10%) Metadata
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) JIRA
2 12 (6.63%) Git
3 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.76%) GitLab
6 4 (2.21%) Selenium
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.10%) JUnit
7 2 (1.10%) MSI
7 2 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.55%) ESLint
8 1 (0.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.55%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.55%) Mocha
8 1 (0.55%) Postman
8 1 (0.55%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) Travis CI
General
1 79 (43.65%) Public Sector
2 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.94%) Finance
5 11 (6.08%) Military
6 10 (5.52%) Police
7 5 (2.76%) Law
8 4 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 35 (19.34%) Developer
2 32 (17.68%) Architect
3 18 (9.94%) Senior
4 15 (8.29%) Analyst
4 15 (8.29%) Lead
5 14 (7.73%) Java Developer
6 13 (7.18%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.97%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.31%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.31%) Network Architect
12 5 (2.76%) JavaScript Engineer
13 4 (2.21%) Data Scientist
13 4 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.21%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.60%) React
2 17 (9.39%) Kafka
3 14 (7.73%) Spring
3 14 (7.73%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.18%) Node.js
5 10 (5.52%) HTML
6 8 (4.42%) CSS
7 6 (3.31%) REST
8 4 (2.21%) .NET
8 4 (2.21%) OAuth
8 4 (2.21%) Pandas
8 4 (2.21%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.21%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.66%) JSON
9 3 (1.66%) OpenID
9 3 (1.66%) RESTful
9 3 (1.66%) SAML
9 3 (1.66%) Web Services
10 2 (1.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.87%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.76%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.21%) PKI
5 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.10%) Clustering
6 2 (1.10%) CMDB
6 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.55%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.55%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.18%) Linux
1 13 (7.18%) Windows
2 6 (3.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) SUSE
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.62%) Agile
2 39 (21.55%) DevOps
3 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.47%) Microservices
5 25 (13.81%) CI/CD
6 15 (8.29%) Project Management
7 14 (7.73%) API Development
7 14 (7.73%) SOLID
7 14 (7.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (7.18%) Clean Code
8 13 (7.18%) Mentoring
8 13 (7.18%) Migration
9 12 (6.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (6.63%) Decision-Making
9 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (6.63%) ITIL
10 11 (6.08%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.78%) Python
2 31 (17.13%) Java
3 30 (16.57%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.57%) SQL
4 6 (3.31%) Bash
4 6 (3.31%) C#
4 6 (3.31%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.21%) R
6 3 (1.66%) Go
6 3 (1.66%) Ruby
6 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.10%) Groovy
7 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.10%) Scala
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) C++
8 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (83.43%) SC Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) Degree
3 14 (7.73%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.31%) CISSP
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.21%) CCNP
9 4 (2.21%) CISM
10 3 (1.66%) OCP
10 3 (1.66%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.10%) CCIE
11 2 (1.10%) VCAP
11 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) GDPR
2 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.76%) NIST
3 4 (2.21%) QA
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.66%) PMO
4 3 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (7.73%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.55%) Firmware
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.94%) Terraform
3 12 (6.63%) Ansible
4 5 (2.76%) SCCM
5 3 (1.66%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.66%) Grafana
5 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.10%) Kibana
6 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.10%) Puppet
6 2 (1.10%) WSUS
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.55%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.55%) Nessus
7 1 (0.55%) Packer
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.97%) Cisco
3 8 (4.42%) Oracle
4 6 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.76%) Google
5 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.66%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.66%) Databricks
7 3 (1.66%) F5
7 3 (1.66%) Juniper
7 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.66%) SAP
7 3 (1.66%) UiPath
7 3 (1.66%) VMware
8 2 (1.10%) Atempo
8 2 (1.10%) Citrix
8 2 (1.10%) Mellanox
8 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk