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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 189 175 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 11.07% 8.07% 9.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.65% 38.72% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 112 178
10th Percentile £413 £413 £418
25th Percentile £456 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £569
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -7.91% +3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £773 £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 414 452 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.25% 20.84% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 290 405
10th Percentile £375 £385 £394
25th Percentile £463 £455 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £763 £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 10 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

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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 (5.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.17%) Apache
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.59%) nginx
5 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.53%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.53%) Camunda
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (36.51%) AWS
2 25 (13.23%) Azure
3 15 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.94%) Serverless
4 13 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.35%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.76%) GCP
7 7 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.65%) GitHub
8 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.12%) OCI
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.59%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon Macie
11 2 (1.06%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) Network Security
2 6 (3.17%) VPN
3 5 (2.65%) DNS
4 4 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.59%) LAN
5 3 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.59%) SSH
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.06%) HTTP
6 2 (1.06%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.06%) WAN
7 1 (0.53%) DHCP
7 1 (0.53%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.53%) MGCP
7 1 (0.53%) OSPF
7 1 (0.53%) SAN
7 1 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.41%) Power BI
3 9 (4.76%) Redis
4 7 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.70%) Tableau
5 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.65%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.12%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.59%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.59%) MySQL
8 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.06%) Metadata
10 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (8.47%) JIRA
2 15 (7.94%) Git
3 8 (4.23%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.65%) GitLab
6 4 (2.12%) Selenium
7 3 (1.59%) RStudio
8 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.06%) JUnit
8 2 (1.06%) MSI
8 2 (1.06%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.53%) ESLint
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Postman
9 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
General
1 83 (43.92%) Public Sector
2 50 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Finance
5 13 (6.88%) Military
6 10 (5.29%) Police
7 5 (2.65%) Law
8 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (19.58%) Developer
2 33 (17.46%) Architect
3 18 (9.52%) Senior
4 16 (8.47%) Analyst
4 16 (8.47%) Lead
5 14 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.17%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.17%) Network Architect
13 5 (2.65%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.65%) JavaScript Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (2.12%) Consultant
14 4 (2.12%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.64%) React
2 19 (10.05%) Kafka
3 14 (7.41%) Node.js
3 14 (7.41%) Spring
3 14 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.88%) HTML
5 10 (5.29%) CSS
6 6 (3.17%) REST
7 5 (2.65%) .NET
7 5 (2.65%) JSON
7 5 (2.65%) Pandas
7 5 (2.65%) RESTful
7 5 (2.65%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.65%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.65%) Web Services
8 4 (2.12%) OAuth
8 4 (2.12%) pydantic
8 4 (2.12%) YAML
9 3 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.65%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.12%) PKI
5 3 (1.59%) CMDB
5 3 (1.59%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.06%) Clustering
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) CSOC
7 1 (0.53%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.94%) Linux
2 13 (6.88%) Windows
3 6 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) SUSE
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.04%) Agile
2 42 (22.22%) DevOps
3 37 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (15.34%) Microservices
5 27 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 15 (7.94%) Project Management
6 15 (7.94%) SOLID
6 15 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (7.41%) API Development
7 14 (7.41%) Clean Code
7 14 (7.41%) Mentoring
7 14 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (6.88%) Containerisation
8 13 (6.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (6.88%) ITIL
8 13 (6.88%) Migration
9 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (5.82%) Decision-Making
10 11 (5.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.11%) Python
2 34 (17.99%) SQL
3 33 (17.46%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.40%) Java
5 8 (4.23%) Bash
6 6 (3.17%) C#
6 6 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.12%) R
7 4 (2.12%) Scala
8 3 (1.59%) Go
8 3 (1.59%) Ruby
8 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.59%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.06%) Groovy
9 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) C
10 1 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (83.60%) SC Cleared
2 19 (10.05%) Degree
3 14 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.17%) CISSP
8 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.12%) CCNP
9 4 (2.12%) CISM
10 3 (1.59%) OCP
10 3 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.06%) CCIE
11 2 (1.06%) VCAP
11 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) GDPR
2 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.12%) PMO
3 4 (2.12%) QA
4 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (7.41%) Docker
2 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.05%) Terraform
3 12 (6.35%) Ansible
4 5 (2.65%) SCCM
5 3 (1.59%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.59%) Grafana
5 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.06%) Kibana
6 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.06%) Puppet
6 2 (1.06%) WSUS
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.53%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.53%) Nessus
7 1 (0.53%) Packer
7 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.76%) Cisco
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle
3 6 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.65%) Databricks
4 5 (2.65%) Google
5 4 (2.12%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.59%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.59%) F5
6 3 (1.59%) Juniper
6 3 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.59%) SAP
6 3 (1.59%) UiPath
6 3 (1.59%) VMware
7 2 (1.06%) Atempo
7 2 (1.06%) Citrix
7 2 (1.06%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk