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

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 182 176 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.54% 8.11% 9.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.75% 38.26% 45.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 112 180
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £569
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -8.79% +3.41%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £675
90th Percentile £703 £761 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.22
25th Percentile £61.86 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £63.72 £20.82 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year +206.10% +7.56% -
75th Percentile £65.57 £21.41 £20.39
90th Percentile - - £20.87
Central London median hourly rate £44.40 £20.82 £19.35
% change year-on-year +113.28% +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 416 460 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.10% 21.21% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 292 408
10th Percentile £400 £376 £393
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £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 4 4 6
10th Percentile £37.55 - £17.31
25th Percentile £52.79 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £63.11 £20.91 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +201.84% -42.09% -17.01%
75th Percentile £74.18 £22.88 £53.50
90th Percentile £89.67 £25.35 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £21.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +144.95% -41.83% -17.01%

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

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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 17 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 9 (4.95%) Confluence
2 4 (2.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.65%) 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 (3.30%) 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 (2.75%) 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 (36.26%) AWS
2 24 (13.19%) Azure
3 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.14%) Serverless
4 11 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.49%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.95%) GCP
7 7 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.75%) GitHub
8 5 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.20%) OCI
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.65%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.24%) Firewall
2 6 (3.30%) Network Security
2 6 (3.30%) VPN
3 5 (2.75%) DNS
4 4 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.65%) LAN
5 3 (1.65%) SAN
5 3 (1.65%) 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%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.55%) H.323
7 1 (0.55%) IPsec
7 1 (0.55%) MGCP
7 1 (0.55%) OSPF
7 1 (0.55%) WebEx
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.59%) Power BI
5 8 (4.40%) Redis
6 6 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (3.30%) Tableau
7 5 (2.75%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.65%) MySQL
9 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.10%) Metadata
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (7.14%) JIRA
2 10 (5.49%) Git
3 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.75%) GitLab
6 4 (2.20%) Selenium
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%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
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 (43.41%) Public Sector
2 50 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.89%) Finance
5 11 (6.04%) Military
6 10 (5.49%) Police
7 5 (2.75%) Law
8 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 34 (18.68%) Developer
2 32 (17.58%) Architect
3 18 (9.89%) Senior
4 16 (8.79%) Analyst
5 15 (8.24%) Lead
6 14 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 13 (7.14%) Security Architect
8 12 (6.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.49%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.85%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.30%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.30%) Network Architect
13 5 (2.75%) JavaScript Engineer
14 4 (2.20%) Consultant
14 4 (2.20%) Data Scientist
14 4 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
14 4 (2.20%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.99%) React
2 17 (9.34%) Kafka
3 14 (7.69%) Spring
3 14 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.59%) Node.js
5 10 (5.49%) HTML
6 8 (4.40%) CSS
7 6 (3.30%) REST
8 4 (2.20%) OAuth
8 4 (2.20%) Pandas
8 4 (2.20%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.20%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.65%) .NET
9 3 (1.65%) JSON
9 3 (1.65%) OpenID
9 3 (1.65%) SAML
9 3 (1.65%) Web Services
10 2 (1.10%) ADO
10 2 (1.10%) SOAP
10 2 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.75%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.75%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.20%) PKI
4 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.65%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.65%) 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%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.55%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.55%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.14%) Windows
2 12 (6.59%) Linux
3 6 (3.30%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.37%) Agile
2 38 (20.88%) DevOps
3 31 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.38%) Microservices
5 24 (13.19%) CI/CD
6 15 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (7.69%) Project Management
7 14 (7.69%) SOLID
7 14 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (7.14%) API Development
8 13 (7.14%) Clean Code
8 13 (7.14%) Migration
9 12 (6.59%) Decision-Making
9 12 (6.59%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.04%) Containerisation
10 11 (6.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.04%) ITIL
11 10 (5.49%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.13%) Python
2 31 (17.03%) Java
3 29 (15.93%) JavaScript
3 29 (15.93%) SQL
4 6 (3.30%) Bash
4 6 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.75%) C#
6 4 (2.20%) R
7 3 (1.65%) Go
7 3 (1.65%) Ruby
7 3 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.10%) Groovy
8 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.10%) Scala
8 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) C
9 1 (0.55%) C++
9 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (82.97%) SC Cleared
2 19 (10.44%) Degree
3 14 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.30%) CISSP
8 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.20%) CCNP
9 4 (2.20%) CISM
10 3 (1.65%) OCP
10 3 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.10%) CCIE
11 2 (1.10%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.10%) VCAP
11 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) GDPR
2 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.75%) NIST
3 4 (2.20%) QA
4 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.65%) PMO
4 3 (1.65%) 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 13 (7.14%) Docker
2 8 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.65%) 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 31 (17.03%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.34%) Terraform
3 11 (6.04%) Ansible
4 5 (2.75%) SCCM
5 3 (1.65%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.65%) Grafana
5 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.10%) Kibana
6 2 (1.10%) NetBackup
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 UCCE
7 1 (0.55%) Consul
7 1 (0.55%) EnCase
7 1 (0.55%) FTK
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.04%) Cisco
3 8 (4.40%) Oracle
4 6 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.75%) Google
5 5 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.20%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.65%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.65%) Databricks
7 3 (1.65%) F5
7 3 (1.65%) Juniper
7 3 (1.65%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.65%) SAP
7 3 (1.65%) UiPath
7 3 (1.65%) VMware
8 2 (1.10%) Citrix
8 2 (1.10%) Dell
8 2 (1.10%) Mellanox
8 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk