Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Security Clearance
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 13.64% 13.21% 11.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% 70.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £295 £381 -
25th Percentile £430 £409 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £454 £185
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% +145.14% -69.17%
75th Percentile £619 £491 £193
90th Percentile £630 £521 £194
Central London median daily rate £525 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -0.28% -4.27% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 27.27% 18.87% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £336 £388 £173
25th Percentile £375 £416 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £454 £185
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +145.14% -69.17%
75th Percentile £631 £484 £194
90th Percentile £655 £514 £379
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the City of Westminster

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Security Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Westminster +1 6 £543 +20.56% 1
Security Cleared
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Mattermost
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DKIM
1 1 (16.67%) DMARC
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) PSTN
1 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (16.67%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) DBA
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Lean Practitioner
1 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
1 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Loki
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) GitOps
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (16.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) VMware