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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 18 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 181 293 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.28% 8.27% 7.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.14% 41.92% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 174 187
10th Percentile £413 £413 £366
25th Percentile £463 £472 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £775 £775 £722
Central London median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% +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 440 699 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.13% 19.73% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 410 520
10th Percentile £369 £374 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £720 £646
90th Percentile £775 £821 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% +5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 18
10th Percentile - £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £28.56
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +15.73% +71.15%
75th Percentile £24.20 £53.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £25.88 £71.75 £67.55
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £51.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.54% +15.73% +122.50%

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 9 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 13 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.21%) nginx
3 3 (1.66%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.10%) Site Server
4 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.55%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.55%) Moodle
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.55%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.62%) AWS
2 17 (9.39%) Amazon S3
3 16 (8.84%) Azure
4 14 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (7.73%) Serverless
5 8 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.87%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (3.87%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.21%) GitHub
9 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.66%) GCP
10 3 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (1.10%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) Firewall
2 6 (3.31%) WAN
3 4 (2.21%) LAN
4 3 (1.66%) DNS
5 2 (1.10%) CTI
5 2 (1.10%) H.323
5 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.10%) VLAN
5 2 (1.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) IPv4
6 1 (0.55%) NAS
6 1 (0.55%) SAN
6 1 (0.55%) Skype
6 1 (0.55%) SSH
6 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.73%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.52%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.42%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.87%) Parquet
7 6 (3.31%) Metadata
8 5 (2.76%) Data Vault
8 5 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.66%) GIS
10 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.66%) Tableau
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.10%) MySQL
11 2 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
12 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.08%) Selenium
2 9 (4.97%) Cucumber
2 9 (4.97%) Git
3 8 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.87%) JUnit
5 6 (3.31%) JIRA
6 5 (2.76%) GitLab
6 5 (2.76%) Maven
6 5 (2.76%) Postman
6 5 (2.76%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.76%) TestNG
7 4 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.21%) Mockito
7 4 (2.21%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.21%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.66%) JMeter
8 3 (1.66%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.10%) Appium
9 2 (1.10%) EasyMock
9 2 (1.10%) eggPlant
General
1 72 (39.78%) Public Sector
2 26 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.71%) Finance
4 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.76%) Publishing
6 4 (2.21%) Military
6 4 (2.21%) Police
6 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.66%) Banking
7 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Legal
8 2 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.02%) Developer
2 23 (12.71%) Architect
3 14 (7.73%) Senior
4 13 (7.18%) Data Engineer
5 11 (6.08%) Consultant
6 10 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.52%) Network Engineer
7 8 (4.42%) Analyst
7 8 (4.42%) Data Architect
7 8 (4.42%) Security Architect
8 7 (3.87%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (3.31%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Designer
10 5 (2.76%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.21%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.73%) Kafka
2 10 (5.52%) CSS
2 10 (5.52%) HTML
2 10 (5.52%) JSON
2 10 (5.52%) Spring
3 9 (4.97%) REST
3 9 (4.97%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.42%) OpenID
4 8 (4.42%) SAML
5 7 (3.87%) Apache Avro
6 6 (3.31%) .NET
6 6 (3.31%) Node.js
6 6 (3.31%) XACML
7 5 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.76%) JAX-RS
7 5 (2.76%) React
8 4 (2.21%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.21%) RESTful
9 3 (1.66%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.66%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.76%) Reference Data
2 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
2 3 (1.66%) PKI
2 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.10%) Clustering
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.10%) Social Media
4 1 (0.55%) CCTV
4 1 (0.55%) CMDB
4 1 (0.55%) Digital Currency
4 1 (0.55%) Digital Signage
4 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.55%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 10 (5.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.21%) Unix
3 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.66%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.10%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.57%) Agile
2 20 (11.05%) DevOps
3 17 (9.39%) Test Automation
4 15 (8.29%) Data Modelling
5 14 (7.73%) ETL
6 13 (7.18%) CI/CD
7 11 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (5.52%) Data Ingestion
8 10 (5.52%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (4.97%) Microservices
9 9 (4.97%) Security Architecture
9 9 (4.97%) SFIA
9 9 (4.97%) Web Development
10 8 (4.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (4.42%) Project Delivery
11 7 (3.87%) Data Lineage
11 7 (3.87%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (3.87%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (3.87%) Migration
11 7 (3.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.02%) Python
2 24 (13.26%) Java
3 21 (11.60%) SQL
4 12 (6.63%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.31%) C#
6 5 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.21%) Bash
8 2 (1.10%) C++
8 2 (1.10%) Korn
8 2 (1.10%) PHP
8 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.55%) C
9 1 (0.55%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Rust
9 1 (0.55%) VC++
Qualifications
1 143 (79.01%) SC Cleared
2 27 (14.92%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Degree
4 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.66%) CCNA
6 3 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CISM
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) MBA
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) QA
2 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.66%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (8.29%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) Lustre
4 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.39%) Terraform
3 12 (6.63%) Ansible
4 9 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.66%) Consul
6 3 (1.66%) Packer
7 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.55%) logstash
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.08%) Oracle
3 7 (3.87%) IBM
4 6 (3.31%) Okta
5 5 (2.76%) Cisco
5 5 (2.76%) Sparx
6 4 (2.21%) SAP
6 4 (2.21%) VMware
7 3 (1.66%) Avaya
7 3 (1.66%) ESRI
7 3 (1.66%) Google
7 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.10%) Brandwatch
8 2 (1.10%) Dell
8 2 (1.10%) MKS
8 2 (1.10%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.10%) Siebel
9 1 (0.55%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.55%) Kenna