Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Security Clearance
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 4.11% 6.76% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% 16.67% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £461 £225 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £250 £280
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -10.71% -55.20%
75th Percentile £619 £341 £290
90th Percentile £638 £459 -
West London median daily rate £675 £401 £500
% change year-on-year +68.54% -19.90% -14.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 30 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 20.55% 40.54% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 15
10th Percentile £226 £238 £355
25th Percentile £345 £384 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -15.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £663 £414 £494
90th Percentile £717 £515 £733
West London median daily rate £600 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +48.32% -14.84% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £55.60 -
25th Percentile - £56.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate - £58.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -16.92%
75th Percentile - £61.00 £68.00
90th Percentile - £62.20 £72.20
West London median hourly rate £14.36 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.92% -54.27% -15.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Hounslow

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Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Hounslow over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Hounslow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Security Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
Isleworth - 1 £360 -
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West London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle