Government Security Classifications Contracts in London

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Government Security Classifications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 386 491
Rank change year-on-year +41 +105 +105
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.028% 0.007%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% 0.20% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £506 £463 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -22.45% +33.01%
75th Percentile £700 £488 £619
90th Percentile £750 £509 -
England median daily rate £575 £495 £569
% change year-on-year +16.16% -12.97% -21.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,992 2,495 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 13.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,770 2,546
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 62 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £12.70 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.73 £81.25
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Government Security Classifications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Government Security Classifications in London

Government Security Classifications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Government Security Classifications in London.

Daily rate trend for Government Security Classifications in London

Government Security Classifications
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Government Security Classifications in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Government Security Classifications in London

Government Security Classifications
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Government Security Classifications within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West London - 2 £750 -
Central London - 2 £575 -
Government Security Classifications
England

Government Security Classifications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Police
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
4 2 (25.00%) BPMN
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware