Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,491 1,724 2,041
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.68% 12.74% 11.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.81% 49.68% 49.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,681 1,248 1,485
10th Percentile £400 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £529 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 37
10th Percentile £20.96 £18.87 £14.85
25th Percentile £25.89 - £17.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £38.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £46.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £64.09 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +154.83% -56.26% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,471 3,470 4,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 25.65% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,953 2,346 2,851
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 100
10th Percentile £19.44 £18.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.04 £20.86
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -3.27% -51.85%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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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 Security Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Central London +13 445 £550 +3.09% 80
South London 0 145 £521 -2.25% 7
West London -36 13 £675 +68.75% 30
East London +11 11 £750 - 19
North London 0 4 - - 1
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 159 (4.55%) Confluence
2 93 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.00%) nginx
4 33 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.83%) Apache
7 23 (0.66%) SAS
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) JBoss
13 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.086%) Drupal
14 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.057%) Documentum
15 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.32%) Revit
5 11 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
6 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.086%) Sketch
8 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.029%) InDesign
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 20 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 15 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.40%) Temenos T24
6 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.086%) Changepoint
12 3 (0.086%) Oracle iProcurement
12 3 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 798 (22.86%) Azure
2 752 (21.54%) AWS
3 246 (7.05%) GitHub
4 203 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 166 (4.76%) GCP
7 158 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.92%) Serverless
9 135 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 107 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
13 86 (2.46%) Entra ID
14 79 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 64 (1.83%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.80%) Azure AKS
19 62 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (2.72%) Firewall
2 84 (2.41%) DNS
3 62 (1.78%) Network Security
4 53 (1.52%) VPN
5 25 (0.72%) WAN
6 24 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.66%) DHCP
8 22 (0.63%) LAN
9 13 (0.37%) DKIM
9 13 (0.37%) DMARC
9 13 (0.37%) HTTP
9 13 (0.37%) OpenVPN
10 12 (0.34%) SAN
11 11 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.32%) NAS
12 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 9 (0.26%) SMTP
13 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (0.23%) VSAN
15 7 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (3.84%) Power BI
2 94 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.78%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
8 43 (1.23%) Metadata
9 41 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 27 (0.77%) Tableau
13 25 (0.72%) MongoDB
14 23 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (0.66%) Delta Lake
15 20 (0.57%) Big Data
16 19 (0.54%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.40%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 221 (6.33%) JIRA
2 202 (5.79%) Git
3 184 (5.27%) Jenkins
4 130 (3.72%) GitLab
5 35 (1.00%) Selenium
6 25 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 24 (0.69%) JMeter
8 23 (0.66%) JUnit
9 22 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.60%) Postman
11 20 (0.57%) Mockito
12 19 (0.54%) Gradle
13 17 (0.49%) Artifactory
13 17 (0.49%) Maven
14 14 (0.40%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.37%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.34%) Visual Studio
17 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
18 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
19 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 999 (28.62%) Public Sector
2 653 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 326 (9.34%) Finance
4 214 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (2.81%) Banking
6 88 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 83 (2.38%) Military
8 73 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (1.35%) Police
10 43 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.03%) Law
12 35 (1.00%) Legal
13 28 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (0.72%) Marketing
14 25 (0.72%) Retail
15 24 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.52%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.37%) Publishing
18 12 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 633 (18.13%) Architect
2 457 (13.09%) Developer
3 311 (8.91%) Lead
4 275 (7.88%) Senior
5 262 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 198 (5.67%) Analyst
7 181 (5.18%) Data Engineer
8 162 (4.64%) Consultant
9 116 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
10 114 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
11 113 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
12 96 (2.75%) Technical Architect
13 95 (2.72%) Java Developer
14 94 (2.69%) Designer
15 92 (2.64%) Security Architect
16 90 (2.58%) Business Analyst
17 88 (2.52%) Software Engineer
18 78 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
19 77 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 76 (2.18%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (3.92%) REST
2 124 (3.55%) Spring
3 97 (2.78%) Spring Boot
4 87 (2.49%) React
5 82 (2.35%) RESTful
6 78 (2.23%) .NET
7 75 (2.15%) Kafka
8 69 (1.98%) Node.js
9 67 (1.92%) PySpark
10 57 (1.63%) JSON
11 54 (1.55%) SOAP
12 51 (1.46%) HTML
13 48 (1.37%) AngularJS
14 43 (1.23%) OAuth
15 41 (1.17%) Web Services
16 39 (1.12%) Django
17 37 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
18 36 (1.03%) LDAP
18 36 (1.03%) OpenID
19 32 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 119 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 47 (1.35%) CMDB
8 45 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 45 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.06%) Replication
10 32 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 32 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 29 (0.83%) Public Cloud
12 26 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 26 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
14 24 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.66%) PKI
16 21 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.78%) Linux
2 148 (4.24%) Windows
3 59 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 32 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (0.77%) Android
5 27 (0.77%) Unix
6 21 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.40%) Solaris
9 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.086%) SUSE
15 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (22.72%) DevOps
2 768 (22.00%) Agile
3 659 (18.88%) CI/CD
4 422 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 322 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
7 313 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 301 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 291 (8.34%) Migration
10 269 (7.71%) Containerisation
11 265 (7.59%) AI
12 223 (6.39%) Analytics
12 223 (6.39%) Data Modelling
13 221 (6.33%) Decision-Making
14 213 (6.10%) Roadmaps
15 206 (5.90%) Test Automation
16 195 (5.59%) Software Engineering
17 194 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
18 187 (5.36%) Microservices
19 169 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 433 (12.40%) Python
2 353 (10.11%) SQL
3 283 (8.11%) Java
4 131 (3.75%) PowerShell
5 129 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 102 (2.92%) C#
7 99 (2.84%) Bash
8 71 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 42 (1.20%) Bicep
10 36 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 31 (0.89%) Ruby
12 28 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.60%) Groovy
16 19 (0.54%) R
16 19 (0.54%) Scala
17 12 (0.34%) Go
18 9 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,863 (82.01%) SC Cleared
2 444 (12.72%) DV Cleared
3 94 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 71 (2.03%) Degree
5 65 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.60%) CISSP
8 37 (1.06%) CISM
9 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (0.66%) PMP
11 21 (0.60%) GIAC
12 20 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
13 17 (0.49%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.37%) CEH
15 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.87%) QA
2 130 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.49%) NCSC
4 83 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 81 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 67 (1.92%) NIST
7 66 (1.89%) PMO
8 61 (1.75%) GDPR
9 36 (1.03%) GRC
10 25 (0.72%) WCAG
11 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
12 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.34%) SLA
14 11 (0.32%) COBIT
14 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
17 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 300 (8.59%) Docker
2 89 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.49%) Squid
8 16 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.46%) vSphere
9 13 (0.37%) NFS
10 9 (0.26%) Postfix
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.17%) Varnish
14 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.11%) UAG
15 3 (0.086%) Firmware
15 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 454 (13.00%) Terraform
2 381 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.49%) Ansible
4 109 (3.12%) Grafana
5 96 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.80%) Puppet
8 22 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.43%) Argo
9 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.43%) vMotion
10 13 (0.37%) SCCM
11 12 (0.34%) Consul
11 12 (0.34%) Control-M
11 12 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.32%) Kibana
12 11 (0.32%) Packer
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 374 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 204 (5.84%) Oracle
3 151 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 105 (3.01%) Databricks
5 98 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.64%) VMware
7 84 (2.41%) Google
8 74 (2.12%) Splunk
9 61 (1.75%) SAP
10 37 (1.06%) IBM
11 36 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.97%) Cisco
13 31 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.74%) Informatica
15 25 (0.72%) Okta
16 23 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) Tenable
17 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.52%) Palo Alto
19 17 (0.49%) OpenAI