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 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 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 3,441 1,725 2,054
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.74% 12.99% 11.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.88% 50.38% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,636 1,247 1,497
10th Percentile £402 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 36
10th Percentile £25.18 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £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 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.25 £49.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +151.03% -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 5,387 3,424 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 25.79% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,881 2,304 2,858
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £771
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 77 107
10th Percentile £19.19 £18.48 £14.96
25th Percentile £25.94 £25.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.19 £50.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.34 £68.30
England median hourly rate £53.90 £28.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.27% -33.69% -22.73%

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

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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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +12 443 £550 - 151
South London 0 144 £520 -2.21% 6
East London +12 15 £750 - 15
West London -36 13 £675 +100.00% 40
Security Cleared
England

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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
1 149 (4.33%) Confluence
2 86 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.93%) nginx
6 29 (0.84%) Apache
7 24 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.41%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.15%) JBoss
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.087%) Drupal
14 3 (0.087%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.058%) MQSeries
Applications
1 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.32%) Revit
4 11 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.44%) Findur
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 769 (22.35%) Azure
2 743 (21.59%) AWS
3 234 (6.80%) GitHub
4 187 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 183 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 154 (4.48%) GCP
7 147 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.98%) Serverless
9 134 (3.89%) Amazon S3
10 107 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (2.47%) Entra ID
14 77 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
15 69 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 66 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (1.83%) Azure AKS
19 62 (1.80%) Power Automate
20 61 (1.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.82%) Firewall
2 85 (2.47%) DNS
3 65 (1.89%) Network Security
4 53 (1.54%) VPN
5 30 (0.87%) WAN
6 28 (0.81%) LAN
7 27 (0.78%) DHCP
8 21 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.38%) DKIM
10 13 (0.38%) DMARC
10 13 (0.38%) HTTP
11 12 (0.35%) SAN
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
13 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.29%) SMTP
14 9 (0.26%) MPLS
14 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (3.72%) Power BI
2 91 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (1.31%) Metadata
9 40 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 34 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.81%) Tableau
14 27 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.73%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (0.64%) Oracle Database
17 21 (0.61%) Big Data
18 15 (0.44%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 211 (6.13%) JIRA
2 189 (5.49%) Git
3 177 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 133 (3.87%) GitLab
5 33 (0.96%) Selenium
6 24 (0.70%) JMeter
6 24 (0.70%) JUnit
7 22 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.61%) Mockito
9 20 (0.58%) Postman
10 19 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.52%) Artifactory
12 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.41%) Gradle
13 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.29%) Maven
15 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 980 (28.48%) Public Sector
2 636 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 318 (9.24%) Finance
4 205 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (2.88%) Banking
6 89 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 83 (2.41%) Military
8 71 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.28%) Police
10 42 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.08%) Legal
12 33 (0.96%) Law
13 28 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.73%) Retail
16 24 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (0.67%) Marketing
18 17 (0.49%) Manufacturing
19 13 (0.38%) Publishing
20 12 (0.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 634 (18.42%) Architect
2 443 (12.87%) Developer
3 294 (8.54%) Lead
4 274 (7.96%) Senior
5 256 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 200 (5.81%) Analyst
7 184 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 156 (4.53%) Consultant
9 120 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
11 104 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
12 99 (2.88%) Technical Architect
13 97 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 94 (2.73%) Security Architect
15 88 (2.56%) Java Developer
16 86 (2.50%) Designer
17 83 (2.41%) Software Engineer
18 78 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
19 76 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 71 (2.06%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.57%) REST
2 121 (3.52%) Spring
3 92 (2.67%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.47%) React
5 76 (2.21%) RESTful
6 74 (2.15%) Kafka
7 69 (2.01%) PySpark
8 68 (1.98%) .NET
9 67 (1.95%) Node.js
10 55 (1.60%) JSON
11 47 (1.37%) SOAP
12 45 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 44 (1.28%) HTML
13 44 (1.28%) OAuth
14 41 (1.19%) Web Services
15 40 (1.16%) LDAP
16 38 (1.10%) Django
17 37 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
18 35 (1.02%) OpenID
19 34 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 206 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 121 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 58 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 58 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 43 (1.25%) CMDB
8 42 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.10%) Replication
10 34 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 32 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 28 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 27 (0.78%) PKI
14 23 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 169 (4.91%) Linux
2 154 (4.48%) Windows
3 61 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (0.73%) Android
5 25 (0.73%) Unix
6 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.44%) Solaris
8 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.12%) AIX
15 3 (0.087%) SUSE
15 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (22.32%) DevOps
2 737 (21.42%) Agile
3 642 (18.66%) CI/CD
4 407 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 397 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 310 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 296 (8.60%) Migration
8 296 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 265 (7.70%) AI
10 263 (7.64%) Containerisation
11 223 (6.48%) Decision-Making
12 216 (6.28%) Data Modelling
13 209 (6.07%) Analytics
13 209 (6.07%) Roadmaps
14 194 (5.64%) Test Automation
15 192 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
16 189 (5.49%) Software Engineering
17 176 (5.11%) Microservices
18 161 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 427 (12.41%) Python
2 343 (9.97%) SQL
3 270 (7.85%) Java
4 128 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 123 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 98 (2.85%) C#
7 96 (2.79%) Bash
8 70 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 40 (1.16%) Bicep
10 33 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.87%) Ruby
13 27 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.61%) Scala
16 20 (0.58%) R
17 19 (0.55%) Groovy
18 13 (0.38%) Go
19 7 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 2,813 (81.75%) SC Cleared
2 428 (12.44%) DV Cleared
3 88 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 76 (2.21%) Degree
5 59 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 56 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.63%) CISSP
7 37 (1.08%) CISM
8 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (0.61%) PMP
10 20 (0.58%) GIAC
11 19 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
12 15 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.38%) CEH
15 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 130 (3.78%) QA
3 86 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (2.50%) NCSC
4 81 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 69 (2.01%) GDPR
6 67 (1.95%) NIST
7 60 (1.74%) PMO
8 26 (0.76%) GRC
9 24 (0.70%) WCAG
10 14 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
12 11 (0.32%) COBIT
12 11 (0.32%) SLA
13 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 297 (8.63%) Docker
2 87 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.49%) Squid
8 16 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.44%) vSphere
10 13 (0.38%) NFS
11 9 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.26%) Postfix
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.17%) Varnish
14 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.087%) Firmware
15 3 (0.087%) UAG
15 3 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 448 (13.02%) Terraform
2 382 (11.10%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.55%) Ansible
4 101 (2.94%) Grafana
5 91 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.81%) Puppet
8 22 (0.64%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.46%) vMotion
10 14 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.41%) SCCM
11 13 (0.38%) Argo
12 12 (0.35%) Consul
12 12 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.32%) Kibana
13 11 (0.32%) Packer
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 353 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 191 (5.55%) Oracle
3 137 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 107 (3.11%) Databricks
5 97 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.70%) VMware
7 74 (2.15%) Google
8 66 (1.92%) Splunk
9 60 (1.74%) SAP
10 38 (1.10%) IBM
11 37 (1.08%) Cisco
12 35 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 29 (0.84%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.81%) Okta
15 25 (0.73%) Informatica
16 23 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.67%) Tenable
17 20 (0.58%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.55%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.55%) Palo Alto