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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,518 1,724 1,952
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.68% 12.61% 11.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.98% 49.12% 49.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,690 1,249 1,436
10th Percentile £400 £364 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £648
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 25
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £16.90
25th Percentile £25.94 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.63% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.25 £46.25 £59.00
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £56.89
% change year-on-year +152.49% -55.79% -5.19%

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 5,499 3,510 3,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.64% 25.68% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 2,377 2,744
10th Percentile £371 £332 £331
25th Percentile £453 £430 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -2.28% -2.32%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 83 73
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.15 £17.93
25th Percentile £27.13 £25.02 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +13 442 £550 +1.52% 83
South London 0 140 £523 -1.83% 4
West London -37 16 £675 +68.75% 33
East London +12 11 £750 +7.14% 21
North London +1 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
1 156 (4.43%) Confluence
2 100 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.11%) SAS
4 33 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.88%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) nginx
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.085%) Drupal
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.057%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.34%) Revit
4 12 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
5 11 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Maya
10 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Findur
3 14 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.11%) iTrent
10 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.085%) Changepoint
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 800 (22.74%) Azure
2 753 (21.40%) AWS
3 256 (7.28%) GitHub
4 207 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 207 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 183 (5.20%) GCP
6 159 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
7 137 (3.89%) Amazon S3
8 128 (3.64%) Serverless
9 101 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
11 87 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (2.25%) Entra ID
13 71 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 67 (1.90%) Power Automate
14 67 (1.90%) PowerApps
15 64 (1.82%) Azure AKS
16 59 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.47%) Firewall
2 72 (2.05%) DNS
3 62 (1.76%) Network Security
4 50 (1.42%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
7 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.45%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) DKIM
11 11 (0.31%) DMARC
11 11 (0.31%) SAN
12 10 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.26%) NAS
13 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.26%) VSAN
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
14 8 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (4.12%) Power BI
2 93 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 62 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (1.28%) Metadata
8 40 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 40 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (0.80%) Delta Lake
13 27 (0.77%) Tableau
14 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (0.63%) Big Data
14 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
15 18 (0.51%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 216 (6.14%) JIRA
2 204 (5.80%) Git
3 180 (5.12%) Jenkins
4 128 (3.64%) GitLab
5 32 (0.91%) Selenium
6 24 (0.68%) JMeter
7 21 (0.60%) JUnit
8 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 19 (0.54%) Gradle
9 19 (0.54%) Mockito
10 17 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 16 (0.45%) Maven
11 16 (0.45%) Postman
12 12 (0.34%) Artifactory
13 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
14 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.28%) Liquibase
15 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.20%) Gatling
General
1 1,015 (28.85%) Public Sector
2 677 (19.24%) Social Skills
3 333 (9.47%) Finance
4 229 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (2.73%) Banking
6 87 (2.47%) Military
7 69 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 65 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.42%) Police
10 47 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 42 (1.19%) Law
12 36 (1.02%) Legal
13 34 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.77%) Marketing
16 24 (0.68%) Retail
17 22 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 22 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.48%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 661 (18.79%) Architect
2 454 (12.91%) Developer
3 322 (9.15%) Lead
4 290 (8.24%) Senior
5 247 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 192 (5.46%) Analyst
7 188 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 159 (4.52%) Consultant
9 125 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
11 106 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 97 (2.76%) Security Architect
13 96 (2.73%) Designer
14 93 (2.64%) Java Developer
15 92 (2.62%) Software Engineer
15 92 (2.62%) Technical Architect
16 87 (2.47%) Data Architect
17 83 (2.36%) Business Analyst
18 82 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 80 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.24%) REST
2 117 (3.33%) Spring
3 94 (2.67%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.42%) React
5 81 (2.30%) .NET
5 81 (2.30%) RESTful
6 76 (2.16%) Kafka
7 66 (1.88%) PySpark
8 64 (1.82%) Node.js
9 62 (1.76%) SOAP
10 60 (1.71%) JSON
11 51 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 51 (1.45%) HTML
12 46 (1.31%) Web Services
13 42 (1.19%) Django
14 38 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
15 36 (1.02%) XML
16 33 (0.94%) Middleware
16 33 (0.94%) OAuth
17 29 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 52 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 50 (1.42%) CMDB
9 47 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
10 34 (0.97%) Data Structures
11 32 (0.91%) Security Posture
12 29 (0.82%) Clustering
13 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (0.74%) Replication
16 25 (0.71%) Public Cloud
17 24 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (0.68%) PKI
18 23 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 169 (4.80%) Linux
2 150 (4.26%) Windows
3 54 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.80%) Android
6 27 (0.77%) Unix
7 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.40%) Solaris
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.085%) SUSE
15 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (22.26%) Agile
2 765 (21.75%) DevOps
3 653 (18.56%) CI/CD
4 417 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 415 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 329 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 328 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 318 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (8.67%) Migration
10 293 (8.33%) AI
11 272 (7.73%) Containerisation
12 243 (6.91%) Analytics
13 231 (6.57%) Data Modelling
14 225 (6.40%) Decision-Making
15 213 (6.05%) Roadmaps
16 204 (5.80%) Software Engineering
17 201 (5.71%) Test Automation
18 184 (5.23%) Microservices
19 183 (5.20%) Cybersecurity
20 180 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 439 (12.48%) Python
2 367 (10.43%) SQL
3 284 (8.07%) Java
4 140 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 124 (3.52%) PowerShell
6 108 (3.07%) C#
7 101 (2.87%) Bash
8 68 (1.93%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.34%) Bicep
10 41 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.82%) Ruby
12 29 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.80%) Groovy
14 25 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 24 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.51%) Scala
17 17 (0.48%) R
18 12 (0.34%) Go
19 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,886 (82.04%) SC Cleared
2 460 (13.08%) DV Cleared
3 101 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 81 (2.30%) Degree
5 65 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.59%) CISSP
8 38 (1.08%) CISM
9 34 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (0.80%) PMP
11 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
14 18 (0.51%) GIAC
15 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 130 (3.70%) QA
3 79 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 75 (2.13%) NCSC
5 68 (1.93%) PMO
6 64 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 54 (1.53%) GDPR
8 52 (1.48%) NIST
9 50 (1.42%) GRC
10 26 (0.74%) WCAG
11 18 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (0.37%) SLA
14 11 (0.31%) COBIT
15 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
17 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
18 5 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 293 (8.33%) Docker
2 85 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.54%) vSphere
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Squid
10 11 (0.31%) NFS
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.23%) Postfix
12 5 (0.14%) Varnish
13 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 3 (0.085%) Firmware
14 3 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 448 (12.73%) Terraform
2 363 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 124 (3.52%) Ansible
4 105 (2.98%) Grafana
5 91 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.88%) Puppet
7 24 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.57%) Argo
10 16 (0.45%) Control-M
10 16 (0.45%) SCCM
11 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.37%) vMotion
13 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.31%) Istio
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
15 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (0.26%) Packer
16 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 387 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 219 (6.23%) Oracle
3 158 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.16%) Databricks
5 103 (2.93%) VMware
6 102 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 97 (2.76%) Google
8 66 (1.88%) Splunk
9 62 (1.76%) SAP
10 38 (1.08%) IBM
11 32 (0.91%) Cisco
12 31 (0.88%) Informatica
12 31 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 30 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 24 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.65%) Tenable
16 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
16 18 (0.51%) Foundry
17 17 (0.48%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto