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

6 months to
28 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 1,714 1,951
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.65% 12.63% 11.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.92% 49.14% 49.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,695 1,243 1,436
10th Percentile £401 £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 £64.05 £25.15 £56.89
% change year-on-year +154.65% -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 5,504 3,488 3,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.62% 25.71% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 2,360 2,743
10th Percentile £375 £332 £332
25th Percentile £453 £430 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £730 £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

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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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +12 444 £550 +3.09% 96
South London 0 139 £521 -2.25% 4
West London -36 16 £675 +68.75% 43
East London +11 11 £750 +7.14% 21
North London +2 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
1 155 (4.41%) Confluence
2 102 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.17%) 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%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.085%) Drupal
14 3 (0.085%) Mule
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
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 9 (0.26%) 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%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle iProcurement
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 3 (0.085%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 802 (22.80%) Azure
2 754 (21.43%) AWS
3 257 (7.31%) GitHub
4 210 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (5.91%) Power Platform
6 184 (5.23%) GCP
7 159 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
8 138 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 129 (3.67%) Serverless
10 101 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
13 78 (2.22%) Entra ID
14 71 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 71 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 68 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 68 (1.93%) PowerApps
16 63 (1.79%) Azure AKS
17 58 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.44%) Firewall
2 73 (2.08%) 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 17 (0.48%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) DKIM
11 11 (0.31%) DMARC
12 10 (0.28%) SAN
12 10 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.26%) VSAN
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) NAS
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
14 8 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (4.15%) Power BI
2 93 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.79%) 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 35 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (0.80%) Delta Lake
13 26 (0.74%) Tableau
14 23 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (0.63%) Big Data
15 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
16 16 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 215 (6.11%) JIRA
2 205 (5.83%) 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
12 14 (0.40%) Postman
13 12 (0.34%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.28%) Liquibase
16 8 (0.23%) ERwin
17 7 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 1,018 (28.94%) Public Sector
2 679 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 330 (9.38%) Finance
4 230 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (2.64%) Banking
6 87 (2.47%) Military
7 69 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (1.45%) Police
10 47 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 43 (1.22%) 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 23 (0.65%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.51%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 668 (18.99%) Architect
2 457 (12.99%) Developer
3 319 (9.07%) Lead
4 292 (8.30%) Senior
5 245 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 189 (5.37%) Analyst
6 189 (5.37%) Data Engineer
7 160 (4.55%) Consultant
8 126 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
9 108 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
10 105 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
11 98 (2.79%) Security Architect
12 97 (2.76%) Designer
13 93 (2.64%) Java Developer
14 92 (2.62%) Software Engineer
14 92 (2.62%) Technical Architect
15 89 (2.53%) Data Architect
16 83 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 81 (2.30%) Business Analyst
18 80 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.26%) REST
2 117 (3.33%) Spring
3 94 (2.67%) Spring Boot
4 88 (2.50%) 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 53 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 51 (1.45%) HTML
13 44 (1.25%) Web Services
14 41 (1.17%) Django
15 37 (1.05%) XML
16 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
17 34 (0.97%) Middleware
17 34 (0.97%) OAuth
18 29 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 207 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 114 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 58 (1.65%) 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 31 (0.88%) Security Posture
12 30 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 29 (0.82%) Clustering
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
17 24 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.78%) Linux
2 153 (4.35%) Windows
3 56 (1.59%) 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 10 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
16 3 (0.085%) SUSE
16 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (22.29%) Agile
2 766 (21.77%) DevOps
3 653 (18.56%) CI/CD
4 419 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 415 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 332 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 330 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 315 (8.95%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (8.64%) Migration
10 296 (8.41%) AI
11 271 (7.70%) Containerisation
12 245 (6.96%) Analytics
13 232 (6.59%) Data Modelling
14 226 (6.42%) Decision-Making
15 214 (6.08%) Roadmaps
16 206 (5.86%) Software Engineering
17 200 (5.69%) Test Automation
18 182 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
18 182 (5.17%) Microservices
19 180 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 440 (12.51%) Python
2 364 (10.35%) SQL
3 287 (8.16%) Java
4 143 (4.06%) JavaScript
5 125 (3.55%) PowerShell
6 108 (3.07%) C#
7 101 (2.87%) Bash
8 69 (1.96%) 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 16 (0.45%) R
18 12 (0.34%) Go
19 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,892 (82.21%) SC Cleared
2 458 (13.02%) DV Cleared
3 101 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 82 (2.33%) Degree
5 64 (1.82%) 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 17 (0.48%) GIAC
15 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 131 (3.72%) QA
3 80 (2.27%) 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%) GRC
9 51 (1.45%) NIST
10 26 (0.74%) WCAG
11 19 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
12 16 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.37%) SLA
15 11 (0.31%) COBIT
16 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.23%) P3O
18 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
19 5 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 292 (8.30%) Docker
2 86 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.57%) vSphere
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) Squid
9 10 (0.28%) NFS
10 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.23%) Postfix
11 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) UAG
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 447 (12.71%) Terraform
2 360 (10.23%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.47%) Ansible
4 105 (2.98%) Grafana
5 91 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.88%) Puppet
7 25 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.57%) Argo
8 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.51%) SCCM
10 16 (0.45%) Control-M
11 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.34%) vMotion
14 11 (0.31%) Istio
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
15 9 (0.26%) Packer
16 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
17 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 388 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.14%) Oracle
3 158 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 112 (3.18%) Databricks
5 104 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 103 (2.93%) VMware
7 97 (2.76%) Google
8 65 (1.85%) Splunk
9 61 (1.73%) SAP
10 38 (1.08%) IBM
11 32 (0.91%) Cisco
12 31 (0.88%) Informatica
12 31 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.82%) Dynatrace
14 26 (0.74%) 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