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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,376 1,596 2,094
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.96% 13.04% 11.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.98% 50.57% 50.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,573 1,158 1,518
10th Percentile £404 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 36
10th Percentile £25.24 £23.50 £14.69
25th Percentile £36.00 £24.85 £17.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £76.58 £31.95 £32.19
90th Percentile £95.13 £48.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £32.00 £56.89
% change year-on-year +87.50% -43.75% -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 5,277 3,156 4,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.08% 25.78% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 2,110 2,868
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -6.87%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 64 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £19.21 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.83 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.77% +11.30% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.38 £68.60
England median hourly rate £50.24 £32.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year +57.01% -20.57% -26.75%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +13 438 £550 - 89
South London 0 143 £513 -6.82% 4
West London -32 15 £675 +145.45% 22
East London +7 13 £750 - 15
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
1 135 (4.00%) Confluence
2 79 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 31 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.89%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 25 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.27%) SAS
10 7 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.18%) CMS
12 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
14 3 (0.089%) Drupal
14 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.089%) WordPress
15 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.059%) JBoss
15 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.24%) Revit
5 8 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) Maya
9 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.44%) Findur
5 13 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.12%) iTrent
12 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
13 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
13 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
14 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payroll
14 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
14 2 (0.059%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 797 (23.61%) Azure
2 746 (22.10%) AWS
3 228 (6.75%) GitHub
4 186 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (5.21%) GCP
6 174 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 137 (4.06%) Serverless
8 130 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 125 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (2.46%) Entra ID
14 68 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 68 (2.01%) PaaS
15 66 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
15 66 (1.95%) OCI
16 65 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (1.90%) Power Automate
18 61 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 103 (3.05%) Firewall
2 79 (2.34%) DNS
3 60 (1.78%) Network Security
4 48 (1.42%) VPN
5 37 (1.10%) LAN
6 35 (1.04%) WAN
7 27 (0.80%) DHCP
8 25 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.50%) SAN
10 15 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 15 (0.44%) NAS
10 15 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.39%) DKIM
11 13 (0.39%) DMARC
12 12 (0.36%) BGP
12 12 (0.36%) MPLS
13 11 (0.33%) HTTP
14 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.30%) SMTP
14 10 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (3.52%) Power BI
2 90 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 54 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 47 (1.39%) Metadata
9 39 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 33 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.86%) Tableau
14 27 (0.80%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.74%) Delta Lake
16 20 (0.59%) Big Data
17 19 (0.56%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
19 14 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 198 (5.86%) JIRA
2 171 (5.07%) Git
3 159 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 114 (3.38%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Selenium
6 25 (0.74%) JUnit
6 25 (0.74%) Postman
7 24 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 22 (0.65%) JMeter
10 21 (0.62%) Mockito
11 18 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.47%) Gradle
13 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.36%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.30%) Maven
16 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 950 (28.14%) Public Sector
2 641 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 309 (9.15%) Finance
4 194 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 92 (2.73%) Banking
7 84 (2.49%) Military
8 52 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.18%) Police
11 39 (1.16%) Legal
12 34 (1.01%) Law
13 32 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (0.83%) Retail
15 25 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (0.68%) Marketing
18 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.30%) Publishing
20 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 645 (19.11%) Architect
2 407 (12.06%) Developer
3 276 (8.18%) Senior
4 263 (7.79%) Lead
5 258 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 210 (6.22%) Analyst
7 199 (5.89%) Data Engineer
8 155 (4.59%) Consultant
9 123 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 115 (3.41%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
13 102 (3.02%) Technical Architect
14 89 (2.64%) Security Architect
15 79 (2.34%) Designer
16 75 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 73 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
18 71 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
19 68 (2.01%) Java Developer
20 65 (1.93%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (4.00%) REST
2 106 (3.14%) Spring
3 87 (2.58%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.52%) React
5 75 (2.22%) LDAP
6 74 (2.19%) Kafka
7 72 (2.13%) SOAP
8 69 (2.04%) RESTful
9 68 (2.01%) .NET
10 67 (1.98%) PySpark
11 61 (1.81%) Node.js
12 53 (1.57%) HTML
13 51 (1.51%) AngularJS
14 49 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
15 47 (1.39%) JSON
15 47 (1.39%) Web Services
16 45 (1.33%) OAuth
17 37 (1.10%) OpenID
18 36 (1.07%) SAML
19 33 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 201 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.20%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 68 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 57 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 50 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.21%) Replication
10 35 (1.04%) CMDB
11 34 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (0.89%) PKI
12 30 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 28 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 28 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 19 (0.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.65%) Linux
2 139 (4.12%) Windows
3 57 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (0.65%) Unix
6 17 (0.50%) Android
7 16 (0.47%) VMS
8 14 (0.41%) Solaris
9 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.089%) AIX
16 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.059%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (22.10%) DevOps
2 671 (19.88%) Agile
3 582 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 392 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 379 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 323 (9.57%) Migration
7 317 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 268 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 249 (7.38%) Containerisation
11 245 (7.26%) AI
12 224 (6.64%) Data Modelling
13 214 (6.34%) Decision-Making
14 208 (6.16%) Analytics
15 186 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
16 183 (5.42%) Roadmaps
17 180 (5.33%) Test Automation
18 174 (5.15%) Microservices
19 168 (4.98%) Technical Leadership
20 159 (4.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 426 (12.62%) Python
2 357 (10.57%) SQL
3 237 (7.02%) Java
4 170 (5.04%) PowerShell
5 117 (3.47%) JavaScript
6 102 (3.02%) C#
7 78 (2.31%) Bash
8 66 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 34 (1.01%) Ruby
10 33 (0.98%) Apex Code
10 33 (0.98%) Bicep
10 33 (0.98%) Scala
11 28 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.56%) R
14 18 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.41%) Go
16 14 (0.41%) Groovy
17 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,761 (81.78%) SC Cleared
2 388 (11.49%) DV Cleared
3 86 (2.55%) Degree
4 78 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 58 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.63%) CISSP
8 38 (1.13%) CISM
9 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.68%) PMP
12 22 (0.65%) GIAC
13 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.41%) CEH
16 13 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.79%) QA
3 87 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (2.34%) NCSC
5 72 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.98%) NIST
7 60 (1.78%) GDPR
8 59 (1.75%) PMO
9 21 (0.62%) WCAG
10 20 (0.59%) GRC
11 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.36%) COBIT
13 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.36%) SLA
14 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 273 (8.09%) Docker
2 114 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.44%) Squid
7 13 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.39%) vSphere
8 12 (0.36%) NFS
9 9 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (0.27%) Postfix
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.18%) Varnish
12 4 (0.12%) Firmware
12 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.089%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 418 (12.38%) Terraform
2 346 (10.25%) Kubernetes
3 117 (3.47%) Ansible
4 91 (2.70%) Grafana
5 87 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.71%) Puppet
8 20 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.47%) vMotion
10 14 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.41%) SCCM
11 12 (0.36%) Consul
12 10 (0.30%) Packer
13 8 (0.24%) Kibana
13 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.21%) Istio
15 6 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 352 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 181 (5.36%) Oracle
3 120 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 116 (3.44%) Databricks
5 89 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.61%) VMware
7 72 (2.13%) Google
8 63 (1.87%) Splunk
9 62 (1.84%) SAP
10 54 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.18%) Cisco
12 37 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 37 (1.10%) IBM
13 33 (0.98%) BeyondTrust
13 33 (0.98%) Centrify
14 31 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.83%) Okta
16 24 (0.71%) Fortinet
17 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto