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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,658 1,809 2,086
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.00% 13.43% 12.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.44% 50.69% 52.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 1,301 1,416
10th Percentile £401 £400 £363
25th Percentile £465 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 43 17
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £18.03
25th Percentile £35.00 - £24.15
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% -54.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £36.03 £112.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 5,766 3,569 4,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.37% 26.49% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 2,403 2,583
10th Percentile £366 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 81 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.10
25th Percentile £26.25 - £24.17
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -29.65% -24.74%
75th Percentile £85.00 £34.48 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £71.63
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.24%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +9 409 £550 +4.76% 201
South London 0 110 £540 +1.69% 11
West London -35 22 £650 +62.30% 63
East London +5 7 £750 - 23
North London +4 6 £538 +5.39%
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
1 152 (4.16%) Confluence
2 95 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.31%) SAS
4 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.85%) Apache
5 31 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.74%) nginx
7 26 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.33%) CMS
8 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 10 (0.27%) JBoss
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Camunda
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.082%) Mule
14 3 (0.082%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 46 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 18 (0.49%) Revit
4 18 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
5 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Windchill
11 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.027%) InDesign
13 1 (0.027%) PrintSoft PReS
13 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.16%) Findur
9 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
9 5 (0.14%) Maximo
9 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 5 (0.14%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 814 (22.25%) Azure
2 776 (21.21%) AWS
3 251 (6.86%) GitHub
4 205 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 195 (5.33%) GCP
7 173 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
8 126 (3.44%) Serverless
9 123 (3.36%) Amazon S3
10 98 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 94 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 91 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
14 80 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 74 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
16 67 (1.83%) PowerApps
17 62 (1.69%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
18 60 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 59 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.43%) Firewall
2 73 (2.00%) DNS
3 59 (1.61%) Network Security
4 41 (1.12%) VPN
5 34 (0.93%) WAN
6 22 (0.60%) LAN
7 19 (0.52%) DHCP
8 15 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.36%) HTTP
9 13 (0.36%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
11 11 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.27%) MPLS
12 10 (0.27%) WebEx
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
13 9 (0.25%) SSL
14 8 (0.22%) DKIM
14 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.22%) SAN
14 8 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (3.66%) Power BI
2 117 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 59 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 56 (1.53%) Metadata
6 53 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 44 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (0.96%) MySQL
12 34 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (0.93%) Oracle Database
13 33 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
14 23 (0.63%) Redis
15 22 (0.60%) Big Data
16 19 (0.52%) Delta Lake
16 19 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 229 (6.26%) Git
2 222 (6.07%) Jenkins
3 213 (5.82%) JIRA
4 142 (3.88%) GitLab
5 53 (1.45%) Selenium
6 35 (0.96%) JMeter
7 31 (0.85%) Gradle
7 31 (0.85%) JUnit
7 31 (0.85%) Postman
8 27 (0.74%) Maven
9 26 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 24 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.60%) Mockito
13 21 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.41%) LoadRunner
15 14 (0.38%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.38%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.36%) eggPlant
17 12 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 955 (26.11%) Public Sector
2 807 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 324 (8.86%) Finance
4 261 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (3.25%) Military
6 105 (2.87%) Banking
7 88 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (1.64%) Law
9 57 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 54 (1.48%) Police
11 43 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (0.96%) Legal
14 30 (0.82%) Marketing
15 27 (0.74%) Local Government
15 27 (0.74%) Retail
16 22 (0.60%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 695 (19.00%) Architect
2 408 (11.15%) Developer
3 351 (9.60%) Lead
4 345 (9.43%) Senior
5 259 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 182 (4.98%) Data Engineer
7 173 (4.73%) Analyst
8 158 (4.32%) Consultant
9 120 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 116 (3.17%) Data Architect
11 114 (3.12%) Security Architect
12 108 (2.95%) Designer
13 103 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
14 99 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 94 (2.57%) Software Engineer
16 92 (2.52%) Java Developer
17 85 (2.32%) Technical Architect
18 82 (2.24%) User Researcher
19 81 (2.21%) Cloud Engineer
20 70 (1.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (11.86%) Terraform
2 191 (5.22%) REST
3 120 (3.28%) Spring
4 113 (3.09%) Kafka
5 104 (2.84%) Spring Boot
6 94 (2.57%) React
7 89 (2.43%) RESTful
8 81 (2.21%) .NET
9 75 (2.05%) SOAP
10 66 (1.80%) JSON
11 59 (1.61%) Node.js
11 59 (1.61%) XML
12 57 (1.56%) PySpark
13 56 (1.53%) HTML
13 56 (1.53%) Middleware
14 49 (1.34%) Django
15 43 (1.18%) OAuth
15 43 (1.18%) Web Services
16 39 (1.07%) AngularJS
17 35 (0.96%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.21%) Cloud Native
2 133 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 119 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 66 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 63 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 57 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 43 (1.18%) CMDB
9 43 (1.18%) Replication
10 42 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 40 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.04%) Data Structures
13 31 (0.85%) Clustering
13 31 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 30 (0.82%) PKI
15 29 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
16 28 (0.77%) Low-Code
17 27 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (5.63%) Linux
2 172 (4.70%) Windows
3 65 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (0.98%) Unix
6 31 (0.85%) Android
7 22 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.38%) VMS
10 12 (0.33%) Solaris
11 11 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
15 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.14%) AIX
17 3 (0.082%) OpenVMS
17 3 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (24.00%) Agile
2 771 (21.08%) DevOps
3 712 (19.46%) CI/CD
4 592 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 445 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 406 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 398 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 387 (10.58%) AI
9 358 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
10 305 (8.34%) Migration
11 292 (7.98%) Containerisation
12 251 (6.86%) Test Automation
13 249 (6.81%) Decision-Making
14 246 (6.72%) Roadmaps
15 237 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
16 224 (6.12%) Analytics
16 224 (6.12%) Software Engineering
17 219 (5.99%) Data Modelling
17 219 (5.99%) Observability
18 207 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 521 (14.24%) Python
2 359 (9.81%) SQL
3 312 (8.53%) Java
4 180 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 134 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 117 (3.20%) Bash
7 102 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 96 (2.62%) C#
9 44 (1.20%) Bicep
10 38 (1.04%) Groovy
11 37 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.74%) Scala
13 26 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.60%) Go
15 21 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.52%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.41%) R
19 11 (0.30%) C++
19 11 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,010 (82.29%) SC Cleared
2 482 (13.18%) DV Cleared
3 136 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 104 (2.84%) Degree
5 87 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 74 (2.02%) CISSP
7 68 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.59%) CISM
9 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.96%) PMP
11 30 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 28 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 20 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.49%) CRISC
14 18 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
15 17 (0.46%) GIAC
16 14 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (5.25%) QA
2 128 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 105 (2.87%) NCSC
4 90 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 85 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 82 (2.24%) NIST
7 67 (1.83%) GRC
8 64 (1.75%) PMO
9 52 (1.42%) GDPR
10 25 (0.68%) WCAG
11 24 (0.66%) SLA
12 19 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.27%) COBIT
17 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 330 (9.02%) Docker
2 104 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.52%) vSphere
7 8 (0.22%) Squid
8 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.16%) Postfix
9 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.11%) Firmware
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) Varnish
12 3 (0.082%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.082%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 405 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 124 (3.39%) Grafana
3 123 (3.36%) Ansible
4 95 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.79%) Puppet
6 27 (0.74%) Kibana
7 24 (0.66%) SCCM
8 21 (0.57%) Argo
8 21 (0.57%) Control-M
9 20 (0.55%) Istio
9 20 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (0.55%) vCenter Server
10 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
12 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.30%) SCOM
13 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.25%) Packer
15 7 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 435 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.59%) Oracle
3 155 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 121 (3.31%) Google
5 105 (2.87%) VMware
6 94 (2.57%) Databricks
7 89 (2.43%) Splunk
8 86 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 70 (1.91%) SAP
10 48 (1.31%) IBM
11 43 (1.18%) Cisco
12 39 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.77%) Informatica
15 22 (0.60%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.57%) Pega
17 20 (0.55%) MuleSoft
18 19 (0.52%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.52%) Sparx