Security Cleared Contracts in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 14 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,151 2,853 2,699
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.15% 10.54% 6.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.16% 48.96% 40.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,926 1,915
10th Percentile £350 £400 £396
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £644
90th Percentile £760 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 31 48
10th Percentile £14.52 £20.22 £26.60
25th Percentile £17.88 £41.17 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.33% +34.83% -23.28%
75th Percentile £49.38 £74.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £76.25 £82.50 £60.52
England median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +16.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 +1 212 £505 -7.29% 40
South London +1 118 £511 -14.08% 17
West London +22 27 £500 -16.67% 19
East London +8 13 £537 +79.15% 5
North London -3 1 £385 -4.64% 1
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 79 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.49%) Confluence
3 50 (2.32%) Apache
4 43 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2013
6 21 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
6 21 (0.98%) nginx
7 15 (0.70%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.56%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2003
11 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
12 5 (0.23%) JBoss
13 4 (0.19%) CMS
13 4 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.14%) Camunda
14 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.093%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) SPSS
9 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.046%) Weka
9 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 11 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.093%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.093%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.093%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.046%) Primavera
7 1 (0.046%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.046%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.046%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 526 (24.45%) AWS
2 263 (12.23%) Azure
3 97 (4.51%) Serverless
4 84 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
5 82 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (3.72%) Amazon S3
7 57 (2.65%) Power Platform
8 48 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
8 48 (2.23%) GCP
9 40 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (1.63%) GitHub
11 33 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 30 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
13 28 (1.30%) PaaS
14 27 (1.26%) SaaS
15 26 (1.21%) OCI
16 25 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (1.16%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 123 (5.72%) Firewall
2 40 (1.86%) WAN
3 34 (1.58%) VPN
4 33 (1.53%) DNS
4 33 (1.53%) Wireless
5 32 (1.49%) LAN
6 18 (0.84%) WLAN
7 17 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.74%) Network Security
8 16 (0.74%) OSPF
9 15 (0.70%) BGP
9 15 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (0.70%) VoIP
10 14 (0.65%) IPsec
11 13 (0.60%) HTTP
11 13 (0.60%) Skype
12 12 (0.56%) SNA
13 11 (0.51%) SSL
14 10 (0.46%) Internet
15 9 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 64 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (2.93%) NoSQL
5 42 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 41 (1.91%) Power BI
7 40 (1.86%) Flink
7 40 (1.86%) Metadata
8 38 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 34 (1.58%) Data Vault
12 26 (1.21%) Data Lake
13 25 (1.16%) Big Data
14 24 (1.12%) MongoDB
15 21 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (0.98%) Metadata Repository
16 20 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 18 (0.84%) Parquet
17 18 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 139 (6.46%) Jenkins
2 128 (5.95%) JIRA
3 117 (5.44%) Git
4 63 (2.93%) GitLab
5 41 (1.91%) Selenium
6 39 (1.81%) JUnit
7 36 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.84%) Postman
8 18 (0.84%) TestNG
9 16 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 15 (0.70%) Maven
11 14 (0.65%) JMeter
11 14 (0.65%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.60%) Mockito
12 13 (0.60%) SoapUI
13 11 (0.51%) Appium
13 11 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.46%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.46%) eggPlant
14 10 (0.46%) SOAtest
General
1 619 (28.78%) Public Sector
2 334 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 234 (10.88%) Finance
4 145 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 50 (2.32%) Marketing
7 49 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (2.09%) Electronics
10 38 (1.77%) Law
10 38 (1.77%) Military
11 37 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.67%) Banking
13 35 (1.63%) Police
14 28 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (0.93%) Legal
16 16 (0.74%) Publishing
17 14 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 329 (15.30%) Architect
2 265 (12.32%) Developer
3 173 (8.04%) Senior
4 146 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 131 (6.09%) Analyst
6 108 (5.02%) Data Engineer
7 104 (4.83%) Consultant
8 103 (4.79%) Lead
9 85 (3.95%) Java Developer
10 83 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 68 (3.16%) Data Architect
12 67 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
12 67 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 64 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 63 (2.93%) Full Stack Developer
15 55 (2.56%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.46%) Technical Architect
17 50 (2.32%) Support Engineer
18 49 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
18 49 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (4.42%) Kafka
2 82 (3.81%) Spring
3 81 (3.77%) React
4 77 (3.58%) Spring Boot
5 67 (3.11%) REST
6 47 (2.19%) HTML
7 46 (2.14%) CSS
8 44 (2.05%) JSON
9 42 (1.95%) Node.js
10 36 (1.67%) .NET
11 30 (1.39%) RESTful
12 28 (1.30%) JPA
13 27 (1.26%) Hibernate
14 25 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
14 25 (1.16%) Web Services
15 19 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
16 18 (0.84%) Apache Avro
16 18 (0.84%) Laravel
16 18 (0.84%) OpenID
16 18 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.21%) Data Centre
2 49 (2.28%) Onboarding
3 28 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 28 (1.30%) Reference Data
3 28 (1.30%) Replication
4 26 (1.21%) Management Information System
5 23 (1.07%) PKI
6 21 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 19 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 17 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 17 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (0.74%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.60%) Public Cloud
12 13 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.56%) Blockchain
14 10 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.60%) Windows
2 178 (8.28%) Linux
3 75 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.91%) Unix
5 31 (1.44%) Windows 7
6 28 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 27 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 27 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
10 21 (0.98%) Android
11 13 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.56%) Mac OS X
13 7 (0.33%) VMS
14 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.28%) CentOS
14 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.093%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (19.29%) Agile
2 278 (12.92%) DevOps
3 234 (10.88%) CI/CD
4 198 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (6.65%) Migration
7 113 (5.25%) Project Management
8 112 (5.21%) ITIL
9 107 (4.97%) Roadmaps
10 106 (4.93%) Data Modelling
10 106 (4.93%) Microservices
11 104 (4.83%) Cybersecurity
12 103 (4.79%) Scrum
12 103 (4.79%) Test Automation
13 102 (4.74%) Decision-Making
14 100 (4.65%) Business Intelligence
15 95 (4.42%) Service Management
16 92 (4.28%) Change Management
17 91 (4.23%) Analytics
18 90 (4.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 257 (11.95%) Python
2 244 (11.34%) Java
3 194 (9.02%) SQL
4 129 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 65 (3.02%) PowerShell
6 58 (2.70%) Bash
7 57 (2.65%) C#
8 51 (2.37%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.93%) Go
10 19 (0.88%) PHP
11 15 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.46%) Ruby
14 9 (0.42%) C++
14 9 (0.42%) Perl
14 9 (0.42%) R
15 8 (0.37%) ABAP
16 7 (0.33%) C
16 7 (0.33%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.33%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1,664 (77.36%) SC Cleared
2 459 (21.34%) DV Cleared
3 95 (4.42%) Degree
4 55 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
7 24 (1.12%) PMP
8 23 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 16 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 10 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.42%) CCNA
14 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.37%) CCNP
16 7 (0.33%) CISM
16 7 (0.33%) CISSP
16 7 (0.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.88%) QA
2 44 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.30%) PMO
5 25 (1.16%) SLA
6 21 (0.98%) NCSC
7 14 (0.65%) NIST
8 12 (0.56%) GDPR
9 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.28%) WCAG
11 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.14%) COBIT
12 3 (0.14%) GRC
12 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.093%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.093%) IFRS
13 2 (0.093%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.046%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.046%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 155 (7.21%) Docker
2 97 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.56%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.23%) Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.14%) UAG
11 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.046%) Lustre
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 208 (9.67%) Terraform
2 196 (9.11%) Kubernetes
3 126 (5.86%) Ansible
4 38 (1.77%) Puppet
5 33 (1.53%) Grafana
6 28 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 23 (1.07%) SCCM
9 21 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.56%) VxRail
13 10 (0.46%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.42%) Packer
15 8 (0.37%) Nagios
16 7 (0.33%) Kibana
16 7 (0.33%) vRealize
17 5 (0.23%) Consul
18 4 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 185 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 125 (5.81%) Oracle
3 85 (3.95%) VMware
4 77 (3.58%) SAP
5 58 (2.70%) Cisco
6 37 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.58%) Dell
8 33 (1.53%) Sparx
9 31 (1.44%) Splunk
10 27 (1.26%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.16%) Juniper
12 22 (1.02%) Veeam
13 21 (0.98%) IBM
14 18 (0.84%) NetApp
15 16 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.70%) Apple
16 15 (0.70%) Databricks
16 15 (0.70%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.65%) F5
17 14 (0.65%) Informatica