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

6 months to
22 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 3,489 1,720 1,984
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.61% 12.68% 11.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.87% 49.45% 49.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,672 1,252 1,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £642
90th Percentile £713 £700 £744
England median daily rate £531 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 29
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.77 - £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 - £38.75
90th Percentile £94.25 £46.25 £77.75
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -56.26% -4.17%

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 5,463 3,478 4,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.57% 25.65% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,939 2,363 2,784
10th Percentile £365 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £772
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 80 82
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.73 £17.90
25th Percentile £26.13 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.93 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.44% -41.16% -23.76%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +13 450 £550 +1.52% 106
South London 0 143 £521 -4.28% 4
West London -32 16 £675 +68.75% 30
East London +10 11 £750 - 17
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
1 157 (4.50%) Confluence
2 97 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.00%) nginx
4 34 (0.97%) SAS
5 32 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 29 (0.83%) Apache
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.11%) WordPress
15 3 (0.086%) Drupal
15 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) Documentum
16 2 (0.057%) MQSeries
Applications
1 43 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.32%) Revit
4 11 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.086%) Sketch
9 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.029%) InDesign
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 21 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
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 (0.086%) Changepoint
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.086%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 785 (22.50%) Azure
2 739 (21.18%) AWS
3 248 (7.11%) GitHub
4 199 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 174 (4.99%) GCP
7 155 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 134 (3.84%) Amazon S3
9 131 (3.75%) Serverless
10 103 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
13 77 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 71 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 67 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 65 (1.86%) Power Automate
17 63 (1.81%) PowerApps
18 62 (1.78%) Azure AKS
19 56 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.67%) Firewall
2 75 (2.15%) DNS
3 62 (1.78%) Network Security
4 55 (1.58%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.72%) WAN
7 23 (0.66%) LAN
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
9 14 (0.40%) OpenVPN
10 13 (0.37%) SAN
11 12 (0.34%) Internet
12 11 (0.32%) DKIM
12 11 (0.32%) DMARC
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
13 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 9 (0.26%) VSAN
13 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.96%) Power BI
2 93 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 60 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (1.26%) Metadata
9 41 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 32 (0.92%) NoSQL
12 30 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (0.77%) Tableau
14 24 (0.69%) Delta Lake
15 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.54%) Big Data
17 18 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.40%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 218 (6.25%) JIRA
2 199 (5.70%) Git
3 177 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 127 (3.64%) GitLab
5 31 (0.89%) Selenium
6 23 (0.66%) JMeter
7 22 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.60%) JUnit
9 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 19 (0.54%) Mockito
11 18 (0.52%) Gradle
12 16 (0.46%) Postman
12 16 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 15 (0.43%) Maven
14 14 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.34%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.32%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
18 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
19 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 1,000 (28.66%) Public Sector
2 658 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 322 (9.23%) Finance
4 223 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (2.72%) Banking
6 83 (2.38%) Military
7 79 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.43%) Police
10 45 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.06%) Law
12 36 (1.03%) Legal
13 32 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (0.75%) Marketing
15 24 (0.69%) Retail
16 22 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.43%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 649 (18.60%) Architect
2 452 (12.96%) Developer
3 317 (9.09%) Lead
4 281 (8.05%) Senior
5 249 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 190 (5.45%) Analyst
7 183 (5.25%) Data Engineer
8 158 (4.53%) Consultant
9 121 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 99 (2.84%) Security Architect
13 96 (2.75%) Designer
14 93 (2.67%) Java Developer
14 93 (2.67%) Technical Architect
15 88 (2.52%) Software Engineer
16 83 (2.38%) Business Analyst
17 81 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
18 80 (2.29%) Data Architect
19 78 (2.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (4.01%) REST
2 118 (3.38%) Spring
3 92 (2.64%) Spring Boot
4 83 (2.38%) React
5 80 (2.29%) RESTful
6 78 (2.24%) .NET
7 72 (2.06%) Kafka
8 66 (1.89%) Node.js
9 64 (1.83%) PySpark
10 57 (1.63%) SOAP
11 56 (1.61%) JSON
12 51 (1.46%) HTML
13 50 (1.43%) AngularJS
14 43 (1.23%) Web Services
15 41 (1.18%) Django
16 34 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (0.92%) XML
18 31 (0.89%) Middleware
18 31 (0.89%) OAuth
19 30 (0.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 206 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 115 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 49 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.38%) CMDB
9 45 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 33 (0.95%) Security Posture
12 30 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (0.80%) Replication
14 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 23 (0.66%) PKI
16 22 (0.63%) Clustering
16 22 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.82%) Linux
2 143 (4.10%) Windows
3 53 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.80%) Android
5 28 (0.80%) Unix
6 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.40%) Solaris
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
8 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.11%) AIX
14 3 (0.086%) SUSE
14 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (21.98%) Agile
2 762 (21.84%) DevOps
3 647 (18.54%) CI/CD
4 409 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 407 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 325 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
7 320 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 315 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 292 (8.37%) Migration
10 281 (8.05%) AI
11 266 (7.62%) Containerisation
12 231 (6.62%) Analytics
13 225 (6.45%) Data Modelling
13 225 (6.45%) Decision-Making
14 213 (6.10%) Roadmaps
15 197 (5.65%) Software Engineering
15 197 (5.65%) Test Automation
16 192 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
17 182 (5.22%) Microservices
18 174 (4.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 430 (12.32%) Python
2 355 (10.17%) SQL
3 279 (8.00%) Java
4 133 (3.81%) JavaScript
5 122 (3.50%) PowerShell
6 104 (2.98%) C#
7 99 (2.84%) Bash
8 68 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 44 (1.26%) Bicep
10 39 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.92%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.86%) Ruby
13 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.72%) Groovy
15 24 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (0.52%) Scala
18 17 (0.49%) R
19 12 (0.34%) Go
20 9 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,853 (81.77%) SC Cleared
2 458 (13.13%) DV Cleared
3 102 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 77 (2.21%) Degree
5 63 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 62 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.69%) CISSP
8 40 (1.15%) CISM
9 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.75%) PMP
11 24 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
13 22 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.57%) GIAC
15 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.37%) CEH
17 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.61%) QA
3 83 (2.38%) NCSC
4 79 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 73 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (1.98%) PMO
7 60 (1.72%) NIST
8 51 (1.46%) GDPR
9 45 (1.29%) GRC
10 26 (0.75%) WCAG
11 16 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
11 16 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.34%) SLA
14 11 (0.32%) 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%) IFRS
System Software
1 288 (8.25%) Docker
2 82 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.54%) vSphere
8 17 (0.49%) Squid
9 15 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.37%) 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 (0.086%) Firmware
14 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 445 (12.75%) Terraform
2 370 (10.60%) Kubernetes
3 123 (3.53%) Ansible
4 109 (3.12%) Grafana
5 94 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.80%) Puppet
7 27 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.46%) Argo
10 15 (0.43%) SCCM
10 15 (0.43%) vMotion
11 14 (0.40%) Control-M
11 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.34%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.32%) Kibana
13 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.29%) Consul
15 9 (0.26%) Istio
15 9 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 376 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 206 (5.90%) Oracle
3 155 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 107 (3.07%) Databricks
5 100 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 99 (2.84%) VMware
7 92 (2.64%) Google
8 70 (2.01%) Splunk
9 61 (1.75%) SAP
10 37 (1.06%) IBM
11 36 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 33 (0.95%) Cisco
14 30 (0.86%) Informatica
15 24 (0.69%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) Tenable
17 18 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
18 17 (0.49%) Foundry
18 17 (0.49%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.49%) Palo Alto