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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,291 1,603 2,020
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.07% 13.25% 11.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.49% 51.13% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 1,158 1,458
10th Percentile £400 £388 £350
25th Percentile £458 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.37% -4.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 17 35
10th Percentile £25.41 £23.60 £14.52
25th Percentile £47.63 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -64.80%
75th Percentile £76.58 £38.75 £27.09
90th Percentile £94.25 £48.50 £74.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.04 £55.80
% change year-on-year +40.88% -30.04% -7.00%

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 5,103 3,135 4,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.03% 25.91% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 2,100 2,790
10th Percentile £367 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -1.16% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 61 111
10th Percentile £20.14 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £27.63 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +13.64% -47.37%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% -26.31%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +13 424 £550 - 109
South London 0 156 £519 -1.23% 8
East London +6 14 £750 - 14
West London -35 12 £675 +80.00% 24
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
1 130 (3.95%) Confluence
2 73 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.91%) Apache
5 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.79%) nginx
7 24 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.12%) Camunda
9 4 (0.12%) SAS
9 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.091%) CMS
10 3 (0.091%) Drupal
10 3 (0.091%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.091%) WordPress
11 2 (0.061%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.18%) Revit
7 6 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
10 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.40%) Findur
5 12 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.15%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
12 3 (0.091%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.091%) SAP GRC
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle iProcurement
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 772 (23.46%) Azure
2 719 (21.85%) AWS
3 218 (6.62%) GitHub
4 182 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
5 174 (5.29%) GCP
6 165 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 132 (4.01%) Serverless
8 118 (3.59%) Amazon S3
9 117 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 103 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.70%) Entra ID
12 86 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
13 79 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 68 (2.07%) OCI
15 66 (2.01%) PaaS
16 65 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 62 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 62 (1.88%) Power Automate
18 61 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.04%) Firewall
2 78 (2.37%) DNS
3 56 (1.70%) Network Security
4 45 (1.37%) VPN
5 38 (1.15%) LAN
6 36 (1.09%) WAN
7 25 (0.76%) DHCP
8 23 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.52%) SAN
10 16 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.46%) NAS
12 14 (0.43%) MPLS
13 13 (0.40%) BGP
13 13 (0.40%) DKIM
13 13 (0.40%) DMARC
14 11 (0.33%) HTTP
15 10 (0.30%) Internet
15 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.31%) Power BI
2 84 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.88%) SQL Server
6 49 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.43%) Metadata
8 45 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 39 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 30 (0.91%) Delta Lake
13 30 (0.91%) Tableau
14 28 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (0.67%) Big Data
16 22 (0.67%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.43%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 191 (5.80%) JIRA
2 165 (5.01%) Git
3 151 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.16%) GitLab
5 35 (1.06%) Selenium
6 28 (0.85%) Postman
7 25 (0.76%) JUnit
8 24 (0.73%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.67%) JMeter
10 21 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.64%) Mockito
11 17 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.40%) Gradle
14 11 (0.33%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.30%) Maven
16 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.27%) Liquibase
16 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
General
1 927 (28.17%) Public Sector
2 632 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.33%) Finance
4 197 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (2.64%) Banking
6 85 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 78 (2.37%) Military
8 48 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.19%) Legal
11 36 (1.09%) Police
12 33 (1.00%) Law
13 31 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (0.85%) Retail
15 24 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.58%) Marketing
18 18 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.30%) Publishing
20 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 615 (18.69%) Architect
2 396 (12.03%) Developer
3 270 (8.20%) Senior
4 251 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 242 (7.35%) Lead
6 207 (6.29%) Analyst
7 201 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 149 (4.53%) Consultant
9 126 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
10 115 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 114 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 96 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
13 91 (2.77%) Technical Architect
14 87 (2.64%) Security Architect
15 76 (2.31%) Designer
16 71 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 62 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
19 60 (1.82%) AWS DevOps
19 60 (1.82%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (3.95%) REST
2 103 (3.13%) Spring
3 82 (2.49%) Spring Boot
4 78 (2.37%) LDAP
5 77 (2.34%) React
6 73 (2.22%) SOAP
7 72 (2.19%) Kafka
7 72 (2.19%) PySpark
8 69 (2.10%) RESTful
9 65 (1.98%) .NET
10 64 (1.94%) Node.js
11 56 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
12 53 (1.61%) HTML
13 51 (1.55%) AngularJS
14 50 (1.52%) JSON
14 50 (1.52%) Web Services
15 44 (1.34%) OAuth
16 36 (1.09%) OpenID
16 36 (1.09%) SAML
17 33 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 186 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 93 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.10%) Security Posture
5 56 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 50 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 47 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 45 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (1.28%) Replication
10 31 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (0.91%) CMDB
11 30 (0.91%) PKI
12 27 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 27 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 26 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 18 (0.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.65%) Linux
2 132 (4.01%) Windows
3 47 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (0.61%) Unix
6 19 (0.58%) Android
7 16 (0.49%) VMS
8 13 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.36%) Solaris
10 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.091%) AIX
15 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.061%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (22.00%) DevOps
2 638 (19.39%) Agile
3 564 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 374 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 328 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
7 310 (9.42%) Migration
8 257 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 246 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 243 (7.38%) Containerisation
11 222 (6.75%) AI
12 218 (6.62%) Data Modelling
13 202 (6.14%) Decision-Making
14 196 (5.96%) Analytics
15 176 (5.35%) Test Automation
16 172 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
16 172 (5.23%) Roadmaps
17 169 (5.14%) Microservices
18 157 (4.77%) Data Pipeline
19 156 (4.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 421 (12.79%) Python
2 354 (10.76%) SQL
3 230 (6.99%) Java
4 166 (5.04%) PowerShell
5 122 (3.71%) JavaScript
6 93 (2.83%) C#
7 76 (2.31%) Bash
8 59 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 41 (1.25%) Scala
10 37 (1.12%) Ruby
11 34 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.91%) Bicep
13 26 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 24 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 21 (0.64%) R
16 20 (0.61%) Go
17 15 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.40%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.36%) Groovy
20 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,690 (81.74%) SC Cleared
2 380 (11.55%) DV Cleared
3 87 (2.64%) Degree
4 74 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 52 (1.58%) CISSP
8 35 (1.06%) CISM
9 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.70%) GIAC
12 22 (0.67%) PMP
13 18 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (0.46%) PMI Certification
16 14 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.43%) CEH
17 12 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
18 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.83%) QA
3 83 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (2.34%) NCSC
5 67 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.94%) NIST
7 60 (1.82%) GDPR
8 57 (1.73%) PMO
9 19 (0.58%) GRC
9 19 (0.58%) WCAG
10 15 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.36%) COBIT
11 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.36%) SLA
12 10 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.18%) IFRS
13 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 266 (8.08%) Docker
2 114 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.46%) Squid
7 12 (0.36%) NFS
7 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.36%) vSphere
8 9 (0.27%) Postfix
9 8 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.18%) Varnish
11 4 (0.12%) Firmware
11 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
11 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 401 (12.18%) Terraform
2 347 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 106 (3.22%) Ansible
4 87 (2.64%) Grafana
5 84 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 48 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.61%) Puppet
9 16 (0.49%) SCCM
10 15 (0.46%) vMotion
11 14 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.36%) Consul
14 10 (0.30%) Packer
15 8 (0.24%) Kibana
15 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
16 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
16 7 (0.21%) Istio
17 6 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 342 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 179 (5.44%) Oracle
3 119 (3.62%) Databricks
4 116 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 84 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.46%) VMware
7 66 (2.01%) Google
8 65 (1.98%) SAP
9 57 (1.73%) Splunk
10 56 (1.70%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.22%) Cisco
12 36 (1.09%) IBM
13 34 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.03%) Centrify
13 34 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 30 (0.91%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.82%) Okta
16 26 (0.79%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.67%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.64%) Palo Alto