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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,551 1,755 1,939
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.61% 12.91% 11.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.57% 49.41% 49.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,717 1,265 1,420
10th Percentile £402 £365 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £746
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 39 23
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £16.58
25th Percentile £26.00 - £19.18
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.00 £45.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £57.77
% change year-on-year +158.45% -56.47% -3.71%

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 5,586 3,552 3,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 26.13% 24.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 2,405 2,696
10th Percentile £375 £339 £339
25th Percentile £455 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -1.40% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £735 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 86 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.53 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £37.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.13 £68.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.69% -45.54% -16.04%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +12 447 £550 +4.76% 125
South London 0 137 £521 -2.25% 16
West London -31 18 £675 +68.54% 43
East London +12 12 £750 +7.14% 25
North London +1 4 - -
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
1 161 (4.53%) Confluence
2 102 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.24%) SAS
4 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 31 (0.87%) Apache
7 30 (0.84%) nginx
8 24 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.25%) JBoss
10 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.084%) Mule
15 2 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.39%) AutoCAD
4 14 (0.39%) Revit
4 14 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) Maya
9 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.42%) Findur
2 15 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 12 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.084%) Oracle Assets
12 3 (0.084%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 824 (23.20%) Azure
2 757 (21.32%) AWS
3 264 (7.43%) GitHub
4 218 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (5.89%) Power Platform
6 197 (5.55%) GCP
7 163 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 129 (3.63%) Serverless
10 100 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (2.25%) Entra ID
14 78 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
15 71 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 69 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 65 (1.83%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.77%) Azure AKS
18 63 (1.77%) PowerApps
19 58 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.53%) Firewall
2 82 (2.31%) DNS
3 62 (1.75%) Network Security
4 47 (1.32%) VPN
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
7 20 (0.56%) DHCP
7 20 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.39%) HTTP
8 14 (0.39%) Internet
9 9 (0.25%) 4G
9 9 (0.25%) DKIM
9 9 (0.25%) DMARC
9 9 (0.25%) OpenVPN
9 9 (0.25%) SSL
9 9 (0.25%) VSAN
9 9 (0.25%) WebEx
10 8 (0.23%) SAN
10 8 (0.23%) SMTP
10 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (4.20%) Power BI
2 92 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.86%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (1.24%) Metadata
8 41 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
11 28 (0.79%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.76%) Tableau
13 26 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (0.65%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.62%) Big Data
17 16 (0.45%) Oracle Database
17 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 219 (6.17%) JIRA
2 210 (5.91%) Git
3 185 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 129 (3.63%) GitLab
5 34 (0.96%) Selenium
6 23 (0.65%) JMeter
7 22 (0.62%) Gradle
8 21 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.56%) JUnit
9 20 (0.56%) Mockito
10 19 (0.54%) Maven
10 19 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.34%) Postman
12 12 (0.34%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.20%) Cucumber
General
1 987 (27.79%) Public Sector
2 706 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 344 (9.69%) Finance
4 243 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (2.79%) Banking
6 92 (2.59%) Military
7 68 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 48 (1.35%) Police
11 42 (1.18%) Law
12 36 (1.01%) Legal
13 35 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (0.84%) Marketing
15 28 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 26 (0.73%) Retail
17 21 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 677 (19.07%) Architect
2 457 (12.87%) Developer
3 336 (9.46%) Lead
4 307 (8.65%) Senior
5 233 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.49%) Data Engineer
7 192 (5.41%) Analyst
8 158 (4.45%) Consultant
9 126 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 104 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
11 102 (2.87%) Security Architect
12 99 (2.79%) Software Engineer
13 93 (2.62%) Data Architect
13 93 (2.62%) Java Developer
14 92 (2.59%) Designer
15 91 (2.56%) Technical Architect
16 85 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 84 (2.37%) Business Analyst
18 81 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (4.45%) REST
2 118 (3.32%) Spring
3 95 (2.68%) Spring Boot
4 93 (2.62%) React
5 86 (2.42%) RESTful
6 82 (2.31%) .NET
7 79 (2.22%) Kafka
8 65 (1.83%) Node.js
8 65 (1.83%) PySpark
9 62 (1.75%) JSON
9 62 (1.75%) SOAP
10 56 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 52 (1.46%) HTML
12 44 (1.24%) Django
13 43 (1.21%) Web Services
14 40 (1.13%) XML
15 35 (0.99%) OAuth
15 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
16 34 (0.96%) Middleware
17 30 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 115 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 102 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 70 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 64 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 60 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.49%) CMDB
9 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 35 (0.99%) Clustering
12 34 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 30 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (0.84%) Security Posture
14 26 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (0.73%) Replication
15 25 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.70%) Private Cloud
15 25 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 24 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (4.87%) Linux
2 165 (4.65%) Windows
3 66 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.82%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 19 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.39%) Solaris
8 14 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.37%) VMS
9 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
16 3 (0.084%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (22.59%) Agile
2 765 (21.54%) DevOps
3 661 (18.61%) CI/CD
4 446 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 413 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 342 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 337 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 318 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
9 312 (8.79%) AI
10 301 (8.48%) Migration
11 273 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 251 (7.07%) Analytics
13 235 (6.62%) Data Modelling
14 227 (6.39%) Decision-Making
15 226 (6.36%) Roadmaps
16 215 (6.05%) Software Engineering
17 205 (5.77%) Test Automation
18 192 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
19 190 (5.35%) Microservices
20 183 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 447 (12.59%) Python
2 388 (10.93%) SQL
3 290 (8.17%) Java
4 153 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 128 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 107 (3.01%) C#
7 102 (2.87%) Bash
8 77 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.32%) Bicep
10 42 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.82%) Groovy
12 29 (0.82%) Ruby
12 29 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.48%) Scala
15 16 (0.45%) R
16 10 (0.28%) X++
17 9 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,918 (82.17%) SC Cleared
2 459 (12.93%) DV Cleared
3 105 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 83 (2.34%) Degree
5 65 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 65 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 64 (1.80%) CISSP
7 45 (1.27%) CISM
8 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (0.93%) PMP
10 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (0.79%) PMI Certification
11 21 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
12 18 (0.51%) GIAC
13 17 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.37%) CEH
15 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (4.17%) QA
2 138 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.28%) NCSC
4 76 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 72 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (2.03%) PMO
6 60 (1.69%) NIST
7 55 (1.55%) GDPR
7 55 (1.55%) GRC
8 25 (0.70%) WCAG
9 20 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
10 18 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.42%) SLA
13 12 (0.34%) COBIT
14 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.25%) P3O
16 8 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 299 (8.42%) Docker
2 96 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.62%) vSphere
7 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.34%) Squid
8 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.23%) Postfix
10 7 (0.20%) NFS
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) UAG
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 431 (12.14%) Terraform
2 360 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 124 (3.49%) Ansible
4 101 (2.84%) Grafana
5 87 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.90%) Puppet
7 25 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.62%) SCCM
9 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.48%) Argo
11 16 (0.45%) Control-M
11 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (0.31%) Istio
14 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
15 10 (0.28%) vMotion
16 9 (0.25%) Packer
17 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 400 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 220 (6.20%) Oracle
3 164 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.13%) VMware
5 110 (3.10%) Databricks
6 107 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 104 (2.93%) Google
8 64 (1.80%) SAP
8 64 (1.80%) Splunk
9 37 (1.04%) IBM
10 34 (0.96%) Cisco
10 34 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 31 (0.87%) Informatica
12 30 (0.84%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.65%) Tenable
15 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.48%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.48%) Foundry