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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,610 1,769 2,073
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.75% 13.10% 12.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.27% 49.77% 51.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 1,265 1,444
10th Percentile £405 £388 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £700 £738
England median daily rate £548 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 43 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £17.88
25th Percentile £35.00 - £21.11
Median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +127.63% +4.14% -59.75%
75th Percentile £77.31 - £58.75
90th Percentile £82.88 £47.00 £66.85
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 5,706 3,554 4,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.06% 26.32% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,096 2,382 2,639
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.21 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £30.81
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -18.37% -43.98%
75th Percentile £78.75 £43.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £92.13 £65.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% +0.40%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +10 425 £550 +3.09% 112
South London +1 108 £538 -2.27% 12
West London -31 22 £663 +65.42% 71
East London +11 13 £750 - 36
North London +3 6 £538 - 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
1 160 (4.43%) Confluence
2 101 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.33%) SAS
4 34 (0.94%) Apache
4 34 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.72%) nginx
7 21 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.30%) JBoss
9 11 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.28%) CMS
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.11%) Camunda
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.083%) Mule
14 3 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.44%) AutoCAD
4 16 (0.44%) Revit
4 16 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
5 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.083%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.36%) Findur
6 13 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
9 8 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
12 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
12 4 (0.11%) iTrent
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 817 (22.63%) Azure
2 763 (21.14%) AWS
3 270 (7.48%) GitHub
4 221 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 197 (5.46%) GCP
7 177 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
8 130 (3.60%) Serverless
9 127 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 102 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 77 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (1.77%) PowerApps
16 63 (1.75%) Power Automate
17 62 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 62 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 60 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.58%) Firewall
2 71 (1.97%) DNS
3 61 (1.69%) Network Security
4 44 (1.22%) VPN
5 35 (0.97%) WAN
6 24 (0.66%) LAN
7 20 (0.55%) DHCP
8 17 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.36%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
10 12 (0.33%) HTTP
11 11 (0.30%) MPLS
11 11 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.28%) SSL
12 10 (0.28%) WebEx
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
14 8 (0.22%) DKIM
14 8 (0.22%) DMARC
14 8 (0.22%) VSAN
14 8 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (3.96%) Power BI
2 114 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (1.86%) SQL Server
5 62 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 62 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 58 (1.61%) Metadata
7 46 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 45 (1.25%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 30 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (0.80%) MySQL
13 29 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.69%) Tableau
15 23 (0.64%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (0.61%) Big Data
16 22 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 231 (6.40%) Git
2 221 (6.12%) JIRA
3 215 (5.96%) Jenkins
4 144 (3.99%) GitLab
5 52 (1.44%) Selenium
6 31 (0.86%) JMeter
7 30 (0.83%) Gradle
7 30 (0.83%) JUnit
8 25 (0.69%) Postman
9 24 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.64%) Maven
10 23 (0.64%) Mockito
10 23 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.39%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.33%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.30%) Liquibase
16 10 (0.28%) eggPlant
General
1 960 (26.59%) Public Sector
2 792 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 337 (9.34%) Finance
4 271 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (3.10%) Military
6 109 (3.02%) Banking
7 86 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 57 (1.58%) Law
11 54 (1.50%) Police
12 40 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (0.97%) Legal
15 32 (0.89%) Marketing
16 30 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 30 (0.83%) Retail
17 24 (0.66%) Local Government
18 20 (0.55%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 656 (18.17%) Architect
2 432 (11.97%) Developer
3 347 (9.61%) Lead
4 323 (8.95%) Senior
5 248 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 192 (5.32%) Data Engineer
7 179 (4.96%) Analyst
8 159 (4.40%) Consultant
9 117 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (3.10%) Data Architect
11 106 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 100 (2.77%) Software Engineer
13 97 (2.69%) Designer
14 95 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
15 94 (2.60%) Security Architect
16 93 (2.58%) Java Developer
17 85 (2.35%) Technical Architect
18 81 (2.24%) Cloud Engineer
19 75 (2.08%) Business Analyst
19 75 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (12.08%) Terraform
2 178 (4.93%) REST
3 122 (3.38%) Spring
4 107 (2.96%) Kafka
4 107 (2.96%) Spring Boot
5 103 (2.85%) React
6 95 (2.63%) RESTful
7 82 (2.27%) .NET
8 71 (1.97%) JSON
9 68 (1.88%) SOAP
10 66 (1.83%) Node.js
11 61 (1.69%) PySpark
12 59 (1.63%) XML
13 55 (1.52%) HTML
14 50 (1.39%) Django
15 48 (1.33%) Middleware
16 47 (1.30%) AngularJS
16 47 (1.30%) Web Services
17 39 (1.08%) OAuth
18 38 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 123 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 64 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 59 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 57 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.30%) CMDB
9 46 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 41 (1.14%) Replication
12 38 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 34 (0.94%) Clustering
14 33 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
15 31 (0.86%) Security Posture
16 29 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
17 28 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
18 27 (0.75%) Low-Code
18 27 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 203 (5.62%) Linux
2 170 (4.71%) Windows
3 68 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.05%) Unix
6 29 (0.80%) Android
7 21 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) VMS
9 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.30%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.11%) AIX
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (24.04%) Agile
2 771 (21.36%) DevOps
3 707 (19.58%) CI/CD
4 550 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 447 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 387 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 369 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 367 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
9 366 (10.14%) AI
10 308 (8.53%) Migration
11 283 (7.84%) Containerisation
12 250 (6.93%) Test Automation
13 247 (6.84%) Decision-Making
14 238 (6.59%) Data Modelling
15 236 (6.54%) Analytics
16 234 (6.48%) Roadmaps
17 229 (6.34%) Software Engineering
18 220 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
19 208 (5.76%) Observability
20 204 (5.65%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 517 (14.32%) Python
2 379 (10.50%) SQL
3 320 (8.86%) Java
4 171 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 140 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 119 (3.30%) Bash
7 102 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 98 (2.71%) C#
9 48 (1.33%) Bicep
10 40 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 36 (1.00%) Groovy
12 25 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 24 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 23 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.61%) Ruby
16 21 (0.58%) Go
16 21 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.53%) Scala
18 17 (0.47%) R
19 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,964 (82.11%) SC Cleared
2 482 (13.35%) DV Cleared
3 123 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 100 (2.77%) Degree
5 83 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 72 (1.99%) CISSP
7 65 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.50%) CISM
9 38 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.97%) PMP
11 29 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 28 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
15 19 (0.53%) GIAC
15 19 (0.53%) ISTQB
16 17 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
17 16 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (0.42%) CRISC
19 14 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.35%) QA
2 137 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 90 (2.49%) NCSC
4 81 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 77 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.02%) NIST
7 70 (1.94%) PMO
8 63 (1.75%) GRC
9 49 (1.36%) GDPR
10 26 (0.72%) WCAG
11 23 (0.64%) SLA
12 19 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
15 13 (0.36%) COBIT
15 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
17 10 (0.28%) P3O
18 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 8 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 320 (8.86%) Docker
2 104 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 78 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.64%) vSphere
6 19 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.25%) Squid
9 6 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.17%) Postfix
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.11%) UAG
11 4 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 393 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 125 (3.46%) Ansible
3 114 (3.16%) Grafana
4 94 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.91%) Puppet
6 24 (0.66%) vCenter Server
7 23 (0.64%) SCCM
8 21 (0.58%) Control-M
8 21 (0.58%) Kibana
8 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (0.55%) Argo
10 17 (0.47%) Istio
10 17 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
13 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.28%) SCOM
15 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.22%) Packer
16 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 435 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 248 (6.87%) Oracle
3 152 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 115 (3.19%) Google
5 114 (3.16%) VMware
6 110 (3.05%) Databricks
7 92 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 86 (2.38%) Splunk
9 69 (1.91%) SAP
10 46 (1.27%) Cisco
11 44 (1.22%) IBM
12 38 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 36 (1.00%) Informatica
14 32 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.58%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 19 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
16 19 (0.53%) Fortinet
16 19 (0.53%) Foundry
17 18 (0.50%) OpenAI