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

6 months to
2 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 3,238 1,668 2,145
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.25% 13.26% 12.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.94% 51.72% 50.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,435 1,225 1,537
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £653
90th Percentile £725 £700 £760
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 12 35
10th Percentile £21.42 £22.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £56.87 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.66% +69.32% -60.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £41.16 £31.75
90th Percentile £88.65 £49.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.52 £57.30
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.11% -4.50%

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 5,064 3,225 4,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.55% 25.63% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,171 2,896
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.36% -5.52%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £661
90th Percentile £740 £753 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 114
10th Percentile £20.74 £19.20 £14.60
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.27 £20.29
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.07 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.04% +15.13% -46.84%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.50 £43.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -23.81%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +10 418 £550 +2.33% 133
South London +2 162 £521 +4.10% 11
East London +9 15 £700 -6.67% 23
West London -24 14 £675 +80.00% 16
North London 0 1 - -
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
1 132 (4.08%) Confluence
2 78 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.02%) Apache
5 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.86%) nginx
7 23 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.093%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.093%) Drupal
12 3 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.15%) Revit
7 5 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.34%) Findur
6 9 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 9 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.19%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.093%) Exchequer
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.093%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.062%) Oracle Assets
12 2 (0.062%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 768 (23.72%) Azure
2 725 (22.39%) AWS
3 218 (6.73%) GitHub
4 182 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 173 (5.34%) GCP
6 167 (5.16%) Power Platform
7 148 (4.57%) Serverless
8 119 (3.68%) Amazon S3
9 113 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
10 109 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.66%) Entra ID
13 71 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 71 (2.19%) OCI
14 68 (2.10%) PaaS
15 67 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 63 (1.95%) Power Automate
18 59 (1.82%) Azure AKS
19 58 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.12%) Firewall
2 81 (2.50%) DNS
3 53 (1.64%) Network Security
4 43 (1.33%) VPN
5 39 (1.20%) LAN
6 37 (1.14%) WAN
7 26 (0.80%) DHCP
8 21 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.62%) SAN
10 19 (0.59%) NAS
11 17 (0.53%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.49%) Wireless
13 14 (0.43%) BGP
13 14 (0.43%) MPLS
14 13 (0.40%) HTTP
15 12 (0.37%) DKIM
15 12 (0.37%) DMARC
16 10 (0.31%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.46%) Power BI
2 88 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 57 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 50 (1.54%) Metadata
8 49 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 45 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (1.05%) Relational Database
13 32 (0.99%) Delta Lake
14 31 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (0.96%) Tableau
15 28 (0.86%) Oracle Database
16 27 (0.83%) Big Data
17 26 (0.80%) MongoDB
18 14 (0.43%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (6.08%) JIRA
2 182 (5.62%) Git
3 145 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.09%) GitLab
5 34 (1.05%) Selenium
6 28 (0.86%) Postman
7 26 (0.80%) JUnit
8 22 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.62%) Mockito
10 19 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.49%) JMeter
13 11 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.34%) Maven
14 10 (0.31%) Gradle
14 10 (0.31%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.28%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.25%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.25%) Liquibase
General
1 929 (28.69%) Public Sector
2 653 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 317 (9.79%) Finance
4 231 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 83 (2.56%) Banking
7 69 (2.13%) Military
8 49 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 41 (1.27%) Police
11 37 (1.14%) Law
11 37 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.05%) Legal
13 28 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (0.83%) Retail
15 22 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.49%) Marketing
18 9 (0.28%) Publishing
19 7 (0.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 569 (17.57%) Architect
2 416 (12.85%) Developer
3 276 (8.52%) Senior
4 236 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 231 (7.13%) Lead
6 229 (7.07%) Analyst
7 192 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 154 (4.76%) Consultant
9 129 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
10 127 (3.92%) Business Analyst
11 96 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (2.72%) Technical Architect
13 82 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
14 73 (2.25%) Security Architect
15 69 (2.13%) Designer
16 63 (1.95%) Cloud Engineer
17 62 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
17 62 (1.91%) Java Developer
18 60 (1.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 57 (1.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (4.82%) REST
2 108 (3.34%) Spring
3 83 (2.56%) Kafka
4 80 (2.47%) SOAP
4 80 (2.47%) Spring Boot
5 77 (2.38%) LDAP
6 73 (2.25%) JSON
6 73 (2.25%) Node.js
6 73 (2.25%) PySpark
6 73 (2.25%) React
7 70 (2.16%) .NET
8 63 (1.95%) RESTful
9 59 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
10 57 (1.76%) HTML
11 54 (1.67%) Web Services
12 52 (1.61%) AngularJS
13 43 (1.33%) OAuth
14 37 (1.14%) OpenID
14 37 (1.14%) SAML
15 35 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 102 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 96 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 64 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 58 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 48 (1.48%) PKI
8 46 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.33%) Replication
11 40 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 30 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.83%) CMDB
14 26 (0.80%) Data Structures
15 24 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
17 17 (0.53%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.53%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 158 (4.88%) Linux
2 147 (4.54%) Windows
3 48 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.83%) Android
5 22 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 20 (0.62%) VMS
7 18 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.56%) Unix
8 11 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.31%) Solaris
9 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.12%) AIX
12 4 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.062%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (21.53%) DevOps
2 657 (20.29%) Agile
3 559 (17.26%) CI/CD
4 358 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 347 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 345 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (9.76%) Migration
8 247 (7.63%) Containerisation
9 243 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 222 (6.86%) Data Modelling
12 199 (6.15%) AI
13 196 (6.05%) Analytics
14 184 (5.68%) Decision-Making
15 181 (5.59%) Test Automation
16 170 (5.25%) Cybersecurity
17 169 (5.22%) Microservices
18 161 (4.97%) Roadmaps
19 155 (4.79%) Data Pipeline
20 153 (4.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 434 (13.40%) Python
2 356 (10.99%) SQL
3 240 (7.41%) Java
4 176 (5.44%) PowerShell
5 133 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.00%) C#
7 67 (2.07%) Bash
8 64 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.39%) Ruby
10 44 (1.36%) Scala
11 34 (1.05%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.83%) Bicep
13 26 (0.80%) R
14 25 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 22 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.62%) Go
17 14 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.34%) Groovy
20 8 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 2,649 (81.81%) SC Cleared
2 373 (11.52%) DV Cleared
3 86 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 86 (2.66%) Degree
4 65 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 61 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 46 (1.42%) CISSP
7 30 (0.93%) CISM
8 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (0.71%) GIAC
9 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
11 19 (0.59%) PMP
12 18 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.43%) CEH
15 13 (0.40%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 120 (3.71%) QA
3 79 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (2.22%) NCSC
5 64 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 57 (1.76%) NIST
7 56 (1.73%) GDPR
8 54 (1.67%) PMO
9 22 (0.68%) WCAG
10 16 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.46%) GRC
12 11 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.31%) COBIT
13 10 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
13 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.19%) IFRS
16 5 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 285 (8.80%) Docker
2 114 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.46%) vSphere
8 14 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.34%) NFS
10 10 (0.31%) Squid
11 9 (0.28%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.19%) Postfix
14 4 (0.12%) Firmware
14 4 (0.12%) Varnish
14 4 (0.12%) XenApp
14 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.093%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 402 (12.42%) Terraform
2 356 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 97 (3.00%) Ansible
4 79 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 78 (2.41%) Grafana
6 46 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (0.59%) Puppet
9 18 (0.56%) SCCM
9 18 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.46%) vMotion
11 14 (0.43%) Consul
12 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.40%) Packer
13 11 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) Argo
14 8 (0.25%) Kibana
15 7 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.22%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 348 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.47%) Oracle
3 119 (3.68%) Databricks
4 115 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 91 (2.81%) VMware
6 76 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 72 (2.22%) SAP
8 62 (1.91%) Splunk
9 59 (1.82%) Google
10 53 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.54%) Cisco
12 43 (1.33%) IBM
13 34 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.05%) Centrify
13 34 (1.05%) Dynatrace
14 32 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.83%) Okta
16 24 (0.74%) MuleSoft
17 20 (0.62%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.59%) NetApp