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

6 months to
30 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 3,322 1,620 2,052
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.98% 13.31% 11.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.97% 51.48% 49.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,523 1,178 1,487
10th Percentile £402 £388 £350
25th Percentile £458 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.06%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 35
10th Percentile £25.35 £24.66 £14.52
25th Percentile £43.75 £24.94 £17.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £76.58 £38.82 £27.09
90th Percentile £94.50 £48.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +37.50% -29.19% -5.85%

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 5,193 3,147 4,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.11% 25.87% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,717 2,114 2,816
10th Percentile £372 £362 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.52% -6.54%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 61 113
10th Percentile £19.22 £20.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.25 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +11.41% -49.75%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% -27.27%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +13 431 £550 - 68
South London 0 149 £519 -1.23% 5
East London +3 13 £750 - 12
West London -36 13 £675 +100.00% 20
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
1 131 (3.94%) Confluence
2 76 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 31 (0.93%) Apache
5 28 (0.84%) nginx
6 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.15%) CMS
10 4 (0.12%) Camunda
10 4 (0.12%) SAS
10 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.090%) Drupal
11 3 (0.090%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.090%) WordPress
12 2 (0.060%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.21%) Revit
6 7 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.030%) Maya
9 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.39%) Findur
4 13 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.12%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.090%) Exchequer
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle iProcurement
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (0.060%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 786 (23.66%) Azure
2 735 (22.13%) AWS
3 219 (6.59%) GitHub
4 182 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 173 (5.21%) GCP
6 166 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 136 (4.09%) Serverless
8 120 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 119 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
10 104 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.68%) Entra ID
12 87 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
13 81 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
14 68 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 67 (2.02%) OCI
15 67 (2.02%) PaaS
16 63 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 62 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 62 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
17 62 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.04%) Firewall
2 80 (2.41%) DNS
3 57 (1.72%) Network Security
4 46 (1.38%) VPN
5 39 (1.17%) LAN
6 37 (1.11%) WAN
7 27 (0.81%) DHCP
8 25 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.51%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.51%) SAN
10 16 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.45%) NAS
12 14 (0.42%) MPLS
13 13 (0.39%) BGP
13 13 (0.39%) DKIM
13 13 (0.39%) DMARC
14 10 (0.30%) HTTP
14 10 (0.30%) NGFW
14 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.34%) Power BI
2 89 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.99%) Data Lake
5 64 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 50 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.41%) Metadata
8 45 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 37 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 29 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 29 (0.87%) Tableau
14 28 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (0.63%) Oracle Database
16 20 (0.60%) Big Data
17 14 (0.42%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 192 (5.78%) JIRA
2 171 (5.15%) Git
3 151 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.19%) GitLab
5 34 (1.02%) Selenium
6 27 (0.81%) Postman
7 25 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 24 (0.72%) JUnit
9 21 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.63%) JMeter
9 21 (0.63%) Mockito
10 17 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.42%) Gradle
13 12 (0.36%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.30%) Maven
15 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 938 (28.24%) Public Sector
2 636 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.24%) Finance
4 199 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 87 (2.62%) Banking
7 75 (2.26%) Military
8 50 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.17%) Legal
11 36 (1.08%) Police
12 32 (0.96%) Law
13 31 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (0.84%) Retail
15 24 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (0.60%) Marketing
18 18 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.30%) Publishing
20 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 639 (19.24%) Architect
2 401 (12.07%) Developer
3 272 (8.19%) Senior
4 248 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 247 (7.44%) Lead
6 206 (6.20%) Analyst
7 201 (6.05%) Data Engineer
8 149 (4.49%) Consultant
9 123 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
10 120 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 115 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 99 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
13 96 (2.89%) Technical Architect
14 88 (2.65%) Security Architect
15 79 (2.38%) Designer
16 72 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
17 69 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 64 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
18 64 (1.93%) Java Developer
19 61 (1.84%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (3.97%) REST
2 103 (3.10%) Spring
3 83 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 80 (2.41%) React
5 78 (2.35%) LDAP
6 74 (2.23%) SOAP
7 73 (2.20%) Kafka
8 71 (2.14%) PySpark
9 69 (2.08%) RESTful
10 68 (2.05%) .NET
11 64 (1.93%) Node.js
12 53 (1.60%) HTML
12 53 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
13 51 (1.54%) AngularJS
13 51 (1.54%) JSON
13 51 (1.54%) Web Services
14 46 (1.38%) OAuth
15 37 (1.11%) OpenID
15 37 (1.11%) SAML
16 34 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 194 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 107 (3.22%) Onboarding
3 95 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.08%) Security Posture
5 56 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (1.26%) Replication
11 33 (0.99%) CMDB
11 33 (0.99%) PKI
12 31 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 29 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 25 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (0.72%) Data Structures
17 18 (0.54%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 160 (4.82%) Linux
2 134 (4.03%) Windows
3 53 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (0.57%) Unix
6 18 (0.54%) Android
7 16 (0.48%) VMS
8 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.39%) Solaris
9 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.090%) AIX
14 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.060%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (22.00%) DevOps
2 650 (19.57%) Agile
3 570 (17.16%) CI/CD
4 382 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 371 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 327 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (9.69%) Migration
8 269 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 256 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 245 (7.38%) Containerisation
11 226 (6.80%) AI
12 223 (6.71%) Data Modelling
13 209 (6.29%) Decision-Making
14 202 (6.08%) Analytics
15 180 (5.42%) Roadmaps
16 177 (5.33%) Test Automation
17 176 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
18 171 (5.15%) Microservices
19 163 (4.91%) Technical Leadership
20 157 (4.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 425 (12.79%) Python
2 356 (10.72%) SQL
3 230 (6.92%) Java
4 170 (5.12%) PowerShell
5 122 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 96 (2.89%) C#
7 78 (2.35%) Bash
8 63 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 39 (1.17%) Scala
10 38 (1.14%) Ruby
11 35 (1.05%) Apex Code
12 31 (0.93%) Bicep
13 26 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.54%) Go
15 18 (0.54%) R
16 17 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.36%) Groovy
19 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,712 (81.64%) SC Cleared
2 384 (11.56%) DV Cleared
3 87 (2.62%) Degree
4 74 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 58 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 55 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 53 (1.60%) CISSP
8 36 (1.08%) CISM
9 28 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.69%) GIAC
10 23 (0.69%) PMP
11 18 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
12 16 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.39%) CEH
16 12 (0.36%) CCNP
16 12 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 127 (3.82%) QA
3 85 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 76 (2.29%) NCSC
5 68 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 65 (1.96%) NIST
7 60 (1.81%) GDPR
8 55 (1.66%) PMO
9 19 (0.57%) GRC
9 19 (0.57%) WCAG
10 15 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.36%) COBIT
11 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.36%) SLA
12 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.18%) IFRS
12 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 268 (8.07%) Docker
2 115 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.45%) Squid
8 12 (0.36%) NFS
8 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.36%) vSphere
9 9 (0.27%) Postfix
10 8 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.18%) Varnish
12 4 (0.12%) Firmware
12 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 404 (12.16%) Terraform
2 343 (10.33%) Kubernetes
3 112 (3.37%) Ansible
4 89 (2.68%) Grafana
5 86 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.69%) Puppet
8 21 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.45%) SCCM
9 15 (0.45%) vMotion
10 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.39%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.36%) Consul
13 10 (0.30%) Packer
14 8 (0.24%) Kibana
14 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.21%) Istio
16 6 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 353 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 183 (5.51%) Oracle
3 122 (3.67%) Databricks
4 119 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 87 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 83 (2.50%) VMware
7 68 (2.05%) Google
8 64 (1.93%) SAP
9 60 (1.81%) Splunk
10 57 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.26%) Cisco
12 35 (1.05%) IBM
13 34 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.02%) Centrify
13 34 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 31 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.87%) Okta
16 27 (0.81%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.72%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.69%) Palo Alto