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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,605 1,766 2,064
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.74% 13.08% 12.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.35% 49.76% 51.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,261 1,440
10th Percentile £405 £388 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -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 45 43 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £17.88
25th Percentile £35.00 - £21.11
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% +4.14% -59.75%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £58.75
90th Percentile £83.70 £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 5,691 3,549 3,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 26.28% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,084 2,379 2,627
10th Percentile £369 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £733 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 81 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.63 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.81
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -18.37% -43.98%
75th Percentile £78.75 £45.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £93.25 £65.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £52.52 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -54.27% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +11 425 £550 +4.76% 116
South London +1 107 £537 -2.32% 26
West London -30 22 £663 +65.42% 60
East London +11 13 £750 - 34
North London +3 6 £538 - 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
1 160 (4.44%) Confluence
2 102 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.33%) SAS
4 35 (0.97%) Apache
5 34 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 33 (0.92%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.72%) nginx
8 22 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 13 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.31%) JBoss
10 11 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.28%) CMS
12 7 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.083%) Camunda
15 3 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.083%) Mule
15 3 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.64%) 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 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.36%) Findur
5 13 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.28%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 815 (22.61%) Azure
2 761 (21.11%) AWS
3 269 (7.46%) GitHub
4 222 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 195 (5.41%) GCP
7 175 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 128 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 128 (3.55%) Serverless
9 100 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
11 84 (2.33%) Entra ID
12 82 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
15 63 (1.75%) PowerApps
16 62 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 62 (1.72%) Power Automate
17 61 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 59 (1.64%) 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 (0.67%) 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 (0.31%) MPLS
11 11 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.28%) SSL
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
13 9 (0.25%) WebEx
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 (3.97%) Power BI
2 112 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (1.86%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 61 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (1.61%) Metadata
8 46 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.22%) MongoDB
10 43 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 38 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 28 (0.78%) MySQL
15 25 (0.69%) Tableau
16 23 (0.64%) Delta Lake
17 22 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.61%) Big Data
18 21 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 229 (6.35%) Git
2 220 (6.10%) JIRA
3 212 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 144 (3.99%) GitLab
5 53 (1.47%) Selenium
6 32 (0.89%) JMeter
7 29 (0.80%) Gradle
7 29 (0.80%) JUnit
8 25 (0.69%) Postman
9 24 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 22 (0.61%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.61%) Maven
10 22 (0.61%) Mockito
11 20 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.39%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
16 10 (0.28%) eggPlant
16 10 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 959 (26.60%) Public Sector
2 791 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 336 (9.32%) Finance
4 273 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (3.11%) Banking
5 112 (3.11%) Military
6 84 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 57 (1.58%) Law
10 53 (1.47%) Police
11 39 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (0.97%) Legal
14 32 (0.89%) Marketing
15 30 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 30 (0.83%) Retail
16 24 (0.67%) Local Government
17 20 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 16 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 656 (18.20%) Architect
2 433 (12.01%) Developer
3 349 (9.68%) Lead
4 322 (8.93%) Senior
5 246 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 181 (5.02%) Analyst
8 158 (4.38%) Consultant
9 117 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (3.11%) Data Architect
11 106 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 101 (2.80%) Software Engineer
13 95 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 94 (2.61%) Security Architect
15 93 (2.58%) Designer
15 93 (2.58%) Java Developer
16 85 (2.36%) Technical Architect
17 81 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
18 77 (2.14%) Business Analyst
19 74 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (12.04%) Terraform
2 176 (4.88%) REST
3 121 (3.36%) Spring
4 106 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 104 (2.88%) Kafka
6 101 (2.80%) React
7 94 (2.61%) RESTful
8 82 (2.27%) .NET
9 71 (1.97%) JSON
10 66 (1.83%) SOAP
11 65 (1.80%) Node.js
12 61 (1.69%) PySpark
13 57 (1.58%) XML
14 54 (1.50%) HTML
15 50 (1.39%) Django
16 46 (1.28%) AngularJS
16 46 (1.28%) Middleware
16 46 (1.28%) Web Services
17 38 (1.05%) OAuth
18 36 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 124 (3.44%) Onboarding
3 103 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 63 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 60 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 58 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.33%) CMDB
9 47 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.19%) AI Agents
12 40 (1.11%) Replication
13 38 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 34 (0.94%) Clustering
15 33 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
16 31 (0.86%) Security Posture
17 29 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
18 28 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
19 27 (0.75%) Low-Code
19 27 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 200 (5.55%) Linux
2 167 (4.63%) Windows
3 68 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.03%) Unix
6 28 (0.78%) 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 (0.31%) 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%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (23.91%) Agile
2 763 (21.17%) DevOps
3 701 (19.45%) CI/CD
4 547 (15.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 442 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 387 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 366 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 363 (10.07%) AI
9 360 (9.99%) Problem-Solving
10 311 (8.63%) Migration
11 282 (7.82%) Containerisation
12 249 (6.91%) Test Automation
13 246 (6.82%) Decision-Making
14 241 (6.69%) Data Modelling
15 237 (6.57%) Analytics
16 233 (6.46%) Roadmaps
17 228 (6.32%) Software Engineering
18 219 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
19 204 (5.66%) Observability
20 200 (5.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 517 (14.34%) Python
2 382 (10.60%) SQL
3 320 (8.88%) Java
4 170 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 138 (3.83%) PowerShell
6 116 (3.22%) Bash
7 101 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 99 (2.75%) C#
9 48 (1.33%) Bicep
10 40 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 35 (0.97%) Groovy
12 25 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 25 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 23 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.61%) Ruby
15 21 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.55%) Go
17 19 (0.53%) Scala
18 18 (0.50%) R
19 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,959 (82.08%) SC Cleared
2 475 (13.18%) DV Cleared
3 123 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 100 (2.77%) Degree
5 80 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 72 (2.00%) CISSP
7 65 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.47%) 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 25 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.55%) ISTQB
15 19 (0.53%) GIAC
16 16 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (0.42%) CRISC
18 14 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.35%) QA
2 139 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.47%) NCSC
4 81 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 76 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.02%) NIST
7 70 (1.94%) PMO
8 63 (1.75%) GRC
9 48 (1.33%) GDPR
10 25 (0.69%) WCAG
11 24 (0.67%) SLA
12 20 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
15 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.33%) COBIT
16 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
17 10 (0.28%) P3O
18 9 (0.25%) NIST 800
19 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 319 (8.85%) 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
1 391 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 123 (3.41%) Ansible
3 113 (3.13%) Grafana
4 93 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.92%) Puppet
6 24 (0.67%) 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 (0.31%) 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
1 432 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 246 (6.82%) Oracle
3 152 (4.22%) ServiceNow
4 114 (3.16%) Google
4 114 (3.16%) VMware
5 111 (3.08%) Databricks
6 95 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 86 (2.39%) Splunk
8 69 (1.91%) SAP
9 45 (1.25%) Cisco
9 45 (1.25%) IBM
10 37 (1.03%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.00%) Informatica
12 32 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.61%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
15 19 (0.53%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.53%) Foundry
16 18 (0.50%) OpenAI