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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,567 1,751 1,957
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.69% 12.90% 12.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.72% 49.34% 49.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 1,257 1,428
10th Percentile £400 £366 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
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 £719 £700 £744
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 42 23
10th Percentile £19.50 £19.49 £16.58
25th Percentile £25.94 - £19.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.25 £47.25 £59.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £58.49
% change year-on-year +158.45% -57.00% -2.52%

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 5,598 3,549 3,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 26.15% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 2,407 2,693
10th Percentile £373 £339 £346
25th Percentile £456 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £537
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.39% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £736 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 87 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.62 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.38 £36.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.25 £63.45 £68.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +12 446 £550 +4.76% 132
South London 0 146 £525 -1.41% 13
West London -35 19 £675 +68.54% 45
East London +12 12 £750 - 20
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
1 163 (4.57%) Confluence
2 104 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.23%) SAS
4 33 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.87%) Apache
6 28 (0.78%) nginx
7 23 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.31%) JBoss
10 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.22%) 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 50 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.48%) 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 8 (0.22%) 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 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.42%) Findur
4 15 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 8 (0.22%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
14 4 (0.11%) iTrent
14 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
14 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
14 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
15 3 (0.084%) Oracle Assets
15 3 (0.084%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 830 (23.27%) Azure
2 771 (21.61%) AWS
3 271 (7.60%) GitHub
4 225 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 197 (5.52%) GCP
7 170 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
8 133 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 130 (3.64%) Serverless
10 100 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (2.35%) Entra ID
14 79 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 77 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (1.91%) Power Automate
18 66 (1.85%) Azure AKS
18 66 (1.85%) PowerApps
19 64 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.52%) Firewall
2 79 (2.21%) DNS
3 61 (1.71%) Network Security
4 44 (1.23%) VPN
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.64%) LAN
7 19 (0.53%) DHCP
8 18 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.42%) Internet
10 14 (0.39%) HTTP
11 9 (0.25%) 4G
11 9 (0.25%) DKIM
11 9 (0.25%) DMARC
11 9 (0.25%) SSL
11 9 (0.25%) VSAN
11 9 (0.25%) WebEx
11 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.20%) 5G
12 7 (0.20%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (4.21%) Power BI
2 100 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.74%) Data Lake
7 44 (1.23%) Metadata
8 40 (1.12%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 35 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 30 (0.84%) Tableau
12 29 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 28 (0.78%) Delta Lake
14 26 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (0.67%) Big Data
16 22 (0.62%) MySQL
17 21 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
18 20 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 219 (6.14%) Git
1 219 (6.14%) JIRA
2 195 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 135 (3.78%) GitLab
4 40 (1.12%) Selenium
5 28 (0.78%) JMeter
6 22 (0.62%) Cypress.io
6 22 (0.62%) Gradle
6 22 (0.62%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.56%) JUnit
7 20 (0.56%) Mockito
8 19 (0.53%) Maven
8 19 (0.53%) SonarQube
9 17 (0.48%) Postman
10 12 (0.34%) REST Assured
11 11 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
12 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.25%) Gatling
General
1 988 (27.70%) Public Sector
2 718 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 343 (9.62%) Finance
4 249 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (2.89%) Banking
6 93 (2.61%) Military
7 65 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (1.46%) Police
10 51 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 46 (1.29%) Law
12 38 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.01%) Legal
14 31 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (0.84%) Marketing
16 28 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.73%) Retail
18 20 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 671 (18.81%) Architect
2 456 (12.78%) Developer
3 341 (9.56%) Lead
4 312 (8.75%) Senior
5 237 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 182 (5.10%) Analyst
8 155 (4.35%) Consultant
9 125 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 107 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
12 101 (2.83%) Software Engineer
13 100 (2.80%) Security Architect
14 95 (2.66%) Data Architect
15 94 (2.64%) Designer
16 93 (2.61%) Java Developer
17 89 (2.50%) Technical Architect
18 86 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 82 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
20 79 (2.21%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (4.60%) REST
2 117 (3.28%) Spring
3 95 (2.66%) Spring Boot
4 93 (2.61%) React
5 88 (2.47%) .NET
5 88 (2.47%) Kafka
6 86 (2.41%) RESTful
7 66 (1.85%) JSON
8 65 (1.82%) PySpark
9 64 (1.79%) Node.js
9 64 (1.79%) SOAP
10 56 (1.57%) AngularJS
11 55 (1.54%) HTML
12 47 (1.32%) XML
13 46 (1.29%) Web Services
14 43 (1.21%) Django
15 37 (1.04%) Middleware
15 37 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
16 35 (0.98%) OAuth
17 30 (0.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 211 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 116 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 61 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.51%) CMDB
9 49 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 36 (1.01%) Clustering
11 34 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 34 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (0.95%) Replication
12 30 (0.84%) Security Posture
13 26 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (0.70%) Private Cloud
14 25 (0.70%) Public Cloud
15 24 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.19%) Linux
2 165 (4.63%) Windows
3 66 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.81%) Unix
6 27 (0.76%) Android
7 17 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) Solaris
9 13 (0.36%) VMS
9 13 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.11%) AIX
13 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.084%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (22.68%) Agile
2 778 (21.81%) DevOps
3 687 (19.26%) CI/CD
4 466 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 428 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 350 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 334 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 311 (8.72%) Migration
9 309 (8.66%) AI
9 309 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (7.82%) Containerisation
11 250 (7.01%) Analytics
12 240 (6.73%) Data Modelling
13 225 (6.31%) Roadmaps
14 222 (6.22%) Decision-Making
15 221 (6.20%) Test Automation
16 215 (6.03%) Software Engineering
17 195 (5.47%) Microservices
18 193 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
19 183 (5.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 460 (12.90%) Python
2 404 (11.33%) SQL
3 301 (8.44%) Java
4 167 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 135 (3.78%) PowerShell
6 115 (3.22%) C#
7 103 (2.89%) Bash
8 81 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.32%) Bicep
10 42 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.87%) Groovy
12 30 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 29 (0.81%) Ruby
13 29 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.48%) Scala
16 16 (0.45%) R
17 11 (0.31%) C++
18 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,935 (82.28%) SC Cleared
2 457 (12.81%) DV Cleared
3 113 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 82 (2.30%) Degree
5 72 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.91%) CISSP
7 65 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.40%) CISM
9 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.93%) PMP
11 28 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.53%) GIAC
15 17 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.39%) CEH
16 14 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (4.21%) QA
2 141 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 85 (2.38%) NCSC
4 77 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 75 (2.10%) PMO
6 74 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.77%) NIST
8 55 (1.54%) GDPR
8 55 (1.54%) GRC
9 25 (0.70%) WCAG
10 21 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
11 19 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.50%) SLA
13 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.36%) COBIT
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.28%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.25%) P3O
18 8 (0.22%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 306 (8.58%) Docker
2 98 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.64%) vSphere
6 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.28%) Squid
9 8 (0.22%) Postfix
10 7 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.17%) NFS
12 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.11%) Firmware
13 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.11%) UAG
13 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 446 (12.50%) Terraform
2 370 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 125 (3.50%) Ansible
4 105 (2.94%) Grafana
5 89 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.93%) Puppet
7 24 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.62%) SCCM
9 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.50%) Argo
11 17 (0.48%) Control-M
11 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.36%) Istio
13 13 (0.36%) Kibana
14 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
15 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.31%) Packer
16 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
16 8 (0.22%) vMotion
Vendors
1 403 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 228 (6.39%) Oracle
3 167 (4.68%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.11%) VMware
5 110 (3.08%) Databricks
6 105 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 104 (2.92%) Google
8 64 (1.79%) Splunk
9 63 (1.77%) SAP
10 45 (1.26%) IBM
11 35 (0.98%) Cisco
12 34 (0.95%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.90%) Informatica
13 32 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.64%) Tenable
16 18 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (0.48%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.48%) Okta
17 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto