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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,673 1,816 2,111
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.14% 13.64% 13.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.70% 51.27% 52.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 1,284 1,411
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £468 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 45 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £21.23
25th Percentile £35.00 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -28.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £67.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £33.31 £112.00
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 5,766 3,542 4,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.48% 26.61% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,180 2,380 2,569
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £457 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £738 £775
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.99 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.47 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -26.40%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.74 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £64.65 £73.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -2.36%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +10 395 £550 +4.76% 206
South London +1 105 £546 +3.07% 9
West London -32 24 £650 +62.30% 40
North London +4 6 £538 +5.39%
East London +3 6 £750 +3.45% 29
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
1 150 (4.08%) Confluence
2 90 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.31%) SAS
4 34 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.71%) nginx
7 25 (0.68%) Apache
8 12 (0.33%) CMS
9 11 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.27%) JBoss
10 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.14%) Camunda
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.082%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 45 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 18 (0.49%) Revit
4 18 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
5 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Windchill
10 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.082%) Sketch
11 2 (0.054%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.027%) InDesign
12 1 (0.027%) PrintSoft PReS
12 1 (0.027%) Simulink
12 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.16%) Maximo
8 6 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
9 5 (0.14%) Findur
9 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
10 4 (0.11%) iTrent
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 815 (22.19%) Azure
2 784 (21.34%) AWS
3 267 (7.27%) GitHub
4 213 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 210 (5.72%) Power Platform
6 201 (5.47%) GCP
7 183 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (3.35%) Serverless
9 121 (3.29%) Amazon S3
10 103 (2.80%) Entra ID
11 98 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 94 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 90 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
14 78 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 76 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (1.96%) PowerApps
17 65 (1.77%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
18 63 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 60 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.23%) Firewall
2 69 (1.88%) DNS
3 58 (1.58%) Network Security
4 39 (1.06%) VPN
5 31 (0.84%) WAN
6 19 (0.52%) LAN
7 18 (0.49%) DHCP
8 16 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.38%) Internet
10 13 (0.35%) BGP
11 12 (0.33%) MPLS
11 12 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.30%) HTTP
13 10 (0.27%) SSL
13 10 (0.27%) WebEx
14 9 (0.25%) 4G
15 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.22%) SAN
15 8 (0.22%) VoIP
15 8 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (3.81%) Power BI
2 125 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 63 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (1.63%) Metadata
7 51 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 50 (1.36%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 39 (1.06%) Oracle Database
11 37 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 36 (0.98%) MySQL
13 33 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (0.71%) Redis
16 22 (0.60%) Big Data
17 21 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.52%) Delta Lake
19 18 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 241 (6.56%) Git
2 237 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 206 (5.61%) JIRA
4 149 (4.06%) GitLab
5 58 (1.58%) Selenium
6 38 (1.03%) JMeter
7 33 (0.90%) Gradle
7 33 (0.90%) JUnit
7 33 (0.90%) Postman
8 30 (0.82%) Maven
9 28 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 23 (0.63%) Mockito
13 22 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 15 (0.41%) LoadRunner
14 15 (0.41%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.35%) Gatling
15 13 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 975 (26.55%) Public Sector
2 822 (22.38%) Social Skills
3 325 (8.85%) Finance
4 266 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (3.35%) Military
6 102 (2.78%) Banking
7 90 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (1.63%) Police
9 57 (1.55%) Law
9 57 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (0.87%) Legal
14 29 (0.79%) Local Government
14 29 (0.79%) Marketing
15 26 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 21 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 689 (18.76%) Architect
2 405 (11.03%) Developer
3 360 (9.80%) Senior
4 356 (9.69%) Lead
5 265 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 187 (5.09%) Data Engineer
7 176 (4.79%) Analyst
8 160 (4.36%) Consultant
9 122 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
10 120 (3.27%) Data Architect
11 114 (3.10%) Security Architect
12 110 (2.99%) Designer
13 100 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
14 97 (2.64%) Software Engineer
15 93 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
16 88 (2.40%) Java Developer
16 88 (2.40%) Technical Architect
17 87 (2.37%) User Researcher
18 78 (2.12%) Cloud Engineer
19 72 (1.96%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (11.90%) Terraform
2 202 (5.50%) REST
3 117 (3.19%) Kafka
4 115 (3.13%) Spring
5 99 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 98 (2.67%) React
7 90 (2.45%) RESTful
8 83 (2.26%) .NET
9 76 (2.07%) SOAP
10 67 (1.82%) JSON
11 61 (1.66%) XML
12 58 (1.58%) HTML
12 58 (1.58%) Middleware
13 56 (1.52%) Node.js
14 52 (1.42%) PySpark
15 46 (1.25%) Django
15 46 (1.25%) OAuth
16 42 (1.14%) AngularJS
16 42 (1.14%) Web Services
17 37 (1.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 139 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 121 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 67 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 64 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 61 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 51 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.25%) Replication
11 42 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 40 (1.09%) CMDB
12 40 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.03%) Data Structures
14 36 (0.98%) PKI
15 31 (0.84%) Security Posture
16 29 (0.79%) Clustering
16 29 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
18 26 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 206 (5.61%) Linux
2 167 (4.55%) Windows
3 61 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (0.93%) Unix
6 31 (0.84%) Android
7 22 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.35%) VMS
10 12 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.27%) Solaris
12 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.14%) AIX
17 3 (0.082%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.082%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (24.04%) Agile
2 772 (21.02%) DevOps
3 736 (20.04%) CI/CD
4 599 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 457 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 410 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 408 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 391 (10.65%) AI
9 362 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
10 302 (8.22%) Migration
11 295 (8.03%) Containerisation
12 264 (7.19%) Test Automation
13 258 (7.02%) Roadmaps
14 256 (6.97%) Decision-Making
15 239 (6.51%) Software Engineering
16 235 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
17 229 (6.23%) Data Modelling
18 228 (6.21%) Analytics
18 228 (6.21%) Observability
19 210 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 534 (14.54%) Python
2 375 (10.21%) SQL
3 305 (8.30%) Java
4 184 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 136 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 127 (3.46%) Bash
7 103 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 97 (2.64%) C#
9 48 (1.31%) Bicep
10 39 (1.06%) Groovy
11 36 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.76%) Scala
13 25 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.63%) Go
15 20 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.44%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.35%) R
19 12 (0.33%) C++
20 10 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,015 (82.09%) SC Cleared
2 483 (13.15%) DV Cleared
3 151 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 107 (2.91%) Degree
5 91 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.91%) CISSP
7 68 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 55 (1.50%) CISM
9 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (0.93%) PMP
11 30 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 27 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.49%) CRISC
17 17 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
18 16 (0.44%) GIAC
18 16 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
19 13 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.45%) QA
2 137 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 108 (2.94%) NCSC
4 92 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 84 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (2.26%) NIST
7 67 (1.82%) GRC
8 59 (1.61%) PMO
9 55 (1.50%) GDPR
10 26 (0.71%) SLA
11 24 (0.65%) WCAG
12 19 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.25%) COBIT
17 9 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 341 (9.28%) Docker
2 103 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.49%) vSphere
6 8 (0.22%) Squid
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.082%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.082%) Firmware
10 3 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.082%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.082%) UAG
11 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.054%) NFS
Systems Management
1 413 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 138 (3.76%) Grafana
3 120 (3.27%) Ansible
4 97 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.84%) Kibana
6 29 (0.79%) Puppet
7 25 (0.68%) Argo
8 24 (0.65%) SCCM
9 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.57%) Control-M
11 20 (0.54%) Istio
12 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (0.30%) SCOM
15 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.22%) Karpenter
16 8 (0.22%) Packer
17 7 (0.19%) Cilium
Vendors
1 453 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.78%) Oracle
3 153 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 126 (3.43%) Google
5 98 (2.67%) VMware
6 92 (2.50%) Databricks
7 89 (2.42%) Splunk
8 81 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 71 (1.93%) SAP
10 44 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 44 (1.20%) IBM
11 39 (1.06%) Cisco
12 30 (0.82%) Informatica
13 28 (0.76%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.57%) Pega
16 20 (0.54%) Foundry
16 20 (0.54%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.54%) Sparx