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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,480 1,731 1,974
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.56% 12.73% 11.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.72% 49.47% 49.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,665 1,256 1,439
10th Percentile £400 £366 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £531 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 28
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.77 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.63% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £32.19
90th Percentile £94.25 £46.25 £64.88
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -56.26% -4.17%

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 5,461 3,499 4,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.55% 25.72% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 2,375 2,771
10th Percentile £365 £338 £329
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 80 79
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.73 £17.88
25th Percentile £26.13 £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 £73.00 £45.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.93 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.44% -41.16% -23.76%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +13 447 £550 - 84
South London 0 139 £521 -2.71% 4
West London -34 16 £675 +68.75% 42
East London +10 11 £750 +7.14% 21
North London +1 4 - - 1
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
1 153 (4.40%) Confluence
2 97 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.01%) SAS
4 32 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.86%) nginx
6 29 (0.83%) Apache
7 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.17%) JBoss
12 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.11%) WordPress
13 3 (0.086%) Drupal
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.057%) Documentum
14 2 (0.057%) MQSeries
Applications
1 44 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.34%) Revit
4 12 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
5 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.086%) Sketch
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.029%) InDesign
10 1 (0.029%) Maya
10 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.11%) iTrent
10 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.086%) Changepoint
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.086%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 785 (22.56%) Azure
2 739 (21.24%) AWS
3 248 (7.13%) GitHub
4 199 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (5.63%) Power Platform
6 176 (5.06%) GCP
7 154 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
8 130 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 125 (3.59%) Serverless
10 98 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
12 85 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 77 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 75 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
15 67 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 66 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (1.84%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.81%) PowerApps
19 62 (1.78%) Azure AKS
20 56 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.50%) Firewall
2 70 (2.01%) DNS
3 61 (1.75%) Network Security
4 50 (1.44%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) WAN
6 24 (0.69%) LAN
7 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 13 (0.37%) SAN
11 12 (0.34%) Internet
12 11 (0.32%) DKIM
12 11 (0.32%) DMARC
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
13 10 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.26%) VSAN
15 8 (0.23%) 4G
15 8 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.97%) Power BI
2 94 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 60 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (1.26%) Metadata
8 41 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (0.78%) Tableau
13 24 (0.69%) Delta Lake
14 23 (0.66%) MongoDB
15 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.55%) Big Data
17 18 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.40%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 213 (6.12%) JIRA
2 200 (5.75%) Git
3 175 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 127 (3.65%) GitLab
5 31 (0.89%) Selenium
6 23 (0.66%) JMeter
7 21 (0.60%) JUnit
8 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 19 (0.55%) Mockito
10 18 (0.52%) Gradle
11 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.46%) Postman
12 16 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 15 (0.43%) Maven
14 13 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.32%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
17 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
18 8 (0.23%) Snyk
19 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,000 (28.74%) Public Sector
2 655 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 327 (9.40%) Finance
4 224 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.70%) Banking
6 84 (2.41%) Military
7 72 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.44%) Police
10 48 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.09%) Law
12 36 (1.03%) Legal
13 33 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (0.75%) Marketing
16 24 (0.69%) Retail
17 22 (0.63%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.49%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 643 (18.48%) Architect
2 447 (12.84%) Developer
3 318 (9.14%) Lead
4 282 (8.10%) Senior
5 249 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 191 (5.49%) Analyst
7 183 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 159 (4.57%) Consultant
9 120 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 98 (2.82%) Security Architect
13 96 (2.76%) Designer
14 93 (2.67%) Java Developer
15 88 (2.53%) Software Engineer
15 88 (2.53%) Technical Architect
16 83 (2.39%) Business Analyst
17 81 (2.33%) Data Architect
18 80 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
19 77 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (4.08%) REST
2 118 (3.39%) Spring
3 92 (2.64%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.44%) React
5 81 (2.33%) RESTful
6 78 (2.24%) .NET
7 74 (2.13%) Kafka
8 66 (1.90%) Node.js
9 65 (1.87%) PySpark
10 57 (1.64%) SOAP
11 56 (1.61%) JSON
12 52 (1.49%) AngularJS
13 51 (1.47%) HTML
14 43 (1.24%) Web Services
15 41 (1.18%) Django
16 37 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (0.92%) XML
18 31 (0.89%) Middleware
19 30 (0.86%) OAuth
20 28 (0.80%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 50 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.38%) CMDB
9 46 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 32 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 32 (0.92%) Security Posture
12 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (0.80%) Replication
13 27 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (0.75%) Public Cloud
15 23 (0.66%) PKI
16 22 (0.63%) Clustering
16 22 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.77%) Linux
2 144 (4.14%) Windows
3 53 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.80%) Android
5 28 (0.80%) Unix
6 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.40%) Solaris
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
8 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.11%) AIX
14 3 (0.086%) SUSE
14 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (22.13%) Agile
2 755 (21.70%) DevOps
3 643 (18.48%) CI/CD
4 407 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 318 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 318 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (9.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 293 (8.42%) Migration
9 282 (8.10%) AI
10 267 (7.67%) Containerisation
11 235 (6.75%) Analytics
12 225 (6.47%) Data Modelling
13 221 (6.35%) Decision-Making
14 208 (5.98%) Roadmaps
15 198 (5.69%) Software Engineering
15 198 (5.69%) Test Automation
16 187 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
17 182 (5.23%) Microservices
18 174 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 432 (12.41%) Python
2 357 (10.26%) SQL
3 281 (8.07%) Java
4 135 (3.88%) JavaScript
5 122 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 104 (2.99%) C#
7 99 (2.84%) Bash
8 68 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 44 (1.26%) Bicep
10 39 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.86%) Ruby
13 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.72%) Groovy
15 24 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (0.52%) Scala
18 17 (0.49%) R
19 12 (0.34%) Go
20 9 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,846 (81.78%) SC Cleared
2 456 (13.10%) DV Cleared
3 100 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 78 (2.24%) Degree
5 63 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 63 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 58 (1.67%) CISSP
7 40 (1.15%) CISM
8 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (0.72%) PMP
10 24 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
12 22 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.57%) GIAC
14 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.62%) QA
3 79 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.27%) NCSC
4 70 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (1.98%) PMO
6 57 (1.64%) NIST
7 51 (1.47%) GDPR
8 46 (1.32%) GRC
9 26 (0.75%) WCAG
10 16 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
11 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 11 (0.32%) COBIT
14 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.23%) P3O
16 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 288 (8.28%) Docker
2 82 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.55%) vSphere
8 15 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) NFS
10 12 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.23%) Postfix
12 5 (0.14%) Varnish
13 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 3 (0.086%) Firmware
14 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 440 (12.64%) Terraform
2 362 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 123 (3.53%) Ansible
4 104 (2.99%) Grafana
5 89 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.80%) Puppet
7 24 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.46%) Argo
10 15 (0.43%) SCCM
10 15 (0.43%) vMotion
11 14 (0.40%) Control-M
11 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.32%) Kibana
13 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.26%) Istio
14 9 (0.26%) Packer
15 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
16 7 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 375 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 211 (6.06%) Oracle
3 153 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 107 (3.07%) Databricks
5 99 (2.84%) VMware
6 98 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.64%) Google
8 70 (2.01%) Splunk
9 62 (1.78%) SAP
10 37 (1.06%) IBM
11 32 (0.92%) Cisco
11 32 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 30 (0.86%) Informatica
13 29 (0.83%) Red Hat
14 24 (0.69%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.66%) Tenable
16 18 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (0.49%) Foundry
17 17 (0.49%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.49%) Palo Alto