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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,295 1,614 2,067
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.01% 13.28% 11.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.02% 51.25% 50.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,506 1,173 1,496
10th Percentile £403 £388 £350
25th Percentile £460 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 36
10th Percentile £25.35 £24.66 £14.69
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 £32.19
90th Percentile £94.50 £48.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.97 £40.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +39.93% -29.20% -5.83%

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 5,147 3,149 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.13% 25.90% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 2,111 2,824
10th Percentile £374 £361 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £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 75 61 113
10th Percentile £19.15 £20.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.13 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +11.41% -49.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £48.05 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.85% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +13 427 £550 - 96
South London 0 148 £519 -1.23% 6
East London +5 13 £750 - 15
West London -34 13 £675 +100.00% 24
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
1 130 (3.95%) Confluence
2 76 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 31 (0.94%) Apache
5 28 (0.85%) nginx
6 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.76%) 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 (0.091%) Drupal
11 3 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.091%) WordPress
12 2 (0.061%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.061%) Documentum
12 2 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.21%) Revit
5 7 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Maya
8 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
8 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.49%) 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%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
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 (0.091%) Exchequer
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle iProcurement
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.061%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 782 (23.73%) Azure
2 726 (22.03%) AWS
3 219 (6.65%) GitHub
4 182 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
5 171 (5.19%) GCP
6 167 (5.07%) Power Platform
7 137 (4.16%) Serverless
8 120 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 119 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (2.64%) Entra ID
12 86 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
13 82 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
14 67 (2.03%) OCI
14 67 (2.03%) PaaS
15 66 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 63 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 63 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 62 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
17 62 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.03%) Firewall
2 80 (2.43%) DNS
3 56 (1.70%) Network Security
4 46 (1.40%) VPN
5 39 (1.18%) LAN
6 37 (1.12%) WAN
7 27 (0.82%) DHCP
8 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.52%) SAN
10 16 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.46%) NAS
12 13 (0.39%) BGP
12 13 (0.39%) DKIM
12 13 (0.39%) DMARC
13 12 (0.36%) MPLS
14 10 (0.30%) HTTP
14 10 (0.30%) NGFW
14 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.40%) Power BI
2 89 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 50 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (1.40%) Metadata
8 45 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 37 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 29 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (0.88%) Delta Lake
12 29 (0.88%) Tableau
13 28 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.61%) Big Data
14 20 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.42%) MySQL
16 13 (0.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 191 (5.80%) JIRA
2 171 (5.19%) Git
3 149 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 105 (3.19%) GitLab
5 33 (1.00%) Selenium
6 26 (0.79%) Postman
7 25 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 24 (0.73%) JUnit
9 21 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.64%) JMeter
9 21 (0.64%) Mockito
10 17 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.42%) Gradle
12 12 (0.36%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.30%) Maven
14 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 931 (28.25%) Public Sector
2 627 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 299 (9.07%) Finance
4 196 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 87 (2.64%) Banking
7 74 (2.25%) Military
8 50 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.18%) Legal
11 36 (1.09%) Police
12 32 (0.97%) Law
13 31 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (0.85%) Retail
15 24 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.58%) Marketing
18 17 (0.52%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.30%) Publishing
20 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 633 (19.21%) Architect
2 399 (12.11%) Developer
3 270 (8.19%) Senior
4 248 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 245 (7.44%) Lead
6 200 (6.07%) Analyst
6 200 (6.07%) Data Engineer
7 148 (4.49%) Consultant
8 122 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 120 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
10 114 (3.46%) Business Analyst
11 98 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
12 97 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 88 (2.67%) Security Architect
14 77 (2.34%) Designer
15 72 (2.19%) Cloud Engineer
16 69 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 64 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
18 63 (1.91%) Java Developer
19 60 (1.82%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (4.01%) REST
2 102 (3.10%) Spring
3 82 (2.49%) Spring Boot
4 80 (2.43%) React
5 78 (2.37%) LDAP
6 74 (2.25%) SOAP
7 72 (2.19%) PySpark
8 71 (2.15%) Kafka
9 69 (2.09%) RESTful
10 68 (2.06%) .NET
11 63 (1.91%) Node.js
12 53 (1.61%) HTML
13 52 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
14 51 (1.55%) AngularJS
14 51 (1.55%) JSON
15 50 (1.52%) Web Services
16 46 (1.40%) OAuth
17 37 (1.12%) OpenID
17 37 (1.12%) SAML
18 34 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 192 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 107 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 94 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.09%) Security Posture
5 55 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (1.58%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (1.27%) Replication
11 33 (1.00%) CMDB
12 32 (0.97%) PKI
13 31 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (0.91%) Public Cloud
15 29 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.76%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (0.70%) Data Structures
19 18 (0.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.76%) Linux
2 133 (4.04%) Windows
3 53 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (0.55%) Android
5 18 (0.55%) Unix
6 16 (0.49%) VMS
7 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.39%) Solaris
8 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.091%) AIX
13 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.061%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (22.06%) DevOps
2 647 (19.64%) Agile
3 566 (17.18%) CI/CD
4 382 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 370 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 322 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
7 318 (9.65%) Migration
8 270 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 255 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 243 (7.37%) Containerisation
11 226 (6.86%) AI
12 221 (6.71%) Data Modelling
13 207 (6.28%) Decision-Making
14 199 (6.04%) Analytics
15 179 (5.43%) Roadmaps
16 175 (5.31%) Test Automation
17 174 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
18 170 (5.16%) Microservices
19 163 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
20 157 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 420 (12.75%) Python
2 353 (10.71%) SQL
3 226 (6.86%) Java
4 168 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 121 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 96 (2.91%) C#
7 78 (2.37%) Bash
8 61 (1.85%) TypeScript
9 39 (1.18%) Scala
10 37 (1.12%) Ruby
11 35 (1.06%) Apex Code
12 31 (0.94%) Bicep
13 26 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.55%) R
16 17 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.52%) Go
17 13 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.36%) Groovy
19 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,694 (81.76%) SC Cleared
2 377 (11.44%) DV Cleared
3 85 (2.58%) Degree
4 74 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 58 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 54 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 53 (1.61%) CISSP
8 36 (1.09%) CISM
9 28 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.70%) PMP
11 21 (0.64%) GIAC
12 18 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
13 16 (0.49%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (0.39%) CEH
16 12 (0.36%) CCNP
16 12 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 124 (3.76%) QA
3 84 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.25%) NCSC
5 68 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.94%) NIST
7 59 (1.79%) GDPR
8 55 (1.67%) PMO
9 19 (0.58%) GRC
9 19 (0.58%) WCAG
10 15 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.36%) COBIT
11 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.36%) SLA
12 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.18%) IFRS
13 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 266 (8.07%) Docker
2 114 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.46%) 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 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 401 (12.17%) Terraform
2 342 (10.38%) Kubernetes
3 112 (3.40%) Ansible
4 89 (2.70%) Grafana
5 86 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.70%) Puppet
8 21 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.46%) SCCM
9 15 (0.46%) 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
1 351 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 180 (5.46%) Oracle
3 120 (3.64%) Databricks
4 117 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 87 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 83 (2.52%) VMware
7 68 (2.06%) Google
8 63 (1.91%) SAP
9 60 (1.82%) Splunk
10 57 (1.73%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.27%) Cisco
12 35 (1.06%) IBM
13 34 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.03%) Centrify
13 34 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 31 (0.94%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.88%) Okta
16 27 (0.82%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.73%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.70%) Palo Alto