Security Cleared Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,726 2,053 2,728
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.99% 11.67% 10.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.34% 49.42% 49.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,496 1,840
10th Percentile £373 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £745
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 36 46
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.69 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.04 £17.88 £54.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -63.33% +34.83%
75th Percentile - £32.19 £75.00
90th Percentile £49.75 £80.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% -4.17% +14.29%

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 3,429 4,154 5,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.81% 23.61% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 2,859 3,812
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £685
90th Percentile £750 £774 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 107 85
10th Percentile £18.48 £14.96 £18.89
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.34 £68.30 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +35.80%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 +6 207 £550 +4.76% 163
South London 0 68 £531 +6.25% 24
West London +16 31 £338 -32.50% 46
East London +4 3 - - 15
North London -4 1 - - 5
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (3.77%) Confluence
2 35 (2.03%) Apache
3 28 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.27%) nginx
6 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.52%) SAS
8 8 (0.46%) CMS
8 8 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 5 (0.29%) JBoss
10 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle Smart View
4 5 (0.29%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.29%) Sketch
5 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.058%) SPSS
8 1 (0.058%) Stata
Business Applications
1 23 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (0.46%) SAP PS
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.29%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.23%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 4 (0.23%) Primavera
7 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 520 (30.13%) AWS
2 327 (18.95%) Azure
3 110 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 95 (5.50%) GitHub
4 95 (5.50%) Serverless
5 92 (5.33%) Amazon S3
6 89 (5.16%) GCP
7 78 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (3.30%) SaaS
11 53 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
12 51 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
13 44 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (2.49%) OCI
15 41 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.85%) Entra ID
18 30 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.85%) Firewall
2 40 (2.32%) DNS
3 37 (2.14%) Network Security
4 34 (1.97%) VPN
5 26 (1.51%) LAN
5 26 (1.51%) WAN
6 21 (1.22%) Wireless
7 20 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.98%) SSL
9 14 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
9 14 (0.81%) DHCP
9 14 (0.81%) HTTP
10 13 (0.75%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.64%) SAN
13 10 (0.58%) BGP
13 10 (0.58%) OSPF
13 10 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.52%) Internet
14 9 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.81%) Power BI
2 80 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.20%) Tableau
6 36 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 32 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
8 26 (1.51%) Big Data
9 24 (1.39%) Metadata
9 24 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 23 (1.33%) MySQL
10 23 (1.33%) Oracle ODI
11 21 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.16%) Redis
13 16 (0.93%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 112 (6.49%) JIRA
2 105 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 89 (5.16%) Git
4 76 (4.40%) GitLab
5 46 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 28 (1.62%) Selenium
7 25 (1.45%) JUnit
8 21 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.10%) Liquibase
10 18 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.98%) JMeter
12 16 (0.93%) Gradle
13 15 (0.87%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.81%) Maven
14 14 (0.81%) Mockito
15 13 (0.75%) Burp Suite
15 13 (0.75%) Metasploit
16 10 (0.58%) Postman
17 9 (0.52%) Cucumber
18 8 (0.46%) QARun
General
1 561 (32.50%) Public Sector
2 417 (24.16%) Social Skills
3 174 (10.08%) Finance
4 166 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (2.72%) Law
5 47 (2.72%) Legal
6 45 (2.61%) Military
7 40 (2.32%) Telecoms
8 30 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (1.68%) Police
10 28 (1.62%) Banking
11 26 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.22%) Marketing
15 18 (1.04%) Electronics
16 12 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.58%) General Ledger
17 10 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (18.54%) Architect
2 191 (11.07%) Developer
3 146 (8.46%) Senior
4 135 (7.82%) Lead
5 128 (7.42%) Analyst
6 118 (6.84%) Consultant
7 113 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 84 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 65 (3.77%) Security Architect
10 61 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 60 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
12 57 (3.30%) Business Analyst
13 54 (3.13%) Java Developer
14 47 (2.72%) AWS Architect
15 40 (2.32%) Data Architect
16 37 (2.14%) Project Manager
16 37 (2.14%) Technical Architect
17 34 (1.97%) AWS DevOps
18 33 (1.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 32 (1.85%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (5.56%) Kafka
2 83 (4.81%) React
3 66 (3.82%) Spring
4 57 (3.30%) Spring Boot
5 56 (3.24%) REST
6 49 (2.84%) HTML
7 40 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 36 (2.09%) CSS
8 36 (2.09%) Node.js
9 33 (1.91%) .NET
10 27 (1.56%) RESTful
11 26 (1.51%) Web Services
12 24 (1.39%) XML
13 22 (1.27%) PySpark
14 21 (1.22%) AngularJS
15 20 (1.16%) JSON
16 19 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.10%) Swagger
17 17 (0.98%) OAuth
17 17 (0.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.63%) Onboarding
2 45 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 41 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 36 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 26 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 25 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 24 (1.39%) PKI
9 22 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 21 (1.22%) CSOC
11 16 (0.93%) CMDB
12 14 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (0.70%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
16 10 (0.58%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.78%) Windows
2 104 (6.03%) Linux
3 31 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 26 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.22%) Android
7 16 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.64%) Unix
9 10 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) CentOS
12 4 (0.23%) AIX
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.058%) Solaris
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (22.94%) Agile
2 294 (17.03%) DevOps
3 267 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
4 233 (13.50%) CI/CD
5 169 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 152 (8.81%) Microservices
7 134 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 127 (7.36%) Migration
9 126 (7.30%) Analytics
10 124 (7.18%) Containerisation
11 123 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
12 107 (6.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 103 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
14 95 (5.50%) Data Modelling
15 93 (5.39%) Cloud Security
16 89 (5.16%) Software Engineering
17 88 (5.10%) Mentoring
18 87 (5.04%) Test Automation
19 85 (4.92%) ITIL
19 85 (4.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 279 (16.16%) Python
2 196 (11.36%) Java
3 192 (11.12%) SQL
4 126 (7.30%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.63%) PowerShell
6 77 (4.46%) Bash
7 61 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 54 (3.13%) C#
9 26 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.16%) Go
11 16 (0.93%) Scala
12 15 (0.87%) R
13 14 (0.81%) C++
14 11 (0.64%) Bicep
15 10 (0.58%) Perl
15 10 (0.58%) Ruby
16 9 (0.52%) Groovy
16 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.29%) C
17 5 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,435 (83.14%) SC Cleared
2 186 (10.78%) DV Cleared
3 75 (4.35%) Degree
4 41 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 41 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.26%) CISSP
6 30 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.22%) CCNP
9 21 (1.22%) CISM
10 19 (1.10%) CREST Certified
11 16 (0.93%) OSCP
12 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.70%) Tigerscheme
13 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.58%) CHECK Team Member
14 10 (0.58%) OCP
14 10 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.23%) QA
2 36 (2.09%) NIST
3 34 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.80%) NCSC
6 29 (1.68%) GDPR
7 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.93%) PMO
8 12 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.64%) SLA
10 9 (0.52%) GRC
11 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 3 (0.17%) RMADS
14 3 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 164 (9.50%) Docker
2 61 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.29%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
10 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.23%) IAG
10 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.17%) vCloud
12 2 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 218 (12.63%) Kubernetes
2 189 (10.95%) Terraform
3 92 (5.33%) Ansible
4 38 (2.20%) Grafana
4 38 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.16%) Puppet
8 19 (1.10%) SCCM
9 16 (0.93%) Packer
10 14 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.75%) Consul
11 13 (0.75%) Nmap
12 12 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.64%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.58%) Kibana
15 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
16 6 (0.35%) NetBackup
17 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
18 4 (0.23%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 169 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.18%) Oracle
3 73 (4.23%) SAP
4 71 (4.11%) Cisco
5 66 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.49%) VMware
7 41 (2.38%) Databricks
7 41 (2.38%) Splunk
8 29 (1.68%) Google
9 28 (1.62%) IBM
10 26 (1.51%) Apple
11 22 (1.27%) Dell
11 22 (1.27%) Palantir
12 18 (1.04%) HP
13 17 (0.98%) Citrix
14 16 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 16 (0.93%) Software AG
15 15 (0.87%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.87%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.81%) Veracode