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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,245 1,669 2,159
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.34% 13.30% 12.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.85% 51.96% 50.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,444 1,226 1,544
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £760
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 12 35
10th Percentile £21.43 £22.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £58.74 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.68% +69.32% -61.74%
75th Percentile £76.58 £41.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £88.10 £49.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.52 £57.33
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.15% -4.46%

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 5,082 3,212 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.72% 25.59% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 2,170 2,915
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £660
90th Percentile £750 £753 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 62 113
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.02 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.14% +13.60% -42.54%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.63 £69.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.59% +15.75% -23.51%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +9 417 £550 +3.09% 75
South London +2 164 £521 +4.10% 9
East London +10 16 £688 -8.33% 21
West London -22 14 £675 +80.00% 13
North London -1 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
1 142 (4.38%) Confluence
2 79 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.20%) nginx
5 33 (1.02%) Apache
6 30 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.092%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.092%) Drupal
12 3 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.062%) CMS
13 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.15%) Revit
7 5 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.34%) Findur
6 9 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 9 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.15%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.092%) Exchequer
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.092%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.092%) SAP GRC
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Assets
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 768 (23.67%) Azure
2 738 (22.74%) AWS
3 222 (6.84%) GitHub
4 183 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
5 174 (5.36%) GCP
6 166 (5.12%) Power Platform
7 151 (4.65%) Serverless
8 121 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 117 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 113 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 85 (2.62%) Entra ID
13 79 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (2.19%) OCI
15 68 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 68 (2.10%) PaaS
16 66 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
17 62 (1.91%) Power Automate
18 59 (1.82%) Azure AKS
19 57 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.08%) Firewall
2 79 (2.43%) DNS
3 52 (1.60%) Network Security
4 43 (1.33%) VPN
5 39 (1.20%) LAN
6 38 (1.17%) WAN
7 26 (0.80%) DHCP
8 20 (0.62%) NAS
8 20 (0.62%) SAN
8 20 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.49%) Kerberos
10 16 (0.49%) Wireless
11 14 (0.43%) BGP
11 14 (0.43%) MPLS
12 12 (0.37%) DKIM
12 12 (0.37%) DMARC
12 12 (0.37%) HTTP
13 10 (0.31%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.48%) Power BI
2 90 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 55 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 55 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 49 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 49 (1.51%) Metadata
7 48 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 32 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (0.99%) Delta Lake
12 31 (0.96%) Tableau
13 29 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 27 (0.83%) Big Data
15 25 (0.77%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.43%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 206 (6.35%) JIRA
2 197 (6.07%) Git
3 148 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 103 (3.17%) GitLab
5 35 (1.08%) Selenium
6 27 (0.83%) Postman
7 25 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 25 (0.77%) JUnit
8 23 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 20 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 19 (0.59%) Mockito
11 18 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.49%) JMeter
13 11 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.34%) Maven
14 10 (0.31%) Gradle
15 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.25%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.25%) Liquibase
16 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 930 (28.66%) Public Sector
2 660 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 314 (9.68%) Finance
4 231 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
6 83 (2.56%) Banking
7 68 (2.10%) Military
8 49 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 41 (1.26%) Police
11 37 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.11%) Law
13 34 (1.05%) Legal
14 29 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.83%) Retail
16 21 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.62%) Manufacturing
18 16 (0.49%) Marketing
19 9 (0.28%) Publishing
20 7 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 565 (17.41%) Architect
2 419 (12.91%) Developer
3 274 (8.44%) Senior
4 238 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 228 (7.03%) Lead
6 227 (7.00%) Analyst
7 192 (5.92%) Data Engineer
8 155 (4.78%) Consultant
9 129 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
9 129 (3.98%) Business Analyst
10 95 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
11 87 (2.68%) Technical Architect
12 84 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
13 71 (2.19%) Security Architect
14 69 (2.13%) Designer
15 64 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
16 63 (1.94%) Java Developer
17 62 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
18 60 (1.85%) AWS DevOps
18 60 (1.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (4.87%) REST
2 108 (3.33%) Spring
3 82 (2.53%) Kafka
4 81 (2.50%) SOAP
5 80 (2.47%) Spring Boot
6 78 (2.40%) React
7 77 (2.37%) LDAP
8 76 (2.34%) JSON
8 76 (2.34%) Node.js
8 76 (2.34%) PySpark
9 71 (2.19%) .NET
10 65 (2.00%) RESTful
11 59 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
12 57 (1.76%) HTML
13 55 (1.69%) Web Services
14 53 (1.63%) AngularJS
15 42 (1.29%) OAuth
16 36 (1.11%) OpenID
16 36 (1.11%) SAML
16 36 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (5.42%) Cloud Native
2 100 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 94 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 64 (1.97%) Security Posture
5 59 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 50 (1.54%) PKI
9 48 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 44 (1.36%) Replication
11 41 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 31 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 28 (0.86%) CMDB
15 27 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 24 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
17 23 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.52%) Clustering
19 16 (0.49%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 168 (5.18%) Linux
2 145 (4.47%) Windows
3 48 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.80%) Android
5 22 (0.68%) Unix
5 22 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 20 (0.62%) VMS
7 18 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.31%) Solaris
8 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.12%) AIX
11 4 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.062%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (21.57%) DevOps
2 672 (20.71%) Agile
3 559 (17.23%) CI/CD
4 359 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 347 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
5 347 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 320 (9.86%) Migration
7 245 (7.55%) Containerisation
8 242 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 228 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (6.90%) Data Modelling
11 201 (6.19%) AI
12 196 (6.04%) Analytics
13 182 (5.61%) Decision-Making
13 182 (5.61%) Test Automation
14 168 (5.18%) Microservices
15 165 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
16 159 (4.90%) Roadmaps
17 155 (4.78%) Data Pipeline
18 153 (4.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 440 (13.56%) Python
2 360 (11.09%) SQL
3 237 (7.30%) Java
4 180 (5.55%) PowerShell
5 138 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 97 (2.99%) C#
7 71 (2.19%) Bash
8 66 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.39%) Ruby
10 44 (1.36%) Scala
11 34 (1.05%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.83%) Bicep
13 26 (0.80%) R
14 24 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 22 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.62%) Go
17 13 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.34%) Groovy
20 8 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 2,659 (81.94%) SC Cleared
2 369 (11.37%) DV Cleared
3 89 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 85 (2.62%) Degree
5 66 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 62 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.36%) CISSP
8 30 (0.92%) CISM
9 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (0.71%) GIAC
11 22 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.55%) PMP
15 16 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.43%) CEH
17 13 (0.40%) ISTQB
17 13 (0.40%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 118 (3.64%) QA
3 78 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.19%) NCSC
5 63 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 58 (1.79%) GDPR
7 56 (1.73%) NIST
8 51 (1.57%) PMO
9 23 (0.71%) WCAG
10 16 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.43%) GRC
12 11 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.31%) COBIT
13 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.15%) IFRS
18 4 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 293 (9.03%) Docker
2 112 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.46%) vSphere
8 14 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.34%) NFS
10 10 (0.31%) Squid
11 9 (0.28%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.18%) Postfix
14 4 (0.12%) Firmware
14 4 (0.12%) Varnish
14 4 (0.12%) XenApp
14 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.092%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 413 (12.73%) Terraform
2 362 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 96 (2.96%) Ansible
4 79 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 77 (2.37%) Grafana
6 44 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.62%) Consul
8 20 (0.62%) Packer
9 19 (0.59%) Puppet
10 18 (0.55%) SCCM
10 18 (0.55%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.46%) vMotion
12 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) Argo
14 8 (0.25%) Kibana
15 7 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.22%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 340 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 180 (5.55%) Oracle
3 120 (3.70%) Databricks
4 117 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 93 (2.87%) VMware
6 77 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.19%) SAP
8 62 (1.91%) Splunk
9 59 (1.82%) Google
10 52 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 49 (1.51%) Cisco
12 43 (1.33%) IBM
13 34 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.05%) Centrify
14 33 (1.02%) Dynatrace
15 32 (0.99%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.83%) Okta
17 24 (0.74%) MuleSoft
18 22 (0.68%) Atlassian
19 20 (0.62%) Fortinet