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

6 months to
30 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 3,523 1,736 1,930
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.60% 12.77% 11.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.75% 49.25% 49.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,700 1,256 1,415
10th Percentile £402 £364 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £719 £700 £750
England median daily rate £536 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 38 25
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £16.90
25th Percentile £26.00 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.00 £45.75 £59.00
England median hourly rate £64.09 £25.15 £57.44
% change year-on-year +154.83% -56.22% -4.27%

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 5,526 3,525 3,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.60% 25.92% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 2,386 2,715
10th Percentile £371 £333 £331
25th Percentile £453 £428 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 85 70
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.32 £18.10
25th Percentile £27.56 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.55 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.75 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +117.69% -41.51% -21.82%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +12 438 £550 +3.09% 104
South London 0 140 £523 -1.83% 5
West London -36 17 £675 +68.75% 40
East London +12 12 £750 +7.14% 23
North London +2 4 - -
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
1 156 (4.43%) Confluence
2 100 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.22%) SAS
4 34 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.88%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) nginx
8 22 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.26%) JBoss
10 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.085%) Mule
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (0.37%) AutoCAD
3 13 (0.37%) Revit
3 13 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
4 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.085%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) Maya
9 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Findur
3 14 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Assets
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 803 (22.79%) Azure
2 753 (21.37%) AWS
3 259 (7.35%) GitHub
4 211 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
5 207 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 186 (5.28%) GCP
7 159 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
8 139 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 127 (3.60%) Serverless
10 101 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (2.16%) Entra ID
15 70 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 65 (1.85%) Power Automate
17 64 (1.82%) PowerApps
18 63 (1.79%) Azure AKS
19 56 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.50%) Firewall
2 78 (2.21%) DNS
3 61 (1.73%) Network Security
4 48 (1.36%) VPN
5 25 (0.71%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) LAN
7 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.54%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) DKIM
11 11 (0.31%) DMARC
12 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
12 9 (0.26%) SAN
12 9 (0.26%) VSAN
12 9 (0.26%) WebEx
13 8 (0.23%) 4G
13 8 (0.23%) SMTP
13 8 (0.23%) SSL
13 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (4.17%) Power BI
2 91 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.76%) Data Lake
4 62 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 52 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
6 42 (1.19%) Metadata
7 40 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 38 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
10 36 (1.02%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (0.79%) Delta Lake
13 27 (0.77%) Tableau
14 23 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (0.65%) Big Data
14 23 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (0.45%) Star Schema
16 15 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 214 (6.07%) JIRA
2 202 (5.73%) Git
3 179 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 128 (3.63%) GitLab
5 32 (0.91%) Selenium
6 24 (0.68%) JMeter
7 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 19 (0.54%) Gradle
8 19 (0.54%) JUnit
8 19 (0.54%) Mockito
9 18 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.45%) Maven
12 14 (0.40%) Postman
13 12 (0.34%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.28%) Liquibase
16 7 (0.20%) Gatling
16 7 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 1,009 (28.64%) Public Sector
2 679 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 335 (9.51%) Finance
4 232 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (2.70%) Banking
6 90 (2.55%) Military
7 68 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (1.48%) Police
10 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 42 (1.19%) Law
12 36 (1.02%) Legal
13 33 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.77%) Marketing
16 25 (0.71%) Retail
17 24 (0.68%) Manufacturing
18 22 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.48%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 669 (18.99%) Architect
2 454 (12.89%) Developer
3 320 (9.08%) Lead
4 297 (8.43%) Senior
5 242 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 194 (5.51%) Analyst
7 192 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 158 (4.48%) Consultant
9 126 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
10 105 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
11 104 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
12 101 (2.87%) Security Architect
13 97 (2.75%) Designer
14 94 (2.67%) Software Engineer
15 92 (2.61%) Java Developer
16 91 (2.58%) Technical Architect
17 86 (2.44%) Business Analyst
17 86 (2.44%) Data Architect
18 83 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 78 (2.21%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (4.26%) REST
2 114 (3.24%) Spring
3 91 (2.58%) Spring Boot
4 90 (2.55%) React
5 82 (2.33%) RESTful
6 81 (2.30%) .NET
7 78 (2.21%) Kafka
8 66 (1.87%) PySpark
9 64 (1.82%) Node.js
10 63 (1.79%) SOAP
11 60 (1.70%) JSON
12 53 (1.50%) AngularJS
13 51 (1.45%) HTML
14 43 (1.22%) Web Services
15 42 (1.19%) Django
16 37 (1.05%) XML
17 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
18 34 (0.97%) OAuth
19 33 (0.94%) Middleware
20 29 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 209 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 114 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 61 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 51 (1.45%) CMDB
8 47 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
10 33 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 32 (0.91%) Clustering
12 30 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 29 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (0.71%) Public Cloud
16 25 (0.71%) Replication
17 24 (0.68%) PKI
17 24 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (4.88%) Linux
2 159 (4.51%) Windows
3 61 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.79%) Android
6 27 (0.77%) Unix
7 19 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.40%) Solaris
9 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.31%) VMS
11 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.11%) AIX
17 3 (0.085%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (22.42%) Agile
2 759 (21.54%) DevOps
3 652 (18.51%) CI/CD
4 422 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 411 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 335 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 330 (9.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 318 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
9 298 (8.46%) Migration
10 297 (8.43%) AI
11 271 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 251 (7.12%) Analytics
13 233 (6.61%) Data Modelling
14 229 (6.50%) Decision-Making
15 215 (6.10%) Roadmaps
16 207 (5.88%) Software Engineering
17 198 (5.62%) Test Automation
18 184 (5.22%) Cybersecurity
18 184 (5.22%) Microservices
19 180 (5.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 444 (12.60%) Python
2 370 (10.50%) SQL
3 284 (8.06%) Java
4 145 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 126 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 106 (3.01%) C#
7 104 (2.95%) Bash
8 71 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.28%) Bicep
10 41 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.82%) Groovy
12 29 (0.82%) Ruby
12 29 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.51%) R
14 18 (0.51%) Scala
15 12 (0.34%) Go
16 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,897 (82.23%) SC Cleared
2 457 (12.97%) DV Cleared
3 103 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 83 (2.36%) Degree
5 64 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 64 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 57 (1.62%) CISSP
7 39 (1.11%) CISM
8 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (0.79%) PMP
10 25 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 21 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
12 17 (0.48%) GIAC
13 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.37%) CEH
14 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 133 (3.78%) QA
3 80 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 77 (2.19%) NCSC
5 68 (1.93%) PMO
6 65 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 54 (1.53%) GDPR
7 54 (1.53%) GRC
8 52 (1.48%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) WCAG
10 20 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
11 17 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.43%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 292 (8.29%) Docker
2 91 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 73 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.62%) vSphere
7 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Squid
10 9 (0.26%) NFS
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.23%) Postfix
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.14%) Varnish
14 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 441 (12.52%) Terraform
2 360 (10.22%) Kubernetes
3 124 (3.52%) Ansible
4 106 (3.01%) Grafana
5 92 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.91%) Puppet
7 25 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.57%) Argo
8 20 (0.57%) SCCM
8 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.45%) Control-M
10 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.34%) vMotion
13 11 (0.31%) Istio
13 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
14 9 (0.26%) Packer
15 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 388 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 219 (6.22%) Oracle
3 161 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 109 (3.09%) Databricks
5 108 (3.07%) VMware
6 107 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 96 (2.72%) Google
8 65 (1.85%) Splunk
9 64 (1.82%) SAP
10 38 (1.08%) IBM
11 33 (0.94%) Cisco
12 32 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 32 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 31 (0.88%) Informatica
14 27 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.65%) Tenable
16 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (0.48%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.48%) Foundry
17 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto