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

6 months to
5 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 3,338 1,592 2,063
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.09% 13.16% 11.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.17% 51.06% 50.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,536 1,156 1,493
10th Percentile £405 £381 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.02%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.14% -2.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 36
10th Percentile £25.35 £24.66 £14.69
25th Percentile £43.75 £25.04 £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 £38.75 £32.19
90th Percentile £94.50 £48.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £57.43 £35.82 £56.50
% change year-on-year +60.30% -36.60% -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 5,202 3,118 4,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.19% 25.77% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,718 2,084 2,815
10th Percentile £371 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £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 77 62 114
10th Percentile £19.22 £20.02 £14.60
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.28 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.48% +12.00% -49.50%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.19 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.53
England median hourly rate £50.74 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +56.13% -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

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

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
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

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

Security Cleared
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 5 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 +13 426 £550 - 113
South London 0 147 £516 -1.81% 4
West London -32 14 £675 +145.45% 23
East London +5 13 £750 - 13
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
1 133 (3.98%) Confluence
2 77 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.90%) Apache
4 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.90%) nginx
5 25 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 9 (0.27%) SAS
8 6 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.090%) Drupal
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.090%) WordPress
12 2 (0.060%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.060%) JBoss
12 2 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.24%) Revit
6 8 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.030%) Maya
9 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.42%) Findur
5 13 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
11 4 (0.12%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.090%) Exchequer
13 2 (0.060%) Oracle iProcurement
13 2 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 2 (0.060%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 784 (23.49%) Azure
2 739 (22.14%) AWS
3 222 (6.65%) GitHub
4 183 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 171 (5.12%) GCP
6 170 (5.09%) Power Platform
7 136 (4.07%) Serverless
8 122 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
9 121 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 106 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.58%) Entra ID
13 82 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (2.07%) PaaS
15 66 (1.98%) OCI
15 66 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 65 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 64 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (1.89%) Power Automate
19 61 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.12%) Firewall
2 82 (2.46%) DNS
3 59 (1.77%) Network Security
4 50 (1.50%) VPN
5 38 (1.14%) LAN
6 36 (1.08%) WAN
7 29 (0.87%) DHCP
8 25 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.51%) SAN
10 16 (0.48%) Kerberos
10 16 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.45%) NAS
12 13 (0.39%) DKIM
12 13 (0.39%) DMARC
13 12 (0.36%) BGP
13 12 (0.36%) MPLS
14 11 (0.33%) HTTP
14 11 (0.33%) SMTP
15 10 (0.30%) NGFW
15 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.45%) Power BI
2 88 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 54 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 47 (1.41%) Metadata
9 40 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
11 34 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (0.93%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (0.84%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.84%) Tableau
15 27 (0.81%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.63%) Big Data
17 20 (0.60%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
19 13 (0.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 195 (5.84%) JIRA
2 171 (5.12%) Git
3 155 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 108 (3.24%) GitLab
5 35 (1.05%) Selenium
6 25 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 25 (0.75%) Postman
7 24 (0.72%) JUnit
8 22 (0.66%) JMeter
9 21 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.63%) Mockito
10 17 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.48%) Gradle
12 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.36%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.30%) Maven
15 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 951 (28.49%) Public Sector
2 633 (18.96%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.20%) Finance
4 197 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
6 92 (2.76%) Banking
7 81 (2.43%) Military
8 51 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.17%) Legal
11 37 (1.11%) Police
12 32 (0.96%) Law
12 32 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (0.84%) Retail
14 25 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.66%) Marketing
16 21 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.57%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.30%) Publishing
19 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 640 (19.17%) Architect
2 405 (12.13%) Developer
3 271 (8.12%) Senior
4 260 (7.79%) Lead
5 253 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 204 (6.11%) Analyst
7 199 (5.96%) Data Engineer
8 150 (4.49%) Consultant
9 124 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
11 114 (3.42%) Business Analyst
12 102 (3.06%) Technical Architect
13 101 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
14 87 (2.61%) Security Architect
15 77 (2.31%) Designer
16 73 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 71 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
18 70 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
19 66 (1.98%) Java Developer
20 62 (1.86%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (4.01%) REST
2 104 (3.12%) Spring
3 85 (2.55%) Spring Boot
4 82 (2.46%) React
5 77 (2.31%) LDAP
6 73 (2.19%) Kafka
6 73 (2.19%) SOAP
7 69 (2.07%) .NET
7 69 (2.07%) PySpark
8 68 (2.04%) RESTful
9 64 (1.92%) Node.js
10 53 (1.59%) HTML
11 51 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 49 (1.47%) Web Services
13 47 (1.41%) JSON
13 47 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
14 46 (1.38%) OAuth
15 37 (1.11%) OpenID
15 37 (1.11%) SAML
16 34 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 196 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 98 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.07%) Security Posture
5 55 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 55 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 46 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (1.26%) Replication
10 35 (1.05%) PKI
11 33 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (0.96%) CMDB
13 30 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 26 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 24 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (0.69%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.60%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.82%) Linux
2 139 (4.16%) Windows
3 57 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (0.60%) Unix
6 18 (0.54%) Android
7 16 (0.48%) VMS
8 14 (0.42%) Solaris
9 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.090%) AIX
14 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.060%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (22.08%) DevOps
2 663 (19.86%) Agile
3 572 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 385 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 375 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 320 (9.59%) Migration
6 320 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
7 279 (8.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 263 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 245 (7.34%) Containerisation
10 234 (7.01%) AI
11 222 (6.65%) Data Modelling
12 211 (6.32%) Decision-Making
13 205 (6.14%) Analytics
14 186 (5.57%) Roadmaps
15 182 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
15 182 (5.45%) Test Automation
16 172 (5.15%) Microservices
17 166 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
18 159 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 424 (12.70%) Python
2 357 (10.70%) SQL
3 234 (7.01%) Java
4 172 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 119 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 99 (2.97%) C#
7 78 (2.34%) Bash
8 63 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.08%) Scala
10 35 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.05%) Ruby
11 31 (0.93%) Bicep
12 28 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.57%) R
15 17 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.48%) Go
16 16 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.42%) Groovy
18 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,731 (81.82%) SC Cleared
2 386 (11.56%) DV Cleared
3 83 (2.49%) Degree
4 76 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.65%) CISSP
8 38 (1.14%) CISM
9 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.69%) PMP
12 22 (0.66%) GIAC
13 18 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.48%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.42%) CEH
17 13 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.36%) ISTQB
19 11 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.83%) QA
3 85 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (2.31%) NCSC
5 69 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.92%) NIST
7 60 (1.80%) GDPR
8 55 (1.65%) PMO
9 20 (0.60%) GRC
10 19 (0.57%) WCAG
11 15 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.39%) SLA
13 12 (0.36%) COBIT
13 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.18%) IFRS
14 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 269 (8.06%) Docker
2 117 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.45%) Squid
8 12 (0.36%) NFS
8 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.36%) vSphere
9 10 (0.30%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.27%) Postfix
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.18%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Firmware
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) XenApp
13 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.090%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 408 (12.22%) Terraform
2 346 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 114 (3.42%) Ansible
4 89 (2.67%) Grafana
5 86 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.75%) Puppet
8 21 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (0.51%) vMotion
10 16 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.45%) SCCM
12 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.36%) Consul
15 10 (0.30%) Packer
16 8 (0.24%) Kibana
16 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
17 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
17 7 (0.21%) Istio
18 6 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 356 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.33%) Oracle
3 118 (3.54%) Databricks
3 118 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 89 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 86 (2.58%) VMware
6 70 (2.10%) Google
7 63 (1.89%) SAP
7 63 (1.89%) Splunk
8 57 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 40 (1.20%) Cisco
10 37 (1.11%) IBM
11 36 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 34 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.02%) Centrify
13 31 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 29 (0.87%) Okta
15 25 (0.75%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.72%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.66%) Palo Alto