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

6 months to
6 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 3,361 1,591 2,059
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.10% 13.11% 11.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.25% 50.86% 49.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,552 1,156 1,493
10th Percentile £403 £381 £350
25th Percentile £460 £456 £449
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 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
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 £57.75 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +65.00% -38.05% -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 5,231 3,128 4,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.17% 25.77% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 2,088 2,830
10th Percentile £370 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +0.32% -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 63 113
10th Percentile £19.22 £20.05 £14.49
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +13.64% -50.74%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.44 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.28% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +13 428 £550 - 108
South London 0 146 £513 -2.38% 4
West London -32 14 £675 +145.45% 26
East London +6 13 £750 - 12
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
1 137 (4.08%) Confluence
2 78 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.89%) Apache
4 30 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.89%) nginx
5 25 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.30%) SAS
8 6 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.089%) Drupal
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.089%) WordPress
12 2 (0.060%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.060%) JBoss
12 2 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.24%) Revit
5 8 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.060%) 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 (0.60%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
11 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
13 2 (0.060%) Oracle iProcurement
13 2 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 2 (0.060%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 789 (23.48%) Azure
2 744 (22.14%) AWS
3 224 (6.66%) GitHub
4 184 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
5 173 (5.15%) GCP
5 173 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 136 (4.05%) Serverless
7 124 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
8 121 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
11 86 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 82 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 69 (2.05%) PaaS
14 66 (1.96%) OCI
14 66 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 65 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 64 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
16 64 (1.90%) Power Automate
17 61 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.12%) Firewall
2 82 (2.44%) DNS
3 59 (1.76%) Network Security
4 50 (1.49%) VPN
5 38 (1.13%) LAN
6 36 (1.07%) WAN
7 29 (0.86%) DHCP
8 25 (0.74%) 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%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.51%) Power BI
2 89 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 54 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 47 (1.40%) Metadata
9 40 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
11 34 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (0.92%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.86%) Tableau
14 28 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.80%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.62%) Big Data
17 20 (0.60%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.42%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 199 (5.92%) JIRA
2 173 (5.15%) Git
3 156 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 109 (3.24%) GitLab
5 35 (1.04%) Selenium
6 25 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 25 (0.74%) Postman
7 24 (0.71%) JUnit
8 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.65%) JMeter
9 21 (0.62%) Mockito
10 18 (0.54%) 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%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 959 (28.53%) Public Sector
2 636 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 308 (9.16%) Finance
4 197 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
6 92 (2.74%) Banking
7 82 (2.44%) Military
8 51 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.16%) Legal
11 38 (1.13%) Police
12 32 (0.95%) Law
12 32 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (0.86%) Retail
14 25 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (0.71%) Marketing
16 21 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.57%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.30%) Publishing
19 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 643 (19.13%) Architect
2 407 (12.11%) Developer
3 272 (8.09%) Senior
4 264 (7.85%) Lead
5 254 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 206 (6.13%) Analyst
7 200 (5.95%) Data Engineer
8 151 (4.49%) Consultant
9 123 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
11 114 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 103 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
13 102 (3.03%) Technical Architect
14 88 (2.62%) Security Architect
15 77 (2.29%) Designer
16 73 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 71 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
18 70 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
19 66 (1.96%) Java Developer
20 63 (1.87%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (3.99%) REST
2 104 (3.09%) Spring
3 85 (2.53%) Spring Boot
4 83 (2.47%) React
5 77 (2.29%) LDAP
6 73 (2.17%) Kafka
6 73 (2.17%) SOAP
7 69 (2.05%) .NET
7 69 (2.05%) PySpark
7 69 (2.05%) RESTful
8 64 (1.90%) Node.js
9 53 (1.58%) HTML
10 51 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 49 (1.46%) Web Services
12 48 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
13 47 (1.40%) JSON
14 46 (1.37%) OAuth
15 37 (1.10%) OpenID
15 37 (1.10%) SAML
16 34 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 196 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 101 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.05%) Security Posture
5 56 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 55 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (1.25%) Replication
11 36 (1.07%) PKI
12 33 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (0.95%) CMDB
14 30 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (0.86%) Public Cloud
16 26 (0.77%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (0.68%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.60%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.79%) Linux
2 139 (4.14%) Windows
3 57 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (0.62%) Unix
6 17 (0.51%) Android
7 16 (0.48%) VMS
8 14 (0.42%) Solaris
9 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.089%) AIX
15 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.060%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (22.02%) DevOps
2 665 (19.79%) Agile
3 575 (17.11%) CI/CD
4 387 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 375 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 322 (9.58%) Migration
7 321 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 264 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 246 (7.32%) Containerisation
11 236 (7.02%) AI
12 225 (6.69%) Data Modelling
13 211 (6.28%) Decision-Making
14 208 (6.19%) Analytics
15 187 (5.56%) Roadmaps
16 184 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
17 182 (5.42%) Test Automation
18 172 (5.12%) Microservices
19 166 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
20 160 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 425 (12.65%) Python
2 358 (10.65%) SQL
3 236 (7.02%) Java
4 172 (5.12%) PowerShell
5 120 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 99 (2.95%) C#
7 78 (2.32%) Bash
8 64 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.07%) Scala
10 35 (1.04%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.04%) Ruby
11 31 (0.92%) Bicep
12 28 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.57%) R
15 18 (0.54%) 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 2,750 (81.82%) SC Cleared
2 389 (11.57%) DV Cleared
3 84 (2.50%) Degree
4 76 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.64%) CISSP
8 38 (1.13%) CISM
9 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.68%) PMP
12 22 (0.65%) 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
1 139 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.81%) QA
3 85 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (2.29%) NCSC
5 70 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.90%) NIST
7 60 (1.79%) GDPR
8 59 (1.76%) PMO
9 20 (0.60%) GRC
9 20 (0.60%) WCAG
10 15 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.39%) SLA
12 12 (0.36%) COBIT
12 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.18%) IFRS
13 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 270 (8.03%) Docker
2 117 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.45%) Squid
8 13 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.36%) NFS
9 12 (0.36%) vSphere
10 10 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.27%) Postfix
12 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.18%) Varnish
14 4 (0.12%) Firmware
14 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.12%) XenApp
14 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.089%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 409 (12.17%) Terraform
2 347 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 116 (3.45%) Ansible
4 90 (2.68%) Grafana
5 87 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.74%) Puppet
8 21 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (0.51%) vMotion
10 16 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.42%) SCCM
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
1 358 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.30%) Oracle
3 119 (3.54%) Databricks
4 117 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 90 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.59%) VMware
7 71 (2.11%) Google
8 64 (1.90%) SAP
8 64 (1.90%) Splunk
9 57 (1.70%) CyberArk
10 40 (1.19%) Cisco
11 37 (1.10%) IBM
12 36 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 34 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.01%) Centrify
14 31 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.86%) Okta
16 26 (0.77%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.71%) Fortinet
18 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto