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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,555 1,725 2,058
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.74% 12.99% 12.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.29% 49.57% 51.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,736 1,232 1,456
10th Percentile £405 £381 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
England median daily rate £549 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 42 20
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £17.88
25th Percentile £30.50 - £21.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% +8.99% -61.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £58.13
90th Percentile £85.35 £47.25 £65.68
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -58.08% -

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 5,617 3,480 3,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.04% 26.21% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,345 2,684
10th Percentile £374 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.22 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +11 422 £550 +4.76% 127
South London 0 108 £538 -2.27% 28
West London -34 20 £663 +65.52% 89
East London +12 13 £750 - 26
North London +5 5 £550 - 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
1 164 (4.61%) Confluence
2 101 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.35%) SAS
4 33 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.90%) Apache
5 32 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.73%) nginx
7 22 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.34%) JBoss
10 10 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.25%) CMS
12 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.084%) Mule
15 3 (0.084%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
4 16 (0.45%) Revit
4 16 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
5 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Findur
4 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.11%) iTrent
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 821 (23.09%) Azure
2 760 (21.38%) AWS
3 261 (7.34%) GitHub
4 226 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
5 211 (5.94%) Power Platform
6 195 (5.49%) GCP
7 168 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
8 125 (3.52%) Serverless
9 123 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 97 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 83 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 79 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (1.86%) Power Automate
16 66 (1.86%) PowerApps
17 65 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 62 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
19 59 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 92 (2.59%) Firewall
2 69 (1.94%) DNS
3 60 (1.69%) Network Security
4 47 (1.32%) VPN
5 36 (1.01%) WAN
6 26 (0.73%) LAN
7 19 (0.53%) DHCP
8 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) Internet
10 12 (0.34%) BGP
10 12 (0.34%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.31%) MPLS
12 10 (0.28%) SSL
13 9 (0.25%) WebEx
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) DKIM
14 8 (0.23%) DMARC
14 8 (0.23%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (4.05%) Power BI
2 105 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 60 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 54 (1.52%) Metadata
7 43 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 42 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (0.79%) MySQL
12 28 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (0.73%) Tableau
15 24 (0.68%) Big Data
15 24 (0.68%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 225 (6.33%) Git
2 216 (6.08%) JIRA
3 206 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 143 (4.02%) GitLab
5 49 (1.38%) Selenium
6 31 (0.87%) JMeter
7 28 (0.79%) Gradle
8 25 (0.70%) JUnit
9 24 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.65%) Postman
11 21 (0.59%) Maven
11 21 (0.59%) Mockito
12 19 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.37%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.34%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.31%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
16 9 (0.25%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.25%) eggPlant
General
1 943 (26.53%) Public Sector
2 772 (21.72%) Social Skills
3 338 (9.51%) Finance
4 265 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (3.15%) Banking
6 109 (3.07%) Military
7 83 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 54 (1.52%) Law
11 49 (1.38%) Police
12 35 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (0.96%) Legal
14 31 (0.87%) Marketing
15 30 (0.84%) Retail
16 28 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.65%) Local Government
18 20 (0.56%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 657 (18.48%) Architect
2 429 (12.07%) Developer
3 350 (9.85%) Lead
4 316 (8.89%) Senior
5 243 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 191 (5.37%) Data Engineer
7 175 (4.92%) Analyst
8 159 (4.47%) Consultant
9 119 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 107 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 104 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
12 99 (2.78%) Software Engineer
13 93 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
14 92 (2.59%) Java Developer
14 92 (2.59%) Security Architect
15 91 (2.56%) Designer
16 85 (2.39%) Technical Architect
17 77 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
18 75 (2.11%) Business Analyst
18 75 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (12.10%) Terraform
2 173 (4.87%) REST
3 118 (3.32%) Spring
4 103 (2.90%) Spring Boot
5 101 (2.84%) React
6 100 (2.81%) Kafka
7 90 (2.53%) RESTful
8 82 (2.31%) .NET
9 69 (1.94%) JSON
10 67 (1.88%) SOAP
11 64 (1.80%) Node.js
12 61 (1.72%) PySpark
13 54 (1.52%) HTML
13 54 (1.52%) XML
14 50 (1.41%) Django
15 49 (1.38%) Web Services
16 46 (1.29%) AngularJS
17 43 (1.21%) Middleware
18 36 (1.01%) OAuth
19 35 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 121 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 63 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 60 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (1.49%) CMDB
9 47 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 41 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.07%) Replication
12 36 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 33 (0.93%) Clustering
14 32 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 30 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
16 29 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
17 28 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
18 26 (0.73%) Low-Code
18 26 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 196 (5.51%) Linux
2 166 (4.67%) Windows
3 66 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (0.98%) Unix
6 28 (0.79%) Android
7 21 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) VMS
9 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.31%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.11%) AIX
17 3 (0.084%) OpenVMS
17 3 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (23.63%) Agile
2 753 (21.18%) DevOps
3 689 (19.38%) CI/CD
4 528 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 436 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 371 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 360 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 351 (9.87%) AI
9 347 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (8.69%) Migration
11 276 (7.76%) Containerisation
12 243 (6.84%) Test Automation
13 237 (6.67%) Data Modelling
14 236 (6.64%) Analytics
14 236 (6.64%) Decision-Making
15 228 (6.41%) Roadmaps
16 219 (6.16%) Software Engineering
17 211 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
18 196 (5.51%) Microservices
19 194 (5.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 505 (14.21%) Python
2 377 (10.60%) SQL
3 314 (8.83%) Java
4 167 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 135 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 112 (3.15%) Bash
7 100 (2.81%) C#
8 97 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 49 (1.38%) Bicep
10 39 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 33 (0.93%) Groovy
12 27 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 24 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.65%) Ruby
15 21 (0.59%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.48%) R
16 17 (0.48%) Scala
17 16 (0.45%) Go
18 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,927 (82.33%) SC Cleared
2 469 (13.19%) DV Cleared
3 117 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 97 (2.73%) Degree
5 75 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 70 (1.97%) CISSP
7 66 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 52 (1.46%) CISM
9 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.93%) PMP
11 28 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
15 19 (0.53%) GIAC
16 18 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 17 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (0.39%) CEH
19 14 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (5.04%) QA
2 140 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.45%) NCSC
4 78 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 72 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (2.03%) NIST
6 70 (1.97%) PMO
7 62 (1.74%) GRC
8 50 (1.41%) GDPR
9 25 (0.70%) WCAG
10 23 (0.65%) SLA
11 20 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
14 13 (0.37%) COBIT
14 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.25%) P3O
17 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 311 (8.75%) Docker
2 102 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 78 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.65%) vSphere
6 19 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.25%) Squid
9 6 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.17%) Postfix
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.11%) UAG
11 4 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 384 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 122 (3.43%) Ansible
3 111 (3.12%) Grafana
4 92 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.93%) Puppet
6 24 (0.68%) SCCM
6 24 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.59%) Control-M
7 21 (0.59%) Kibana
7 21 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (0.56%) Argo
9 18 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.48%) Istio
11 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
13 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.28%) SCOM
15 9 (0.25%) Packer
16 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
17 7 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 428 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 242 (6.81%) Oracle
3 152 (4.28%) ServiceNow
4 118 (3.32%) VMware
5 115 (3.23%) Google
6 111 (3.12%) Databricks
7 97 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 87 (2.45%) Splunk
9 68 (1.91%) SAP
10 46 (1.29%) IBM
11 45 (1.27%) Cisco
12 36 (1.01%) Informatica
13 34 (0.96%) Dynatrace
14 31 (0.87%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.56%) Foundry
18 19 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.53%) Fortinet
19 18 (0.51%) Tenable