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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,508 1,719 2,021
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.72% 12.68% 11.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.96% 49.48% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,696 1,248 1,468
10th Percentile £400 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £646
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £530 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 36
10th Percentile £20.96 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £25.89 - £17.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.25 £46.25 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.44
% change year-on-year +152.49% -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 5,485 3,474 4,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 25.62% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 2,355 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £772
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 83 94
10th Percentile £19.45 £18.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.04 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £27.13 £43.00
% change year-on-year +99.08% -36.92% -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

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +13 448 £550 +0.46% 77
South London 0 144 £521 -3.16% 6
West London -36 14 £675 +68.75% 26
East London +10 11 £750 - 18
North London +1 4 - - 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
1 158 (4.50%) Confluence
2 94 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.03%) nginx
4 33 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.83%) Apache
7 28 (0.80%) SAS
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.086%) Drupal
14 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.057%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.31%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.31%) Revit
3 11 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
4 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.086%) Sketch
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) InDesign
7 1 (0.029%) Maya
7 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 20 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.40%) Temenos T24
6 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
12 4 (0.11%) iTrent
12 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
13 3 (0.086%) Changepoint
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle iProcurement
13 3 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 798 (22.75%) Azure
2 747 (21.29%) AWS
3 249 (7.10%) GitHub
4 204 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 171 (4.87%) GCP
7 155 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 134 (3.82%) Serverless
10 106 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 83 (2.37%) Entra ID
14 77 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 67 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 65 (1.85%) Power Automate
18 62 (1.77%) Azure AKS
19 60 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (1.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (2.71%) Firewall
2 83 (2.37%) DNS
3 64 (1.82%) Network Security
4 55 (1.57%) VPN
5 27 (0.77%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
6 24 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.60%) DHCP
8 14 (0.40%) HTTP
9 13 (0.37%) DKIM
9 13 (0.37%) DMARC
9 13 (0.37%) OpenVPN
10 12 (0.34%) SAN
11 11 (0.31%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) NAS
12 9 (0.26%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.26%) SMTP
12 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
12 9 (0.26%) VSAN
12 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (3.91%) Power BI
2 95 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 60 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (1.25%) Metadata
9 41 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (0.86%) NoSQL
13 27 (0.77%) Tableau
14 23 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (0.66%) Delta Lake
14 23 (0.66%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.57%) Big Data
15 20 (0.57%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 223 (6.36%) JIRA
2 201 (5.73%) Git
3 181 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 129 (3.68%) GitLab
5 32 (0.91%) Selenium
6 24 (0.68%) JMeter
7 22 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.60%) JUnit
9 19 (0.54%) Gradle
9 19 (0.54%) Mockito
10 18 (0.51%) Postman
11 16 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 16 (0.46%) Maven
12 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.37%) REST Assured
14 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
15 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 998 (28.45%) Public Sector
2 659 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 327 (9.32%) Finance
4 220 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.77%) Banking
6 87 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 84 (2.39%) Military
8 73 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 46 (1.31%) Police
10 45 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.03%) Law
11 36 (1.03%) Legal
12 30 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (0.74%) Marketing
15 24 (0.68%) Retail
16 23 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.51%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.40%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 638 (18.19%) Architect
2 456 (13.00%) Developer
3 315 (8.98%) Lead
4 285 (8.12%) Senior
5 253 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.56%) Analyst
7 185 (5.27%) Data Engineer
8 160 (4.56%) Consultant
9 119 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
11 111 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
12 96 (2.74%) Designer
13 94 (2.68%) Technical Architect
14 93 (2.65%) Java Developer
14 93 (2.65%) Security Architect
15 89 (2.54%) Software Engineer
16 88 (2.51%) Business Analyst
17 82 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
18 77 (2.19%) Data Architect
18 77 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (3.99%) REST
2 120 (3.42%) Spring
3 94 (2.68%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.45%) React
5 81 (2.31%) RESTful
6 79 (2.25%) .NET
7 74 (2.11%) Kafka
8 66 (1.88%) Node.js
8 66 (1.88%) PySpark
9 55 (1.57%) JSON
9 55 (1.57%) SOAP
10 51 (1.45%) HTML
11 49 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.20%) Web Services
13 41 (1.17%) Django
14 38 (1.08%) OAuth
15 36 (1.03%) OpenID
16 35 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
17 33 (0.94%) LDAP
18 31 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.48%) Onboarding
3 106 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 56 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (1.40%) CMDB
8 47 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 35 (1.00%) Replication
11 33 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 29 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 24 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (0.66%) PKI
16 22 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.85%) Linux
2 147 (4.19%) Windows
3 57 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 34 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.83%) Android
6 28 (0.80%) Unix
7 21 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.40%) Solaris
10 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.086%) SUSE
15 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (22.26%) DevOps
2 778 (22.18%) Agile
3 656 (18.70%) CI/CD
4 417 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 412 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 327 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 312 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 296 (8.44%) Migration
10 273 (7.78%) AI
11 265 (7.55%) Containerisation
12 228 (6.50%) Analytics
12 228 (6.50%) Data Modelling
13 224 (6.39%) Decision-Making
14 213 (6.07%) Roadmaps
15 201 (5.73%) Test Automation
16 197 (5.62%) Software Engineering
17 195 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
18 186 (5.30%) Microservices
19 172 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 434 (12.37%) Python
2 360 (10.26%) SQL
3 280 (7.98%) Java
4 131 (3.73%) PowerShell
5 130 (3.71%) JavaScript
6 102 (2.91%) C#
7 100 (2.85%) Bash
8 69 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 42 (1.20%) Bicep
10 38 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 31 (0.88%) Ruby
12 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 24 (0.68%) Groovy
13 24 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.54%) R
15 19 (0.54%) Scala
16 12 (0.34%) Go
17 9 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,880 (82.10%) SC Cleared
2 450 (12.83%) DV Cleared
3 99 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 72 (2.05%) Degree
5 65 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.62%) CISSP
8 38 (1.08%) CISM
9 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (0.68%) PMP
11 23 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
12 21 (0.60%) GIAC
13 20 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 130 (3.71%) QA
3 90 (2.57%) NCSC
4 81 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.94%) PMO
7 67 (1.91%) NIST
8 58 (1.65%) GDPR
9 38 (1.08%) GRC
10 25 (0.71%) WCAG
11 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
12 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.34%) SLA
14 11 (0.31%) COBIT
15 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
16 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 294 (8.38%) Docker
2 88 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.51%) vSphere
8 17 (0.48%) Squid
8 17 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) NFS
10 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.23%) Postfix
11 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) UAG
13 3 (0.086%) Firmware
13 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 452 (12.88%) Terraform
2 379 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.48%) Ansible
4 109 (3.11%) Grafana
5 95 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.80%) Puppet
8 23 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.43%) Argo
9 15 (0.43%) vMotion
10 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.40%) SCCM
11 13 (0.37%) Control-M
12 12 (0.34%) Consul
12 12 (0.34%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
13 11 (0.31%) Packer
14 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 379 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 207 (5.90%) Oracle
3 153 (4.36%) ServiceNow
4 105 (2.99%) Databricks
5 101 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.77%) VMware
7 88 (2.51%) Google
8 76 (2.17%) Splunk
9 61 (1.74%) SAP
10 37 (1.05%) IBM
11 36 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 35 (1.00%) Cisco
13 33 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 29 (0.83%) Informatica
15 23 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.66%) Tenable
16 22 (0.63%) Okta
17 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
17 19 (0.54%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.51%) OpenAI