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

6 months to
18 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 3,372 1,620 2,104
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.81% 13.04% 11.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.82% 50.75% 50.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 1,173 1,529
10th Percentile £405 £380 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 36
10th Percentile £25.23 £20.03 £14.69
25th Percentile £36.00 £24.85 £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 £31.95 £32.19
90th Percentile £95.50 £49.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £62.25 £29.27 £56.89
% change year-on-year +112.68% -48.55% -5.19%

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 5,284 3,192 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.90% 25.69% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,144 2,875
10th Percentile £367 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £732 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 114
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.57 £14.60
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +6.93% -51.21%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £68.53
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.32 £41.27
% change year-on-year +73.15% -26.52% -24.97%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +13 437 £550 - 59
South London 0 142 £513 -4.21% 6
West London -32 15 £675 +170.00% 29
East London +10 14 £750 - 17
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
1 136 (4.03%) Confluence
2 79 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.89%) nginx
6 27 (0.80%) Apache
7 23 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.27%) SAS
11 6 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 3 (0.089%) Drupal
13 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.089%) WordPress
14 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.059%) Documentum
14 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.27%) Revit
5 9 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) Maya
9 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.44%) Findur
5 12 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.089%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.089%) SAP QM
11 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 782 (23.19%) Azure
2 749 (22.21%) AWS
3 219 (6.49%) GitHub
4 189 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 164 (4.86%) GCP
7 139 (4.12%) Serverless
8 129 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 109 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
13 86 (2.55%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
16 68 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 65 (1.93%) PaaS
18 64 (1.90%) Power Automate
19 60 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.88%) Firewall
2 79 (2.34%) DNS
3 62 (1.84%) Network Security
4 49 (1.45%) VPN
5 31 (0.92%) LAN
6 30 (0.89%) WAN
7 28 (0.83%) DHCP
8 23 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 14 (0.42%) SAN
10 13 (0.39%) DKIM
10 13 (0.39%) DMARC
11 12 (0.36%) HTTP
11 12 (0.36%) MPLS
11 12 (0.36%) NAS
11 12 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.33%) BGP
12 11 (0.33%) SMTP
13 10 (0.30%) NGFW
13 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (3.77%) Power BI
2 88 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.14%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (1.42%) Metadata
9 40 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.10%) NoSQL
12 32 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (0.83%) Tableau
15 27 (0.80%) MongoDB
16 26 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
18 18 (0.53%) Big Data
19 14 (0.42%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 203 (6.02%) JIRA
2 181 (5.37%) Git
3 162 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 131 (3.88%) GitLab
5 31 (0.92%) Selenium
6 26 (0.77%) JUnit
7 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 23 (0.68%) JMeter
8 22 (0.65%) Mockito
9 21 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.62%) Postman
10 18 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.44%) Gradle
12 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.39%) Visual Studio
14 11 (0.33%) Maven
15 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
16 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 966 (28.65%) Public Sector
2 635 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 305 (9.05%) Finance
4 193 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 92 (2.73%) Banking
7 82 (2.43%) Military
8 57 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.25%) Police
10 40 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.16%) Legal
12 35 (1.04%) Law
13 30 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (0.86%) Retail
15 26 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (0.71%) Marketing
18 15 (0.44%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.33%) Publishing
20 10 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 634 (18.80%) Architect
2 419 (12.43%) Developer
3 279 (8.27%) Senior
4 266 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 265 (7.86%) Lead
6 197 (5.84%) Data Engineer
7 196 (5.81%) Analyst
8 152 (4.51%) Consultant
9 124 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 103 (3.05%) Business Analyst
13 97 (2.88%) Technical Architect
14 87 (2.58%) Security Architect
15 81 (2.40%) Designer
16 73 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
16 73 (2.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 73 (2.16%) Java Developer
17 71 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
18 68 (2.02%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (3.68%) REST
2 110 (3.26%) Spring
3 91 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.52%) React
5 71 (2.11%) Kafka
6 69 (2.05%) RESTful
7 68 (2.02%) PySpark
8 66 (1.96%) .NET
9 63 (1.87%) Node.js
10 61 (1.81%) LDAP
11 60 (1.78%) SOAP
12 50 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 49 (1.45%) HTML
14 45 (1.33%) JSON
15 44 (1.30%) Web Services
16 43 (1.28%) OAuth
16 43 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
17 35 (1.04%) OpenID
18 34 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
18 34 (1.01%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 199 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.35%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 56 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 52 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (1.51%) Management Information System
7 51 (1.51%) Security Posture
8 39 (1.16%) CMDB
8 39 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.13%) Replication
10 37 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (0.89%) PKI
12 29 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 29 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.66%) Linux
2 144 (4.27%) Windows
3 58 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (0.65%) Unix
6 17 (0.50%) Android
7 15 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.42%) Solaris
9 12 (0.36%) VMS
10 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
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
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.089%) AIX
16 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.059%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (22.39%) DevOps
2 683 (20.26%) Agile
3 595 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 402 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 381 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 311 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
7 310 (9.19%) Migration
8 288 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 281 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (7.62%) Containerisation
11 245 (7.27%) AI
12 222 (6.58%) Data Modelling
13 215 (6.38%) Decision-Making
14 205 (6.08%) Analytics
15 184 (5.46%) Roadmaps
16 182 (5.40%) Test Automation
17 181 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
18 179 (5.31%) Microservices
19 166 (4.92%) Software Engineering
20 161 (4.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 415 (12.31%) Python
2 357 (10.59%) SQL
3 242 (7.18%) Java
4 155 (4.60%) PowerShell
5 113 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 100 (2.97%) C#
7 82 (2.43%) Bash
8 65 (1.93%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.04%) Bicep
10 34 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 33 (0.98%) Ruby
12 30 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.83%) Scala
14 26 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.56%) R
17 16 (0.47%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.44%) Go
18 15 (0.44%) Groovy
19 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,758 (81.79%) SC Cleared
2 399 (11.83%) DV Cleared
3 78 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 78 (2.31%) Degree
4 61 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 57 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 55 (1.63%) CISSP
7 38 (1.13%) CISM
8 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (0.68%) PMP
11 22 (0.65%) GIAC
12 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
13 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.42%) CEH
15 13 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.74%) QA
3 83 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (2.43%) NCSC
5 73 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 63 (1.87%) NIST
7 60 (1.78%) GDPR
8 59 (1.75%) PMO
9 23 (0.68%) GRC
10 22 (0.65%) WCAG
11 14 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.36%) COBIT
13 12 (0.36%) SLA
14 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.18%) IFRS
15 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 280 (8.30%) Docker
2 107 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.44%) Squid
8 13 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.39%) vSphere
9 12 (0.36%) NFS
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%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.12%) XenApp
14 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 431 (12.78%) Terraform
2 351 (10.41%) Kubernetes
3 118 (3.50%) Ansible
4 93 (2.76%) Grafana
5 89 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.77%) Puppet
8 20 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.50%) vMotion
10 14 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.42%) SCCM
11 12 (0.36%) Consul
12 10 (0.30%) Packer
13 8 (0.24%) Kibana
13 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.21%) Istio
15 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 347 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.25%) Oracle
3 128 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 113 (3.35%) Databricks
5 95 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.55%) VMware
7 69 (2.05%) Google
8 62 (1.84%) SAP
9 61 (1.81%) Splunk
10 41 (1.22%) CyberArk
11 39 (1.16%) Cisco
12 38 (1.13%) IBM
13 35 (1.04%) Dynatrace
14 30 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.83%) Okta
16 24 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.68%) Fortinet
18 22 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
18 22 (0.65%) Centrify
19 21 (0.62%) Informatica