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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,392 1,662 2,061
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.74% 13.16% 11.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.76% 50.87% 49.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 1,199 1,496
10th Percentile £405 £379 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £442
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 £703 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 27 36
10th Percentile £25.56 £18.87 £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 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.50 £48.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +147.59% -55.65% -4.17%

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 5,320 3,267 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.82% 25.87% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,844 2,194 2,834
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 70 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.73 £14.49
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% +5.64% -52.38%
75th Percentile £75.87 £51.62 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.36% -31.13% -22.73%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +13 439 £550 - 60
South London 0 142 £514 -3.29% 4
East London +12 14 £750 - 15
West London -38 13 £675 +170.00% 20
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
1 138 (4.07%) Confluence
2 77 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.94%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 23 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.21%) CMS
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.12%) WordPress
12 3 (0.088%) Drupal
12 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.29%) Revit
5 10 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.029%) 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 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.32%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
11 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.088%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.088%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.088%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.088%) SAP QM
12 3 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 772 (22.76%) Azure
2 753 (22.20%) AWS
3 223 (6.57%) GitHub
4 193 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
5 180 (5.31%) Power Platform
6 161 (4.75%) GCP
7 141 (4.16%) Serverless
8 137 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 109 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
13 82 (2.42%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 62 (1.83%) Azure AKS
19 61 (1.80%) Power Automate
20 58 (1.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.89%) Firewall
2 82 (2.42%) DNS
3 62 (1.83%) Network Security
4 52 (1.53%) VPN
5 29 (0.85%) LAN
6 28 (0.83%) WAN
7 27 (0.80%) DHCP
8 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.38%) DKIM
10 13 (0.38%) DMARC
11 12 (0.35%) HTTP
11 12 (0.35%) MPLS
11 12 (0.35%) SAN
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
12 11 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.29%) SMTP
14 9 (0.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (3.74%) Power BI
2 92 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 49 (1.44%) Metadata
9 41 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 33 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (0.88%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.83%) Tableau
15 26 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (0.77%) Delta Lake
16 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
17 19 (0.56%) Big Data
18 14 (0.41%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 206 (6.07%) JIRA
2 185 (5.45%) Git
3 172 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 136 (4.01%) GitLab
5 32 (0.94%) Selenium
6 26 (0.77%) JUnit
7 24 (0.71%) JMeter
8 23 (0.68%) Mockito
9 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.59%) Postman
11 19 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.50%) Gradle
13 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
14 12 (0.35%) Maven
15 11 (0.32%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
17 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
General
1 969 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 639 (18.84%) Social Skills
3 309 (9.11%) Finance
4 197 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.86%) Banking
6 89 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (2.33%) Military
8 64 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.24%) Police
9 42 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.12%) Legal
11 34 (1.00%) Law
12 30 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (0.77%) Retail
14 25 (0.74%) Marketing
15 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.38%) Publishing
17 10 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 638 (18.81%) Architect
2 435 (12.82%) Developer
3 274 (8.08%) Senior
4 273 (8.05%) Lead
5 259 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 191 (5.63%) Analyst
7 190 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 150 (4.42%) Consultant
9 122 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
12 103 (3.04%) Technical Architect
13 96 (2.83%) Business Analyst
14 90 (2.65%) Security Architect
15 84 (2.48%) Java Developer
16 83 (2.45%) Designer
17 76 (2.24%) Software Engineer
18 75 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 74 (2.18%) Cloud Engineer
20 69 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.57%) Spring
2 118 (3.48%) REST
3 93 (2.74%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.54%) React
5 73 (2.15%) Kafka
5 73 (2.15%) RESTful
6 72 (2.12%) PySpark
7 68 (2.00%) .NET
8 66 (1.95%) Node.js
9 54 (1.59%) SOAP
10 53 (1.56%) LDAP
11 49 (1.44%) JSON
12 47 (1.39%) AngularJS
12 47 (1.39%) HTML
13 43 (1.27%) OAuth
14 40 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
14 40 (1.18%) Web Services
15 35 (1.03%) OpenID
16 33 (0.97%) SAML
17 32 (0.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 123 (3.63%) Onboarding
3 104 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 60 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 58 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 43 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 41 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.15%) CMDB
11 38 (1.12%) Replication
12 33 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 29 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.83%) PKI
17 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 158 (4.66%) Linux
2 145 (4.27%) Windows
3 58 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.68%) Unix
6 19 (0.56%) Android
7 17 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.44%) Solaris
9 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 10 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.12%) AIX
17 3 (0.088%) SUSE
17 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (22.32%) DevOps
2 709 (20.90%) Agile
3 612 (18.04%) CI/CD
4 400 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 391 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 313 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (9.02%) Migration
8 296 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 291 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 262 (7.72%) Containerisation
11 257 (7.58%) AI
12 220 (6.49%) Data Modelling
13 217 (6.40%) Decision-Making
14 208 (6.13%) Analytics
15 187 (5.51%) Roadmaps
16 186 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
17 185 (5.45%) Test Automation
18 183 (5.40%) Microservices
19 182 (5.37%) Software Engineering
20 159 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 424 (12.50%) Python
2 351 (10.35%) SQL
3 257 (7.58%) Java
4 137 (4.04%) PowerShell
5 118 (3.48%) JavaScript
6 102 (3.01%) C#
7 83 (2.45%) Bash
8 69 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 37 (1.09%) Bicep
10 33 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.94%) Ruby
12 31 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.74%) Scala
15 21 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.56%) R
17 17 (0.50%) Groovy
17 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.44%) Go
19 7 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 2,775 (81.81%) SC Cleared
2 410 (12.09%) DV Cleared
3 79 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 79 (2.33%) Degree
4 59 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 55 (1.62%) CISSP
6 54 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.09%) CISM
8 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.65%) GIAC
10 22 (0.65%) PMP
11 18 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
12 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.41%) CEH
14 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.71%) QA
3 86 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (2.48%) NCSC
5 75 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.95%) NIST
7 65 (1.92%) GDPR
8 59 (1.74%) PMO
9 25 (0.74%) GRC
10 22 (0.65%) WCAG
11 15 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
12 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.35%) COBIT
13 12 (0.35%) SLA
14 11 (0.32%) 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
1 289 (8.52%) Docker
2 96 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.41%) Squid
8 13 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) vSphere
9 12 (0.35%) NFS
10 9 (0.27%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.27%) Postfix
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.18%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.088%) Firmware
14 3 (0.088%) XenApp
14 3 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 432 (12.74%) Terraform
2 371 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 116 (3.42%) Ansible
4 95 (2.80%) Grafana
5 92 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.74%) Puppet
8 16 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.47%) vMotion
9 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.41%) SCCM
10 13 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.35%) Consul
12 11 (0.32%) Kibana
13 10 (0.29%) Packer
14 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 339 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 181 (5.34%) Oracle
3 129 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.27%) Databricks
5 95 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.56%) VMware
7 71 (2.09%) Google
8 61 (1.80%) SAP
8 61 (1.80%) Splunk
9 37 (1.09%) Cisco
9 37 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 35 (1.03%) IBM
11 33 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 31 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.83%) Okta
14 25 (0.74%) Informatica
15 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.59%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.59%) Tenable
17 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto