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

6 months to
16 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 3,496 1,716 2,029
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.69% 12.65% 11.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.90% 49.48% 49.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,688 1,239 1,476
10th Percentile £400 £374 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 37
10th Percentile £20.96 £18.87 £14.85
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 - £38.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £46.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £64.09 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +154.83% -56.26% -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 5,471 3,468 4,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.69% 25.57% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,956 2,340 2,843
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 82 100
10th Percentile £19.45 £18.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.07 £20.86
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -3.27% -51.85%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.70 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £27.45 £43.00
% change year-on-year +96.72% -36.16% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +13 446 £550 +0.23% 79
South London 0 144 £521 -2.71% 7
West London -36 14 £675 +68.75% 27
East London +10 11 £750 - 19
North London 0 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
1 157 (4.49%) Confluence
2 94 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.00%) nginx
4 33 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.83%) Apache
7 27 (0.77%) SAS
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) 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%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.43%) 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 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.086%) Sketch
6 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
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 (0.49%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
12 4 (0.11%) iTrent
12 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 796 (22.77%) Azure
2 751 (21.48%) AWS
3 250 (7.15%) GitHub
4 202 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 170 (4.86%) GCP
7 158 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
8 136 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 134 (3.83%) Serverless
10 106 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
13 85 (2.43%) Entra ID
14 78 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 64 (1.83%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.80%) Azure AKS
19 62 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
20 57 (1.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (2.72%) Firewall
2 85 (2.43%) DNS
3 62 (1.77%) Network Security
4 55 (1.57%) VPN
5 25 (0.72%) WAN
6 24 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.63%) DHCP
7 22 (0.63%) LAN
8 13 (0.37%) DKIM
8 13 (0.37%) DMARC
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) OpenVPN
9 12 (0.34%) SAN
10 11 (0.31%) Internet
10 11 (0.31%) NAS
11 10 (0.29%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.26%) SMTP
12 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (0.23%) VSAN
14 7 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (3.86%) Power BI
2 95 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (1.26%) Metadata
9 41 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 27 (0.77%) Tableau
13 23 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (0.66%) Delta Lake
13 23 (0.66%) MongoDB
14 21 (0.60%) Oracle Database
15 20 (0.57%) Big Data
16 14 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 219 (6.26%) JIRA
2 203 (5.81%) Git
3 183 (5.23%) Jenkins
4 131 (3.75%) GitLab
5 33 (0.94%) Selenium
6 24 (0.69%) JMeter
7 23 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.63%) JUnit
8 22 (0.63%) SonarQube
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 13 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 1,001 (28.63%) Public Sector
2 653 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 324 (9.27%) Finance
4 216 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.77%) Banking
6 88 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (2.35%) Military
8 73 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 46 (1.32%) Police
10 44 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.03%) Law
12 35 (1.00%) Legal
13 28 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (0.72%) Marketing
15 24 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (0.69%) Retail
16 18 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.37%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 638 (18.25%) Architect
2 455 (13.01%) Developer
3 314 (8.98%) Lead
4 283 (8.09%) Senior
5 258 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.58%) Analyst
7 184 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 160 (4.58%) Consultant
9 117 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 113 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 96 (2.75%) Technical Architect
12 94 (2.69%) Designer
12 94 (2.69%) Java Developer
13 93 (2.66%) Security Architect
14 89 (2.55%) Software Engineer
15 87 (2.49%) Business Analyst
16 81 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
17 77 (2.20%) Data Architect
17 77 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (3.95%) REST
2 121 (3.46%) Spring
3 95 (2.72%) Spring Boot
4 87 (2.49%) React
5 81 (2.32%) RESTful
6 77 (2.20%) .NET
7 75 (2.15%) Kafka
8 67 (1.92%) PySpark
9 66 (1.89%) Node.js
10 55 (1.57%) JSON
11 54 (1.54%) SOAP
12 50 (1.43%) HTML
13 49 (1.40%) AngularJS
14 41 (1.17%) Django
15 40 (1.14%) OAuth
15 40 (1.14%) Web Services
16 36 (1.03%) OpenID
17 35 (1.00%) LDAP
18 34 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
19 30 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 120 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 49 (1.40%) CMDB
8 46 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.06%) Replication
11 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 32 (0.92%) Security Posture
13 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 27 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
16 24 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (0.66%) PKI
18 22 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (0.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.86%) Linux
2 147 (4.20%) Windows
3 58 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 33 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.83%) Unix
6 27 (0.77%) Android
7 21 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.40%) Solaris
10 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
16 3 (0.086%) SUSE
16 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (22.43%) DevOps
2 767 (21.94%) Agile
3 657 (18.79%) CI/CD
4 420 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 324 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
7 317 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 306 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 292 (8.35%) Migration
10 271 (7.75%) AI
11 269 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 229 (6.55%) Data Modelling
13 226 (6.46%) Analytics
14 223 (6.38%) Decision-Making
15 213 (6.09%) Roadmaps
16 202 (5.78%) Test Automation
17 199 (5.69%) Software Engineering
18 194 (5.55%) Cybersecurity
19 186 (5.32%) Microservices
20 170 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 439 (12.56%) Python
2 357 (10.21%) SQL
3 283 (8.09%) Java
4 131 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 129 (3.69%) PowerShell
6 101 (2.89%) C#
7 99 (2.83%) Bash
8 70 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 42 (1.20%) Bicep
10 38 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 31 (0.89%) Ruby
12 30 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 24 (0.69%) Groovy
14 23 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.54%) R
15 19 (0.54%) Scala
16 12 (0.34%) Go
17 9 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,869 (82.07%) SC Cleared
2 446 (12.76%) DV Cleared
3 95 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 68 (1.95%) Degree
5 65 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.60%) CISSP
8 37 (1.06%) CISM
9 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.63%) PMP
12 21 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
12 21 (0.60%) GIAC
13 17 (0.49%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.37%) CEH
15 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (3.78%) Data Quality
1 132 (3.78%) QA
2 89 (2.55%) NCSC
3 81 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.92%) NIST
6 66 (1.89%) PMO
7 60 (1.72%) GDPR
8 37 (1.06%) GRC
9 25 (0.72%) WCAG
10 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
11 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) COBIT
14 10 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
17 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 298 (8.52%) Docker
2 88 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.49%) Squid
8 16 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.46%) vSphere
9 13 (0.37%) NFS
10 9 (0.26%) Postfix
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.17%) Varnish
13 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 3 (0.086%) Firmware
14 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 454 (12.99%) Terraform
2 379 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 121 (3.46%) Ansible
4 109 (3.12%) Grafana
5 96 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.80%) Puppet
8 22 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.43%) Argo
9 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.43%) vMotion
10 13 (0.37%) Control-M
10 13 (0.37%) SCCM
11 12 (0.34%) Consul
11 12 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.31%) Kibana
12 11 (0.31%) Packer
13 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 375 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 207 (5.92%) Oracle
3 153 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 105 (3.00%) Databricks
5 100 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.60%) VMware
7 86 (2.46%) Google
8 75 (2.15%) Splunk
9 61 (1.74%) SAP
10 37 (1.06%) IBM
11 36 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.97%) Cisco
13 32 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.80%) Informatica
15 24 (0.69%) Okta
16 23 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) Tenable
17 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.51%) Palo Alto
19 17 (0.49%) Foundry