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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,520 1,716 1,968
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.63% 12.64% 11.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.81% 49.14% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,691 1,243 1,444
10th Percentile £400 £364 £354
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 36 26
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.06
25th Percentile £25.77 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £28.55
90th Percentile £94.00 £46.25 £68.13
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -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 5,516 3,492 3,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.63% 25.71% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,976 2,364 2,765
10th Percentile £364 £335 £329
25th Percentile £450 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 83 77
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.15 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.02 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -23.76%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +12 447 £550 +3.09% 88
South London 0 140 £523 -1.83% 4
West London -35 16 £675 +68.75% 33
East London +12 11 £750 +7.14% 20
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
1 154 (4.38%) Confluence
2 100 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.05%) SAS
4 33 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.88%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) nginx
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.085%) Drupal
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.057%) Documentum
15 2 (0.057%) MQSeries
Applications
1 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.34%) Revit
4 12 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
5 11 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Maya
10 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Findur
3 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.11%) iTrent
10 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.085%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 800 (22.73%) Azure
2 754 (21.42%) AWS
3 256 (7.27%) GitHub
4 207 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 182 (5.17%) GCP
7 160 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 128 (3.64%) Serverless
10 101 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (2.24%) Entra ID
15 71 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 67 (1.90%) Power Automate
17 66 (1.88%) PowerApps
18 64 (1.82%) Azure AKS
19 59 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.50%) Firewall
2 72 (2.05%) DNS
3 62 (1.76%) Network Security
4 50 (1.42%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
7 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.45%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Internet
10 12 (0.34%) SAN
11 11 (0.31%) DKIM
11 11 (0.31%) DMARC
12 10 (0.28%) NAS
12 10 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.26%) VSAN
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
14 8 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (4.09%) Power BI
2 93 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 62 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (1.28%) Metadata
8 41 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 40 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 34 (0.97%) NoSQL
12 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.80%) Delta Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Tableau
15 23 (0.65%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (0.63%) Big Data
17 18 (0.51%) Oracle Database
18 16 (0.45%) Star Schema
19 14 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 214 (6.08%) JIRA
2 203 (5.77%) Git
3 177 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 127 (3.61%) GitLab
5 32 (0.91%) Selenium
6 24 (0.68%) JMeter
7 21 (0.60%) JUnit
8 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 19 (0.54%) Mockito
10 18 (0.51%) Gradle
11 17 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.45%) Postman
13 15 (0.43%) Maven
14 13 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.28%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.23%) Snyk
18 7 (0.20%) Gatling
General
1 1,018 (28.92%) Public Sector
2 673 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 333 (9.46%) Finance
4 227 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (2.70%) Banking
6 87 (2.47%) Military
7 68 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 65 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.42%) Police
10 47 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 42 (1.19%) Law
12 36 (1.02%) Legal
13 33 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.77%) Marketing
16 24 (0.68%) Retail
17 22 (0.63%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.48%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 655 (18.61%) Architect
2 454 (12.90%) Developer
3 323 (9.18%) Lead
4 289 (8.21%) Senior
5 247 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.48%) Analyst
7 186 (5.28%) Data Engineer
8 160 (4.55%) Consultant
9 125 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 108 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 98 (2.78%) Security Architect
13 96 (2.73%) Designer
14 93 (2.64%) Java Developer
15 91 (2.59%) Software Engineer
15 91 (2.59%) Technical Architect
16 85 (2.41%) Business Analyst
17 84 (2.39%) Data Architect
18 81 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 80 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.18%) REST
2 117 (3.32%) Spring
3 93 (2.64%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.41%) React
5 82 (2.33%) RESTful
6 80 (2.27%) .NET
7 74 (2.10%) Kafka
8 66 (1.88%) PySpark
9 65 (1.85%) Node.js
10 60 (1.70%) SOAP
11 58 (1.65%) JSON
12 52 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 51 (1.45%) HTML
14 44 (1.25%) Web Services
15 43 (1.22%) Django
16 38 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
17 34 (0.97%) XML
18 33 (0.94%) Middleware
19 30 (0.85%) OAuth
20 29 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 206 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 58 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 52 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 49 (1.39%) CMDB
9 46 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 33 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 33 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 28 (0.80%) Clustering
12 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (0.77%) Replication
14 26 (0.74%) Public Cloud
15 24 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 23 (0.65%) PKI
16 23 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.77%) Linux
2 149 (4.23%) Windows
3 54 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.80%) Android
6 27 (0.77%) Unix
7 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.40%) Solaris
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.085%) SUSE
15 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (22.19%) Agile
2 762 (21.65%) DevOps
3 651 (18.49%) CI/CD
4 415 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 414 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 328 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 328 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 318 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
8 307 (8.72%) Migration
9 291 (8.27%) AI
10 271 (7.70%) Containerisation
11 241 (6.85%) Analytics
12 231 (6.56%) Data Modelling
13 224 (6.36%) Decision-Making
14 213 (6.05%) Roadmaps
15 203 (5.77%) Software Engineering
16 201 (5.71%) Test Automation
17 184 (5.23%) Microservices
18 183 (5.20%) Cybersecurity
19 180 (5.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 440 (12.50%) Python
2 365 (10.37%) SQL
3 283 (8.04%) Java
4 140 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 125 (3.55%) PowerShell
6 107 (3.04%) C#
7 101 (2.87%) Bash
8 69 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.34%) Bicep
10 39 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.85%) Ruby
13 29 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.77%) Groovy
15 25 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 24 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.51%) Scala
18 17 (0.48%) R
19 12 (0.34%) Go
20 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,888 (82.05%) SC Cleared
2 460 (13.07%) DV Cleared
3 101 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 81 (2.30%) Degree
5 66 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.65%) CISSP
8 40 (1.14%) CISM
9 34 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (0.80%) PMP
11 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.57%) GIAC
15 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.37%) CEH
17 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 131 (3.72%) QA
3 79 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 75 (2.13%) NCSC
5 69 (1.96%) PMO
6 66 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 54 (1.53%) GDPR
8 53 (1.51%) NIST
9 48 (1.36%) GRC
10 26 (0.74%) WCAG
11 18 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.43%) 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
17 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
18 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 293 (8.32%) Docker
2 85 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.54%) vSphere
8 15 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) NFS
9 12 (0.34%) Squid
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 (0.085%) Firmware
13 3 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 448 (12.73%) Terraform
2 364 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 125 (3.55%) Ansible
4 105 (2.98%) Grafana
5 91 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.85%) Puppet
7 24 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.51%) Argo
10 16 (0.45%) SCCM
11 14 (0.40%) Control-M
11 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.40%) vMotion
12 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.31%) Istio
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
14 9 (0.26%) Packer
15 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 386 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.14%) Oracle
3 158 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.15%) Databricks
5 104 (2.95%) VMware
6 102 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 96 (2.73%) Google
8 68 (1.93%) Splunk
9 62 (1.76%) SAP
10 38 (1.08%) IBM
11 33 (0.94%) Cisco
12 31 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 31 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 30 (0.85%) Informatica
14 24 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.65%) Tenable
16 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
16 18 (0.51%) Foundry
17 17 (0.48%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto