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

6 months to
17 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 3,365 1,614 2,087
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.79% 13.05% 11.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.73% 50.68% 50.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 1,169 1,514
10th Percentile £406 £380 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £444
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 40 23 36
10th Percentile £25.24 £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 £95.13 £49.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £62.25 £28.91 £57.29
% change year-on-year +115.32% -49.53% -4.53%

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 5,280 3,185 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.92% 25.75% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,788 2,139 2,855
10th Percentile £364 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £735 £750 £765
England median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.75% -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 67 113
10th Percentile £19.19 £18.51 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.56 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.09% +10.00% -51.69%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.00 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.31 £41.27
% change year-on-year +73.24% -26.56% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +12 440 £550 - 64
South London 0 143 £513 -4.65% 4
West London -27 15 £675 +170.00% 28
East London +10 14 £750 - 16
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 (4.10%) Confluence
2 80 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.92%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 24 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.45%) 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 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.36%) 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 20 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.45%) Findur
5 13 (0.39%) 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%) Teamcenter
12 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payroll
12 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 786 (23.36%) Azure
2 748 (22.23%) AWS
3 219 (6.51%) GitHub
4 190 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
5 183 (5.44%) Power Platform
6 166 (4.93%) GCP
7 137 (4.07%) Serverless
8 127 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 127 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 89 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
11 88 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 73 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 67 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
14 67 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 65 (1.93%) PaaS
16 64 (1.90%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
18 59 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.91%) Firewall
2 80 (2.38%) DNS
3 63 (1.87%) Network Security
4 50 (1.49%) VPN
5 32 (0.95%) LAN
6 30 (0.89%) WAN
7 28 (0.83%) DHCP
8 24 (0.71%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.45%) SAN
10 14 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 13 (0.39%) DKIM
11 13 (0.39%) DMARC
11 13 (0.39%) NAS
12 12 (0.36%) HTTP
12 12 (0.36%) MPLS
12 12 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.33%) BGP
13 11 (0.33%) SMTP
14 10 (0.30%) NGFW
14 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (3.80%) Power BI
2 91 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.14%) Data Lake
5 64 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
7 52 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (1.43%) 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 31 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (0.86%) Tableau
15 27 (0.80%) MongoDB
16 26 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
18 19 (0.56%) Big Data
19 15 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
20 14 (0.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (6.03%) JIRA
2 182 (5.41%) Git
3 161 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 123 (3.66%) 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%) Postman
10 20 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 18 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.45%) Gradle
13 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.39%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.30%) Maven
16 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 958 (28.47%) Public Sector
2 631 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 304 (9.03%) Finance
4 195 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.79%) Banking
6 92 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (2.44%) Military
8 53 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (1.22%) Police
10 39 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.13%) Legal
12 35 (1.04%) Law
13 30 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (0.86%) Retail
15 25 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.71%) Marketing
17 15 (0.45%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.33%) Publishing
19 9 (0.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 637 (18.93%) Architect
2 416 (12.36%) Developer
3 277 (8.23%) Senior
4 264 (7.85%) Lead
5 262 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 200 (5.94%) Analyst
7 198 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 152 (4.52%) Consultant
9 124 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 106 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
11 106 (3.15%) Business Analyst
12 97 (2.88%) Technical Architect
13 88 (2.62%) Security Architect
14 80 (2.38%) Designer
15 73 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 73 (2.17%) Java Developer
16 71 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
17 69 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
18 67 (1.99%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (3.68%) REST
2 110 (3.27%) Spring
3 90 (2.67%) Spring Boot
4 87 (2.59%) React
5 74 (2.20%) Kafka
6 69 (2.05%) PySpark
6 69 (2.05%) RESTful
7 67 (1.99%) .NET
8 64 (1.90%) Node.js
9 63 (1.87%) LDAP
10 61 (1.81%) SOAP
11 49 (1.46%) AngularJS
11 49 (1.46%) HTML
12 44 (1.31%) JSON
12 44 (1.31%) Web Services
13 42 (1.25%) OAuth
13 42 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (1.04%) OpenID
15 34 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
15 34 (1.01%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 199 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.36%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.12%) Product Ownership
4 58 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 53 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 51 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.16%) Replication
10 37 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (1.07%) CMDB
12 30 (0.89%) PKI
13 29 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 29 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 27 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 155 (4.61%) Linux
2 141 (4.19%) Windows
3 58 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (0.65%) Unix
6 17 (0.51%) Android
7 15 (0.45%) 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
1 750 (22.29%) DevOps
2 681 (20.24%) Agile
3 589 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 399 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 378 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 312 (9.27%) Migration
6 312 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
7 287 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 278 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (7.61%) Containerisation
10 244 (7.25%) AI
11 226 (6.72%) Data Modelling
12 214 (6.36%) Decision-Making
13 208 (6.18%) Analytics
14 188 (5.59%) Roadmaps
15 185 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
16 182 (5.41%) Test Automation
17 178 (5.29%) Microservices
18 165 (4.90%) Software Engineering
19 164 (4.87%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 418 (12.42%) Python
2 360 (10.70%) SQL
3 244 (7.25%) Java
4 158 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 113 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 100 (2.97%) C#
7 81 (2.41%) Bash
8 66 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 34 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 34 (1.01%) Bicep
9 34 (1.01%) Ruby
10 30 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.86%) Scala
12 26 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 19 (0.56%) R
15 15 (0.45%) Go
15 15 (0.45%) Groovy
15 15 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,750 (81.72%) SC Cleared
2 397 (11.80%) DV Cleared
3 79 (2.35%) Degree
4 75 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 62 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 58 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.63%) CISSP
8 38 (1.13%) CISM
9 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.68%) PMP
12 22 (0.65%) GIAC
13 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (0.48%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.42%) CEH
16 13 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 127 (3.77%) QA
3 84 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (2.44%) NCSC
5 73 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 65 (1.93%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.36%) COBIT
13 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.36%) SLA
14 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.18%) IFRS
16 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 281 (8.35%) Docker
2 103 (3.06%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 424 (12.60%) Terraform
2 351 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 117 (3.48%) Ansible
4 94 (2.79%) Grafana
5 90 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.74%) Puppet
8 20 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.51%) 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
1 349 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.26%) Oracle
3 124 (3.68%) ServiceNow
4 113 (3.36%) Databricks
5 94 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.56%) VMware
7 69 (2.05%) Google
8 62 (1.84%) Splunk
9 61 (1.81%) SAP
10 43 (1.28%) CyberArk
11 38 (1.13%) Cisco
11 38 (1.13%) IBM
12 37 (1.10%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.83%) Okta
15 24 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
15 24 (0.71%) Centrify
16 23 (0.68%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 21 (0.62%) Informatica