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

6 months to
20 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 3,367 1,644 2,086
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.69% 13.15% 11.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.67% 50.82% 49.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 1,192 1,515
10th Percentile £405 £380 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £706 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 36
10th Percentile £25.23 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £36.00 £24.66 £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 £95.38 £49.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £27.76 £57.44
% change year-on-year +127.43% -51.67% -4.27%

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 5,288 3,235 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.78% 25.87% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 2,176 2,855
10th Percentile £363 £353 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 68 113
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.57 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.13 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +8.00% -53.05%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +73.44% -27.06% -24.55%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +13 438 £550 - 59
South London 0 138 £516 -2.96% 7
West London -34 15 £675 +170.00% 19
East London +11 14 £750 - 18
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
1 137 (4.07%) Confluence
2 78 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.92%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 23 (0.68%) 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 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.45%) 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 (0.45%) Findur
5 12 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
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 (0.089%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.089%) Oracle iProcurement
12 3 (0.089%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.089%) SAP QM
12 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 777 (23.08%) Azure
2 754 (22.39%) AWS
3 219 (6.50%) GitHub
4 191 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (5.49%) Power Platform
6 166 (4.93%) GCP
7 142 (4.22%) Serverless
8 131 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 130 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
10 112 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
13 84 (2.49%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
16 67 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (1.87%) PaaS
18 61 (1.81%) Azure AKS
18 61 (1.81%) Power Automate
19 60 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 99 (2.94%) Firewall
2 80 (2.38%) DNS
3 64 (1.90%) Network Security
4 50 (1.49%) VPN
5 31 (0.92%) LAN
6 29 (0.86%) WAN
7 28 (0.83%) DHCP
8 22 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.39%) DKIM
10 13 (0.39%) DMARC
10 13 (0.39%) SAN
11 12 (0.36%) HTTP
11 12 (0.36%) MPLS
11 12 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.33%) NAS
12 11 (0.33%) SMTP
13 10 (0.30%) BGP
13 10 (0.30%) Internet
13 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (3.92%) Power BI
2 88 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.14%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 50 (1.49%) Metadata
8 41 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 36 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (0.83%) Tableau
14 27 (0.80%) MongoDB
15 26 (0.77%) Delta Lake
16 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.53%) Big Data
18 14 (0.42%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 204 (6.06%) JIRA
2 181 (5.38%) Git
3 166 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 133 (3.95%) GitLab
5 31 (0.92%) Selenium
6 25 (0.74%) JUnit
7 24 (0.71%) JMeter
8 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 22 (0.65%) Mockito
10 21 (0.62%) Postman
11 20 (0.59%) Artifactory
12 18 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.45%) Gradle
14 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.39%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.33%) Maven
17 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
17 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
18 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
18 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 966 (28.69%) Public Sector
2 637 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 303 (9.00%) Finance
4 194 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.79%) Banking
6 90 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 81 (2.41%) Military
8 59 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.25%) Police
10 41 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.13%) Legal
12 34 (1.01%) Law
13 30 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.80%) Retail
15 25 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (0.71%) Marketing
16 24 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.45%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.36%) Publishing
19 10 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 638 (18.95%) Architect
2 419 (12.44%) Developer
3 276 (8.20%) Senior
4 264 (7.84%) Lead
5 259 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 196 (5.82%) Data Engineer
7 195 (5.79%) Analyst
8 151 (4.48%) Consultant
9 124 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
11 109 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
12 99 (2.94%) Business Analyst
12 99 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 89 (2.64%) Security Architect
14 82 (2.44%) Designer
15 74 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 74 (2.20%) Java Developer
16 72 (2.14%) Cloud Engineer
16 72 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
17 70 (2.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.59%) REST
2 111 (3.30%) Spring
3 91 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.52%) React
5 71 (2.11%) PySpark
6 70 (2.08%) Kafka
6 70 (2.08%) RESTful
7 65 (1.93%) .NET
8 63 (1.87%) Node.js
9 58 (1.72%) LDAP
9 58 (1.72%) SOAP
10 50 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 48 (1.43%) HTML
12 46 (1.37%) JSON
13 43 (1.28%) Web Services
14 42 (1.25%) OAuth
14 42 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
15 34 (1.01%) OpenID
16 33 (0.98%) SAML
17 32 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 114 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 101 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 57 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (1.66%) Data Centre
6 52 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 47 (1.40%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.16%) CMDB
9 39 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.13%) Replication
11 37 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 29 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 29 (0.86%) PKI
14 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.66%) Linux
2 146 (4.34%) Windows
3 59 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.68%) Unix
6 19 (0.56%) Android
7 16 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.45%) Solaris
9 14 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.36%) VMS
11 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
13 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.12%) AIX
17 3 (0.089%) SUSE
17 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (22.28%) DevOps
2 697 (20.70%) Agile
3 599 (17.79%) CI/CD
4 403 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 388 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 313 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 308 (9.15%) Migration
8 288 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 288 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 255 (7.57%) Containerisation
10 250 (7.43%) AI
11 221 (6.56%) Data Modelling
12 214 (6.36%) Decision-Making
13 209 (6.21%) Analytics
14 185 (5.49%) Roadmaps
15 184 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
16 180 (5.35%) Microservices
17 178 (5.29%) Test Automation
18 173 (5.14%) Software Engineering
19 165 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 417 (12.38%) Python
2 355 (10.54%) SQL
3 246 (7.31%) Java
4 145 (4.31%) PowerShell
5 116 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 98 (2.91%) C#
7 80 (2.38%) Bash
8 66 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.04%) Bicep
10 32 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 32 (0.95%) Ruby
11 31 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.77%) Scala
14 21 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.56%) R
16 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.48%) Groovy
18 14 (0.42%) Go
19 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,752 (81.73%) SC Cleared
2 406 (12.06%) DV Cleared
3 80 (2.38%) Degree
4 79 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 56 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.63%) CISSP
8 38 (1.13%) CISM
9 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.65%) GIAC
12 21 (0.62%) PMP
13 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (0.45%) PMI Certification
16 14 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.42%) CEH
17 13 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
18 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 124 (3.68%) QA
3 84 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (2.44%) NCSC
5 73 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 65 (1.93%) NIST
7 62 (1.84%) GDPR
8 58 (1.72%) PMO
9 23 (0.68%) GRC
10 22 (0.65%) WCAG
11 15 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
14 12 (0.36%) COBIT
14 12 (0.36%) SLA
15 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.18%) IFRS
16 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 279 (8.29%) Docker
2 105 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.42%) 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
1 429 (12.74%) Terraform
2 356 (10.57%) Kubernetes
3 119 (3.53%) Ansible
4 95 (2.82%) Grafana
5 91 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.31%) 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 15 (0.45%) SCCM
11 14 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.36%) Consul
13 10 (0.30%) Packer
14 8 (0.24%) Kibana
14 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.21%) Istio
15 7 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 342 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.26%) Oracle
3 128 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 109 (3.24%) Databricks
5 94 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.61%) VMware
7 69 (2.05%) Google
8 62 (1.84%) SAP
9 61 (1.81%) Splunk
10 40 (1.19%) Cisco
11 38 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 36 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 36 (1.07%) IBM
13 31 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.83%) Okta
15 24 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.68%) Informatica
17 22 (0.65%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.59%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.59%) Tenable