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

6 months to
12 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 3,379 1,590 2,107
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.94% 12.98% 11.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.00% 50.64% 50.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,575 1,152 1,535
10th Percentile £404 £375 £350
25th Percentile £460 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 36
10th Percentile £25.24 £23.50 £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 £48.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £32.00 £56.89
% change year-on-year +87.50% -43.75% -5.19%

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 3,140 4,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.04% 25.63% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 2,101 2,879
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +0.26% -6.87%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £767
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 62 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.98 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £28.38 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.95% +13.50% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.63 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.22 £32.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year +60.06% -20.57% -26.75%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +13 440 £550 - 79
South London 0 143 £513 -6.82% 4
West London -32 15 £675 +145.45% 35
East London +7 13 £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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 80 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 32 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.89%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 25 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.27%) SAS
10 8 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.18%) CMS
12 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
14 3 (0.089%) Drupal
14 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.089%) WordPress
15 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.059%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.27%) Revit
5 9 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.18%) 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%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.44%) Findur
5 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.12%) iTrent
12 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
13 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
13 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
14 2 (0.059%) Oracle Payroll
14 2 (0.059%) SAP PM
14 2 (0.059%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 800 (23.68%) Azure
2 748 (22.14%) AWS
3 225 (6.66%) GitHub
4 188 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 179 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 174 (5.15%) GCP
7 139 (4.11%) Serverless
8 128 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
9 127 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 110 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (2.40%) Entra ID
14 71 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 65 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
16 65 (1.92%) PaaS
17 64 (1.89%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.86%) OCI
19 61 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 101 (2.99%) Firewall
2 79 (2.34%) DNS
3 61 (1.81%) Network Security
4 48 (1.42%) VPN
5 36 (1.07%) LAN
6 34 (1.01%) WAN
7 27 (0.80%) DHCP
8 24 (0.71%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.50%) SAN
10 15 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 15 (0.44%) NAS
11 14 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.38%) DKIM
12 13 (0.38%) DMARC
13 12 (0.36%) BGP
13 12 (0.36%) MPLS
14 11 (0.33%) HTTP
15 10 (0.30%) NGFW
15 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.30%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (3.61%) Power BI
2 91 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 65 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 47 (1.39%) Metadata
9 41 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 37 (1.09%) Relational Database
12 33 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (0.86%) Tableau
15 27 (0.80%) MongoDB
16 25 (0.74%) Delta Lake
17 20 (0.59%) Big Data
17 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
19 14 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (5.95%) JIRA
2 177 (5.24%) Git
3 157 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 118 (3.49%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Selenium
6 25 (0.74%) JUnit
7 23 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 23 (0.68%) JMeter
8 22 (0.65%) Postman
9 21 (0.62%) Mockito
10 18 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.47%) Gradle
12 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.30%) Maven
14 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 949 (28.09%) Public Sector
2 645 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 308 (9.12%) Finance
4 194 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.78%) Banking
6 92 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (2.43%) Military
8 53 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (1.21%) Police
10 40 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.15%) Legal
12 34 (1.01%) Law
13 31 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (0.86%) Retail
15 25 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (0.65%) Marketing
18 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.30%) Publishing
20 7 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 643 (19.03%) Architect
2 411 (12.16%) Developer
3 280 (8.29%) Senior
4 263 (7.78%) Lead
5 259 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 208 (6.16%) Analyst
7 202 (5.98%) Data Engineer
8 153 (4.53%) Consultant
9 124 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 113 (3.34%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
13 100 (2.96%) Technical Architect
14 89 (2.63%) Security Architect
15 80 (2.37%) Designer
16 75 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 72 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
18 70 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
19 69 (2.04%) Java Developer
20 65 (1.92%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (3.94%) REST
2 108 (3.20%) Spring
3 88 (2.60%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.55%) React
5 74 (2.19%) Kafka
6 73 (2.16%) LDAP
7 70 (2.07%) .NET
7 70 (2.07%) PySpark
7 70 (2.07%) RESTful
8 69 (2.04%) SOAP
9 62 (1.83%) Node.js
10 53 (1.57%) HTML
11 51 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 46 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
13 45 (1.33%) JSON
13 45 (1.33%) Web Services
14 42 (1.24%) OAuth
15 36 (1.07%) OpenID
16 35 (1.04%) SAML
17 34 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 201 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 66 (1.95%) Security Posture
5 58 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 50 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 47 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.21%) Replication
10 36 (1.07%) CMDB
10 36 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (0.89%) PKI
12 28 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 28 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 19 (0.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 156 (4.62%) Linux
2 138 (4.08%) Windows
3 57 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (0.65%) Unix
6 17 (0.50%) Android
7 14 (0.41%) Solaris
8 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.38%) VMS
9 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.089%) AIX
15 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.059%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (22.14%) DevOps
2 679 (20.09%) Agile
3 586 (17.34%) CI/CD
4 396 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 379 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 321 (9.50%) Migration
7 317 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 272 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 251 (7.43%) Containerisation
11 245 (7.25%) AI
12 223 (6.60%) Data Modelling
13 213 (6.30%) Decision-Making
14 208 (6.16%) Analytics
15 185 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
16 184 (5.45%) Test Automation
17 183 (5.42%) Roadmaps
18 176 (5.21%) Microservices
19 165 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
20 161 (4.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 426 (12.61%) Python
2 362 (10.71%) SQL
3 240 (7.10%) Java
4 167 (4.94%) PowerShell
5 116 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 104 (3.08%) C#
7 78 (2.31%) Bash
8 66 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 34 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 34 (1.01%) Ruby
10 33 (0.98%) Bicep
10 33 (0.98%) Scala
11 29 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.56%) R
14 18 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.41%) Groovy
17 13 (0.38%) Go
18 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,765 (81.83%) SC Cleared
2 388 (11.48%) DV Cleared
3 85 (2.52%) Degree
4 79 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 58 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.63%) CISSP
8 38 (1.12%) CISM
9 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.68%) PMP
12 22 (0.65%) GIAC
13 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.41%) CEH
15 14 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.79%) QA
3 86 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (2.37%) NCSC
5 73 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.98%) NIST
7 59 (1.75%) GDPR
7 59 (1.75%) PMO
8 22 (0.65%) WCAG
9 21 (0.62%) GRC
10 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.36%) COBIT
12 12 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (0.36%) SLA
13 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.18%) IFRS
15 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 275 (8.14%) Docker
2 111 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.44%) Squid
8 13 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) vSphere
9 12 (0.36%) 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%) Firmware
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) XenApp
13 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.089%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 421 (12.46%) Terraform
2 346 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 114 (3.37%) Ansible
4 91 (2.69%) Grafana
5 87 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.71%) Puppet
8 20 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.47%) vMotion
10 14 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.41%) 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%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 352 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 179 (5.30%) Oracle
3 122 (3.61%) ServiceNow
4 117 (3.46%) Databricks
5 90 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.57%) VMware
7 69 (2.04%) Google
8 63 (1.86%) Splunk
9 60 (1.78%) SAP
10 52 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.18%) Cisco
12 37 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 37 (1.09%) IBM
13 32 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
13 32 (0.95%) Centrify
14 30 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.83%) Okta
16 24 (0.71%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto