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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,384 1,663 2,052
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.70% 13.10% 11.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.61% 50.72% 49.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 1,200 1,488
10th Percentile £404 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £712 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 36
10th Percentile £25.56 £18.69 £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 £95.50 £48.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +151.03% -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 5,320 3,279 4,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.82% 25.82% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,202 2,824
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 72 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.06 £15.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.74 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.83% +0.92% -51.43%
75th Percentile £75.87 £50.54 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.31 £68.15
England median hourly rate £53.00 £29.07 £42.50
% change year-on-year +82.32% -31.60% -22.73%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +13 435 £550 - 84
South London 0 141 £515 -3.06% 4
East London +12 14 £750 - 14
West London -32 13 £675 +170.00% 25
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 78 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.95%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 23 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.30%) SAS
9 10 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.21%) CMS
11 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.12%) WordPress
12 3 (0.089%) Camunda
12 3 (0.089%) Drupal
12 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.059%) Appian
Applications
1 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Revit
5 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.44%) Findur
5 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
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%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.15%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.12%) iTrent
12 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.12%) SAP QM
13 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
13 3 (0.089%) NetSuite
13 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 768 (22.70%) Azure
2 750 (22.16%) AWS
3 222 (6.56%) GitHub
4 194 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (5.35%) Power Platform
6 159 (4.70%) GCP
7 143 (4.23%) Serverless
8 137 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 110 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
13 81 (2.39%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 63 (1.86%) Azure AKS
18 61 (1.80%) Power Automate
19 57 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.90%) Firewall
2 82 (2.42%) DNS
3 62 (1.83%) Network Security
4 52 (1.54%) VPN
5 28 (0.83%) LAN
6 27 (0.80%) DHCP
6 27 (0.80%) WAN
7 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 13 (0.38%) DKIM
9 13 (0.38%) DMARC
10 12 (0.35%) HTTP
10 12 (0.35%) MPLS
10 12 (0.35%) SAN
11 11 (0.33%) NAS
12 10 (0.30%) Internet
12 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.30%) SMTP
12 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (3.78%) Power BI
2 91 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.01%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 49 (1.45%) Metadata
9 40 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
9 40 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 36 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 28 (0.83%) Tableau
13 26 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (0.77%) Delta Lake
14 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.56%) Big Data
16 14 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 207 (6.12%) JIRA
2 184 (5.44%) Git
3 172 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 136 (4.02%) GitLab
5 33 (0.98%) Selenium
6 25 (0.74%) JUnit
7 24 (0.71%) JMeter
8 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.65%) Mockito
9 20 (0.59%) Postman
10 19 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.47%) Gradle
12 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
14 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.33%) Maven
16 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
17 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 964 (28.49%) Public Sector
2 638 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.07%) Finance
4 197 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.87%) Banking
6 89 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 78 (2.30%) Military
8 63 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.24%) Police
9 42 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.12%) Legal
11 34 (1.00%) Law
12 30 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (0.77%) Retail
14 25 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (0.71%) Marketing
16 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.38%) Publishing
18 10 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 632 (18.68%) Architect
2 436 (12.88%) Developer
3 273 (8.07%) Lead
4 270 (7.98%) Senior
5 258 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.70%) Analyst
7 190 (5.61%) Data Engineer
8 152 (4.49%) Consultant
9 121 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
10 111 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (2.98%) Technical Architect
12 96 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 90 (2.66%) Security Architect
14 86 (2.54%) Java Developer
15 83 (2.45%) Designer
16 75 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 75 (2.22%) Software Engineer
17 74 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 69 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.58%) Spring
2 117 (3.46%) REST
3 92 (2.72%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.54%) React
5 74 (2.19%) RESTful
6 73 (2.16%) Kafka
7 72 (2.13%) PySpark
8 69 (2.04%) .NET
9 66 (1.95%) Node.js
10 52 (1.54%) SOAP
11 51 (1.51%) LDAP
12 50 (1.48%) JSON
13 47 (1.39%) AngularJS
14 46 (1.36%) HTML
15 43 (1.27%) OAuth
16 40 (1.18%) Web Services
17 39 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
18 35 (1.03%) OpenID
19 33 (0.98%) SAML
20 32 (0.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 123 (3.63%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 60 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 59 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.24%) Security Posture
9 41 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.15%) CMDB
11 38 (1.12%) Replication
12 32 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 29 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.83%) PKI
17 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.70%) Linux
2 145 (4.28%) Windows
3 58 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.68%) Unix
6 20 (0.59%) Android
7 17 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.44%) Solaris
9 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.30%) VMS
10 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.18%) 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
1 758 (22.40%) DevOps
2 709 (20.95%) Agile
3 617 (18.23%) CI/CD
4 400 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 391 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 313 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
7 305 (9.01%) Migration
8 295 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 290 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 262 (7.74%) Containerisation
11 257 (7.59%) AI
12 218 (6.44%) Data Modelling
13 217 (6.41%) Decision-Making
14 207 (6.12%) Analytics
15 189 (5.59%) Roadmaps
16 188 (5.56%) Test Automation
17 186 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
18 182 (5.38%) Microservices
19 180 (5.32%) Software Engineering
20 160 (4.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 422 (12.47%) Python
2 349 (10.31%) SQL
3 258 (7.62%) Java
4 135 (3.99%) PowerShell
5 119 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 102 (3.01%) C#
7 84 (2.48%) Bash
8 70 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 38 (1.12%) Bicep
10 33 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.92%) Apex Code
11 31 (0.92%) Ruby
12 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.74%) Scala
14 21 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.56%) R
16 18 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.50%) Groovy
18 14 (0.41%) Go
19 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,769 (81.83%) SC Cleared
2 413 (12.20%) DV Cleared
3 79 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 79 (2.33%) Degree
4 59 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 55 (1.63%) CISSP
6 54 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.09%) CISM
8 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.65%) GIAC
10 22 (0.65%) PMP
11 18 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
12 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.41%) CEH
14 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.72%) QA
3 86 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.45%) NCSC
5 77 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.95%) NIST
7 65 (1.92%) GDPR
8 59 (1.74%) PMO
9 25 (0.74%) GRC
10 22 (0.65%) WCAG
11 15 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
12 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.35%) COBIT
13 12 (0.35%) SLA
14 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.18%) IFRS
15 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 289 (8.54%) Docker
2 93 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.41%) Squid
8 13 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) vSphere
9 12 (0.35%) 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%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.089%) Firmware
14 3 (0.089%) XenApp
14 3 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 433 (12.80%) Terraform
2 373 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 117 (3.46%) Ansible
4 95 (2.81%) Grafana
5 92 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.74%) Puppet
8 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.47%) vMotion
9 15 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.41%) SCCM
11 13 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.35%) Consul
13 11 (0.33%) Kibana
14 10 (0.30%) Packer
15 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
16 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
16 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 338 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 181 (5.35%) Oracle
3 130 (3.84%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.28%) Databricks
5 95 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.54%) VMware
7 71 (2.10%) Google
8 61 (1.80%) SAP
8 61 (1.80%) Splunk
9 37 (1.09%) Cisco
9 37 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 35 (1.03%) IBM
11 31 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 30 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.83%) Okta
14 25 (0.74%) Informatica
15 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.59%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.59%) Tenable
17 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto