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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,415 1,705 2,055
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.69% 13.13% 11.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.77% 50.80% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 1,229 1,498
10th Percentile £402 £374 £350
25th Percentile £463 £454 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £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 39 31 36
10th Percentile £25.18 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £17.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.25 £50.00 £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 5,355 3,356 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.75% 25.85% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,856 2,256 2,855
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 75 108
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.32 £15.07
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +4.24% -53.24%
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.08 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.73 £68.23
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.58 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.73% -32.76% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +13 446 £550 - 160
South London 0 144 £519 -2.39% 7
East London +10 15 £750 - 15
West London -35 13 £675 +100.00% 41
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
1 143 (4.19%) Confluence
2 83 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.94%) nginx
6 29 (0.85%) Apache
7 24 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.32%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.15%) JBoss
13 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.088%) Camunda
14 3 (0.088%) Drupal
14 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
15 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.32%) Revit
4 11 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.44%) Findur
4 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.15%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
11 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.12%) SAP QM
12 3 (0.088%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 3 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 758 (22.20%) Azure
2 735 (21.52%) AWS
3 225 (6.59%) GitHub
4 187 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 180 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 154 (4.51%) GCP
7 140 (4.10%) Serverless
8 139 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 85 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
13 84 (2.46%) Entra ID
14 70 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (1.84%) Azure AKS
19 60 (1.76%) Power Automate
20 59 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.84%) Firewall
2 83 (2.43%) DNS
3 66 (1.93%) Network Security
4 53 (1.55%) VPN
5 30 (0.88%) WAN
6 29 (0.85%) LAN
7 27 (0.79%) DHCP
8 20 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.38%) DKIM
10 13 (0.38%) DMARC
11 12 (0.35%) HTTP
11 12 (0.35%) SAN
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
13 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 10 (0.29%) MPLS
13 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.29%) SMTP
14 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (3.69%) Power BI
2 92 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.84%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (1.32%) Metadata
9 40 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.82%) Tableau
15 25 (0.73%) Delta Lake
16 24 (0.70%) Oracle Database
17 22 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.61%) Big Data
19 15 (0.44%) BigQuery
20 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 211 (6.18%) JIRA
2 189 (5.53%) Git
3 174 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 135 (3.95%) GitLab
5 33 (0.97%) Selenium
6 25 (0.73%) JUnit
7 24 (0.70%) JMeter
8 23 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 22 (0.64%) Mockito
10 20 (0.59%) Postman
11 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.53%) Artifactory
13 15 (0.44%) Gradle
14 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.32%) Maven
18 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
19 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
19 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 966 (28.29%) Public Sector
2 633 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 317 (9.28%) Finance
4 202 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (2.90%) Banking
6 90 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 80 (2.34%) Military
8 70 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.29%) Police
10 40 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.08%) Legal
12 33 (0.97%) Law
13 29 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (0.73%) Retail
15 24 (0.70%) Marketing
16 17 (0.50%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.38%) Publishing
18 11 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 629 (18.42%) Architect
2 448 (13.12%) Developer
3 283 (8.29%) Lead
4 266 (7.79%) Senior
5 257 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 197 (5.77%) Analyst
7 181 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 153 (4.48%) Consultant
9 118 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 114 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
11 106 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
12 99 (2.90%) Technical Architect
13 97 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 92 (2.69%) Security Architect
15 88 (2.58%) Java Developer
16 85 (2.49%) Designer
17 82 (2.40%) Software Engineer
18 77 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
19 75 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 71 (2.08%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.54%) REST
1 121 (3.54%) Spring
2 92 (2.69%) Spring Boot
3 86 (2.52%) React
4 75 (2.20%) Kafka
4 75 (2.20%) RESTful
5 71 (2.08%) .NET
6 70 (2.05%) PySpark
7 67 (1.96%) Node.js
8 53 (1.55%) JSON
9 48 (1.41%) SOAP
10 47 (1.38%) AngularJS
11 45 (1.32%) HTML
12 44 (1.29%) LDAP
13 43 (1.26%) OAuth
14 40 (1.17%) Web Services
15 38 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
16 37 (1.08%) Django
17 35 (1.02%) OpenID
18 33 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 119 (3.48%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 59 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 57 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 43 (1.26%) CMDB
9 41 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.11%) Replication
11 37 (1.08%) Security Posture
12 29 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 28 (0.82%) PKI
14 27 (0.79%) Data Structures
14 27 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.80%) Linux
2 153 (4.48%) Windows
3 60 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.70%) Unix
6 23 (0.67%) Android
7 18 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.44%) Solaris
9 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.23%) VMS
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.12%) AIX
16 3 (0.088%) SUSE
16 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (22.34%) DevOps
2 729 (21.35%) Agile
3 626 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 399 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 393 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 311 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 299 (8.76%) Migration
8 293 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 264 (7.73%) Containerisation
10 257 (7.53%) AI
11 219 (6.41%) Decision-Making
12 213 (6.24%) Data Modelling
13 203 (5.94%) Analytics
14 201 (5.89%) Roadmaps
15 192 (5.62%) Test Automation
16 188 (5.51%) Software Engineering
17 187 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
18 180 (5.27%) Microservices
19 159 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 420 (12.30%) Python
2 337 (9.87%) SQL
3 267 (7.82%) Java
4 131 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 120 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 101 (2.96%) C#
7 88 (2.58%) Bash
8 70 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 40 (1.17%) Bicep
10 33 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 31 (0.91%) Ruby
12 27 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 22 (0.64%) Scala
14 21 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.56%) R
16 17 (0.50%) Groovy
17 14 (0.41%) Go
18 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,788 (81.64%) SC Cleared
2 426 (12.47%) DV Cleared
3 85 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 75 (2.20%) Degree
5 58 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 56 (1.64%) CISSP
7 53 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 37 (1.08%) CISM
9 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.61%) PMP
12 20 (0.59%) GIAC
13 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 15 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (0.44%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.38%) CEH
16 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.75%) QA
3 85 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (2.37%) NCSC
5 77 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.99%) GDPR
7 64 (1.87%) NIST
8 58 (1.70%) PMO
9 25 (0.73%) GRC
10 22 (0.64%) WCAG
11 14 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.35%) SLA
14 11 (0.32%) COBIT
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 289 (8.46%) Docker
2 89 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 26 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.50%) Squid
7 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.41%) vSphere
9 13 (0.38%) NFS
10 9 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.26%) Postfix
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.18%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.088%) Firmware
14 3 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.059%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 438 (12.83%) Terraform
2 377 (11.04%) Kubernetes
3 121 (3.54%) Ansible
4 93 (2.72%) Grafana
5 90 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.82%) Puppet
8 21 (0.61%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.47%) vMotion
10 15 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.41%) SCCM
12 12 (0.35%) Consul
12 12 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.32%) Kibana
13 11 (0.32%) Packer
14 9 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
16 7 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 342 (10.01%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.39%) Oracle
3 136 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 106 (3.10%) Databricks
5 95 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.66%) VMware
7 71 (2.08%) Google
8 64 (1.87%) Splunk
9 61 (1.79%) SAP
10 38 (1.11%) IBM
11 37 (1.08%) Cisco
12 36 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.82%) Okta
15 25 (0.73%) Informatica
16 24 (0.70%) CyberArk
17 23 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.67%) Tenable
18 19 (0.56%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto