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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,652 1,810 2,067
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.93% 13.43% 12.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.40% 50.54% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 1,302 1,407
10th Percentile £405 £400 £363
25th Percentile £466 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 41 17
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £18.03
25th Percentile £35.00 - £24.15
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% -54.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £38.75 £112.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 5,760 3,581 3,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.29% 26.57% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,159 2,406 2,565
10th Percentile £371 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £650
90th Percentile £732 £738 £766
England median daily rate £530 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 80 59
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.08
25th Percentile £26.25 - £24.17
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -28.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £85.00 £35.94 £56.75
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.24%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +10 413 £550 +4.76% 206
South London 0 110 £540 +1.69% 11
West London -34 22 £650 +62.30% 82
East London +4 7 £750 - 25
North London +4 6 £538 +5.39%
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
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
1 153 (4.19%) Confluence
2 94 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.31%) SAS
4 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.85%) Apache
5 31 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.74%) nginx
7 26 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.33%) CMS
8 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 10 (0.27%) JBoss
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.14%) Camunda
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.082%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 47 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 17 (0.47%) Revit
4 17 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
5 15 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Windchill
11 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.027%) InDesign
13 1 (0.027%) PrintSoft PReS
13 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.16%) Findur
9 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
9 5 (0.14%) Maximo
9 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 5 (0.14%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 814 (22.29%) Azure
2 779 (21.33%) AWS
3 253 (6.93%) GitHub
4 206 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 198 (5.42%) GCP
7 174 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 126 (3.45%) Serverless
9 123 (3.37%) Amazon S3
10 98 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 95 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
12 91 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (1.83%) PowerApps
16 62 (1.70%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
17 60 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 59 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.46%) Firewall
2 73 (2.00%) DNS
3 60 (1.64%) Network Security
4 42 (1.15%) VPN
5 34 (0.93%) WAN
6 22 (0.60%) LAN
7 19 (0.52%) DHCP
8 15 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.36%) HTTP
9 13 (0.36%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
11 11 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.27%) MPLS
12 10 (0.27%) WebEx
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
13 9 (0.25%) SSL
14 8 (0.22%) DKIM
14 8 (0.22%) DMARC
14 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.72%) Power BI
2 117 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 59 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
5 56 (1.53%) Metadata
6 53 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 44 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (0.96%) MySQL
12 34 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
13 33 (0.90%) Oracle Database
14 23 (0.63%) Redis
15 22 (0.60%) Big Data
16 20 (0.55%) Tableau
17 19 (0.52%) Delta Lake
17 19 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 232 (6.35%) Git
2 224 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 215 (5.89%) JIRA
4 143 (3.92%) GitLab
5 53 (1.45%) Selenium
6 35 (0.96%) JMeter
7 32 (0.88%) JUnit
8 31 (0.85%) Gradle
8 31 (0.85%) Postman
9 27 (0.74%) Maven
10 26 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 24 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 23 (0.63%) Mockito
14 22 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.41%) LoadRunner
16 14 (0.38%) Artifactory
16 14 (0.38%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.36%) eggPlant
18 12 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 951 (26.04%) Public Sector
2 805 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 325 (8.90%) Finance
4 261 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (3.23%) Military
6 102 (2.79%) Banking
7 87 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (1.70%) Law
9 61 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (1.56%) Police
10 57 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 43 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 35 (0.96%) Legal
15 31 (0.85%) Marketing
16 30 (0.82%) Retail
17 27 (0.74%) Local Government
18 22 (0.60%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 693 (18.98%) Architect
2 411 (11.25%) Developer
3 350 (9.58%) Lead
4 339 (9.28%) Senior
5 259 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 182 (4.98%) Data Engineer
7 173 (4.74%) Analyst
8 159 (4.35%) Consultant
9 120 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (3.23%) Data Architect
11 113 (3.09%) Security Architect
12 106 (2.90%) Designer
13 105 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
14 99 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 95 (2.60%) Software Engineer
16 93 (2.55%) Java Developer
17 85 (2.33%) Technical Architect
18 81 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
18 81 (2.22%) User Researcher
19 72 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (11.94%) Terraform
2 192 (5.26%) REST
3 122 (3.34%) Spring
4 114 (3.12%) Kafka
5 106 (2.90%) Spring Boot
6 95 (2.60%) React
7 90 (2.46%) RESTful
8 81 (2.22%) .NET
9 77 (2.11%) SOAP
10 67 (1.83%) JSON
11 60 (1.64%) Node.js
12 59 (1.62%) XML
13 58 (1.59%) HTML
14 57 (1.56%) PySpark
15 56 (1.53%) Middleware
16 49 (1.34%) Django
17 45 (1.23%) Web Services
18 43 (1.18%) OAuth
19 40 (1.10%) AngularJS
20 37 (1.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.24%) Cloud Native
2 133 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 119 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 66 (1.81%) Management Information System
5 63 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 57 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 56 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 45 (1.23%) CMDB
11 44 (1.20%) Replication
12 42 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
13 40 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 32 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 31 (0.85%) Clustering
17 30 (0.82%) PKI
18 29 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
19 28 (0.77%) Low-Code
20 27 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (5.67%) Linux
2 173 (4.74%) Windows
3 65 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 44 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (0.99%) Unix
6 31 (0.85%) Android
7 22 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.41%) VMS
9 12 (0.33%) Solaris
10 11 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.14%) AIX
16 3 (0.082%) OpenVMS
16 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (24.12%) Agile
2 772 (21.14%) DevOps
3 715 (19.58%) CI/CD
4 586 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 447 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 405 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 394 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 389 (10.65%) AI
9 357 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (8.46%) Migration
11 294 (8.05%) Containerisation
12 254 (6.96%) Test Automation
13 251 (6.87%) Decision-Making
14 244 (6.68%) Roadmaps
15 235 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
16 228 (6.24%) Software Engineering
17 227 (6.22%) Analytics
18 219 (6.00%) Observability
19 218 (5.97%) Data Modelling
20 208 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 523 (14.32%) Python
2 360 (9.86%) SQL
3 315 (8.63%) Java
4 182 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 135 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 117 (3.20%) Bash
7 103 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 96 (2.63%) C#
9 44 (1.20%) Bicep
10 38 (1.04%) Groovy
11 37 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.74%) Scala
13 26 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.60%) Go
15 21 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.52%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.41%) R
19 12 (0.33%) Ruby
20 11 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 3,005 (82.28%) SC Cleared
2 484 (13.25%) DV Cleared
3 136 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 104 (2.85%) Degree
5 87 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 73 (2.00%) CISSP
7 70 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.56%) CISM
9 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.96%) PMP
11 30 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 28 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 20 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.47%) CRISC
15 17 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
15 17 (0.47%) GIAC
16 14 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.28%) QA
2 129 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.85%) NCSC
4 88 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 84 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (2.22%) NIST
7 67 (1.83%) GRC
8 66 (1.81%) PMO
9 52 (1.42%) GDPR
10 26 (0.71%) WCAG
11 24 (0.66%) SLA
12 18 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.27%) COBIT
16 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 332 (9.09%) Docker
2 104 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.55%) vSphere
7 8 (0.22%) Squid
8 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.16%) Postfix
9 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) Varnish
12 3 (0.082%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.082%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 405 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 124 (3.40%) Ansible
2 124 (3.40%) Grafana
3 95 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 29 (0.79%) Puppet
5 27 (0.74%) Kibana
6 24 (0.66%) SCCM
7 21 (0.58%) Argo
7 21 (0.58%) Control-M
7 21 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.55%) Istio
8 20 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
11 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.30%) SCOM
12 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.25%) Packer
14 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (0.19%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 436 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.60%) Oracle
3 158 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 121 (3.31%) Google
5 106 (2.90%) VMware
6 99 (2.71%) Databricks
7 89 (2.44%) Splunk
8 86 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 68 (1.86%) SAP
10 48 (1.31%) IBM
11 43 (1.18%) Cisco
12 39 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.77%) Informatica
15 22 (0.60%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.58%) Pega
17 20 (0.55%) MuleSoft
18 19 (0.52%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.52%) Foundry