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

6 months to
7 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 3,466 1,725 2,052
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.75% 12.97% 11.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.87% 50.35% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,659 1,247 1,495
10th Percentile £402 £368 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 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 £49.75 £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 5,427 3,426 4,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.79% 25.77% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,914 2,305 2,858
10th Percentile £363 £345 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 77 107
10th Percentile £19.22 £18.48 £14.96
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.34 £68.30
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.08% -33.69% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +13 439 £550 - 115
South London 0 144 £520 -2.21% 6
East London +12 15 £750 - 16
West London -34 13 £675 +100.00% 37
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
1 152 (4.39%) Confluence
2 86 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.92%) nginx
6 29 (0.84%) Apache
7 24 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.40%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) JBoss
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.087%) Drupal
14 3 (0.087%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.058%) MQSeries
Applications
1 39 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.43%) 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 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.40%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 780 (22.50%) Azure
2 748 (21.58%) AWS
3 238 (6.87%) GitHub
4 190 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 157 (4.53%) GCP
7 151 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.95%) Serverless
9 135 (3.89%) Amazon S3
10 107 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (2.51%) Entra ID
13 78 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 64 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 63 (1.82%) Azure AKS
17 63 (1.82%) Power Automate
18 61 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.83%) Firewall
2 87 (2.51%) DNS
3 65 (1.88%) Network Security
4 54 (1.56%) VPN
5 29 (0.84%) WAN
6 27 (0.78%) DHCP
6 27 (0.78%) LAN
7 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 13 (0.38%) DKIM
9 13 (0.38%) DMARC
9 13 (0.38%) HTTP
10 12 (0.35%) SAN
11 11 (0.32%) NAS
12 10 (0.29%) Internet
12 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.29%) SMTP
13 9 (0.26%) MPLS
13 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (3.75%) Power BI
2 92 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (1.27%) Metadata
9 40 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.04%) NoSQL
12 34 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.81%) Tableau
14 27 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.72%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.61%) Big Data
18 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.43%) BigQuery
20 14 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 214 (6.17%) JIRA
2 189 (5.45%) Git
3 179 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 131 (3.78%) GitLab
5 34 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.69%) JMeter
6 24 (0.69%) JUnit
7 23 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.61%) Mockito
9 20 (0.58%) Postman
10 19 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 14 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.40%) Gradle
13 13 (0.38%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.35%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.29%) Maven
16 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 990 (28.56%) Public Sector
2 644 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 326 (9.41%) Finance
4 209 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (2.86%) Banking
6 90 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (2.37%) Military
8 71 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.24%) Police
11 37 (1.07%) Legal
12 33 (0.95%) Law
13 28 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.72%) Retail
16 24 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (0.66%) Marketing
18 17 (0.49%) Manufacturing
19 13 (0.38%) Publishing
20 12 (0.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 638 (18.41%) Architect
2 446 (12.87%) Developer
3 299 (8.63%) Lead
4 274 (7.91%) Senior
5 256 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 198 (5.71%) Analyst
7 188 (5.42%) Data Engineer
8 158 (4.56%) Consultant
9 120 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
11 107 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
12 98 (2.83%) Technical Architect
13 95 (2.74%) Security Architect
14 94 (2.71%) Business Analyst
15 88 (2.54%) Java Developer
16 87 (2.51%) Designer
17 84 (2.42%) Software Engineer
18 79 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
19 77 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 73 (2.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (3.66%) REST
2 121 (3.49%) Spring
3 92 (2.65%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.48%) React
5 77 (2.22%) RESTful
6 74 (2.14%) Kafka
7 70 (2.02%) .NET
8 69 (1.99%) PySpark
9 68 (1.96%) Node.js
10 55 (1.59%) JSON
11 50 (1.44%) SOAP
12 46 (1.33%) AngularJS
13 45 (1.30%) HTML
14 44 (1.27%) OAuth
15 41 (1.18%) Web Services
16 40 (1.15%) LDAP
17 39 (1.13%) Django
18 37 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
19 35 (1.01%) OpenID
20 34 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 59 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 52 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (1.30%) CMDB
7 45 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.10%) Replication
10 34 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 31 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 28 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 26 (0.75%) PKI
15 23 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.90%) Linux
2 156 (4.50%) Windows
3 63 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (0.75%) Android
6 25 (0.72%) Unix
7 21 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.43%) Solaris
9 14 (0.40%) 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 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.12%) AIX
16 3 (0.087%) SUSE
16 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (22.30%) DevOps
2 744 (21.47%) Agile
3 650 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 409 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 401 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 313 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 298 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 293 (8.45%) Migration
10 267 (7.70%) AI
11 265 (7.65%) Containerisation
12 222 (6.41%) Decision-Making
13 218 (6.29%) Data Modelling
14 211 (6.09%) Analytics
15 210 (6.06%) Roadmaps
16 197 (5.68%) Test Automation
17 193 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 190 (5.48%) Software Engineering
19 177 (5.11%) Microservices
20 163 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 431 (12.44%) Python
2 346 (9.98%) SQL
3 271 (7.82%) Java
4 128 (3.69%) PowerShell
5 125 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 99 (2.86%) C#
7 97 (2.80%) Bash
8 71 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 40 (1.15%) Bicep
10 33 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.87%) Ruby
13 27 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.63%) Scala
15 20 (0.58%) R
16 19 (0.55%) Groovy
17 13 (0.38%) Go
18 7 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 2,836 (81.82%) SC Cleared
2 431 (12.44%) DV Cleared
3 92 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 77 (2.22%) Degree
5 59 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 56 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.62%) CISSP
7 37 (1.07%) CISM
8 26 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.63%) PMP
10 20 (0.58%) GIAC
11 19 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
12 16 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.38%) CEH
15 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 131 (3.78%) QA
3 85 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (2.45%) NCSC
4 81 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 69 (1.99%) GDPR
6 67 (1.93%) NIST
7 62 (1.79%) PMO
8 27 (0.78%) GRC
9 24 (0.69%) WCAG
10 14 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
13 11 (0.32%) COBIT
13 11 (0.32%) SLA
14 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 301 (8.68%) Docker
2 89 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.49%) Squid
7 17 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.46%) vSphere
9 13 (0.38%) NFS
10 9 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.26%) Postfix
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.17%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.12%) UAG
14 3 (0.087%) Firmware
14 3 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 447 (12.90%) Terraform
2 385 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.52%) Ansible
4 104 (3.00%) Grafana
5 93 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.81%) Puppet
8 23 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.46%) vMotion
10 14 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.40%) Argo
10 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.40%) SCCM
11 12 (0.35%) Consul
11 12 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.32%) Kibana
12 11 (0.32%) Packer
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 358 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 192 (5.54%) Oracle
3 140 (4.04%) ServiceNow
4 110 (3.17%) Databricks
5 97 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.71%) VMware
7 75 (2.16%) Google
8 70 (2.02%) Splunk
9 60 (1.73%) SAP
10 38 (1.10%) IBM
11 37 (1.07%) Cisco
12 36 (1.04%) Dynatrace
13 29 (0.84%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.81%) Okta
15 25 (0.72%) Informatica
16 23 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) Tenable
17 20 (0.58%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.55%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.55%) Palo Alto