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

6 months to
1 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 3,412 1,698 2,031
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.71% 13.17% 11.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.82% 50.87% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,223 1,479
10th Percentile £403 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £454 £446
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 £711 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 36
10th Percentile £25.23 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £36.00 £25.04 £17.88
Median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.49% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £75.69 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.38 £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 5,346 3,338 4,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.74% 25.89% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,855 2,241 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £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 74 75 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.32 £15.19
25th Percentile £26.69 £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 £73.56 £51.08 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.73 £68.15
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +84.44% -32.71% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +13 440 £550 - 99
South London 0 145 £519 -2.62% 5
East London +12 15 £750 - 14
West London -31 13 £675 +100.00% 32
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 (1.03%) 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 10 (0.29%) SAS
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.21%) CMS
11 5 (0.15%) JBoss
12 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.12%) WordPress
13 3 (0.088%) Camunda
13 3 (0.088%) Drupal
13 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Revit
5 10 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 9 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.029%) Maya
10 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
10 1 (0.029%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.44%) Findur
5 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
6 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.088%) Exchequer
13 3 (0.088%) NetSuite
13 3 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 761 (22.30%) Azure
2 743 (21.78%) AWS
3 226 (6.62%) GitHub
4 189 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 155 (4.54%) GCP
7 140 (4.10%) Serverless
8 139 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (2.52%) 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 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (1.85%) Azure AKS
19 60 (1.76%) Power Automate
20 59 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (2.81%) Firewall
2 82 (2.40%) DNS
3 64 (1.88%) Network Security
4 53 (1.55%) VPN
5 29 (0.85%) WAN
6 28 (0.82%) 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
1 128 (3.75%) Power BI
2 92 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.91%) Data Lake
5 59 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (1.41%) Metadata
9 40 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.06%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (0.67%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.62%) Big Data
19 15 (0.44%) BigQuery
20 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 211 (6.18%) JIRA
2 189 (5.54%) Git
3 173 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 135 (3.96%) 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 16 (0.47%) 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 (28.31%) Public Sector
2 632 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 313 (9.17%) Finance
4 201 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (2.87%) Banking
6 90 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (2.32%) Military
8 68 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.29%) Police
10 40 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.11%) Legal
12 36 (1.06%) 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 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.38%) Publishing
18 10 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 635 (18.61%) Architect
2 447 (13.10%) Developer
3 281 (8.24%) Lead
4 267 (7.83%) Senior
5 259 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.66%) Analyst
7 183 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 150 (4.40%) Consultant
9 121 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
11 108 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 100 (2.93%) Technical Architect
13 94 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 93 (2.73%) Security Architect
15 88 (2.58%) Java Developer
16 85 (2.49%) Designer
17 82 (2.40%) Software Engineer
18 76 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
19 75 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 72 (2.11%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.58%) REST
2 121 (3.55%) Spring
3 92 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 87 (2.55%) React
5 75 (2.20%) Kafka
5 75 (2.20%) RESTful
6 71 (2.08%) .NET
7 70 (2.05%) PySpark
8 67 (1.96%) Node.js
9 53 (1.55%) JSON
10 49 (1.44%) SOAP
11 48 (1.41%) AngularJS
12 46 (1.35%) HTML
13 45 (1.32%) LDAP
14 43 (1.26%) OAuth
15 40 (1.17%) Web Services
16 39 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
17 37 (1.08%) Django
18 35 (1.03%) OpenID
19 33 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.58%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 58 (1.70%) Data Centre
4 58 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 42 (1.23%) CMDB
8 41 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.11%) Replication
9 38 (1.11%) Security Posture
10 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 28 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 28 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (0.82%) PKI
12 27 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 27 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.72%) Linux
2 148 (4.34%) Windows
3 58 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.70%) Unix
6 22 (0.64%) 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 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.21%) 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 (22.36%) DevOps
2 729 (21.37%) Agile
3 628 (18.41%) CI/CD
4 400 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 389 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 311 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (8.82%) Migration
8 297 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 291 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 265 (7.77%) Containerisation
11 258 (7.56%) AI
12 218 (6.39%) Decision-Making
13 216 (6.33%) Data Modelling
14 205 (6.01%) Analytics
15 197 (5.77%) Roadmaps
16 194 (5.69%) Test Automation
17 188 (5.51%) Software Engineering
18 184 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
19 180 (5.28%) Microservices
20 161 (4.72%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 421 (12.34%) Python
2 340 (9.96%) SQL
3 266 (7.80%) Java
4 131 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 120 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 101 (2.96%) C#
7 87 (2.55%) 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 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 20 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.56%) R
17 17 (0.50%) Groovy
18 14 (0.41%) Go
19 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,793 (81.86%) SC Cleared
2 419 (12.28%) DV Cleared
3 80 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 76 (2.23%) Degree
5 59 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 55 (1.61%) CISSP
7 53 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.06%) CISM
9 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.62%) PMP
11 20 (0.59%) GIAC
12 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
13 15 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.38%) CEH
15 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.75%) QA
3 85 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.43%) NCSC
5 77 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.99%) GDPR
7 65 (1.91%) NIST
8 58 (1.70%) PMO
9 25 (0.73%) GRC
10 22 (0.64%) 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%) SLA
14 11 (0.32%) COBIT
14 11 (0.32%) 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
1 290 (8.50%) Docker
2 88 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.50%) Squid
8 14 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.38%) NFS
9 13 (0.38%) vSphere
10 9 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.26%) 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 (0.088%) Firmware
15 2 (0.059%) XenApp
15 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 439 (12.87%) Terraform
2 376 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 120 (3.52%) Ansible
4 92 (2.70%) Grafana
5 89 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.79%) Puppet
8 18 (0.53%) 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 13 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.35%) Consul
14 11 (0.32%) Kibana
14 11 (0.32%) Packer
15 9 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
16 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
17 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 341 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 185 (5.42%) Oracle
3 134 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 106 (3.11%) Databricks
5 95 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.58%) VMware
7 72 (2.11%) Google
8 63 (1.85%) Splunk
9 61 (1.79%) SAP
10 38 (1.11%) IBM
11 37 (1.08%) Cisco
12 36 (1.06%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.82%) Okta
15 25 (0.73%) CyberArk
15 25 (0.73%) Informatica
16 23 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.64%) Tenable
18 20 (0.59%) Fortinet
19 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto