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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,690 1,823 2,123
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.26% 13.61% 13.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.77% 51.35% 52.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,871 1,287 1,417
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £468 £450 £460
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 39 45 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £21.23
25th Percentile £30.50 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -28.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £67.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £33.31 £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 5,786 3,550 4,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.63% 26.50% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,197 2,383 2,581
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £457 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £19.54 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -29.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £64.83 £73.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -2.36%

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

Security Cleared
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +10 394 £550 +4.76% 210
South London +1 107 £546 +3.07% 10
West London -29 23 £638 +59.18% 41
East London +5 6 £750 +3.45% 24
North London +4 6 £538 +5.39% 2
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
1 151 (4.09%) Confluence
2 87 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.33%) SAS
4 30 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.79%) nginx
6 26 (0.70%) Apache
7 15 (0.41%) CMS
8 11 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 10 (0.27%) JBoss
9 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
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 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.081%) Mule
14 3 (0.081%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.081%) Traefik
Applications
1 47 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 18 (0.49%) Revit
4 18 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
5 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Windchill
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.081%) Sketch
10 2 (0.054%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.027%) InDesign
11 1 (0.027%) PrintSoft PReS
11 1 (0.027%) Simulink
11 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.16%) Maximo
9 6 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
10 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 816 (22.11%) Azure
2 786 (21.30%) AWS
3 267 (7.24%) GitHub
4 215 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 214 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 197 (5.34%) GCP
7 183 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
8 124 (3.36%) Serverless
9 122 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 100 (2.71%) Entra ID
11 99 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
13 90 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 79 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
15 78 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 73 (1.98%) PowerApps
17 66 (1.79%) Power Automate
18 65 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
19 63 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 59 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 83 (2.25%) Firewall
2 70 (1.90%) DNS
3 60 (1.63%) Network Security
4 42 (1.14%) VPN
5 31 (0.84%) WAN
6 19 (0.51%) DHCP
6 19 (0.51%) LAN
7 16 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.35%) BGP
8 13 (0.35%) Internet
9 12 (0.33%) HTTP
9 12 (0.33%) MPLS
10 11 (0.30%) 4G
10 11 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.27%) SSL
11 10 (0.27%) WebEx
12 9 (0.24%) 5G
12 9 (0.24%) SAN
13 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (3.90%) Power BI
2 126 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 63 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (1.65%) Metadata
7 50 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 50 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 45 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 43 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 39 (1.06%) Oracle Database
11 37 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 36 (0.98%) MySQL
13 32 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (0.73%) Redis
16 22 (0.60%) Big Data
16 22 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 244 (6.61%) Git
2 241 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 207 (5.61%) JIRA
4 154 (4.17%) GitLab
5 58 (1.57%) Selenium
6 39 (1.06%) JMeter
7 34 (0.92%) JUnit
8 33 (0.89%) Gradle
8 33 (0.89%) Postman
9 30 (0.81%) Maven
10 29 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 26 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 23 (0.62%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.62%) Mockito
13 15 (0.41%) Artifactory
13 15 (0.41%) LoadRunner
13 15 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.35%) Gatling
14 13 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 984 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 825 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 328 (8.89%) Finance
4 269 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (3.33%) Military
6 101 (2.74%) Banking
7 90 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (1.82%) Police
9 61 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.60%) Law
10 59 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 43 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (0.92%) Legal
14 31 (0.84%) Local Government
15 29 (0.79%) Marketing
16 26 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 689 (18.67%) Architect
2 409 (11.08%) Developer
3 363 (9.84%) Senior
4 359 (9.73%) Lead
5 266 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.23%) Data Engineer
7 180 (4.88%) Analyst
8 163 (4.42%) Consultant
9 123 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (3.28%) Data Architect
11 117 (3.17%) Security Architect
12 111 (3.01%) Designer
13 100 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
14 96 (2.60%) Software Engineer
15 92 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
16 88 (2.38%) Technical Architect
16 88 (2.38%) User Researcher
17 85 (2.30%) Java Developer
18 78 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
19 73 (1.98%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (12.01%) Terraform
2 207 (5.61%) REST
3 118 (3.20%) Kafka
4 111 (3.01%) Spring
5 101 (2.74%) React
6 95 (2.57%) Spring Boot
7 89 (2.41%) RESTful
8 84 (2.28%) .NET
9 76 (2.06%) SOAP
10 68 (1.84%) JSON
11 61 (1.65%) XML
12 59 (1.60%) HTML
13 58 (1.57%) Middleware
14 55 (1.49%) Node.js
15 52 (1.41%) PySpark
16 46 (1.25%) Django
17 45 (1.22%) OAuth
18 42 (1.14%) AngularJS
18 42 (1.14%) Web Services
19 37 (1.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 140 (3.79%) Onboarding
3 121 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 68 (1.84%) Management Information System
5 63 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 62 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 47 (1.27%) Replication
10 42 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
11 39 (1.06%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.00%) CMDB
13 36 (0.98%) PKI
14 33 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (0.79%) Clustering
17 28 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
18 27 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 210 (5.69%) Linux
2 169 (4.58%) Windows
3 62 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (0.92%) Unix
6 29 (0.79%) Android
7 21 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.35%) VMS
9 11 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.22%) Solaris
11 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.081%) AIX
14 3 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.081%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (24.07%) Agile
2 775 (21.00%) DevOps
3 741 (20.08%) CI/CD
4 604 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 462 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 418 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 410 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 393 (10.65%) AI
9 361 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (8.16%) Migration
11 293 (7.94%) Containerisation
12 270 (7.32%) Test Automation
13 263 (7.13%) Decision-Making
13 263 (7.13%) Roadmaps
14 240 (6.50%) Software Engineering
15 236 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
16 234 (6.34%) Analytics
17 231 (6.26%) Data Modelling
18 230 (6.23%) Observability
19 215 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 544 (14.74%) Python
2 380 (10.30%) SQL
3 302 (8.18%) Java
4 191 (5.18%) JavaScript
5 140 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 126 (3.41%) Bash
7 103 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 101 (2.74%) C#
9 49 (1.33%) Bicep
10 42 (1.14%) Groovy
11 36 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.76%) Scala
13 25 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.65%) Go
15 21 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.33%) C++
18 12 (0.33%) R
19 11 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,030 (82.11%) SC Cleared
2 482 (13.06%) DV Cleared
3 156 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 106 (2.87%) Degree
5 91 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.92%) CISSP
7 67 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.52%) CISM
9 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (0.92%) PMP
11 30 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 27 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.49%) CRISC
17 17 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
18 16 (0.43%) GIAC
18 16 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.45%) QA
2 139 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.90%) NCSC
4 93 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 84 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (2.25%) NIST
7 68 (1.84%) GRC
8 59 (1.60%) PMO
9 54 (1.46%) GDPR
10 26 (0.70%) SLA
11 24 (0.65%) WCAG
12 18 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.24%) COBIT
17 9 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 340 (9.21%) Docker
2 104 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.51%) vSphere
6 10 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.22%) Squid
8 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.081%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.081%) Firmware
11 3 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.081%) NFS
11 3 (0.081%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.081%) UAG
12 2 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 412 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 137 (3.71%) Grafana
3 119 (3.22%) Ansible
4 95 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 34 (0.92%) Kibana
6 29 (0.79%) Puppet
7 25 (0.68%) Argo
7 25 (0.68%) SCCM
8 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (0.57%) Control-M
10 19 (0.51%) Istio
10 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 11 (0.30%) SCOM
13 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.22%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.22%) Packer
15 7 (0.19%) Cilium
Vendors
1 459 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 251 (6.80%) Oracle
3 152 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 126 (3.41%) Google
5 100 (2.71%) VMware
6 93 (2.52%) Databricks
7 89 (2.41%) Splunk
8 81 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 68 (1.84%) SAP
10 45 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 43 (1.17%) IBM
12 39 (1.06%) Cisco
13 31 (0.84%) Informatica
14 28 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.57%) Pega
17 20 (0.54%) Foundry
17 20 (0.54%) MuleSoft
17 20 (0.54%) Sparx