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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,211 1,691 2,174
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.31% 13.27% 12.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.71% 52.05% 50.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,423 1,240 1,549
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £729 £700 £757
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 12 38
10th Percentile £21.42 £22.27 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £56.87 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.66% +69.32% -59.26%
75th Percentile £76.58 £41.16 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.65 £49.75 £70.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £55.08
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.04% -8.21%

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 5,040 3,249 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.74% 25.49% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,200 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £656
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 116
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.00 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.43
Median hourly rate £52.22 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.07% +15.38% -39.53%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £69.38
England median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -23.81%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +9 416 £544 +3.57% 85
South London +2 161 £521 +4.10% 6
East London +9 16 £688 -8.33% 28
West London -23 14 £675 +80.00% 19
North London -2 1 - -
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
1 137 (4.27%) Confluence
2 79 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.18%) nginx
5 34 (1.06%) Apache
6 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.16%) JBoss
10 5 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) SAS
11 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.093%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.093%) Drupal
12 3 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.12%) Revit
7 4 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.031%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.34%) Findur
6 9 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 9 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 6 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.093%) Exchequer
10 3 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.093%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.093%) SAP GRC
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Assets
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 756 (23.54%) Azure
2 735 (22.89%) AWS
3 217 (6.76%) GitHub
4 183 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
5 173 (5.39%) GCP
6 157 (4.89%) Power Platform
7 156 (4.86%) Serverless
8 126 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 118 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 112 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
11 94 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (2.62%) Entra ID
13 82 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (2.21%) OCI
14 71 (2.21%) PaaS
15 68 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
17 60 (1.87%) IaaS
18 59 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 59 (1.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.05%) Firewall
2 75 (2.34%) DNS
3 53 (1.65%) Network Security
4 39 (1.21%) LAN
4 39 (1.21%) VPN
5 38 (1.18%) WAN
6 26 (0.81%) DHCP
7 20 (0.62%) NAS
7 20 (0.62%) SAN
7 20 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 16 (0.50%) Wireless
10 14 (0.44%) BGP
10 14 (0.44%) MPLS
11 12 (0.37%) DKIM
11 12 (0.37%) DMARC
11 12 (0.37%) HTTP
12 10 (0.31%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (3.27%) Power BI
2 91 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 58 (1.81%) NoSQL
6 52 (1.62%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.59%) Metadata
8 48 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (1.09%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (1.00%) Delta Lake
14 31 (0.97%) Tableau
15 28 (0.87%) Oracle Database
16 26 (0.81%) Big Data
17 25 (0.78%) MongoDB
18 17 (0.53%) DynamoDB
19 14 (0.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 200 (6.23%) JIRA
2 199 (6.20%) Git
3 140 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.15%) GitLab
5 36 (1.12%) Selenium
6 26 (0.81%) Postman
7 24 (0.75%) JUnit
8 23 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 18 (0.56%) Mockito
11 18 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.44%) JMeter
13 11 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.34%) Maven
14 10 (0.31%) Gradle
15 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.25%) Liquibase
16 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 926 (28.84%) Public Sector
2 651 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 313 (9.75%) Finance
4 241 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 83 (2.58%) Banking
7 66 (2.06%) Military
8 48 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 40 (1.25%) Police
10 38 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.12%) Legal
12 35 (1.09%) Law
13 26 (0.81%) Retail
14 25 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.47%) Marketing
18 8 (0.25%) Publishing
19 7 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 566 (17.63%) Architect
2 411 (12.80%) Developer
3 271 (8.44%) Senior
4 231 (7.19%) Analyst
5 230 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 224 (6.98%) Lead
7 186 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 149 (4.64%) Consultant
9 131 (4.08%) Business Analyst
10 126 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 94 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
12 86 (2.68%) Technical Architect
13 85 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
14 71 (2.21%) Security Architect
15 69 (2.15%) Designer
16 63 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 63 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
17 61 (1.90%) AWS DevOps
18 59 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 59 (1.84%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (5.11%) REST
2 104 (3.24%) Spring
3 82 (2.55%) JSON
3 82 (2.55%) Kafka
4 81 (2.52%) SOAP
5 80 (2.49%) Node.js
6 77 (2.40%) LDAP
7 76 (2.37%) PySpark
7 76 (2.37%) Spring Boot
8 74 (2.30%) React
9 71 (2.21%) .NET
10 64 (1.99%) RESTful
11 61 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 57 (1.78%) HTML
13 55 (1.71%) Web Services
14 53 (1.65%) AngularJS
15 46 (1.43%) OAuth
16 37 (1.15%) OpenID
16 37 (1.15%) SAML
17 36 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.93%) Onboarding
3 92 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 63 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 59 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 55 (1.71%) PKI
7 54 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 44 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.34%) Replication
10 30 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 29 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (0.87%) CMDB
12 28 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 24 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.53%) Clustering
16 15 (0.47%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.17%) Linux
2 143 (4.45%) Windows
3 48 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.81%) Android
5 22 (0.69%) Unix
5 22 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 20 (0.62%) VMS
7 18 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.31%) Solaris
8 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.12%) AIX
11 4 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.062%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (21.15%) DevOps
2 663 (20.65%) Agile
3 550 (17.13%) CI/CD
4 354 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 346 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
6 343 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 318 (9.90%) Migration
8 241 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 232 (7.23%) Containerisation
10 224 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 223 (6.94%) Data Modelling
12 200 (6.23%) Analytics
13 198 (6.17%) AI
14 180 (5.61%) Decision-Making
15 178 (5.54%) Test Automation
16 168 (5.23%) Microservices
17 164 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
18 158 (4.92%) Roadmaps
19 154 (4.80%) Data Pipeline
20 151 (4.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 441 (13.73%) Python
2 360 (11.21%) SQL
3 230 (7.16%) Java
4 185 (5.76%) PowerShell
5 135 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.02%) C#
7 68 (2.12%) Bash
8 63 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.40%) Scala
10 44 (1.37%) Ruby
11 35 (1.09%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.84%) Bicep
13 25 (0.78%) R
14 24 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.62%) Go
17 13 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.31%) Groovy
19 8 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2,632 (81.97%) SC Cleared
2 362 (11.27%) DV Cleared
3 85 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 84 (2.62%) Degree
5 65 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 62 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.37%) CISSP
8 31 (0.97%) CISM
9 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (0.75%) GIAC
11 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.56%) PMP
15 17 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.47%) CEH
17 14 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.40%) PMI Certification
19 12 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 114 (3.55%) QA
3 78 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 70 (2.18%) NCSC
5 60 (1.87%) GDPR
6 57 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 56 (1.74%) NIST
8 50 (1.56%) PMO
9 19 (0.59%) WCAG
10 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.47%) GRC
12 11 (0.34%) SLA
13 10 (0.31%) COBIT
13 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.16%) IFRS
18 4 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 294 (9.16%) Docker
2 112 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.47%) vSphere
7 14 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.34%) NFS
9 10 (0.31%) Squid
10 9 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.19%) Postfix
13 4 (0.12%) Firmware
13 4 (0.12%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) XenApp
13 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.093%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 411 (12.80%) Terraform
2 350 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 97 (3.02%) Ansible
4 71 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 68 (2.12%) Grafana
6 44 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.62%) Consul
9 19 (0.59%) Packer
9 19 (0.59%) Puppet
10 18 (0.56%) SCCM
10 18 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.47%) vMotion
12 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) Argo
15 7 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.22%) Kibana
16 6 (0.19%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 336 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.54%) Oracle
3 123 (3.83%) Databricks
4 112 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 93 (2.90%) VMware
6 77 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.18%) SAP
8 59 (1.84%) Google
9 57 (1.78%) Splunk
10 52 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.56%) Cisco
12 43 (1.34%) IBM
13 34 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
14 32 (1.00%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.87%) Dynatrace
16 26 (0.81%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.81%) Okta
17 22 (0.69%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.62%) Fortinet