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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,577 1,745 1,933
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.64% 12.85% 11.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.55% 49.21% 49.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,252 1,418
10th Percentile £400 £368 £363
25th Percentile £463 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £700 £744
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 23
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £16.58
25th Percentile £25.94 - £19.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.25 £47.75 £59.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +158.45% -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 5,629 3,546 3,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.76% 26.12% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,064 2,402 2,688
10th Percentile £371 £341 £345
25th Percentile £455 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 86 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.53 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £37.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +12 454 £550 +4.76% 131
South London 0 141 £523 -1.83% 16
West London -34 19 £675 +68.54% 45
East London +9 12 £750 - 22
North London +1 4 - -
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
1 161 (4.50%) Confluence
2 103 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.23%) SAS
4 34 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 34 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.87%) Apache
6 29 (0.81%) nginx
7 24 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.28%) JBoss
10 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.22%) CMS
12 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.084%) Mule
15 2 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.39%) AutoCAD
4 14 (0.39%) Revit
4 14 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.084%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.028%) InDesign
9 1 (0.028%) Maya
9 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.42%) Findur
4 15 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
13 4 (0.11%) iTrent
13 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle Assets
14 3 (0.084%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 833 (23.29%) Azure
2 767 (21.44%) AWS
3 271 (7.58%) GitHub
4 224 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
5 212 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 200 (5.59%) GCP
7 170 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
8 136 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 128 (3.58%) Serverless
10 99 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (2.32%) Entra ID
14 78 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
15 75 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 71 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (1.90%) Power Automate
18 66 (1.85%) Azure AKS
18 66 (1.85%) PowerApps
19 61 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.54%) Firewall
2 81 (2.26%) DNS
3 63 (1.76%) Network Security
4 47 (1.31%) VPN
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 24 (0.67%) LAN
7 20 (0.56%) DHCP
8 19 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.42%) Internet
10 14 (0.39%) HTTP
11 9 (0.25%) 4G
11 9 (0.25%) DKIM
11 9 (0.25%) DMARC
11 9 (0.25%) SSL
11 9 (0.25%) VSAN
11 9 (0.25%) WebEx
11 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.22%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.22%) SMTP
13 7 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (4.17%) Power BI
2 96 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.01%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 58 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (1.23%) Metadata
8 41 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 28 (0.78%) Tableau
12 26 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.73%) MongoDB
13 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (0.64%) Big Data
15 19 (0.53%) MySQL
15 19 (0.53%) Oracle Database
16 17 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 219 (6.12%) JIRA
2 216 (6.04%) Git
3 191 (5.34%) Jenkins
4 132 (3.69%) GitLab
5 40 (1.12%) Selenium
6 25 (0.70%) JMeter
7 22 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 22 (0.62%) Gradle
8 21 (0.59%) Visual Studio
9 20 (0.56%) JUnit
9 20 (0.56%) Mockito
10 19 (0.53%) Maven
10 19 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.42%) Postman
12 12 (0.34%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.22%) Gatling
General
1 990 (27.68%) Public Sector
2 716 (20.02%) Social Skills
3 347 (9.70%) Finance
4 248 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (2.88%) Banking
6 93 (2.60%) Military
7 65 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (1.37%) Police
9 49 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 44 (1.23%) Law
11 36 (1.01%) Legal
11 36 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (0.84%) Marketing
13 28 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.73%) Retail
15 20 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 20 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 678 (18.95%) Architect
2 459 (12.83%) Developer
3 341 (9.53%) Lead
4 308 (8.61%) Senior
5 234 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.45%) Data Engineer
7 188 (5.26%) Analyst
8 158 (4.42%) Consultant
9 125 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 105 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (2.88%) Security Architect
12 102 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
13 100 (2.80%) Software Engineer
14 94 (2.63%) Data Architect
14 94 (2.63%) Designer
15 93 (2.60%) Java Developer
16 92 (2.57%) Technical Architect
17 85 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 83 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
19 82 (2.29%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (4.56%) REST
2 118 (3.30%) Spring
3 95 (2.66%) Spring Boot
4 93 (2.60%) React
5 87 (2.43%) Kafka
5 87 (2.43%) RESTful
6 86 (2.40%) .NET
7 66 (1.85%) JSON
8 65 (1.82%) Node.js
8 65 (1.82%) PySpark
9 63 (1.76%) SOAP
10 56 (1.57%) AngularJS
11 55 (1.54%) HTML
12 46 (1.29%) XML
13 44 (1.23%) Django
13 44 (1.23%) Web Services
14 36 (1.01%) Middleware
15 35 (0.98%) OAuth
15 35 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
16 30 (0.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 210 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 117 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 70 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 60 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.51%) CMDB
9 49 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 36 (1.01%) Clustering
12 35 (0.98%) Data Structures
13 33 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (0.84%) Replication
14 30 (0.84%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.70%) Private Cloud
16 25 (0.70%) Public Cloud
17 24 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (4.98%) Linux
2 168 (4.70%) Windows
3 66 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.78%) Android
5 28 (0.78%) Unix
6 18 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.39%) Solaris
7 14 (0.39%) VMS
7 14 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.084%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (22.50%) Agile
2 772 (21.58%) DevOps
3 681 (19.04%) CI/CD
4 456 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 424 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 350 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 338 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 316 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
9 313 (8.75%) AI
10 306 (8.55%) Migration
11 277 (7.74%) Containerisation
12 252 (7.05%) Analytics
13 241 (6.74%) Data Modelling
14 226 (6.32%) Roadmaps
15 225 (6.29%) Decision-Making
16 218 (6.09%) Test Automation
17 215 (6.01%) Software Engineering
18 197 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
19 195 (5.45%) Microservices
20 183 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 459 (12.83%) Python
2 401 (11.21%) SQL
3 301 (8.41%) Java
4 166 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 132 (3.69%) PowerShell
6 115 (3.21%) C#
7 102 (2.85%) Bash
8 82 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 46 (1.29%) Bicep
10 42 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.81%) Groovy
12 29 (0.81%) Ruby
12 29 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.48%) Scala
15 16 (0.45%) R
16 11 (0.31%) C++
17 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,937 (82.11%) SC Cleared
2 460 (12.86%) DV Cleared
3 109 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 83 (2.32%) Degree
5 68 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 68 (1.90%) CISSP
6 65 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 49 (1.37%) CISM
8 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (0.92%) PMP
10 29 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (0.53%) GIAC
14 18 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.39%) CEH
16 14 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (4.17%) QA
2 140 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 85 (2.38%) NCSC
4 77 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 74 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (2.07%) PMO
6 63 (1.76%) NIST
7 56 (1.57%) GRC
8 55 (1.54%) GDPR
9 25 (0.70%) WCAG
10 21 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
11 19 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.48%) SLA
13 13 (0.36%) COBIT
14 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.28%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.25%) P3O
17 8 (0.22%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 304 (8.50%) Docker
2 97 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.62%) vSphere
7 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.31%) Squid
10 8 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.22%) Postfix
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.17%) NFS
13 5 (0.14%) Varnish
14 4 (0.11%) Firmware
14 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 441 (12.33%) Terraform
2 367 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 125 (3.49%) Ansible
4 102 (2.85%) Grafana
5 87 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.92%) Puppet
7 25 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 23 (0.64%) SCCM
9 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.48%) Argo
10 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.45%) Control-M
12 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.34%) Kibana
13 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (0.31%) Istio
14 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.28%) Packer
16 9 (0.25%) vMotion
17 8 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 406 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 224 (6.26%) Oracle
3 168 (4.70%) ServiceNow
4 110 (3.08%) Databricks
4 110 (3.08%) VMware
5 106 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 105 (2.94%) Google
7 66 (1.85%) Splunk
8 64 (1.79%) SAP
9 42 (1.17%) IBM
10 36 (1.01%) Cisco
11 34 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 31 (0.87%) Informatica
12 31 (0.87%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.78%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.64%) Tenable
15 18 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.50%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.48%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.48%) Foundry