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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,403 1,696 2,031
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.67% 13.22% 11.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.79% 50.96% 49.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 1,221 1,479
10th Percentile £403 £375 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -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 37 31 36
10th Percentile £25.56 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £36.00 £24.85 £17.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £76.58 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.50 £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 5,335 3,328 4,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.70% 25.95% 23.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,851 2,233 2,826
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £436 £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 73 75 109
10th Percentile £19.09 £18.32 £15.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.83 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £51.08 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.73 £68.15
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.57% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +13 435 £550 - 84
South London 0 144 £519 -2.62% 4
East London +11 14 £750 - 13
West London -30 13 £675 +145.45% 31
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
1 140 (4.11%) Confluence
2 81 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.94%) nginx
6 29 (0.85%) Apache
7 24 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.21%) CMS
11 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.12%) WordPress
12 3 (0.088%) Camunda
12 3 (0.088%) Drupal
12 3 (0.088%) JBoss
12 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.059%) MQSeries
Applications
1 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.29%) Revit
5 10 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 8 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
9 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 13 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.15%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.12%) iTrent
11 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.12%) SAP QM
12 3 (0.088%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.088%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 765 (22.48%) Azure
2 749 (22.01%) AWS
3 222 (6.52%) GitHub
4 190 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 157 (4.61%) GCP
7 141 (4.14%) Serverless
8 137 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 109 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 83 (2.44%) Entra ID
14 70 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 63 (1.85%) Azure AKS
18 60 (1.76%) Power Automate
19 59 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.88%) Firewall
2 82 (2.41%) DNS
3 63 (1.85%) Network Security
4 53 (1.56%) VPN
5 28 (0.82%) LAN
5 28 (0.82%) WAN
6 27 (0.79%) DHCP
7 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 13 (0.38%) DKIM
9 13 (0.38%) DMARC
10 12 (0.35%) HTTP
10 12 (0.35%) SAN
11 11 (0.32%) NAS
12 10 (0.29%) Internet
12 10 (0.29%) MPLS
12 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.29%) SMTP
12 10 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (3.85%) Power BI
2 92 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 54 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 50 (1.47%) Metadata
9 41 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 40 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 34 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.82%) Tableau
15 26 (0.76%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.62%) Big Data
17 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.44%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 210 (6.17%) JIRA
2 185 (5.44%) Git
3 172 (5.05%) Jenkins
4 134 (3.94%) GitLab
5 33 (0.97%) Selenium
6 25 (0.73%) JUnit
7 24 (0.71%) JMeter
8 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.65%) Mockito
9 20 (0.59%) Postman
10 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.53%) Artifactory
12 16 (0.47%) Gradle
13 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.35%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.32%) Maven
17 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
18 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
18 9 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 969 (28.47%) Public Sector
2 631 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 310 (9.11%) Finance
4 198 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.85%) Banking
6 89 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (2.32%) Military
8 66 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (1.26%) Police
10 40 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.15%) Legal
12 35 (1.03%) Law
13 29 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (0.76%) Retail
15 25 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.73%) Marketing
16 16 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.38%) Publishing
18 10 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 635 (18.66%) Architect
2 440 (12.93%) Developer
3 276 (8.11%) Lead
4 269 (7.90%) Senior
5 259 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 195 (5.73%) Analyst
7 188 (5.52%) Data Engineer
8 152 (4.47%) Consultant
9 121 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 109 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
12 100 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 96 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 92 (2.70%) Security Architect
15 87 (2.56%) Java Developer
16 84 (2.47%) Designer
17 79 (2.32%) Software Engineer
18 76 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
19 75 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 72 (2.12%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.56%) Spring
2 115 (3.38%) REST
3 92 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.53%) React
5 74 (2.17%) Kafka
5 74 (2.17%) RESTful
6 71 (2.09%) PySpark
7 70 (2.06%) .NET
8 66 (1.94%) Node.js
9 51 (1.50%) JSON
10 47 (1.38%) AngularJS
10 47 (1.38%) SOAP
11 46 (1.35%) HTML
11 46 (1.35%) LDAP
12 43 (1.26%) OAuth
13 40 (1.18%) Web Services
14 39 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
15 35 (1.03%) Django
15 35 (1.03%) OpenID
16 33 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.59%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 59 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
5 58 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 54 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (1.15%) CMDB
9 39 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 38 (1.12%) Replication
11 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 28 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 28 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (0.82%) PKI
13 27 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (0.73%) Data Structures
15 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.67%) Linux
2 146 (4.29%) Windows
3 58 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.71%) Unix
6 21 (0.62%) Android
7 17 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.44%) Solaris
9 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.12%) AIX
17 3 (0.088%) SUSE
17 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (22.33%) DevOps
2 716 (21.04%) Agile
3 622 (18.28%) CI/CD
4 397 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 389 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 308 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (8.87%) Migration
8 297 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 290 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 263 (7.73%) Containerisation
11 258 (7.58%) AI
12 220 (6.46%) Decision-Making
13 219 (6.44%) Data Modelling
14 209 (6.14%) Analytics
15 193 (5.67%) Roadmaps
16 191 (5.61%) Test Automation
17 184 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
18 183 (5.38%) Software Engineering
19 178 (5.23%) Microservices
20 164 (4.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 420 (12.34%) Python
2 348 (10.23%) SQL
3 262 (7.70%) Java
4 131 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 117 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 101 (2.97%) C#
7 86 (2.53%) Bash
8 69 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 39 (1.15%) 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 23 (0.68%) Scala
14 21 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.56%) R
16 17 (0.50%) Groovy
17 14 (0.41%) Go
18 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,788 (81.93%) SC Cleared
2 414 (12.17%) DV Cleared
3 78 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 78 (2.29%) Degree
4 60 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 55 (1.62%) CISSP
6 54 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.09%) CISM
8 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.65%) PMP
11 20 (0.59%) GIAC
12 18 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
13 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 15 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.38%) CEH
16 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.76%) QA
3 84 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (2.41%) NCSC
5 77 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 68 (2.00%) GDPR
7 64 (1.88%) NIST
8 59 (1.73%) PMO
9 25 (0.73%) GRC
10 22 (0.65%) 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
1 289 (8.49%) Docker
2 89 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.50%) Squid
8 13 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) vSphere
9 12 (0.35%) NFS
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
14 3 (0.088%) XenApp
14 3 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 433 (12.72%) Terraform
2 373 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 118 (3.47%) Ansible
4 91 (2.67%) Grafana
5 88 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.73%) Puppet
8 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.47%) vMotion
9 15 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.44%) SCCM
10 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.35%) Consul
13 11 (0.32%) Kibana
14 10 (0.29%) Packer
15 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
16 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 341 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 183 (5.38%) Oracle
3 131 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 108 (3.17%) Databricks
5 96 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.53%) VMware
7 73 (2.15%) Google
8 61 (1.79%) SAP
9 59 (1.73%) Splunk
10 37 (1.09%) Cisco
11 36 (1.06%) IBM
12 35 (1.03%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.82%) Okta
15 26 (0.76%) CyberArk
16 25 (0.73%) Informatica
17 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 21 (0.62%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.62%) Tenable
19 20 (0.59%) Palo Alto