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

6 months to
26 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 3,219 1,679 2,180
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.33% 13.25% 12.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.77% 52.01% 50.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,430 1,233 1,553
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 £727 £700 £760
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 12 37
10th Percentile £21.43 £22.27 £14.85
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £58.74 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.68% +69.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £76.58 £41.16 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.10 £49.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £56.15
% change year-on-year -3.08% +1.08% -6.43%

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 5,048 3,228 4,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.74% 25.47% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 2,187 2,929
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 £651 £656
90th Percentile £750 £761 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 61 115
10th Percentile £20.82 £20.00 £14.72
25th Percentile £25.36 £22.27 £20.74
Median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% +15.38% -45.26%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £47.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year -0.32% +19.13% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +10 417 £538 +2.38% 81
South London +2 161 £521 +4.10% 6
East London +9 16 £688 -8.33% 28
West London -23 14 £675 +80.00% 18
North London 0 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
1 139 (4.32%) Confluence
2 79 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.21%) nginx
5 34 (1.06%) Apache
6 31 (0.96%) 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%) CMS
13 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.43%) 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
1 758 (23.55%) Azure
2 735 (22.83%) AWS
3 217 (6.74%) GitHub
4 183 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 173 (5.37%) GCP
6 157 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 156 (4.85%) Serverless
8 126 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 118 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 112 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
11 94 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (2.61%) Entra ID
13 82 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (2.21%) OCI
14 71 (2.21%) PaaS
15 68 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 59 (1.83%) IaaS
17 59 (1.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.04%) Firewall
2 75 (2.33%) 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 (0.43%) BGP
10 14 (0.43%) 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 (3.26%) Power BI
2 91 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 58 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 52 (1.62%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.58%) Metadata
8 48 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (1.09%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (0.99%) Delta Lake
14 31 (0.96%) 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 (0.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 202 (6.28%) JIRA
2 199 (6.18%) Git
3 140 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.14%) GitLab
5 36 (1.12%) Selenium
6 26 (0.81%) Postman
7 24 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 24 (0.75%) JUnit
8 23 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 20 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 18 (0.56%) Mockito
10 18 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.43%) JMeter
12 11 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.34%) Maven
13 10 (0.31%) Gradle
14 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.25%) Liquibase
15 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 929 (28.86%) Public Sector
2 651 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 313 (9.72%) Finance
4 240 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 83 (2.58%) Banking
7 66 (2.05%) Military
8 49 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.24%) Police
11 38 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.12%) Legal
13 35 (1.09%) Law
14 26 (0.81%) Retail
15 25 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.47%) Marketing
19 8 (0.25%) Publishing
20 7 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 565 (17.55%) Architect
2 412 (12.80%) Developer
3 272 (8.45%) Senior
4 231 (7.18%) Analyst
4 231 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 227 (7.05%) Lead
6 187 (5.81%) Data Engineer
7 151 (4.69%) Consultant
8 131 (4.07%) Business Analyst
9 127 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
10 94 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.67%) Technical Architect
12 85 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
13 71 (2.21%) Security Architect
14 69 (2.14%) Designer
15 63 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
15 63 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
16 61 (1.89%) AWS DevOps
17 59 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 59 (1.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (5.06%) REST
2 105 (3.26%) Spring
3 82 (2.55%) Kafka
4 81 (2.52%) JSON
4 81 (2.52%) SOAP
5 80 (2.49%) Node.js
6 77 (2.39%) LDAP
6 77 (2.39%) Spring Boot
7 76 (2.36%) PySpark
7 76 (2.36%) React
8 71 (2.21%) .NET
9 64 (1.99%) RESTful
10 61 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 57 (1.77%) HTML
12 55 (1.71%) Web Services
13 53 (1.65%) AngularJS
14 46 (1.43%) OAuth
15 37 (1.15%) OpenID
15 37 (1.15%) SAML
16 36 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 94 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 92 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 63 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 59 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.68%) PKI
8 53 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.34%) Replication
11 30 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 29 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (0.87%) CMDB
13 28 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 24 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (0.53%) Clustering
17 15 (0.47%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.16%) Linux
2 143 (4.44%) Windows
3 48 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.81%) Android
5 22 (0.68%) Unix
5 22 (0.68%) 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
1 680 (21.12%) DevOps
2 662 (20.57%) Agile
3 550 (17.09%) CI/CD
4 354 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 346 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
6 343 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 318 (9.88%) Migration
8 241 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 232 (7.21%) Containerisation
10 224 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 223 (6.93%) Data Modelling
12 200 (6.21%) Analytics
13 198 (6.15%) AI
14 180 (5.59%) Decision-Making
15 178 (5.53%) Test Automation
16 168 (5.22%) Microservices
17 164 (5.09%) Cybersecurity
18 158 (4.91%) Roadmaps
19 154 (4.78%) Data Pipeline
20 151 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 442 (13.73%) Python
2 360 (11.18%) SQL
3 231 (7.18%) Java
4 184 (5.72%) PowerShell
5 135 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.01%) C#
7 68 (2.11%) Bash
8 65 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 46 (1.43%) 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%) C
Qualifications
1 2,639 (81.98%) SC Cleared
2 364 (11.31%) DV Cleared
3 86 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 84 (2.61%) Degree
5 65 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 62 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.37%) CISSP
8 31 (0.96%) CISM
9 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (0.75%) GIAC
11 22 (0.68%) 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 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.40%) PMI Certification
19 12 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 114 (3.54%) QA
3 78 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 70 (2.17%) NCSC
5 60 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 60 (1.86%) GDPR
6 56 (1.74%) NIST
7 50 (1.55%) PMO
8 22 (0.68%) WCAG
9 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.47%) GRC
11 11 (0.34%) SLA
12 10 (0.31%) COBIT
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.16%) IFRS
17 4 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 295 (9.16%) Docker
2 112 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.77%) 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 (0.43%) 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 (12.77%) Terraform
2 350 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 97 (3.01%) Ansible
4 71 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 68 (2.11%) 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 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.53%) Oracle
3 124 (3.85%) Databricks
4 112 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 93 (2.89%) VMware
6 77 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.21%) SAP
8 60 (1.86%) Google
9 57 (1.77%) Splunk
10 52 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.55%) Cisco
12 43 (1.34%) IBM
13 34 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
14 32 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.87%) Dynatrace
16 26 (0.81%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.81%) Okta
17 22 (0.68%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.62%) Fortinet