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

6 months to
24 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 3,378 1,653 2,057
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.66% 13.13% 11.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.59% 50.77% 49.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 1,194 1,492
10th Percentile £404 £380 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 36
10th Percentile £25.61 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £39.88 £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 £95.38 £48.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £27.13 £57.44
% change year-on-year +132.76% -52.78% -4.27%

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 5,312 3,256 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 25.87% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 2,185 2,816
10th Percentile £363 £351 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 71 112
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.82 £14.37
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.83 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% +6.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £76.58 £53.58 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.68
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +75.00% -28.99% -23.18%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +13 439 £550 - 71
South London 0 138 £513 -3.76% 6
East London +11 14 £750 - 18
West London -38 13 £675 +170.00% 20
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 (4.06%) Confluence
2 76 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.95%) nginx
6 28 (0.83%) Apache
7 23 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.27%) SAS
11 7 (0.21%) CMS
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.12%) WordPress
13 3 (0.089%) Drupal
13 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.059%) Documentum
Applications
1 37 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.27%) Revit
6 9 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
7 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) PrintSoft PReS
10 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.44%) Findur
5 12 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.27%) 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%) SAP HCM
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.089%) Exchequer
11 3 (0.089%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.089%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 771 (22.82%) Azure
2 752 (22.26%) AWS
3 221 (6.54%) GitHub
4 193 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (5.39%) Power Platform
6 158 (4.68%) GCP
7 141 (4.17%) Serverless
8 133 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 109 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 85 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
13 82 (2.43%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 62 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
18 61 (1.81%) Azure AKS
18 61 (1.81%) Power Automate
19 58 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.87%) Firewall
2 81 (2.40%) DNS
3 61 (1.81%) Network Security
4 51 (1.51%) VPN
5 29 (0.86%) LAN
6 27 (0.80%) DHCP
6 27 (0.80%) WAN
7 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 13 (0.38%) DKIM
9 13 (0.38%) DMARC
10 12 (0.36%) HTTP
10 12 (0.36%) MPLS
10 12 (0.36%) SAN
11 11 (0.33%) NAS
11 11 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.30%) Internet
12 10 (0.30%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.30%) SMTP
13 9 (0.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (3.82%) Power BI
2 91 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 50 (1.48%) Metadata
8 40 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
8 40 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 33 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (0.86%) MongoDB
12 28 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (0.83%) Tableau
13 27 (0.80%) Delta Lake
14 20 (0.59%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.53%) Big Data
16 14 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 205 (6.07%) JIRA
2 184 (5.45%) Git
3 169 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 134 (3.97%) GitLab
5 30 (0.89%) Selenium
6 26 (0.77%) JUnit
7 24 (0.71%) JMeter
8 23 (0.68%) Mockito
9 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.59%) Postman
11 19 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.47%) Gradle
13 14 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.36%) Maven
16 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.30%) Liquibase
17 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 966 (28.60%) Public Sector
2 635 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.09%) Finance
4 197 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (2.87%) Banking
6 90 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (2.34%) Military
8 63 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.24%) Police
10 41 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.12%) Legal
12 34 (1.01%) Law
13 30 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.77%) Retail
15 25 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.74%) Marketing
16 24 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.44%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.38%) Publishing
19 10 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 640 (18.95%) Architect
2 428 (12.67%) Developer
3 277 (8.20%) Senior
4 267 (7.90%) Lead
5 258 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.71%) Analyst
6 193 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 149 (4.41%) Consultant
8 124 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
10 108 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
11 103 (3.05%) Technical Architect
12 97 (2.87%) Business Analyst
13 89 (2.63%) Security Architect
14 84 (2.49%) Designer
15 77 (2.28%) Java Developer
16 74 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 74 (2.19%) Software Engineer
17 72 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
18 71 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.52%) REST
2 113 (3.35%) Spring
3 91 (2.69%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.55%) React
5 73 (2.16%) RESTful
6 72 (2.13%) Kafka
7 71 (2.10%) PySpark
8 67 (1.98%) .NET
9 65 (1.92%) Node.js
10 55 (1.63%) SOAP
11 54 (1.60%) LDAP
12 49 (1.45%) JSON
13 48 (1.42%) AngularJS
14 47 (1.39%) HTML
15 43 (1.27%) OAuth
16 42 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
17 40 (1.18%) Web Services
18 35 (1.04%) OpenID
19 33 (0.98%) SAML
20 31 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 202 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 121 (3.58%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 58 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 58 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 44 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 39 (1.15%) CMDB
8 39 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.12%) Replication
10 33 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 29 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 29 (0.86%) PKI
14 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 24 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.65%) Linux
2 144 (4.26%) Windows
3 58 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.68%) Unix
6 19 (0.56%) Android
7 17 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.44%) Solaris
9 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.30%) VMS
10 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.27%) 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 (0.089%) SUSE
17 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (22.32%) DevOps
2 703 (20.81%) Agile
3 599 (17.73%) CI/CD
4 399 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 387 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 312 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (9.06%) Migration
8 295 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 286 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 257 (7.61%) Containerisation
11 254 (7.52%) AI
12 222 (6.57%) Data Modelling
13 216 (6.39%) Decision-Making
14 211 (6.25%) Analytics
15 187 (5.54%) Roadmaps
16 186 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
17 182 (5.39%) Microservices
17 182 (5.39%) Test Automation
18 178 (5.27%) Software Engineering
19 162 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 421 (12.46%) Python
2 351 (10.39%) SQL
3 249 (7.37%) Java
4 137 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 118 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 100 (2.96%) C#
7 82 (2.43%) Bash
8 69 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 37 (1.10%) Bicep
10 32 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 32 (0.95%) Ruby
11 31 (0.92%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.74%) Scala
14 21 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.56%) R
16 17 (0.50%) Groovy
16 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.44%) Go
18 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,763 (81.79%) SC Cleared
2 404 (11.96%) DV Cleared
3 80 (2.37%) Degree
4 78 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 55 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 55 (1.63%) CISSP
7 37 (1.10%) CISM
8 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.65%) GIAC
10 22 (0.65%) PMP
11 19 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
12 16 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.41%) CEH
14 13 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.09%) Data Quality
2 124 (3.67%) QA
3 85 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.46%) NCSC
5 75 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.95%) NIST
7 62 (1.84%) GDPR
8 58 (1.72%) PMO
9 25 (0.74%) 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 (0.36%) COBIT
13 12 (0.36%) SLA
14 11 (0.33%) 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
1 280 (8.29%) Docker
2 97 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.41%) Squid
7 13 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.38%) vSphere
8 12 (0.36%) NFS
9 9 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (0.27%) Postfix
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.18%) Varnish
12 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.089%) Firmware
13 3 (0.089%) XenApp
13 3 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 430 (12.73%) Terraform
2 361 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 116 (3.43%) Ansible
4 95 (2.81%) Grafana
5 92 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.74%) Puppet
8 16 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.47%) vMotion
9 14 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.41%) SCCM
10 12 (0.36%) Consul
11 10 (0.30%) Kibana
11 10 (0.30%) Packer
12 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 339 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 182 (5.39%) Oracle
3 130 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 110 (3.26%) Databricks
5 95 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.58%) VMware
7 68 (2.01%) Google
8 61 (1.81%) SAP
8 61 (1.81%) Splunk
9 37 (1.10%) Cisco
9 37 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 35 (1.04%) IBM
11 34 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 31 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.83%) Okta
14 23 (0.68%) Informatica
14 23 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.62%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.59%) Tenable
17 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto