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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,471 1,727 2,049
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.75% 12.93% 11.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.89% 50.26% 49.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,666 1,249 1,492
10th Percentile £401 £374 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £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 39 33 36
10th Percentile £25.18 £18.87 £14.69
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £17.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £32.19
90th Percentile £95.25 £49.50 £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 5,433 3,436 4,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.78% 25.72% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 2,311 2,855
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 107
10th Percentile £19.42 £18.57 £14.96
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.01 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.74 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.83% +0.92% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.19 £49.38 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.15 £68.30
England median hourly rate £53.95 £28.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.68% -34.12% -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 8 July 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 July 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 July 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 - 122
South London 0 145 £520 -2.21% 8
East London +11 15 £750 - 16
West London -34 13 £675 +74.19% 37
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
1 154 (4.44%) Confluence
2 87 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.92%) nginx
6 29 (0.84%) Apache
7 23 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.20%) CMS
11 5 (0.14%) JBoss
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.12%) WordPress
13 3 (0.086%) Drupal
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.058%) Documentum
14 2 (0.058%) MQSeries
Applications
1 40 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.32%) Revit
4 11 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.058%) Sketch
9 1 (0.029%) Maya
9 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.43%) Findur
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.40%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.086%) Changepoint
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 785 (22.62%) Azure
2 749 (21.58%) AWS
3 238 (6.86%) GitHub
4 192 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
5 188 (5.42%) Power Platform
6 157 (4.52%) GCP
7 151 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (3.95%) Serverless
9 136 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 107 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
12 88 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (2.51%) Entra ID
14 78 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (1.82%) Azure AKS
18 63 (1.82%) Power Automate
19 61 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.82%) Firewall
2 87 (2.51%) DNS
3 65 (1.87%) Network Security
4 54 (1.56%) VPN
5 28 (0.81%) WAN
6 27 (0.78%) DHCP
7 26 (0.75%) LAN
8 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.37%) DKIM
10 13 (0.37%) DMARC
10 13 (0.37%) HTTP
11 12 (0.35%) SAN
12 11 (0.32%) NAS
13 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 10 (0.29%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.29%) SMTP
14 9 (0.26%) MPLS
14 9 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (3.83%) Power BI
2 93 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (1.27%) Metadata
9 40 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.04%) NoSQL
12 34 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.81%) Tableau
14 27 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.72%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.61%) Big Data
18 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.43%) BigQuery
20 14 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 218 (6.28%) JIRA
2 189 (5.45%) Git
3 180 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 131 (3.77%) GitLab
5 34 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.69%) JMeter
6 24 (0.69%) JUnit
7 23 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.61%) Mockito
9 20 (0.58%) Postman
10 19 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 14 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.40%) Gradle
13 13 (0.37%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.35%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.29%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.29%) Maven
16 9 (0.26%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 989 (28.49%) Public Sector
2 650 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 328 (9.45%) Finance
4 209 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (2.88%) Banking
6 90 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 81 (2.33%) Military
8 71 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (1.30%) Police
9 45 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 36 (1.04%) Legal
11 34 (0.98%) Law
12 28 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (0.72%) Retail
15 23 (0.66%) Marketing
16 18 (0.52%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.37%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 632 (18.21%) Architect
2 448 (12.91%) Developer
3 300 (8.64%) Lead
4 274 (7.89%) Senior
5 257 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 198 (5.70%) Analyst
7 188 (5.42%) Data Engineer
8 161 (4.64%) Consultant
9 118 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
11 109 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
12 99 (2.85%) Technical Architect
13 94 (2.71%) Business Analyst
14 92 (2.65%) Security Architect
15 90 (2.59%) Designer
16 88 (2.54%) Java Developer
17 85 (2.45%) Software Engineer
18 79 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
19 77 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 73 (2.10%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (3.72%) REST
2 121 (3.49%) Spring
3 92 (2.65%) Spring Boot
4 86 (2.48%) React
5 77 (2.22%) RESTful
6 74 (2.13%) Kafka
7 72 (2.07%) .NET
8 70 (2.02%) PySpark
9 68 (1.96%) Node.js
10 55 (1.58%) JSON
11 51 (1.47%) SOAP
12 46 (1.33%) AngularJS
13 45 (1.30%) HTML
13 45 (1.30%) OAuth
14 41 (1.18%) Web Services
15 40 (1.15%) LDAP
16 39 (1.12%) Django
17 37 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
18 36 (1.04%) OpenID
19 34 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 102 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 60 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 52 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (1.30%) CMDB
7 45 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (1.12%) Replication
10 34 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 31 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 28 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 26 (0.75%) PKI
15 23 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.90%) Linux
2 155 (4.47%) Windows
3 63 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (0.75%) Android
6 25 (0.72%) Unix
7 21 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.43%) Solaris
9 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.23%) VMS
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.12%) AIX
15 3 (0.086%) SUSE
15 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (22.39%) DevOps
2 755 (21.75%) Agile
3 653 (18.81%) CI/CD
4 412 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 312 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
7 307 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 300 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 294 (8.47%) Migration
10 267 (7.69%) AI
11 266 (7.66%) Containerisation
12 223 (6.42%) Decision-Making
13 219 (6.31%) Data Modelling
14 215 (6.19%) Analytics
15 211 (6.08%) Roadmaps
16 198 (5.70%) Test Automation
17 192 (5.53%) Cybersecurity
18 191 (5.50%) Software Engineering
19 177 (5.10%) Microservices
20 166 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 432 (12.45%) Python
2 347 (10.00%) SQL
3 272 (7.84%) Java
4 129 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 125 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 99 (2.85%) C#
7 97 (2.79%) Bash
8 71 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 40 (1.15%) Bicep
10 33 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.86%) Ruby
13 27 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.63%) Scala
15 20 (0.58%) Groovy
15 20 (0.58%) R
16 13 (0.37%) Go
17 8 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,839 (81.79%) SC Cleared
2 430 (12.39%) DV Cleared
3 92 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 77 (2.22%) Degree
5 60 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 58 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.61%) CISSP
8 37 (1.07%) CISM
9 26 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.66%) PMP
11 20 (0.58%) GIAC
12 19 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
13 16 (0.46%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 129 (3.72%) QA
3 83 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 82 (2.36%) NCSC
5 67 (1.93%) GDPR
5 67 (1.93%) NIST
6 63 (1.82%) PMO
7 28 (0.81%) GRC
8 25 (0.72%) WCAG
9 14 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
12 11 (0.32%) COBIT
12 11 (0.32%) SLA
13 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.23%) P3O
14 7 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 302 (8.70%) Docker
2 90 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.49%) Squid
7 17 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.46%) vSphere
9 13 (0.37%) NFS
10 9 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.26%) Postfix
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.17%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.12%) UAG
14 3 (0.086%) Firmware
14 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 449 (12.94%) Terraform
2 384 (11.06%) Kubernetes
3 122 (3.51%) Ansible
4 105 (3.03%) Grafana
5 94 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.81%) Puppet
8 23 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.46%) vMotion
10 14 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.40%) Argo
10 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.40%) SCCM
11 12 (0.35%) Consul
11 12 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.32%) Kibana
12 11 (0.32%) Packer
13 9 (0.26%) Control-M
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 362 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 193 (5.56%) Oracle
3 143 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.20%) Databricks
5 97 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.71%) VMware
7 75 (2.16%) Google
8 71 (2.05%) Splunk
9 60 (1.73%) SAP
10 38 (1.09%) IBM
11 37 (1.07%) Cisco
12 36 (1.04%) Dynatrace
13 29 (0.84%) Red Hat
14 28 (0.81%) Okta
15 25 (0.72%) Informatica
16 23 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) Tenable
17 20 (0.58%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.55%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.55%) Palo Alto