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

6 months to
5 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 3,546 1,753 1,943
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.61% 12.87% 11.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.57% 49.31% 49.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,714 1,266 1,424
10th Percentile £403 £366 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £745
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 39 23
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £16.58
25th Percentile £26.00 - £19.18
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £24.18
90th Percentile £94.00 £45.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £57.77
% change year-on-year +158.45% -56.47% -3.71%

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 5,578 3,555 3,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 26.10% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,034 2,407 2,703
10th Percentile £375 £338 £336
25th Percentile £455 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £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 89 87 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.62 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.02 £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 £41.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.45 £68.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.69% -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

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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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +11 444 £550 +4.76% 126
South London 0 138 £521 -2.25% 14
West London -37 17 £675 +68.54% 45
East London +12 12 £750 +7.14% 23
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
1 159 (4.48%) Confluence
2 102 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.24%) SAS
4 33 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.87%) Apache
6 30 (0.85%) nginx
7 23 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.25%) JBoss
9 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.23%) CMS
11 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
13 3 (0.085%) Mule
14 2 (0.056%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.056%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.37%) Revit
4 13 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.028%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Maya
10 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Findur
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Assets
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 821 (23.15%) Azure
2 756 (21.32%) AWS
3 262 (7.39%) GitHub
4 218 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 210 (5.92%) Power Platform
6 196 (5.53%) GCP
7 162 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
8 138 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 129 (3.64%) Serverless
10 100 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (2.26%) Entra ID
14 78 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
15 71 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 69 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 65 (1.83%) Power Automate
18 64 (1.80%) Azure AKS
19 63 (1.78%) PowerApps
20 58 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.54%) Firewall
2 81 (2.28%) DNS
3 62 (1.75%) Network Security
4 47 (1.33%) VPN
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
7 20 (0.56%) DHCP
7 20 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.39%) HTTP
8 14 (0.39%) Internet
9 9 (0.25%) 4G
9 9 (0.25%) DKIM
9 9 (0.25%) DMARC
9 9 (0.25%) OpenVPN
9 9 (0.25%) SSL
9 9 (0.25%) VSAN
9 9 (0.25%) WebEx
10 8 (0.23%) SAN
10 8 (0.23%) SMTP
10 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (4.17%) Power BI
2 92 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 53 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (1.24%) Metadata
8 41 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.79%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.73%) Tableau
13 24 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (0.68%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.62%) Big Data
15 16 (0.45%) MySQL
15 16 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 219 (6.18%) JIRA
2 207 (5.84%) Git
3 183 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 126 (3.55%) GitLab
5 34 (0.96%) Selenium
6 23 (0.65%) JMeter
7 22 (0.62%) Gradle
8 21 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.56%) JUnit
9 20 (0.56%) Mockito
10 19 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.51%) Maven
12 17 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.37%) Postman
14 12 (0.34%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.31%) Liquibase
16 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
18 7 (0.20%) Gatling
General
1 990 (27.92%) Public Sector
2 697 (19.66%) Social Skills
3 342 (9.64%) Finance
4 241 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (2.79%) Banking
6 91 (2.57%) Military
7 69 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (1.38%) Police
9 49 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 42 (1.18%) Law
11 36 (1.02%) Legal
12 32 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (0.82%) Marketing
15 27 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 26 (0.73%) Retail
17 21 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 17 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 676 (19.06%) Architect
2 460 (12.97%) Developer
3 333 (9.39%) Lead
4 306 (8.63%) Senior
5 236 (6.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (5.44%) Analyst
6 193 (5.44%) Data Engineer
7 159 (4.48%) Consultant
8 126 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
9 104 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
10 102 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
10 102 (2.88%) Security Architect
11 99 (2.79%) Software Engineer
12 94 (2.65%) Designer
12 94 (2.65%) Java Developer
13 92 (2.59%) Data Architect
14 91 (2.57%) Technical Architect
15 84 (2.37%) Business Analyst
15 84 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 80 (2.26%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (4.46%) REST
2 117 (3.30%) Spring
3 94 (2.65%) Spring Boot
4 92 (2.59%) React
5 86 (2.43%) RESTful
6 84 (2.37%) .NET
7 78 (2.20%) Kafka
8 65 (1.83%) Node.js
8 65 (1.83%) PySpark
9 63 (1.78%) JSON
10 62 (1.75%) SOAP
11 56 (1.58%) AngularJS
12 51 (1.44%) HTML
13 44 (1.24%) Django
14 43 (1.21%) Web Services
15 41 (1.16%) XML
16 35 (0.99%) OAuth
16 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
17 34 (0.96%) Middleware
18 30 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 209 (5.89%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 63 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 60 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 53 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 52 (1.47%) CMDB
9 45 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 34 (0.96%) Clustering
11 34 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 30 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 26 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (0.73%) Replication
14 25 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (0.71%) Private Cloud
14 25 (0.71%) Public Cloud
15 24 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 174 (4.91%) Linux
2 163 (4.60%) Windows
3 64 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.82%) Android
6 27 (0.76%) Unix
7 19 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.39%) Solaris
9 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.31%) VMS
12 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.11%) AIX
17 3 (0.085%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (22.56%) Agile
2 764 (21.55%) DevOps
3 656 (18.50%) CI/CD
4 441 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 413 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 342 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 337 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 321 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (8.77%) AI
10 299 (8.43%) Migration
11 274 (7.73%) Containerisation
12 248 (6.99%) Analytics
13 234 (6.60%) Data Modelling
14 228 (6.43%) Decision-Making
15 223 (6.29%) Roadmaps
16 213 (6.01%) Software Engineering
17 202 (5.70%) Test Automation
18 191 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
19 188 (5.30%) Microservices
20 181 (5.10%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 445 (12.55%) Python
2 384 (10.83%) SQL
3 289 (8.15%) Java
4 151 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 128 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 108 (3.05%) C#
7 102 (2.88%) Bash
8 76 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.33%) Bicep
10 42 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.82%) Groovy
12 29 (0.82%) Ruby
12 29 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.48%) Scala
15 16 (0.45%) R
16 10 (0.28%) X++
17 9 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 2,914 (82.18%) SC Cleared
2 456 (12.86%) DV Cleared
3 104 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 83 (2.34%) Degree
5 65 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 64 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 63 (1.78%) CISSP
8 44 (1.24%) CISM
9 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (0.87%) PMP
11 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
13 18 (0.51%) GIAC
14 16 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (4.03%) QA
2 137 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 80 (2.26%) NCSC
4 79 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 71 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 70 (1.97%) PMO
7 60 (1.69%) NIST
8 55 (1.55%) GRC
9 54 (1.52%) GDPR
10 26 (0.73%) WCAG
11 20 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
12 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.42%) SLA
14 12 (0.34%) COBIT
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.25%) P3O
17 8 (0.23%) ISO 20022
17 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 300 (8.46%) Docker
2 94 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.62%) vSphere
7 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.34%) Squid
8 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.23%) Postfix
10 7 (0.20%) NFS
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) UAG
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 431 (12.15%) Terraform
2 361 (10.18%) Kubernetes
3 123 (3.47%) Ansible
4 102 (2.88%) Grafana
5 88 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.90%) Puppet
7 25 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.62%) SCCM
9 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.51%) Argo
11 16 (0.45%) Control-M
11 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.31%) Istio
13 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
13 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
14 10 (0.28%) vMotion
15 9 (0.25%) Packer
16 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 396 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 221 (6.23%) Oracle
3 163 (4.60%) ServiceNow
4 110 (3.10%) Databricks
5 109 (3.07%) VMware
6 107 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 102 (2.88%) Google
8 64 (1.80%) SAP
8 64 (1.80%) Splunk
9 38 (1.07%) IBM
10 34 (0.96%) Cisco
10 34 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 31 (0.87%) Informatica
12 30 (0.85%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.65%) Tenable
15 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.48%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.48%) Foundry