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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,682 1,839 2,129
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.22% 13.69% 13.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.60% 51.53% 52.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 1,302 1,419
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £468 £454 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 45 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £21.23
25th Percentile £30.50 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -28.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £67.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £33.31 £112.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 5,789 3,569 4,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.65% 26.56% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 2,404 2,586
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £772
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £19.54 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -29.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £64.83 £73.50
England median hourly rate £49.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +96.82% -52.10% -2.36%

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

Security Cleared
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +9 393 £550 - 228
South London +1 106 £550 +3.77% 10
West London -30 22 £650 +62.30% 39
East London +5 6 £750 +3.45% 27
North London +4 6 £538 +5.39% 1
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
1 149 (4.05%) Confluence
2 88 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.33%) SAS
4 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.79%) nginx
7 26 (0.71%) Apache
8 15 (0.41%) CMS
9 11 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.27%) JBoss
10 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.14%) Camunda
14 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.081%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.081%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.081%) Traefik
Applications
1 47 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 18 (0.49%) Revit
4 18 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
5 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Windchill
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.081%) Sketch
10 2 (0.054%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.027%) InDesign
11 1 (0.027%) PrintSoft PReS
11 1 (0.027%) Simulink
11 1 (0.027%) SPSS
11 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.16%) Maximo
9 6 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
10 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 812 (22.05%) Azure
2 783 (21.27%) AWS
3 266 (7.22%) GitHub
4 214 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 210 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
6 195 (5.30%) GCP
7 184 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 122 (3.31%) Serverless
9 121 (3.29%) Amazon S3
10 100 (2.72%) Entra ID
11 99 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
12 94 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
13 88 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
14 78 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 77 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
16 73 (1.98%) PowerApps
17 67 (1.82%) Power Automate
18 66 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
19 61 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 60 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.28%) Firewall
2 72 (1.96%) DNS
3 61 (1.66%) Network Security
4 44 (1.20%) VPN
5 32 (0.87%) WAN
6 20 (0.54%) LAN
7 19 (0.52%) DHCP
8 16 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.35%) BGP
9 13 (0.35%) MPLS
10 12 (0.33%) HTTP
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.30%) 4G
12 10 (0.27%) SSL
12 10 (0.27%) WebEx
13 9 (0.24%) 5G
13 9 (0.24%) SAN
14 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.86%) Power BI
2 127 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 63 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (1.60%) Metadata
7 50 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 50 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 43 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 43 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 40 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 38 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (1.00%) MySQL
12 32 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
14 27 (0.73%) Redis
15 23 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 22 (0.60%) Big Data
17 18 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 240 (6.52%) Git
1 240 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 203 (5.51%) JIRA
3 151 (4.10%) GitLab
4 58 (1.58%) Selenium
5 39 (1.06%) JMeter
6 34 (0.92%) JUnit
7 33 (0.90%) Gradle
7 33 (0.90%) Postman
8 30 (0.81%) Maven
9 29 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 26 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.62%) Mockito
12 15 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 15 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.35%) Artifactory
13 13 (0.35%) SoapUI
13 13 (0.35%) TestNG
General
1 985 (26.75%) Public Sector
2 825 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 329 (8.94%) Finance
4 267 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (3.34%) Military
6 98 (2.66%) Banking
7 90 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.77%) Police
9 61 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 58 (1.58%) Law
12 43 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 40 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (0.92%) Legal
15 33 (0.90%) Local Government
16 29 (0.79%) Marketing
17 26 (0.71%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 691 (18.77%) Architect
2 410 (11.14%) Developer
3 363 (9.86%) Senior
4 360 (9.78%) Lead
5 264 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 194 (5.27%) Data Engineer
7 181 (4.92%) Analyst
8 161 (4.37%) Consultant
9 123 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (3.29%) Data Architect
11 117 (3.18%) Security Architect
12 110 (2.99%) Designer
13 100 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
14 96 (2.61%) Software Engineer
15 92 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
16 87 (2.36%) Technical Architect
16 87 (2.36%) User Researcher
17 84 (2.28%) Java Developer
18 76 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
19 73 (1.98%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (11.98%) Terraform
2 207 (5.62%) REST
3 119 (3.23%) Kafka
4 110 (2.99%) Spring
5 101 (2.74%) React
6 94 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 90 (2.44%) RESTful
8 83 (2.25%) .NET
9 77 (2.09%) SOAP
10 65 (1.77%) JSON
11 60 (1.63%) HTML
11 60 (1.63%) XML
12 59 (1.60%) Middleware
13 55 (1.49%) Node.js
14 50 (1.36%) PySpark
15 46 (1.25%) Django
16 45 (1.22%) OAuth
17 42 (1.14%) AngularJS
17 42 (1.14%) Web Services
18 37 (1.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 140 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 121 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 67 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 63 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 62 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.33%) Replication
10 42 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
11 39 (1.06%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.00%) CMDB
13 36 (0.98%) PKI
14 33 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
17 27 (0.73%) Clustering
17 27 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 207 (5.62%) Linux
2 168 (4.56%) Windows
3 63 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (0.92%) Unix
6 29 (0.79%) Android
7 21 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.38%) VMS
9 11 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.22%) Solaris
12 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 3 (0.081%) AIX
15 3 (0.081%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (23.98%) Agile
2 769 (20.89%) DevOps
3 738 (20.04%) CI/CD
4 602 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 461 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 416 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 409 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 387 (10.51%) AI
9 359 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (8.17%) Migration
11 290 (7.88%) Containerisation
12 268 (7.28%) Test Automation
13 263 (7.14%) Roadmaps
14 260 (7.06%) Decision-Making
15 240 (6.52%) Software Engineering
16 235 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
17 232 (6.30%) Analytics
18 231 (6.27%) Data Modelling
19 230 (6.25%) Observability
20 215 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 541 (14.69%) Python
2 377 (10.24%) SQL
3 301 (8.17%) Java
4 192 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 140 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 123 (3.34%) Bash
7 103 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 99 (2.69%) C#
9 50 (1.36%) Bicep
10 42 (1.14%) Groovy
11 36 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.76%) Scala
13 25 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.65%) Go
15 21 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.35%) R
19 11 (0.30%) C++
19 11 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,027 (82.21%) SC Cleared
2 481 (13.06%) DV Cleared
3 156 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 104 (2.82%) Degree
5 91 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 69 (1.87%) CISSP
7 67 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.55%) CISM
9 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.90%) PMP
11 29 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 27 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.49%) CRISC
17 16 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
17 16 (0.43%) GIAC
17 16 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.43%) QA
2 138 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.91%) NCSC
4 94 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 83 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (2.20%) NIST
7 69 (1.87%) GRC
8 56 (1.52%) PMO
9 54 (1.47%) GDPR
10 26 (0.71%) SLA
11 24 (0.65%) WCAG
12 17 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 17 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.24%) P3O
18 8 (0.22%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.19%) COBIT
System Software
1 335 (9.10%) Docker
2 105 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.52%) vSphere
6 18 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.22%) Squid
9 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.11%) Postfix
12 3 (0.081%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.081%) Firmware
12 3 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.081%) NFS
12 3 (0.081%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.081%) UAG
13 2 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 407 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 135 (3.67%) Grafana
3 116 (3.15%) Ansible
4 93 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 34 (0.92%) Kibana
6 27 (0.73%) Puppet
7 25 (0.68%) Argo
7 25 (0.68%) SCCM
8 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (0.57%) Control-M
10 19 (0.52%) Istio
10 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 11 (0.30%) SCOM
13 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.22%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.22%) Nagios
15 7 (0.19%) Cilium
Vendors
1 460 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 252 (6.84%) Oracle
3 152 (4.13%) ServiceNow
4 126 (3.42%) Google
5 99 (2.69%) VMware
6 93 (2.53%) Databricks
7 89 (2.42%) Splunk
8 81 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 69 (1.87%) SAP
10 45 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 44 (1.20%) IBM
12 39 (1.06%) Cisco
13 31 (0.84%) Informatica
14 28 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 22 (0.60%) Pega
17 21 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.54%) Foundry
18 20 (0.54%) Sparx