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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,606 1,788 2,064
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.81% 13.29% 12.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.30% 50.31% 51.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 1,289 1,421
10th Percentile £405 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 41 14
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £17.95
25th Percentile £35.00 - £22.54
Median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £27.09
Median % change year-on-year +127.63% -7.16% -54.85%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £38.75 £72.73
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 5,697 3,554 3,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.14% 26.41% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,102 2,391 2,592
10th Percentile £369 £356 £350
25th Percentile £456 £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 £731 £738 £763
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 55
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.25 - £23.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -24.93% -37.09%
75th Percentile £78.75 £37.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £98.63 £65.00 £66.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +11 413 £550 +4.76% 213
South London +1 110 £538 +1.03% 18
West London -36 23 £663 +65.42% 74
East London +5 7 £750 - 29
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
1 152 (4.22%) Confluence
2 94 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.33%) SAS
4 33 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.86%) Apache
6 30 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 26 (0.72%) nginx
8 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 11 (0.31%) CMS
10 10 (0.28%) JBoss
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.14%) Camunda
14 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.083%) Mule
15 3 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 48 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 17 (0.47%) Revit
4 17 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
5 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.083%) Windchill
11 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.028%) InDesign
11 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
11 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 18 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.19%) SAP GRC
7 6 (0.17%) Findur
7 6 (0.17%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.14%) Exchequer
8 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
8 5 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.11%) Changepoint
9 4 (0.11%) Maximo
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 811 (22.49%) Azure
2 770 (21.35%) AWS
3 256 (7.10%) GitHub
4 208 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 196 (5.44%) GCP
7 175 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 127 (3.52%) Serverless
9 124 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 100 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.55%) Entra ID
11 92 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 89 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 79 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (1.80%) PowerApps
16 63 (1.75%) Power Automate
17 62 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 59 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
19 57 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.50%) Firewall
2 72 (2.00%) DNS
3 59 (1.64%) Network Security
4 41 (1.14%) VPN
5 34 (0.94%) WAN
6 22 (0.61%) LAN
7 19 (0.53%) DHCP
8 16 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.36%) HTTP
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) MPLS
11 11 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.28%) WebEx
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
14 8 (0.22%) DKIM
14 8 (0.22%) DMARC
14 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.22%) SAN
14 8 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.83%) Power BI
2 115 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (1.55%) Metadata
7 55 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 44 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 44 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (0.92%) Oracle Database
13 32 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 31 (0.86%) MySQL
15 23 (0.64%) Redis
16 22 (0.61%) Big Data
17 21 (0.58%) Tableau
18 19 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 229 (6.35%) Git
2 225 (6.24%) Jenkins
3 214 (5.93%) JIRA
4 147 (4.08%) GitLab
5 50 (1.39%) Selenium
6 32 (0.89%) JMeter
7 30 (0.83%) Gradle
8 29 (0.80%) JUnit
9 27 (0.75%) Postman
10 26 (0.72%) Maven
11 25 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 24 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.61%) Mockito
14 20 (0.55%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.39%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.36%) LoadRunner
17 12 (0.33%) Artifactory
18 11 (0.31%) Gatling
19 10 (0.28%) eggPlant
General
1 948 (26.29%) Public Sector
2 799 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 329 (9.12%) Finance
4 260 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (3.22%) Military
6 101 (2.80%) Banking
7 87 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (1.64%) Law
10 57 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 54 (1.50%) Police
12 43 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.00%) Legal
14 36 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 32 (0.89%) Marketing
16 30 (0.83%) Retail
17 27 (0.75%) Local Government
18 21 (0.58%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 680 (18.86%) Architect
2 413 (11.45%) Developer
3 342 (9.48%) Lead
4 329 (9.12%) Senior
5 254 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 180 (4.99%) Data Engineer
7 170 (4.71%) Analyst
8 157 (4.35%) Consultant
9 116 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (3.19%) Data Architect
11 107 (2.97%) Security Architect
12 106 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
13 104 (2.88%) Designer
14 99 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
15 96 (2.66%) Software Engineer
16 92 (2.55%) Java Developer
17 84 (2.33%) Technical Architect
18 83 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
19 76 (2.11%) User Researcher
20 72 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (12.12%) Terraform
2 185 (5.13%) REST
3 121 (3.36%) Spring
4 108 (3.00%) Kafka
5 105 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 95 (2.63%) React
7 90 (2.50%) RESTful
8 81 (2.25%) .NET
9 71 (1.97%) SOAP
10 66 (1.83%) JSON
11 63 (1.75%) Node.js
12 58 (1.61%) XML
13 57 (1.58%) PySpark
14 53 (1.47%) HTML
14 53 (1.47%) Middleware
15 49 (1.36%) Django
16 46 (1.28%) Web Services
17 44 (1.22%) AngularJS
18 43 (1.19%) OAuth
19 35 (0.97%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 229 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 127 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 112 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 64 (1.77%) Data Centre
4 64 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 56 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
5 56 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (1.28%) AI Agents
7 46 (1.28%) CMDB
8 43 (1.19%) Replication
9 40 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
10 39 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (0.86%) Clustering
12 30 (0.83%) Security Posture
13 29 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
14 28 (0.78%) PKI
15 27 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (5.60%) Linux
2 170 (4.71%) Windows
3 65 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 44 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (0.94%) Unix
6 31 (0.86%) Android
7 22 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.42%) VMS
9 12 (0.33%) Solaris
10 11 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.14%) AIX
16 3 (0.083%) OpenVMS
16 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (24.07%) Agile
2 763 (21.16%) DevOps
3 708 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 575 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 446 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 396 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 383 (10.62%) AI
8 382 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 358 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
10 304 (8.43%) Migration
11 291 (8.07%) Containerisation
12 250 (6.93%) Decision-Making
13 246 (6.82%) Test Automation
14 241 (6.68%) Roadmaps
15 228 (6.32%) Analytics
15 228 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
16 226 (6.27%) Software Engineering
17 219 (6.07%) Data Modelling
18 217 (6.02%) Observability
19 202 (5.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 514 (14.25%) Python
2 358 (9.93%) SQL
3 310 (8.60%) Java
4 172 (4.77%) JavaScript
5 135 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 120 (3.33%) Bash
7 101 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 95 (2.63%) C#
9 47 (1.30%) Bicep
10 38 (1.05%) Groovy
10 38 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 26 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 26 (0.72%) Scala
12 22 (0.61%) Go
13 21 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 21 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 17 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.36%) R
15 13 (0.36%) Ruby
16 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,962 (82.14%) SC Cleared
2 477 (13.23%) DV Cleared
3 131 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 102 (2.83%) Degree
5 86 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 73 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 72 (2.00%) CISSP
8 56 (1.55%) CISM
9 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.97%) PMP
11 30 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 29 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 19 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (0.50%) ISTQB
16 17 (0.47%) CRISC
16 17 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
16 17 (0.47%) GIAC
17 14 (0.39%) CCNP
17 14 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (5.32%) QA
2 130 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 99 (2.75%) NCSC
4 86 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 82 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.19%) NIST
7 67 (1.86%) PMO
8 65 (1.80%) GRC
9 52 (1.44%) GDPR
10 25 (0.69%) WCAG
11 23 (0.64%) SLA
12 19 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.28%) P3O
17 9 (0.25%) COBIT
18 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 327 (9.07%) Docker
2 103 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.55%) vSphere
7 8 (0.22%) Squid
8 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.17%) Postfix
9 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) Varnish
12 3 (0.083%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.083%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 399 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 124 (3.44%) Grafana
3 123 (3.41%) Ansible
4 96 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.89%) Puppet
6 27 (0.75%) Kibana
7 24 (0.67%) SCCM
8 21 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 20 (0.55%) Argo
9 20 (0.55%) Control-M
9 20 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.50%) Istio
12 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
12 13 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.31%) SCOM
14 9 (0.25%) Packer
15 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
16 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 431 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 244 (6.77%) Oracle
3 156 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 117 (3.24%) Google
5 107 (2.97%) VMware
6 105 (2.91%) Databricks
7 88 (2.44%) Splunk
8 87 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 69 (1.91%) SAP
10 46 (1.28%) IBM
11 44 (1.22%) Cisco
12 39 (1.08%) Dynatrace
13 31 (0.86%) Informatica
14 30 (0.83%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 19 (0.53%) Foundry
18 18 (0.50%) Sparx