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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,510 1,725 1,970
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.66% 12.69% 11.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.91% 49.37% 49.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,681 1,250 1,445
10th Percentile £400 £364 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
England median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 36 26
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.06
25th Percentile £25.77 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £28.55
90th Percentile £94.00 £46.25 £68.13
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -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 5,492 3,494 3,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.63% 25.71% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 2,370 2,770
10th Percentile £368 £338 £329
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 81 77
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.98 £17.88
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.04 £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 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -23.82%

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 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 24 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 24 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 +13 451 £550 +1.52% 86
South London 0 139 £521 -2.71% 5
West London -35 16 £675 +68.75% 37
East London +10 11 £750 +7.14% 20
North London +1 4 - - 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
1 154 (4.39%) Confluence
2 99 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.03%) SAS
4 33 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.88%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) nginx
8 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.23%) CMS
12 7 (0.20%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.11%) WordPress
15 3 (0.085%) Drupal
15 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) Documentum
16 2 (0.057%) MQSeries
Applications
1 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.34%) Revit
4 12 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
5 11 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) 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%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Maya
10 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.43%) Findur
3 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.11%) iTrent
11 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.085%) Changepoint
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 3 (0.085%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 795 (22.65%) Azure
2 749 (21.34%) AWS
3 255 (7.26%) GitHub
4 205 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
5 203 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 180 (5.13%) GCP
7 159 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
8 135 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 127 (3.62%) Serverless
10 100 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 86 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
13 79 (2.25%) Entra ID
14 70 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 67 (1.91%) Power Automate
16 66 (1.88%) PowerApps
17 64 (1.82%) Azure AKS
18 58 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.51%) Firewall
2 72 (2.05%) DNS
3 62 (1.77%) Network Security
4 50 (1.42%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) LAN
7 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.46%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) HTTP
10 12 (0.34%) Internet
10 12 (0.34%) SAN
11 11 (0.31%) DKIM
11 11 (0.31%) DMARC
12 10 (0.28%) NAS
12 10 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.26%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.26%) VSAN
14 8 (0.23%) 4G
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
14 8 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (4.05%) Power BI
2 93 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (1.28%) Metadata
8 41 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 40 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 34 (0.97%) NoSQL
12 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.80%) Delta Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Tableau
15 23 (0.66%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.57%) Big Data
18 18 (0.51%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.43%) Star Schema
20 14 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 214 (6.10%) JIRA
2 202 (5.75%) Git
3 178 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 127 (3.62%) GitLab
5 32 (0.91%) Selenium
6 24 (0.68%) JMeter
7 21 (0.60%) JUnit
8 20 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 19 (0.54%) Mockito
10 18 (0.51%) Gradle
11 17 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.46%) Postman
13 15 (0.43%) Maven
14 13 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.28%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.23%) Snyk
18 7 (0.20%) Gatling
General
1 1,013 (28.86%) Public Sector
2 667 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 331 (9.43%) Finance
4 226 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (2.68%) Banking
6 87 (2.48%) Military
7 69 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.42%) Police
10 47 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 42 (1.20%) Law
12 36 (1.03%) Legal
13 33 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (0.74%) Marketing
16 24 (0.68%) Retail
17 22 (0.63%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.48%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 651 (18.55%) Architect
2 452 (12.88%) Developer
3 321 (9.15%) Lead
4 288 (8.21%) Senior
5 246 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 194 (5.53%) Analyst
7 185 (5.27%) Data Engineer
8 160 (4.56%) Consultant
9 123 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
12 99 (2.82%) Security Architect
13 96 (2.74%) Designer
14 93 (2.65%) Java Developer
15 91 (2.59%) Technical Architect
16 90 (2.56%) Software Engineer
17 86 (2.45%) Business Analyst
18 83 (2.36%) Data Architect
19 80 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
20 79 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.16%) REST
2 118 (3.36%) Spring
3 93 (2.65%) Spring Boot
4 85 (2.42%) React
5 83 (2.36%) RESTful
6 79 (2.25%) .NET
7 73 (2.08%) Kafka
8 66 (1.88%) PySpark
9 65 (1.85%) Node.js
10 59 (1.68%) SOAP
11 58 (1.65%) JSON
12 52 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 51 (1.45%) HTML
14 43 (1.23%) Web Services
15 42 (1.20%) Django
16 39 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
17 34 (0.97%) XML
18 33 (0.94%) Middleware
19 30 (0.85%) OAuth
20 28 (0.80%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 207 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 70 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 52 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.37%) CMDB
9 46 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 33 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 33 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (0.77%) Replication
14 26 (0.74%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.71%) Clustering
16 24 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (0.66%) PKI
17 23 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.76%) Linux
2 147 (4.19%) Windows
3 54 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (0.80%) Android
6 27 (0.77%) Unix
7 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.40%) Solaris
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.085%) SUSE
15 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (22.19%) Agile
2 759 (21.62%) DevOps
3 648 (18.46%) CI/CD
4 413 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 412 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 325 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 325 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 319 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 303 (8.63%) Migration
9 290 (8.26%) AI
10 271 (7.72%) Containerisation
11 240 (6.84%) Analytics
12 229 (6.52%) Data Modelling
13 223 (6.35%) Decision-Making
14 212 (6.04%) Roadmaps
15 202 (5.75%) Software Engineering
16 200 (5.70%) Test Automation
17 185 (5.27%) Cybersecurity
18 184 (5.24%) Microservices
19 180 (5.13%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 437 (12.45%) Python
2 361 (10.28%) SQL
3 283 (8.06%) Java
4 140 (3.99%) JavaScript
5 124 (3.53%) PowerShell
6 106 (3.02%) C#
7 100 (2.85%) Bash
8 69 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 46 (1.31%) Bicep
10 39 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.85%) Ruby
13 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.77%) Groovy
15 24 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 24 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.51%) Scala
17 17 (0.48%) R
18 12 (0.34%) Go
19 10 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,875 (81.91%) SC Cleared
2 462 (13.16%) DV Cleared
3 100 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 81 (2.31%) Degree
5 65 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 63 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 58 (1.65%) CISSP
8 40 (1.14%) CISM
9 34 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (0.80%) PMP
11 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.57%) GIAC
15 15 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.37%) CEH
16 13 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 130 (3.70%) QA
3 79 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 76 (2.17%) NCSC
5 69 (1.97%) PMO
6 67 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 54 (1.54%) GDPR
7 54 (1.54%) NIST
8 47 (1.34%) GRC
9 26 (0.74%) WCAG
10 18 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
11 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.34%) SLA
13 11 (0.31%) COBIT
14 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.23%) P3O
16 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 293 (8.35%) Docker
2 85 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.54%) vSphere
8 15 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) NFS
9 12 (0.34%) Squid
10 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.23%) Postfix
11 5 (0.14%) Varnish
12 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) UAG
13 3 (0.085%) Firmware
13 3 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 444 (12.65%) Terraform
2 364 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 125 (3.56%) Ansible
4 104 (2.96%) Grafana
5 90 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.83%) Puppet
7 24 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.48%) Argo
10 16 (0.46%) SCCM
11 14 (0.40%) Control-M
11 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.40%) vMotion
12 12 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 10 (0.28%) Istio
15 9 (0.26%) Packer
16 8 (0.23%) Kustomize
17 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 384 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.15%) Oracle
3 157 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 111 (3.16%) Databricks
5 101 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 101 (2.88%) VMware
6 95 (2.71%) Google
7 69 (1.97%) Splunk
8 62 (1.77%) SAP
9 38 (1.08%) IBM
10 32 (0.91%) Cisco
11 31 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 30 (0.85%) Informatica
12 30 (0.85%) Red Hat
13 24 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.66%) Tenable
15 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.51%) Foundry
16 17 (0.48%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto