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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,277 1,646 2,066
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.15% 13.32% 11.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.51% 51.55% 49.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 1,195 1,488
10th Percentile £400 £375 £350
25th Percentile £457 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -5.08%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 34
10th Percentile £25.41 £23.33 £14.36
25th Percentile £47.63 £24.66 £17.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% +14.32% -63.33%
75th Percentile £76.58 £38.82 £24.18
90th Percentile £94.25 £48.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £43.25 £56.15
% change year-on-year +27.17% -22.97% -6.43%

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 5,080 3,193 4,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.14% 25.85% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 2,144 2,814
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £446 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 60 108
10th Percentile £22.48 £19.20 £14.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.06 £19.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.60 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% +14.40% -40.83%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.63 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.52 £37.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.43% -7.50% -24.42%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +11 425 £550 - 83
South London 0 160 £519 -1.23% 8
East London +5 14 £750 - 23
West London -32 12 £675 +80.00% 29
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
1 130 (3.97%) Confluence
2 72 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 29 (0.88%) Apache
5 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (0.76%) nginx
7 23 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.12%) Camunda
9 4 (0.12%) SAS
9 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.092%) CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Drupal
10 3 (0.092%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.092%) WordPress
11 2 (0.061%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.15%) Revit
7 5 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) PrintSoft PReS
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.40%) Findur
5 11 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 10 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 7 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.15%) iTrent
10 5 (0.15%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.092%) Exchequer
11 3 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.092%) SAP GRC
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle iProcurement
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 768 (23.44%) Azure
2 728 (22.22%) AWS
3 219 (6.68%) GitHub
4 180 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (5.37%) GCP
6 167 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 136 (4.15%) Serverless
8 119 (3.63%) Amazon S3
9 117 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 107 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.72%) Entra ID
12 84 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 80 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
14 68 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (2.04%) OCI
16 65 (1.98%) PaaS
16 65 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 63 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.02%) Firewall
2 76 (2.32%) DNS
3 53 (1.62%) Network Security
4 45 (1.37%) VPN
5 37 (1.13%) LAN
6 35 (1.07%) WAN
7 25 (0.76%) DHCP
8 24 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.52%) SAN
10 16 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.46%) NAS
12 14 (0.43%) BGP
12 14 (0.43%) MPLS
13 13 (0.40%) DKIM
13 13 (0.40%) DMARC
14 11 (0.34%) HTTP
15 10 (0.31%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.31%) OSPF
15 10 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.42%) Power BI
2 88 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (1.86%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 50 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (1.46%) Metadata
8 47 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 45 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 31 (0.95%) Tableau
14 30 (0.92%) Delta Lake
15 29 (0.88%) MongoDB
16 28 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (0.70%) Big Data
17 23 (0.70%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.43%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 191 (5.83%) JIRA
2 174 (5.31%) Git
3 153 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.23%) GitLab
5 36 (1.10%) Selenium
6 28 (0.85%) Postman
7 24 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 24 (0.73%) JUnit
8 22 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.67%) JMeter
9 20 (0.61%) Mockito
10 17 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.40%) Gradle
13 11 (0.34%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.31%) Maven
15 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.24%) Liquibase
General
1 920 (28.07%) Public Sector
2 625 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 310 (9.46%) Finance
4 205 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 86 (2.62%) Banking
7 76 (2.32%) Military
8 45 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.16%) Legal
11 36 (1.10%) Police
12 32 (0.98%) Law
12 32 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (0.85%) Retail
14 24 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (0.61%) Marketing
17 18 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.31%) Publishing
19 6 (0.18%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 603 (18.40%) Architect
2 401 (12.24%) Developer
3 270 (8.24%) Senior
4 254 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 242 (7.38%) Lead
6 211 (6.44%) Analyst
7 203 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 150 (4.58%) Consultant
9 129 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
10 115 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 113 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
12 95 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
13 89 (2.72%) Technical Architect
14 85 (2.59%) Security Architect
15 78 (2.38%) Designer
16 69 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 61 (1.86%) Delivery Manager
19 59 (1.80%) AWS DevOps
19 59 (1.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (4.12%) REST
2 108 (3.30%) Spring
3 84 (2.56%) Spring Boot
4 79 (2.41%) React
5 78 (2.38%) Kafka
5 78 (2.38%) LDAP
6 74 (2.26%) PySpark
6 74 (2.26%) SOAP
7 70 (2.14%) RESTful
8 67 (2.04%) Node.js
9 65 (1.98%) .NET
10 57 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
11 55 (1.68%) HTML
12 51 (1.56%) AngularJS
12 51 (1.56%) Web Services
13 50 (1.53%) JSON
14 45 (1.37%) OAuth
15 37 (1.13%) OpenID
15 37 (1.13%) SAML
16 34 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 185 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 90 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 69 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 56 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 44 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 41 (1.25%) Replication
10 31 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (0.92%) CMDB
11 30 (0.92%) PKI
11 30 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 26 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 26 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 25 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.67%) Linux
2 130 (3.97%) Windows
3 47 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (0.58%) Android
5 19 (0.58%) Unix
6 16 (0.49%) VMS
7 13 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.37%) Solaris
9 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.092%) AIX
14 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.061%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (22.22%) DevOps
2 636 (19.41%) Agile
3 572 (17.45%) CI/CD
4 370 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 358 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 337 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
7 307 (9.37%) Migration
8 249 (7.60%) Containerisation
9 248 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 236 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 222 (6.77%) Data Modelling
12 215 (6.56%) AI
13 200 (6.10%) Decision-Making
14 193 (5.89%) Analytics
15 180 (5.49%) Test Automation
16 176 (5.37%) Microservices
17 173 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
18 170 (5.19%) Roadmaps
19 156 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
20 152 (4.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 421 (12.85%) Python
2 354 (10.80%) SQL
3 234 (7.14%) Java
4 167 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 125 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 94 (2.87%) C#
7 74 (2.26%) Bash
8 58 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 44 (1.34%) Scala
10 37 (1.13%) Ruby
11 35 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 27 (0.82%) Bicep
13 26 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 23 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.67%) R
16 20 (0.61%) Go
17 15 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.43%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.37%) Groovy
20 8 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 2,690 (82.09%) SC Cleared
2 366 (11.17%) DV Cleared
3 85 (2.59%) Degree
4 75 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 50 (1.53%) CISSP
8 35 (1.07%) CISM
9 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.73%) GIAC
12 20 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
12 20 (0.61%) PMP
13 17 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (0.46%) CEH
15 14 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.40%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.37%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.81%) QA
3 82 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (2.29%) NCSC
5 68 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.95%) NIST
7 57 (1.74%) GDPR
8 55 (1.68%) PMO
9 20 (0.61%) WCAG
10 17 (0.52%) GRC
11 15 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.37%) COBIT
12 12 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
13 10 (0.31%) SLA
14 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.18%) IFRS
14 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 275 (8.39%) Docker
2 113 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.46%) Squid
8 12 (0.37%) NFS
8 12 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.37%) vSphere
9 8 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.24%) Postfix
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.15%) Varnish
12 4 (0.12%) Firmware
12 4 (0.12%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 398 (12.15%) Terraform
2 353 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 107 (3.27%) Ansible
4 87 (2.65%) Grafana
5 84 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 48 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.61%) Puppet
9 15 (0.46%) SCCM
9 15 (0.46%) vMotion
10 14 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.37%) Consul
12 12 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.31%) Packer
14 8 (0.24%) Kibana
15 7 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.21%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.18%) Argo
16 6 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 338 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.43%) Oracle
3 122 (3.72%) Databricks
4 114 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 81 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 81 (2.47%) VMware
6 67 (2.04%) SAP
7 63 (1.92%) Google
8 61 (1.86%) Splunk
9 56 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 40 (1.22%) Cisco
11 35 (1.07%) IBM
12 34 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.04%) Centrify
12 34 (1.04%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 27 (0.82%) Okta
15 26 (0.79%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.67%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.64%) Palo Alto