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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,087 2,109 2,265
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.88% 13.41% 11.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.44% 52.90% 48.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,496 1,401 1,531
10th Percentile £391 £376 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £725 £745
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 13 54
10th Percentile £19.28 £26.60 £19.99
25th Percentile - £31.25 £20.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £65.08
90th Percentile £63.60 £112.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -58.08% +0.54% -0.53%

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 3,905 3,987 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.84% 25.35% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 2,543 3,193
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £670
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 106
10th Percentile £19.44 £20.30 £19.00
25th Percentile - £30.00 £23.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -28.44% +14.74%
75th Percentile £42.31 £60.75 £67.88
90th Percentile £66.46 £77.11 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -3.57% +16.67%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -3 234 £525 -0.28% 199
South London -1 80 £525 +5.00% 12
West London +18 42 £401 +39.30% 23
East London +4 9 £669 +167.50% 12
North London -4 3 £510 +9.68%
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
1 127 (6.09%) Confluence
2 64 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.16%) nginx
4 39 (1.87%) Apache
5 33 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.86%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.57%) SAS
9 10 (0.48%) CMS
9 10 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.38%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) Traefik
13 2 (0.096%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.096%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.096%) SharePoint 2010
13 2 (0.096%) WordPress
14 1 (0.048%) Mattermost
14 1 (0.048%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 52 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.34%) Sketch
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
8 5 (0.24%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.048%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.048%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.048%) InVision
9 1 (0.048%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.048%) Revit
9 1 (0.048%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 39 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 12 (0.57%) SAP PS
5 11 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.43%) SAP WM
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.34%) SAP EWM
7 7 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
11 3 (0.14%) Maximo
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 512 (24.53%) AWS
2 459 (21.99%) Azure
3 156 (7.47%) GitHub
4 147 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 131 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 107 (5.13%) Serverless
7 102 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
9 82 (3.93%) GCP
10 73 (3.50%) Entra ID
10 73 (3.50%) SaaS
11 65 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (2.35%) IaaS
15 48 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 45 (2.16%) Power Automate
17 43 (2.06%) PowerApps
18 37 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (4.84%) Firewall
2 51 (2.44%) Network Security
3 48 (2.30%) DNS
4 41 (1.96%) LAN
5 39 (1.87%) VPN
6 35 (1.68%) SSL
6 35 (1.68%) Wireless
7 34 (1.63%) WAN
8 24 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 21 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (0.72%) HTTP
12 13 (0.62%) BGP
12 13 (0.62%) HTTPS
13 12 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
14 11 (0.53%) OSPF
14 11 (0.53%) SAN
14 11 (0.53%) SMTP
14 11 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.46%) Power BI
3 44 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (1.49%) Oracle Database
7 29 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.34%) Big Data
8 28 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.34%) Metadata
9 26 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.91%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (0.62%) Redis
15 12 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
15 12 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 185 (8.86%) JIRA
2 149 (7.14%) Git
3 103 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 69 (3.31%) GitLab
5 26 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.05%) JUnit
7 21 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.96%) Selenium
9 19 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.72%) Metasploit
10 15 (0.72%) Postman
11 13 (0.62%) Burp Suite
11 13 (0.62%) Liquibase
12 11 (0.53%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.43%) Mockito
13 9 (0.43%) Vagrant
14 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.34%) Maven
16 6 (0.29%) Visual Studio
17 5 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 689 (33.01%) Public Sector
2 523 (25.06%) Social Skills
3 214 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (9.58%) Finance
5 60 (2.87%) Military
6 55 (2.64%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.40%) Banking
8 41 (1.96%) Law
9 40 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.58%) Legal
11 32 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.20%) Marketing
15 23 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.10%) Police
16 22 (1.05%) Electronics
17 17 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 296 (14.18%) Architect
2 253 (12.12%) Developer
3 185 (8.86%) Senior
4 177 (8.48%) Consultant
5 160 (7.67%) Lead
6 155 (7.43%) Analyst
7 124 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 92 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 60 (2.87%) Business Analyst
10 59 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (2.49%) Technical Architect
12 49 (2.35%) Security Engineer
13 48 (2.30%) Tester
14 43 (2.06%) Security Architect
15 41 (1.96%) AWS DevOps
15 41 (1.96%) Designer
16 37 (1.77%) Java Developer
16 37 (1.77%) SAP Consultant
17 36 (1.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (6.42%) REST
2 80 (3.83%) JSON
3 79 (3.79%) Kafka
4 73 (3.50%) Node.js
4 73 (3.50%) React
5 58 (2.78%) HTML
6 56 (2.68%) SOAP
7 52 (2.49%) Spring
8 51 (2.44%) CSS
9 42 (2.01%) AngularJS
10 41 (1.96%) RESTful
11 38 (1.82%) .NET
11 38 (1.82%) Web Services
11 38 (1.82%) XML
12 36 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
13 32 (1.53%) Spring Boot
14 31 (1.49%) PySpark
15 29 (1.39%) LDAP
16 25 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
17 24 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (3.55%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 61 (2.92%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.49%) PKI
6 48 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 32 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.20%) CMDB
11 23 (1.10%) CSOC
11 23 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
12 22 (1.05%) Replication
13 20 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.81%) AI Agents
16 16 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
17 15 (0.72%) Driving Licence
17 15 (0.72%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (6.47%) Linux
2 126 (6.04%) Windows
3 54 (2.59%) Mac OS
4 41 (1.96%) Android
5 23 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.01%) VMS
7 19 (0.91%) Unix
8 18 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.81%) Windows Server
10 11 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.048%) AIX
14 1 (0.048%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) VME
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (26.50%) Agile
2 391 (18.74%) DevOps
3 363 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 240 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
6 185 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 184 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 178 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 167 (8.00%) Migration
10 134 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
12 123 (5.89%) Analytics
12 123 (5.89%) Microservices
13 120 (5.75%) Scrum
14 115 (5.51%) Containerisation
14 115 (5.51%) Data Modelling
15 112 (5.37%) Roadmaps
16 104 (4.98%) AI
17 102 (4.89%) Software Engineering
18 98 (4.70%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 340 (16.29%) Python
2 210 (10.06%) SQL
3 162 (7.76%) Java
4 146 (7.00%) JavaScript
5 118 (5.65%) PowerShell
6 90 (4.31%) Bash
7 74 (3.55%) TypeScript
8 54 (2.59%) C#
9 29 (1.39%) Go
10 21 (1.01%) C++
11 19 (0.91%) Ruby
12 17 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.67%) Bicep
14 13 (0.62%) Scala
15 12 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.57%) Perl
16 10 (0.48%) Groovy
17 9 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,721 (82.46%) SC Cleared
2 271 (12.99%) DV Cleared
3 82 (3.93%) Degree
4 59 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.63%) CISSP
8 33 (1.58%) CHECK Team Member
9 27 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.25%) CHECK Team Leader
11 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.10%) OSCP
12 21 (1.01%) CREST Certified
13 18 (0.86%) CCNP
13 18 (0.86%) CISM
14 13 (0.62%) SAP Certification
15 12 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (0.57%) Tigerscheme
16 11 (0.53%) CEH
17 10 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 56 (2.68%) QA
3 49 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.25%) NIST
5 46 (2.20%) NCSC
6 31 (1.49%) GDPR
7 23 (1.10%) SLA
8 17 (0.81%) WCAG
9 16 (0.77%) GRC
10 13 (0.62%) PMO
11 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 220 (10.54%) Docker
2 82 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.43%) DFS Replication
6 9 (0.43%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.43%) Postfix
6 9 (0.43%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.19%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.096%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.048%) etcd
12 1 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 247 (11.84%) Kubernetes
2 245 (11.74%) Terraform
3 72 (3.45%) Ansible
4 44 (2.11%) Grafana
5 40 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.34%) Packer
8 22 (1.05%) Consul
9 21 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (0.91%) Argo
11 17 (0.81%) SCCM
12 15 (0.72%) Kibana
13 13 (0.62%) Nessus
13 13 (0.62%) Nmap
14 10 (0.48%) vRealize
15 9 (0.43%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.38%) AirWatch
16 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 254 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.80%) Oracle
3 108 (5.17%) SAP
4 92 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.22%) Cisco
6 56 (2.68%) Splunk
7 51 (2.44%) VMware
8 47 (2.25%) Apple
9 42 (2.01%) HP
10 38 (1.82%) Dell
11 37 (1.77%) Databricks
12 35 (1.68%) Salesforce
13 32 (1.53%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.39%) Foundry
14 29 (1.39%) Palantir
15 27 (1.29%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.25%) IBM
17 24 (1.15%) Google
17 24 (1.15%) Remedy
18 23 (1.10%) F5