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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 3,560 1,756 1,964
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.63% 12.95% 12.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.44% 49.35% 50.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,725 1,244 1,434
10th Percentile £400 £368 £363
25th Percentile £463 £455 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.67% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £700 £744
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 24
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £16.74
25th Percentile £28.50 - £19.70
Median hourly rate £57.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.63% +14.32% -63.40%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £36.88
90th Percentile £86.18 £47.25 £63.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £58.43
% change year-on-year +158.45% -56.96% -2.61%

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 5,612 3,558 3,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.79% 26.23% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 2,392 2,687
10th Percentile £374 £338 £350
25th Percentile £455 £431 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -1.86% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 89 70
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.65 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £30.81
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -18.37% -43.98%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £68.08
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +12 440 £550 +4.76% 124
South London 0 123 £525 -0.47% 13
West London -33 19 £675 +68.54% 46
East London +9 12 £750 - 21
North London +1 4 - -
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
1 158 (4.44%) Confluence
2 111 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.24%) SAS
4 33 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.87%) Apache
6 26 (0.73%) nginx
7 22 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.31%) JBoss
10 9 (0.25%) CMS
11 8 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.084%) Mule
16 2 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
4 15 (0.42%) Revit
4 15 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
5 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.084%) Sketch
8 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.028%) InDesign
8 1 (0.028%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 15 (0.42%) Findur
6 13 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
7 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 8 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.14%) SAP QM
13 4 (0.11%) iTrent
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.11%) SAP GRC
13 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 823 (23.12%) Azure
2 757 (21.26%) AWS
3 268 (7.53%) GitHub
4 225 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (6.04%) Power Platform
6 192 (5.39%) GCP
7 168 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
8 125 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 123 (3.46%) Serverless
10 93 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
11 86 (2.42%) Entra ID
12 78 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
14 73 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (1.97%) Power Automate
16 68 (1.91%) PowerApps
17 67 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (1.85%) Azure AKS
19 62 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.56%) Firewall
2 79 (2.22%) DNS
3 59 (1.66%) Network Security
4 46 (1.29%) VPN
5 30 (0.84%) WAN
6 25 (0.70%) LAN
7 19 (0.53%) DHCP
8 18 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.39%) Internet
10 12 (0.34%) HTTP
11 11 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.25%) DKIM
12 9 (0.25%) DMARC
12 9 (0.25%) MPLS
12 9 (0.25%) SSL
12 9 (0.25%) VSAN
12 9 (0.25%) WebEx
13 8 (0.22%) 4G
14 7 (0.20%) BGP
14 7 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (4.16%) Power BI
2 104 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 74 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 60 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 47 (1.32%) Metadata
7 41 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 38 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 36 (1.01%) MongoDB
10 33 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (0.79%) Tableau
12 26 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 25 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (0.70%) Delta Lake
14 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (0.67%) MySQL
15 23 (0.65%) Big Data
16 21 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 212 (5.96%) Git
2 211 (5.93%) JIRA
3 194 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 131 (3.68%) GitLab
5 43 (1.21%) Selenium
6 29 (0.81%) JMeter
7 23 (0.65%) Gradle
7 23 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.56%) JUnit
9 20 (0.56%) Maven
9 20 (0.56%) Mockito
10 19 (0.53%) Postman
11 11 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 11 (0.31%) LoadRunner
11 11 (0.31%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.28%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.28%) Gatling
13 9 (0.25%) Liquibase
General
1 975 (27.39%) Public Sector
2 725 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 340 (9.55%) Finance
4 253 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (2.95%) Banking
6 93 (2.61%) Military
7 68 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 52 (1.46%) Police
11 48 (1.35%) Law
12 37 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (0.98%) Legal
14 31 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (0.84%) Marketing
16 28 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 28 (0.79%) Retail
17 20 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.48%) Local Government
19 15 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 649 (18.23%) Architect
2 457 (12.84%) Developer
3 346 (9.72%) Lead
4 313 (8.79%) Senior
5 237 (6.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 189 (5.31%) Data Engineer
7 179 (5.03%) Analyst
8 157 (4.41%) Consultant
9 124 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 105 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
11 100 (2.81%) Software Engineer
12 99 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
13 98 (2.75%) Designer
14 95 (2.67%) Java Developer
15 94 (2.64%) Data Architect
16 91 (2.56%) Security Architect
17 87 (2.44%) Technical Architect
18 84 (2.36%) Business Analyst
18 84 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
18 84 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (4.58%) REST
2 116 (3.26%) Spring
3 96 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 92 (2.58%) .NET
4 92 (2.58%) React
5 90 (2.53%) Kafka
6 87 (2.44%) RESTful
7 67 (1.88%) SOAP
8 66 (1.85%) JSON
9 63 (1.77%) Node.js
10 61 (1.71%) PySpark
11 58 (1.63%) HTML
12 56 (1.57%) AngularJS
13 50 (1.40%) Web Services
13 50 (1.40%) XML
14 45 (1.26%) Django
15 37 (1.04%) Middleware
15 37 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
16 34 (0.96%) OAuth
17 29 (0.81%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 211 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 122 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 106 (2.98%) Product Ownership
4 67 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 61 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 59 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.52%) CMDB
9 48 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.04%) Clustering
10 37 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 35 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 35 (0.98%) Replication
13 32 (0.90%) Security Posture
14 28 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
15 26 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
15 26 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (0.70%) Low-Code
16 25 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (5.31%) Linux
2 166 (4.66%) Windows
3 64 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (0.90%) Unix
6 30 (0.84%) Android
7 17 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.37%) VMS
10 12 (0.34%) Solaris
11 11 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.084%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (23.01%) Agile
2 768 (21.57%) DevOps
3 678 (19.04%) CI/CD
4 493 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 425 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 354 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 345 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 324 (9.10%) AI
9 312 (8.76%) Migration
10 310 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
11 274 (7.70%) Containerisation
12 246 (6.91%) Analytics
13 239 (6.71%) Data Modelling
14 233 (6.54%) Roadmaps
15 228 (6.40%) Test Automation
16 222 (6.24%) Decision-Making
17 212 (5.96%) Software Engineering
18 196 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
19 192 (5.39%) Microservices
20 185 (5.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 464 (13.03%) Python
2 403 (11.32%) SQL
3 309 (8.68%) Java
4 169 (4.75%) JavaScript
5 140 (3.93%) PowerShell
6 114 (3.20%) C#
7 101 (2.84%) Bash
8 82 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 47 (1.32%) Bicep
10 40 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.87%) Groovy
12 30 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 28 (0.79%) Ruby
14 26 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.48%) R
16 17 (0.48%) Scala
17 11 (0.31%) C++
17 11 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,926 (82.19%) SC Cleared
2 452 (12.70%) DV Cleared
3 112 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 88 (2.47%) Degree
5 68 (1.91%) AWS Certification
5 68 (1.91%) CISSP
6 62 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 52 (1.46%) CISM
8 41 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (0.96%) PMP
10 27 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
13 20 (0.56%) GIAC
14 17 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.39%) CEH
15 14 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.39%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (4.52%) QA
2 135 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.50%) NCSC
4 83 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 72 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (1.99%) PMO
7 66 (1.85%) NIST
8 57 (1.60%) GRC
9 52 (1.46%) GDPR
10 25 (0.70%) WCAG
11 20 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
13 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.48%) SLA
14 13 (0.37%) COBIT
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.28%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.25%) P3O
18 8 (0.22%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 297 (8.34%) Docker
2 99 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (0.65%) vSphere
6 22 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.28%) Squid
10 8 (0.22%) Postfix
11 7 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.14%) NFS
13 5 (0.14%) Varnish
13 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.11%) Firmware
14 4 (0.11%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.11%) UAG
14 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 435 (12.22%) Terraform
2 375 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 125 (3.51%) Ansible
4 107 (3.01%) Grafana
5 91 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.93%) Puppet
7 24 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.62%) SCCM
9 19 (0.53%) Control-M
9 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.51%) Argo
10 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.42%) Istio
11 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.39%) Kibana
13 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.31%) Packer
15 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 419 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 231 (6.49%) Oracle
3 160 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 112 (3.15%) Databricks
5 110 (3.09%) VMware
6 109 (3.06%) Google
7 103 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 69 (1.94%) Splunk
9 68 (1.91%) SAP
10 41 (1.15%) IBM
11 38 (1.07%) Cisco
12 33 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 33 (0.93%) Informatica
13 31 (0.87%) Red Hat
14 25 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.56%) Tenable
16 18 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
16 18 (0.51%) Okta
17 17 (0.48%) Foundry
17 17 (0.48%) Palo Alto