Security Cleared Contracts in South London

Security Clearance
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 56 117 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 32.00% 50.21% 30.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 86.15% 90.00% 73.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 79 92
10th Percentile £450 £299 £468
25th Percentile £463 £417 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £649
90th Percentile £738 £630 £725
London median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -63.33% +34.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 65 130 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 37.14% 55.79% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 91 127
10th Percentile £448 £281 £371
25th Percentile £464 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £638
90th Percentile £738 £630 £725
London median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £70.24 £41.76 -
25th Percentile £72.40 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £78.40 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% - -
75th Percentile £82.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.28% -47.37% +6.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Croydon 0 54 £520 +1.76% 9
Kingston Upon Thames 0 1 - - 7
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.71%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
3 2 (3.57%) Camunda
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.79%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) Serverless
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.50%) Azure
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.93%) PaaS
6 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (7.14%) IaaS
7 4 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 3 (5.36%) Parquet
6 2 (3.57%) GIS
6 2 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.07%) Git
3 8 (14.29%) JIRA
4 7 (12.50%) GitLab
5 5 (8.93%) Gradle
5 5 (8.93%) JUnit
5 5 (8.93%) Liquibase
5 5 (8.93%) Mockito
6 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) Postman
6 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.57%) Selenium
7 1 (1.79%) Storybook
7 1 (1.79%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (46.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Electronics
4 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 6 (10.71%) Marketing
4 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.14%) Military
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (17.86%) Java Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Software Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Architect
3 5 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Lead
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 2 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) Kafka
2 10 (17.86%) Spring
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.71%) React
5 5 (8.93%) OpenAPI
5 5 (8.93%) Swagger
6 3 (5.36%) Apache Avro
6 3 (5.36%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (5.36%) JSON
6 3 (5.36%) Keycloak
6 3 (5.36%) REST
7 2 (3.57%) .NET
7 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.57%) HTML
7 2 (3.57%) XML
8 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.79%) MIDP
8 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.36%) PKI
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) CSOC
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) SCADA
4 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Microservices
2 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
2 19 (33.93%) DevOps
3 16 (28.57%) Agile
3 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 13 (23.21%) TDD
5 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 7 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (10.71%) Programme Management
10 5 (8.93%) Migration
10 5 (8.93%) Product Management
10 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.14%) Bash
5 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.36%) C#
7 2 (3.57%) Lua
7 2 (3.57%) Perl
7 2 (3.57%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (94.64%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.79%) GDPR
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.29%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 6 (10.71%) Grafana
4 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.79%) Functional Safety
6 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.79%) Puppet
6 1 (1.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) SAP
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Confluent
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.79%) Siemens