Security Cleared Contracts in West End of London

Security Clearance
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 8.70% 17.31% 24.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.00% 64.29% 67.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile £518 - £382
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £252 £495
Median % change year-on-year +129.00% -49.05% +120.00%
75th Percentile £628 - £545
90th Percentile £656 - £638
Central London median daily rate £536 £510 £545
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.42% -0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West End of 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20 14 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 28.99% 26.92% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 19
10th Percentile £281 £214 £370
25th Percentile £365 £229 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £252 £520
Median % change year-on-year +78.44% -51.50% +0.58%
75th Percentile £528 - £631
90th Percentile £600 - £660
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in West End of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in West End of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in West End of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in West End of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in West End of London

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Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Westminster -4 2 £613 -
Holborn - 1 £580 -
Security Cleared
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud9 IDE
2 1 (16.67%) Route 53
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Textract
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mac Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) pydantic
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 1 (16.67%) SciPy
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle