Security Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 208 337 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.67% 9.00% 7.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.24% 43.99% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 196 205
10th Percentile £402 £403 £363
25th Percentile £455 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £658
90th Percentile £765 £763 £725
London median daily rate £538 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.82% +2.73% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £21.19 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -63.33% +34.83% -10.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 481 766 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.06% 20.45% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 454 570
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 19
10th Percentile - £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £37.75
Median hourly rate £23.91 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +13.19% +127.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.75 £57.00
90th Percentile £38.73 £71.75 £66.95
London median hourly rate £25.00 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.86% -3.37% +18.67%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
City of London -1 179 £511 -7.88% 37
West End of London -1 9 £252 -50.31% 2
City of Westminster -3 9 - - 3
Security Cleared
London

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 13 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.92%) nginx
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.96%) Site Server
4 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.48%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Moodle
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.48%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.00%) AWS
2 15 (7.21%) Amazon S3
2 15 (7.21%) Azure
3 13 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (6.25%) Serverless
4 7 (3.37%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (3.37%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.40%) GitHub
7 4 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.96%) GCP
9 2 (0.96%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Firewall
2 8 (3.85%) WAN
3 6 (2.88%) LAN
4 3 (1.44%) DNS
5 2 (0.96%) CTI
5 2 (0.96%) H.323
5 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.96%) Softphone
5 2 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.96%) VLAN
5 2 (0.96%) VoIP
5 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.96%) Wireless
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) NAS
6 1 (0.48%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) Skype
6 1 (0.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.37%) Parquet
5 7 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.88%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (2.88%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.88%) Metadata
6 6 (2.88%) Power BI
6 6 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.40%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.44%) GIS
8 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Selenium
2 9 (4.33%) Cucumber
2 9 (4.33%) Git
3 8 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.85%) JIRA
4 7 (3.37%) JUnit
5 6 (2.88%) GitLab
6 5 (2.40%) Maven
6 5 (2.40%) Postman
6 5 (2.40%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.40%) TestNG
7 4 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.92%) Mockito
7 4 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.92%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.44%) JMeter
8 3 (1.44%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.96%) Appium
9 2 (0.96%) EasyMock
9 2 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 37 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.90%) Finance
4 9 (4.33%) Law
5 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Banking
6 6 (2.88%) Police
7 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Publishing
8 4 (1.92%) Military
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (15.38%) Developer
2 26 (12.50%) Architect
3 18 (8.65%) Analyst
4 16 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 14 (6.73%) Consultant
5 14 (6.73%) Senior
6 12 (5.77%) Business Analyst
6 12 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.81%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.85%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.37%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.37%) Network Operations Engineer
9 7 (3.37%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (2.88%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (2.88%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
11 5 (2.40%) Designer
12 4 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (1.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.21%) Kafka
2 11 (5.29%) CSS
2 11 (5.29%) HTML
2 11 (5.29%) Spring
3 10 (4.81%) JSON
3 10 (4.81%) REST
3 10 (4.81%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.33%) XML
5 7 (3.37%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.37%) Node.js
5 7 (3.37%) OpenID
5 7 (3.37%) SAML
6 6 (2.88%) .NET
6 6 (2.88%) XACML
7 5 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.40%) JAX-RS
7 5 (2.40%) React
8 4 (1.92%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.92%) RESTful
9 3 (1.44%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.40%) Reference Data
2 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
2 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.44%) Social Media
4 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.96%) CBDC
4 2 (0.96%) Clustering
4 2 (0.96%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.96%) PKI
4 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.48%) Digital Currency
5 1 (0.48%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.48%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.21%) Linux
2 9 (4.33%) Windows
3 4 (1.92%) Unix
3 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.44%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.75%) Agile
2 22 (10.58%) DevOps
3 18 (8.65%) Data Modelling
4 17 (8.17%) Test Automation
5 16 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 16 (7.69%) ETL
6 14 (6.73%) Project Management
7 13 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (4.81%) Data Ingestion
8 10 (4.81%) Roadmaps
8 10 (4.81%) Scrum
9 9 (4.33%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (4.33%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (4.33%) Microservices
9 9 (4.33%) Migration
9 9 (4.33%) Project Delivery
9 9 (4.33%) Security Architecture
9 9 (4.33%) SFIA
9 9 (4.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (4.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.46%) Python
2 27 (12.98%) SQL
3 24 (11.54%) Java
4 14 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.88%) PL/SQL
5 6 (2.88%) XPath
5 6 (2.88%) XQuery
6 5 (2.40%) C#
6 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.92%) Bash
8 2 (0.96%) C++
8 2 (0.96%) Korn
8 2 (0.96%) PHP
8 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.48%) C
9 1 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.48%) Rust
9 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.48%) VC++
Qualifications
1 161 (77.40%) SC Cleared
2 30 (14.42%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.25%) Degree
4 8 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.92%) ACCA
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.44%) CCNA
6 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.44%) CISM
6 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) MBA
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.48%) SANS
8 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) QA
2 6 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.92%) NIST
4 4 (1.92%) PMO
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.96%) GDPR
6 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (7.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.48%) Lustre
4 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.17%) Terraform
3 12 (5.77%) Ansible
4 9 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.44%) Consul
6 3 (1.44%) Packer
7 2 (0.96%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.48%) Grafana
8 1 (0.48%) Kibana
8 1 (0.48%) logstash
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (10.10%) Oracle
2 13 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.81%) SAP
4 7 (3.37%) IBM
5 6 (2.88%) Okta
6 5 (2.40%) Cisco
6 5 (2.40%) Sparx
7 4 (1.92%) VMware
8 3 (1.44%) Avaya
8 3 (1.44%) ESRI
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) Brandwatch
9 2 (0.96%) Dell
9 2 (0.96%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) MKS
9 2 (0.96%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.96%) Siebel
10 1 (0.48%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.48%) Kenna