Security Cleared Contracts in the City of London

Security Clearance
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 168 321 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.79% 9.26% 7.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.53% 45.21% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 183 197
10th Percentile £413 £420 £373
25th Percentile £463 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% +10.55%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £650
90th Percentile £775 £763 £719
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £18.22 -
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £19.35 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -73.31% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £20.39 £78.75
90th Percentile - £20.87 -
Central London median hourly rate £20.82 £19.35 £72.50
% change year-on-year +7.56% -73.31% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 436 710 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.22% 20.47% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 413 522
10th Percentile £382 £405 £375
25th Percentile £457 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £20.82 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.34% -18.87% +61.82%
75th Percentile £24.20 £53.50 £56.13
90th Percentile £25.88 £68.75 £72.45
Central London median hourly rate £23.91 £36.10 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.78% -18.87% +122.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.79%) Site Server
3 2 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (1.19%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Camunda
4 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.60%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.60%) JBoss
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.60%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.40%) AWS
2 13 (7.74%) Amazon S3
2 13 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (7.74%) Serverless
3 12 (7.14%) Azure
4 7 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (3.57%) GitHub
6 5 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.79%) IaaS
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.19%) GCP
8 2 (1.19%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.19%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.55%) Firewall
2 7 (4.17%) WAN
3 6 (3.57%) LAN
4 3 (1.79%) DNS
4 3 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.19%) BGP
5 2 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.19%) CTI
5 2 (1.19%) H.323
5 2 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.60%) HSRP
6 1 (0.60%) NAS
6 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.60%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.60%) Skype
6 1 (0.60%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.95%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.17%) Parquet
6 6 (3.57%) Metadata
7 5 (2.98%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.38%) GIS
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.79%) Tableau
10 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.19%) MySQL
10 2 (1.19%) Siebel EIM
11 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.60%) Redis
11 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.60%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Git
1 8 (4.76%) Selenium
2 6 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 6 (3.57%) JIRA
3 4 (2.38%) GitLab
3 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.38%) JUnit
3 4 (2.38%) Postman
3 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.79%) Mockito
4 3 (1.79%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.79%) TestNG
4 3 (1.79%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.19%) Appium
5 2 (1.19%) eggPlant
5 2 (1.19%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.19%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.60%) RStudio
6 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 71 (42.26%) Public Sector
2 21 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Finance
4 6 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.98%) Publishing
6 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Police
7 2 (1.19%) Banking
7 2 (1.19%) Law
7 2 (1.19%) Military
7 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (18.45%) Developer
2 19 (11.31%) Architect
3 14 (8.33%) Senior
4 12 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.95%) Consultant
6 10 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (4.76%) Analyst
7 8 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.17%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) Data Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Designer
10 5 (2.98%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.38%) Applications Developer
11 4 (2.38%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.33%) Kafka
2 13 (7.74%) CSS
2 13 (7.74%) HTML
3 10 (5.95%) JSON
4 9 (5.36%) Spring
5 8 (4.76%) REST
5 8 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.17%) Apache Avro
6 7 (4.17%) Node.js
6 7 (4.17%) OpenID
6 7 (4.17%) SAML
7 6 (3.57%) .NET
7 6 (3.57%) XACML
8 5 (2.98%) React
9 4 (2.38%) jQuery
9 4 (2.38%) RESTful
10 3 (1.79%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.79%) JAX-RS
10 3 (1.79%) Web Services
10 3 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.98%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.19%) Clustering
3 2 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.19%) PKI
3 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.60%) CBDC
4 1 (0.60%) CCTV
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.60%) CMDB
4 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.60%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.60%) Social Media
4 1 (0.60%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.74%) Linux
2 7 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (1.79%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.79%) Unix
3 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.19%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.60%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.60%) VMS
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.86%) Agile
2 20 (11.90%) DevOps
3 13 (7.74%) ETL
3 13 (7.74%) Test Automation
4 12 (7.14%) Data Modelling
5 11 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (5.95%) CI/CD
6 10 (5.95%) Data Ingestion
6 10 (5.95%) Web Development
7 9 (5.36%) Project Delivery
7 9 (5.36%) Security Architecture
8 8 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (4.76%) SFIA
9 7 (4.17%) Data Lineage
9 7 (4.17%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (4.17%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (4.17%) Microservices
9 7 (4.17%) Migration
10 6 (3.57%) ITIL
10 6 (3.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.67%) Python
2 20 (11.90%) Java
3 18 (10.71%) SQL
4 15 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.98%) C#
7 4 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.79%) Bash
8 3 (1.79%) Korn
9 2 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) Rust
10 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 128 (76.19%) SC Cleared
2 28 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.79%) CCNA
4 3 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.79%) CISM
4 3 (1.79%) CISSP
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) MBA
5 1 (0.60%) SANS
5 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.38%) NIST
3 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.19%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.19%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.74%) Terraform
3 11 (6.55%) Ansible
4 8 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.19%) Packer
5 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.19%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) Consul
6 1 (0.60%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.60%) logstash
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) SCCM
6 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.95%) Oracle
3 8 (4.76%) Cisco
4 6 (3.57%) Okta
5 5 (2.98%) IBM
5 5 (2.98%) Sparx
5 5 (2.98%) VMware
6 4 (2.38%) ESRI
6 4 (2.38%) SAP
7 3 (1.79%) Avaya
7 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.19%) Dell
8 2 (1.19%) Google
8 2 (1.19%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.19%) Siebel
9 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.60%) Veeam
9 1 (0.60%) Zoho