Security Cleared Contracts in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 14 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,082 2,771 2,678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.93% 10.71% 6.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.16% 49.33% 39.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 1,868 1,935
10th Percentile £350 £400 £399
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +3.82% +8.91%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £549
% change year-on-year - +0.14% +9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 45
10th Percentile £14.36 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £41.17 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.33% +34.83% -10.38%
75th Percentile £24.18 £75.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £87.50 £63.15
England median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +20.00% +20.74%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,151 5,617 6,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.78% 21.71% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,821 3,812 4,594
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 78 149
10th Percentile £14.19 £19.82 £24.35
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.75% +1.69% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £84.88 £65.93
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in London

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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 May 2024.

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 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
Central London +1 208 £515 -6.36% 44
South London +1 116 £510 -7.27% 23
West London +24 28 £500 -16.67% 19
East London - 13 £537 - 5
North London -3 1 £385 -4.64% 1
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 79 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.51%) Confluence
3 49 (2.35%) Apache
4 38 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.34%) nginx
6 20 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
7 18 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
8 12 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.58%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
11 5 (0.24%) CMS
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 4 (0.19%) Camunda
12 4 (0.19%) SAS
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.096%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.048%) InVision
9 1 (0.048%) Sketch
9 1 (0.048%) SPSS
9 1 (0.048%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.048%) Weka
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.096%) Maximo
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.096%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.096%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.048%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 532 (25.55%) AWS
2 270 (12.97%) Azure
3 93 (4.47%) Serverless
4 87 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 58 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 49 (2.35%) GCP
9 45 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (1.83%) GitHub
12 35 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (1.54%) OCI
13 32 (1.54%) PaaS
14 31 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
16 29 (1.39%) SaaS
17 25 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.38%) Firewall
2 28 (1.34%) WAN
3 24 (1.15%) DNS
3 24 (1.15%) LAN
4 22 (1.06%) VPN
4 22 (1.06%) Wireless
5 17 (0.82%) Network Security
5 17 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.82%) VoIP
6 15 (0.72%) HTTP
7 14 (0.67%) Skype
8 11 (0.53%) SSL
8 11 (0.53%) WLAN
9 10 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.48%) OSPF
10 9 (0.43%) BGP
11 7 (0.34%) Internet
11 7 (0.34%) IPsec
12 6 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 64 (3.07%) NoSQL
4 63 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (1.97%) Power BI
7 39 (1.87%) Flink
7 39 (1.87%) Metadata
7 39 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.63%) Data Vault
9 33 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 29 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.20%) Big Data
11 25 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
13 20 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 122 (5.86%) Jenkins
1 122 (5.86%) JIRA
2 109 (5.24%) Git
3 63 (3.03%) GitLab
4 43 (2.07%) Selenium
5 37 (1.78%) JUnit
6 36 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 20 (0.96%) TestNG
8 18 (0.86%) Postman
9 16 (0.77%) JMeter
9 16 (0.77%) REST Assured
10 15 (0.72%) Maven
11 14 (0.67%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.62%) Mockito
12 13 (0.62%) SoapUI
13 11 (0.53%) Appium
13 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.48%) eggPlant
14 10 (0.48%) SOAtest
15 9 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 612 (29.39%) Public Sector
2 335 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 243 (11.67%) Finance
4 121 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (2.98%) Telecoms
6 48 (2.31%) Manufacturing
6 48 (2.31%) Marketing
7 45 (2.16%) Banking
7 45 (2.16%) Electronics
8 38 (1.83%) Law
9 36 (1.73%) Military
10 33 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.30%) Police
13 26 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (0.91%) Legal
15 15 (0.72%) Publishing
16 13 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 324 (15.56%) Architect
2 254 (12.20%) Developer
3 172 (8.26%) Senior
4 153 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (6.39%) Analyst
6 108 (5.19%) Consultant
7 96 (4.61%) Data Engineer
8 95 (4.56%) Lead
9 81 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 80 (3.84%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.31%) Project Manager
12 65 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
13 64 (3.07%) Data Architect
14 62 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
15 59 (2.83%) Business Analyst
16 57 (2.74%) Network Engineer
17 54 (2.59%) Technical Architect
18 47 (2.26%) Support Engineer
19 44 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
19 44 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (4.42%) Kafka
2 86 (4.13%) React
3 74 (3.55%) Spring Boot
4 73 (3.51%) Spring
5 63 (3.03%) REST
6 60 (2.88%) HTML
7 55 (2.64%) CSS
8 41 (1.97%) JSON
9 40 (1.92%) Node.js
10 38 (1.83%) .NET
11 27 (1.30%) RESTful
12 25 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
13 23 (1.10%) Hibernate
13 23 (1.10%) JPA
14 21 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (1.01%) Laravel
15 20 (0.96%) Web Services
16 19 (0.91%) OpenID
17 18 (0.86%) Apache Avro
17 18 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (3.22%) Data Centre
2 62 (2.98%) Onboarding
3 29 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 28 (1.34%) Reference Data
5 26 (1.25%) Replication
6 24 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 24 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 18 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 18 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (0.77%) PKI
8 16 (0.77%) Virtual Team
9 14 (0.67%) Security Posture
9 14 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (0.62%) Clustering
10 13 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.58%) Blockchain
12 11 (0.53%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.69%) Linux
2 176 (8.45%) Windows
3 60 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.21%) Unix
5 30 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 28 (1.34%) Windows 7
7 24 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.96%) Android
9 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
9 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.58%) Mac OS X
12 8 (0.38%) VMS
13 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.24%) CentOS
15 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.096%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (18.83%) Agile
2 273 (13.11%) DevOps
3 221 (10.61%) CI/CD
4 173 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (7.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (6.68%) Migration
7 107 (5.14%) Project Management
7 107 (5.14%) Roadmaps
8 105 (5.04%) Microservices
9 102 (4.90%) ITIL
10 101 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
11 100 (4.80%) Data Modelling
12 97 (4.66%) Test Automation
13 95 (4.56%) Analytics
13 95 (4.56%) Scrum
14 94 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
15 85 (4.08%) Change Management
15 85 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (4.08%) Service Management
16 80 (3.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 248 (11.91%) Python
2 236 (11.34%) Java
3 195 (9.37%) SQL
4 137 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 62 (2.98%) PowerShell
6 56 (2.69%) C#
7 53 (2.55%) Bash
8 50 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.25%) Go
10 20 (0.96%) PHP
11 17 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.58%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.48%) Ruby
14 9 (0.43%) C++
14 9 (0.43%) Perl
15 8 (0.38%) C
16 7 (0.34%) ABAP
16 7 (0.34%) R
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.34%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1,605 (77.09%) SC Cleared
2 438 (21.04%) DV Cleared
3 100 (4.80%) Degree
4 55 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
7 23 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 19 (0.91%) PMP
9 18 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 12 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.38%) CCNA
14 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.34%) CCNP
15 7 (0.34%) CISM
15 7 (0.34%) CISSP
15 7 (0.34%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.83%) QA
2 47 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.39%) PMO
5 28 (1.34%) SLA
6 18 (0.86%) NIST
7 17 (0.82%) NCSC
8 12 (0.58%) GDPR
9 11 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.29%) WCAG
11 4 (0.19%) GRC
11 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.14%) COBIT
12 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.096%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.048%) IFRS
14 1 (0.048%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 150 (7.20%) Docker
2 97 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.53%) vSphere
7 5 (0.24%) Firmware
8 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) UAG
9 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) Lustre
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.048%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 210 (10.09%) Terraform
2 194 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 112 (5.38%) Ansible
4 30 (1.44%) Grafana
4 30 (1.44%) Puppet
5 28 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.15%) SCCM
8 21 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.72%) Packer
11 12 (0.58%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.53%) Consul
13 9 (0.43%) VxRail
14 8 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.34%) Nagios
16 6 (0.29%) Kibana
17 5 (0.24%) WSUS
18 4 (0.19%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 185 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 132 (6.34%) Oracle
3 73 (3.51%) SAP
4 67 (3.22%) VMware
5 51 (2.45%) Cisco
6 35 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.44%) Dell
7 30 (1.44%) Sparx
8 25 (1.20%) Splunk
9 21 (1.01%) IBM
10 19 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 19 (0.91%) Databricks
10 19 (0.91%) Juniper
10 19 (0.91%) NetApp
10 19 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 19 (0.91%) Veeam
11 15 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 14 (0.67%) Apple
12 14 (0.67%) F5
12 14 (0.67%) Red Hat