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Defence, government, policing and their suppliers hire many contractors who hold, or can obtain, a security clearance. Roles usually say whether an active SC or DV clearance is required or whether you must be eligible for it. Here are the latest security cleared contract roles that Freelance Radar found on LinkedIn: 354 roles live right now, with a median day rate of £575.

Updated on 27 October 2026

354

roles live

£575 /day

median day rate

+81

this week

Hands-on Lead Developer for a 6-month public sector contract, 2 days per week onsite in Westminster, requiring active SC clearance and strong C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, SQL Server, CI/CD and s…

London · Up to £750/day Inside IR35 (Umbrella)

Lead Technical Architect

Experienced Lead Technical Architect for a 6-month contract on a complex digital transformation programme, fully remote, working with GCP, AWS and Azure multicloud architecture, AI solutions, VPC Serv…

Remote (UK) · Up to £850/day (Inside IR35)

Business Analyst

SC Cleared contract Business Analyst for an initial 6-month contract; see job description for details.

Location not specified

SC Cleared Head of IT Support

Interim leader to take ownership of the IT support function, covering Service Desk, Incident, Problem and Asset Management, driving ITSM maturity and service improvements; active SC clearance mandator…

South East Coast of UK · £650 - £700 Inside IR35

Senior DevOps Engineer

Lead the design and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, automation and containerised environments on a secure defence programme, 50% hybrid with some travel to other sites, ASAP start, SC clearance required …

Wiltshire · Inside IR35

CNI Infrastructure Wintel & Security Tools Analyst

Experienced Wintel infrastructure and endpoint security analyst for an initial 6-month extendable contract, hybrid with 3 days onsite per week, requiring active UK SC clearance and skills in Windows S…

Wokingham, UK

CNI Infrastructure Wintel & Security Tools Analyst

Support Windows Server infrastructure and enterprise security tools including Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, patching, antivirus and endpoint security; initial 6 months, hybrid with 3 days onsite, …

ServiceNow SecOps Developer

Urgent hands-on ServiceNow SecOps developer to work across multiple high-profile customers, driving a busy backlog; requires SC clearance eligibility and experience with VR, SIR and Threat Intelligenc…

Location not specified · Competitive day rate Inside IR35

SC Cleared Product Manager

Experienced SC Cleared Product Manager with 10+ years' product management and strong Agile delivery experience, GDS standards knowledge and cloud platform exposure (AWS/GCP) to join a long-term govern…

Location not specified · Outside IR35

Principal Technologist - IT Operations

Long-term 12-month contract to help shape and lead a new IT Operations function for government and the wider public sector, requiring IT Operations leadership, change management on large transformatio…

Hybrid London, Manchester or Bristol · up to £800 pday (Umbrella)

Lead Systems Engineer

Experienced Product Security and Digital Engineering professional to support sensitive aerospace and defence programmes, translating security engineering needs into digital workflows, data models and …

Reading · Inside IR35

Principal Technologist

12-month hybrid contract to shape IT operations strategy across the public sector, covering ITSM, ServiceNow, M365 and large-scale transformation; SC clearance preferred, SC eligible considered.

London, Bristol or Manchester (Hybrid) · £775-£800 per day Inside IR35

Technical Business Analyst

Urgent need for a Technical Business Analyst with Active NPPV3 and SC clearance, immediate availability, 3 days on site in London.

London · Outside IR35

Functional Tester

Functional testing role on a major UK Government & Defence programme, hybrid with typically 60% onsite in London, initial contract until 31 December 2026 (likely extension), requiring Playwright, Sele…

London · £400/day Inside IR35

Change & Adoption Lead

Change and adoption lead role on a major UK Government & Defence programme, hybrid with typically 80% onsite in Poole, initial contract until 27 November 2026, requiring change management, stakeholder…

Poole · £600/day Inside IR35

Java development role on a major UK Government & Defence programme, hybrid with typically 40% onsite in London, contract until October 2027, requiring Java, Spring Boot, back-end/full-stack developmen…

London · £500/day Inside IR35

SC Cleared Security Architect

Long-term project requiring active SC clearance, with expertise in least privilege, Zero Trust, separation of duties, threat modelling, security risk assessment, security architecture artefacts, and s…

Remote · £500 - £700pd Inside IR35

Project Manager

Oversee multiple ongoing Cisco-related projects across London sites, managing workstreams and stakeholders; hands-on PM role requiring active SC clearance, 3 days onsite, 6-month initial contract with…

London (3 days onsite) · Outside IR35

BMC / ITSM Tester

Testing across enterprise BMC Remedy / Helix ITSM platforms covering functional, regression and integration testing, SIT/UAT and defect management; UK-based only and SC clearance eligible.

United Kingdom · £350-£450 per day Outside IR35

Lead Technical Architect

Lead technical architect for a major government AI transformation programme, shaping and delivering AI-enabled services with multi-cloud (GCP/AWS) architecture, VPC Service Controls and a security-fir…

Remote · Inside IR35

Service Desk Analyst

Service desk analyst contract until March with SC clearance required.

Newcastle · £300 - £340/Day Inside IR35

Senior Sub-Contract Buyer

12-month defence and aerospace subcontract procurement role covering commercial negotiations, supplier management and delivery, requiring SC clearance, MRP/BoM/export compliance experience and SAP/ERP…

Luton · £31 p/h Inside IR35

Interim Head of IT

Lead IT service delivery, improve performance and bring structure to key IT operations, with experience in major incidents, problem management and service desk operations; current valid SC clearance e…

Southampton · £600 - £650 per day

SC Cleared Lead System Architect (Pega)

Hands-on technical leader to own technical architecture and design authority and lead development teams delivering large-scale Pega implementations on a major UK government programme, fully remote.

UK-based - Fully Remote · £575-£625 inside IR35

Lead Technical Architect

Enterprise/technical/solution architecture leadership role driving technology strategy, architecture governance and AI adoption across complex enterprise-scale environments; active SC clearance requir…

London (Hybrid) · Competitive

DV Cleared Project Manager

Deliver critical infrastructure and refurbishment projects valued £50k-£17m on a 6-month contract (extensions likely), 4 days onsite in High Wycombe, requiring active DV clearance, critical infrastruc…

High Wycombe · Up to £550/day Outside IR35

Java Modernization Technical Architect

6-month hybrid contract in London requiring active UK SC clearance to lead Java modernization and migration from legacy app servers to Azure cloud-native architecture (Spring Boot, AKS, microservices,…

London, UK (Hybrid) · Market Rate (Inside IR35)

DV-Cleared Red Team Operator / Offensive Security Consultant

Deliver red team operations, adversary simulation and advanced penetration testing for a Defence and National Security client, requiring active DV clearance, sole UK nationality, malware/exploit/cloud…

Bristol HQ – 3–4 days onsite, with travel across the South West · Up to £86 per hour Inside IR35

Defence planning roles on MOD contracts around Bristol, requiring SC/DV clearance and around 3 days per week on site, CV-based selection with no interview.

Bristol · £350-£400 per day Inside IR35

Project Controller

Defence project control roles on MOD contracts around Bristol, requiring SC/DV clearance and around 3 days per week on site, CV-based selection with no interview.

Bristol · £350-£400 per day Inside IR35

Defence scheduling roles on MOD contracts around Bristol, requiring SC/DV clearance and around 3 days per week on site, CV-based selection with no interview.

Bristol · £500-£600 per day Inside IR35

Project Manager

Defence project management roles on MOD contracts around Bristol, requiring SC/DV clearance and around 3 days per week on site, CV-based selection with no interview.

Bristol · £250-£300 per day Inside IR35

Digital Thread & Integration PMO

Technically minded PMO professional to support Digital Engineering, Digital Thread and system integration initiatives, covering project planning, dependency tracking, coordination across technical tea…

Reading · £518/day Inside IR35

IT Supplier Manager

Experienced IT Supplier Manager to lead supplier strategy, commercial negotiations, tendering, SLAs, KPIs and governance within a technology environment; active SC clearance and sole UK nationality re…

Reading · £555/day Inside IR35

Assistant Project Manager

Support project planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, RAID log management, stakeholder communication and reporting, budget and governance within a technology-focused defence environment; active SC…

Reading · £450/day Inside IR35

Senior User Researcher

Experienced Senior User Researcher needed for a large-scale digital public-sector programme, remote across the UK, contract until 14 August 2027 with immediate start; must be eligible for SC clearance…

Remote across UK · £350/day Inside IR35

Technical / Software Architect

Contract role requiring AWS, Kafka, secure architecture and DevSecOps, Outside IR35, hybrid in Bristol/South West, active SC required, NPPV3 preferred.

Security Assurance Coordinator

Urgent long-term contract for a Security Assurance Coordinator with MOD Security Governance, Risk & Compliance, Secure by Design (SbD) JSP 440 and vulnerability management experience; hybrid in Corsha…

Corsham (Hybrid) · £575 per day (Inside IR35)

Lead Technical Architect

Contract Lead Technical Architect role until April, remote, requiring SC clearance.

Remote · £Market rates/Day Inside IR35

Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer for a contract until April, remote, requiring SC clearance.

Remote · £Market rates/Day Inside IR35