Security Cleared Contracts in Bedfordshire

Security Clearance
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 10 22 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.12% 12.02% 3.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.28% 36.07% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 1
10th Percentile £374 £457 -
25th Percentile £403 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £506 £638 -
90th Percentile £509 £644 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £45.13 £56.88 £51.25
25th Percentile £50.94 £65.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £82.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.76% +39.83% +17.41%
75th Percentile £70.94 £90.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.38 - £69.25
East of England median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -58.26% +4.55% +22.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 47 61 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 19.34% 33.33% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 26
10th Percentile £295 £208 £220
25th Percentile £331 £282 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +21.88% -13.04%
75th Percentile £531 £605 £499
90th Percentile £575 £644 £551
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £24.58 £56.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £30.70 £65.31 £32.00
Median hourly rate £31.80 £82.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.45% +43.48% +14.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £90.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.80 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +51.43% +7.69% -49.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Bedfordshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Luton -14 10 £458 -23.75% 8
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Project Planner
2 1 (10.00%) Requirements Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (10.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (10.00%) Product Management
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (10.00%) SABSA
2 1 (10.00%) SOLID
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens
2 1 (10.00%) VMware