Security Cleared Contracts in Cheltenham

Security Clearance
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 126 114 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 70.39% 70.37% 49.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 96.18% 98.28% 84.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 82 49
10th Percentile £501 £508 £448
25th Percentile £525 £527 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +20.93% +7.89%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £648
90th Percentile £741 £738 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.00 £78.00 £117.00
% change year-on-year -57.69% -33.33% +103.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 131 116 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 73.18% 71.60% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 83 59
10th Percentile £507 £509 £223
25th Percentile £525 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +23.81% +5.38%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £641
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £18.19 £81.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.54% - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £24.25 £78.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -68.91% +35.65% +27.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (10.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Office
1 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Project
1 20 (15.87%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) AWS
2 16 (12.70%) Azure
3 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.35%) OpenShift
4 8 (6.35%) Serverless
5 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.59%) IaaS
7 2 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.79%) npm
8 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Network Security
2 5 (3.97%) AMQP
2 5 (3.97%) LAN
3 3 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.59%) Internet
4 2 (1.59%) IPv4
4 2 (1.59%) MPLS
4 2 (1.59%) OSPF
4 2 (1.59%) VLAN
4 2 (1.59%) VPN
4 2 (1.59%) WAN
4 2 (1.59%) WLAN
5 1 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) Firewall
5 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.79%) PBX
5 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.76%) InfluxDB
2 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.79%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 23 (18.25%) JIRA
2 11 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.38%) Git
3 3 (2.38%) Selenium
4 2 (1.59%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.59%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.79%) Babel
5 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.79%) ESLint
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.79%) Vite
5 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 29 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.67%) Finance
3 21 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Legal
5 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Lead
2 20 (15.87%) Project Leader
3 17 (13.49%) Architect
4 14 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) SharePoint Architect
6 10 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Information Manager
9 7 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
9 7 (5.56%) Security Manager
10 6 (4.76%) Consultant
10 6 (4.76%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Junior
12 4 (3.17%) Junior Project Manager
12 4 (3.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) .NET
2 6 (4.76%) React
3 5 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.97%) Spring
3 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.17%) Node.js
4 4 (3.17%) RESTful
5 2 (1.59%) ADO
5 2 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.59%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.59%) Vue
6 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.79%) CSS
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) Jest
6 1 (0.79%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.79%) Middleware
6 1 (0.79%) Parceljs
6 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.17%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.38%) CMDB
3 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.79%) PKI
4 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.08%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.89%) Agile
2 28 (22.22%) Project Management
3 27 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (20.63%) PRINCE2
5 25 (19.84%) DevOps
6 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
7 22 (17.46%) Project Planning
8 21 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 20 (15.87%) Commercial Awareness
9 20 (15.87%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.87%) Data Management
9 20 (15.87%) Project Delivery
10 15 (11.90%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (8.73%) Information Assurance
13 10 (7.94%) Configuration Management
13 10 (7.94%) Scrum
13 10 (7.94%) Software Engineering
14 9 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) C
1 21 (16.67%) Python
2 14 (11.11%) Java
3 10 (7.94%) SQL
4 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.35%) C#
5 8 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.56%) Go
7 5 (3.97%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.17%) Bash
8 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 113 (89.68%) DV Cleared
2 22 (17.46%) APMP
3 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) GIAC
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) PhD
7 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) PMO
2 4 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.67%) Terraform
3 15 (11.90%) Ansible
4 13 (10.32%) Grafana
4 13 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.35%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Cisco
2 4 (3.17%) VMware
3 3 (2.38%) Oracle
4 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.59%) OpenText
4 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.79%) Informatica
5 1 (0.79%) Juniper
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk