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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 132 114 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 68.04% 71.70% 45.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 96.35% 98.28% 83.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 82 44
10th Percentile £500 £508 £454
25th Percentile £525 £535 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +14.29% +13.75%
75th Percentile £694 £709 £708
90th Percentile £745 £761 £767
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.50 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -57.69% - -

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 137 116 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 70.62% 72.96% 54.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 54
10th Percentile £513 £509 £249
25th Percentile £525 £528 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £655
90th Percentile £738 £760 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £588 £558 £525
% change year-on-year +5.38% +6.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.19 £85.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -78.73% - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £21.00 £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -73.08% +41.82% +22.22%

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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 10 May 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 (9.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
1 24 (18.18%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.18%) AWS
2 17 (12.88%) Azure
3 9 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
4 8 (6.06%) Serverless
5 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.52%) IaaS
7 2 (1.52%) PaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.76%) npm
8 1 (0.76%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Network Security
2 5 (3.79%) AMQP
2 5 (3.79%) LAN
3 3 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.52%) Internet
4 2 (1.52%) IPv4
4 2 (1.52%) MPLS
4 2 (1.52%) OSPF
4 2 (1.52%) VLAN
4 2 (1.52%) VPN
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
4 2 (1.52%) WLAN
5 1 (0.76%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) Firewall
5 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.76%) PBX
5 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.52%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 27 (20.45%) JIRA
2 11 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.27%) Git
3 3 (2.27%) Selenium
4 2 (1.52%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.52%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.76%) Babel
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) ESLint
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) JMeter
5 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.76%) Vite
5 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 33 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (19.70%) Finance
4 25 (18.94%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Legal
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (20.45%) Lead
2 24 (18.18%) Project Leader
3 17 (12.88%) Architect
4 15 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) SharePoint Architect
6 10 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Analyst
10 6 (4.55%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Information Manager
11 5 (3.79%) Information Security Manager
11 5 (3.79%) Security Manager
12 4 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) Spring
2 7 (5.30%) .NET
3 6 (4.55%) React
4 5 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.03%) Node.js
5 4 (3.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.52%) ADO
6 2 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.52%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.52%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.52%) Vue
7 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.76%) CSS
7 1 (0.76%) HTML
7 1 (0.76%) Jest
7 1 (0.76%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.76%) Parceljs
7 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.03%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.27%) CMDB
3 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.76%) PKI
4 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.15%) Linux
2 5 (3.79%) Windows
3 2 (1.52%) Unix
3 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) CentOS
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.64%) Agile
2 31 (23.48%) Project Management
3 30 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (21.97%) PRINCE2
5 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (21.21%) Workshop Facilitation
6 26 (19.70%) DevOps
6 26 (19.70%) Project Planning
7 25 (18.94%) Project Delivery
7 25 (18.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 24 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
8 24 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 24 (18.18%) Data Management
9 15 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 13 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (7.58%) Configuration Management
11 10 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 9 (6.82%) Information Assurance
12 9 (6.82%) Observability
12 9 (6.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) Python
2 22 (16.67%) C
3 17 (12.88%) Java
4 10 (7.58%) SQL
5 9 (6.82%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.06%) C#
6 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.30%) Go
8 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.03%) Bash
9 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 119 (90.15%) DV Cleared
2 26 (19.70%) APMP
3 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) GIAC
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.18%) PMO
2 4 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (21.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 22 (16.67%) Terraform
2 16 (12.12%) Ansible
3 13 (9.85%) Grafana
3 13 (9.85%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.06%) Docker Swarm
5 7 (5.30%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.76%) Kibana
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 27 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.03%) Cisco
2 4 (3.03%) VMware
3 3 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.52%) OpenText
4 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.76%) Informatica
5 1 (0.76%) Juniper
5 1 (0.76%) Splunk