Security Cleared Contracts in Cheshire

Security Clearance
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 50 66 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.96% 12.29% 6.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.98% 41.77% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 45 15
10th Percentile £65 £325 £202
25th Percentile £363 £490 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £549
90th Percentile £575 £628 £603
North West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.50% -
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £41.54 £48.13
% change year-on-year -65.09% -13.69% +10.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 122 158 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.30% 29.42% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 96 66
10th Percentile £158 £321 £243
25th Percentile £363 £400 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £584
90th Percentile £672 £665 £632
North West median daily rate £513 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile - £36.00 £14.38
25th Percentile - £37.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £26.66 £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.38 £45.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £39.61
% change year-on-year -59.85% +0.98% -5.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Warrington 0 21 £500 -4.76% 28
Knutsford - 7 £403 - 2
Daresbury 0 5 £65 -
Chester +5 1 £500 - 4
Northwich - 1 £475 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (4.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.00%) AutoCAD
2 4 (8.00%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Primavera
2 2 (4.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.00%) Route 53
4 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) WAAS
2 5 (10.00%) PPP
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Impala
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (26.00%) Public Sector
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Billing
4 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Senior
2 6 (12.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Design Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Forensic Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Project Planner
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Design Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
1 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.00%) CSS
2 2 (4.00%) HTML
2 2 (4.00%) JSON
2 2 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) XHTML
3 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.00%) React Native
3 1 (2.00%) Sass
3 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Agile
2 8 (16.00%) Asset Management
2 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (12.00%) Scrum
3 6 (12.00%) User Stories
4 5 (10.00%) Backlog Management
4 5 (10.00%) Change Control
4 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (10.00%) Kanban
4 5 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (10.00%) Sprint Review
4 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (8.00%) 3D Modelling
5 4 (8.00%) CAE
5 4 (8.00%) RBAC
5 4 (8.00%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (6.00%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) C#
2 3 (6.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.00%) Bicep
4 1 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) Degree
3 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 3 (6.00%) ISO17020
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) IBM
3 2 (4.00%) Nintex
3 2 (4.00%) Pega
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.00%) Symantec
4 1 (2.00%) Veeam
4 1 (2.00%) VMware