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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 15 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 53 63 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.21% 11.73% 5.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.17% 40.38% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 14
10th Percentile £65 £200 £202
25th Percentile £334 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% +13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £554
90th Percentile £575 £628 £610
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £37.50 £46.72
% change year-on-year -61.33% -19.73% +7.40%

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 120 156 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.12% 29.05% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 100 61
10th Percentile £125 £255 £218
25th Percentile £325 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £575
90th Percentile £680 £653 £631
North West median daily rate £513 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile - - £14.38
25th Percentile £14.00 £36.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £20.33 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.18% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £26.66 £65.75 £31.00
90th Percentile £35.83 £66.50 £51.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.87
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.94% -4.50%

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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 24 April 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 24 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
Warrington +1 25 £500 -4.76% 27
Daresbury 0 7 £65 -
Knutsford - 6 £414 - 3
Chester 0 1 £500 - 8
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 (3.77%) IIS
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.77%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.77%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Primavera
2 2 (3.77%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 7 (13.21%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.66%) Route 53
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.77%) SaaS
6 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) PPP
1 7 (13.21%) WAAS
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 3 (5.66%) DMZ
3 3 (5.66%) VPN
4 1 (1.89%) Network Security
4 1 (1.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Billing
4 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (13.21%) Senior
2 5 (9.43%) Developer
2 5 (9.43%) PowerShell Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) SCCM Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) IT Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Consultant
4 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Forensic Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Project Planner
4 3 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Technical Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Design Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) .NET
1 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.77%) CSS
2 2 (3.77%) HTML
2 2 (3.77%) JSON
2 2 (3.77%) REST
2 2 (3.77%) XHTML
3 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (1.89%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.89%) React Native
3 1 (1.89%) Sass
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Insider Threat
3 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.77%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.89%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Agile
2 12 (22.64%) Risk Management
3 10 (18.87%) Asset Management
3 10 (18.87%) Scrum
4 8 (15.09%) User Stories
5 7 (13.21%) Backlog Management
5 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps
5 7 (13.21%) Kanban
5 7 (13.21%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (13.21%) Sprint Retrospective
5 7 (13.21%) Sprint Review
5 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (11.32%) Information Security
7 5 (9.43%) Change Control
8 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.55%) RBAC
9 3 (5.66%) Mentoring
9 3 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.55%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) C#
3 3 (5.66%) Java
3 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.77%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) C
5 1 (1.89%) C++
5 1 (1.89%) Go
5 1 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (83.02%) SC Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 3 (5.66%) ISO17020
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) SCCM
2 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) SAP
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Nintex
3 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.77%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) F5
4 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Symantec
4 1 (1.89%) Veeam
4 1 (1.89%) VMware