Security Cleared Contracts in Essex

Security Clearance
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 10 32 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.44% 13.33% 13.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.28% 42.67% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 38
10th Percentile £391 £271 £446
25th Percentile £415 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% -6.52% +21.37%
75th Percentile £508 £642 £630
90th Percentile £524 £651 £696
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile £54.75 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +71.43% -30.99%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.63 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -58.26% +6.98% +19.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 47 75 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.89% 31.25% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 43 71
10th Percentile £121 £120 £375
25th Percentile £363 £280 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -3.47% +15.11%
75th Percentile £625 £566 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 6
10th Percentile £12.62 £56.63 £17.38
25th Percentile £35.65 £57.19 £22.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £27.48
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +131.99% -11.35%
75th Percentile £66.94 £69.13 £33.99
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.81 £35.10
East of England median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% +7.69% -49.19%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Essex over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 28 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
Basildon +1 8 - - 1
Harlow -1 1 £400 -27.27%
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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%) Windchill
General
1 4 (40.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) RF Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) UI Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Designer
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Hardware Design Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) PDM
2 3 (30.00%) Physics
3 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) PLM
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Keysight
2 1 (10.00%) Mentor Graphics
2 1 (10.00%) PTC
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat