Security Cleared Contracts in Gloucestershire

Security Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 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 230 303 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 55.16% 64.74% 44.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 91.63% 90.72% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 217 181
10th Percentile £425 £400 £413
25th Percentile £519 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £625
90th Percentile £763 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 0
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £15.75 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £33.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 -
90th Percentile £69.38 - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 251 334 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 60.19% 71.37% 53.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 231 222
10th Percentile £425 £400 £313
25th Percentile £519 £466 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £625
90th Percentile £756 £738 £680
South West median daily rate £550 £580 £522
% change year-on-year -5.09% +11.12% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 3
10th Percentile £15.75 £49.25 £46.20
25th Percentile £15.82 £65.00 £49.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +41.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.00 £83.40 £59.00
South West median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £62.75
% change year-on-year -6.87% +4.38% +39.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Cheltenham 0 128 £563 -13.46% 60
Gloucester 0 36 £600 +14.29% 11
Filton +2 12 £640 +39.13% 1
Tewkesbury 0 6 - - 15
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 23 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (10.43%) Microsoft Office
1 24 (10.43%) Microsoft Project
1 24 (10.43%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.00%) AWS
2 41 (17.83%) Azure
3 28 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.91%) Serverless
6 8 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.48%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.48%) OpenShift
7 6 (2.61%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.61%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.61%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.17%) GitHub
8 5 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.74%) PaaS
10 3 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.87%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.52%) Network Security
2 11 (4.78%) Firewall
3 10 (4.35%) LAN
4 7 (3.04%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.17%) AMQP
6 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.30%) PBX
7 3 (1.30%) VoIP
8 2 (0.87%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) IPv4
8 2 (0.87%) MPLS
8 2 (0.87%) OSPF
8 2 (0.87%) VLAN
8 2 (0.87%) VPN
8 2 (0.87%) WAN
8 2 (0.87%) WLAN
9 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.43%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.61%) InfluxDB
2 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) Essbase
4 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (16.09%) JIRA
2 25 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.61%) GitLab
4 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.74%) Git
6 3 (1.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.87%) GoogleTest
7 2 (0.87%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.87%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.87%) Snyk
7 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Babel
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) ESLint
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) MSI
8 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.43%) Vite
8 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 49 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 25 (10.87%) Finance
5 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.74%) Electronics
8 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Military
9 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (13.48%) Lead
2 26 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.43%) Architect
3 24 (10.43%) Project Leader
4 18 (7.83%) Developer
5 15 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 13 (5.65%) SharePoint Architect
7 12 (5.22%) Analyst
8 10 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (3.91%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 8 (3.48%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Consultant
11 7 (3.04%) Senior
11 7 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.61%) Desktop Support
12 6 (2.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.39%) React
2 12 (5.22%) Spring
3 8 (3.48%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.04%) .NET
4 7 (3.04%) CSS
5 6 (2.61%) REST
6 5 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.17%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.74%) Node.js
7 4 (1.74%) RESTful
7 4 (1.74%) Vue
8 3 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.87%) ADO
9 2 (0.87%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.87%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.87%) HTML
9 2 (0.87%) Qt
10 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.43%) SOAP
10 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.48%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.04%) CMDB
2 7 (3.04%) Operational Technology
3 6 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) PKI
6 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.22%) Linux
2 21 (9.13%) Windows
3 6 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.74%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.57%) Agile
2 54 (23.48%) DevOps
3 48 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.43%) Project Management
5 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (13.04%) PRINCE2
7 28 (12.17%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.17%) Project Delivery
7 28 (12.17%) Workshop Facilitation
8 26 (11.30%) Project Planning
9 25 (10.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 24 (10.43%) Commercial Awareness
10 24 (10.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.43%) Data Management
11 18 (7.83%) Software Engineering
12 13 (5.65%) Scrum
12 13 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (5.22%) Configuration Management
13 12 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (4.78%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.57%) Python
2 36 (15.65%) Java
3 33 (14.35%) C
4 28 (12.17%) PowerShell
5 24 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.52%) Go
7 12 (5.22%) Bash
8 11 (4.78%) SQL
9 9 (3.91%) C#
10 5 (2.17%) Bicep
10 5 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 161 (70.00%) DV Cleared
2 67 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.30%) APMP
4 9 (3.91%) Degree
5 8 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.30%) CISM
6 3 (1.30%) CISSP
6 3 (1.30%) HNC
6 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.87%) CCNA
7 2 (0.87%) CCNP
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.87%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) PhD
8 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) PMO
2 12 (5.22%) QA
3 4 (1.74%) Def Stans
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.30%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) COBIT
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) MISRA
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 35 (15.22%) Docker
2 8 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.04%) vSphere
4 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (16.52%) Terraform
2 31 (13.48%) Ansible
3 30 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.83%) Grafana
4 18 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (3.04%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.17%) SCCM
8 3 (1.30%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) Argo
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
10 1 (0.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 39 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.65%) Cisco
3 9 (3.91%) VMware
4 6 (2.61%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.74%) EMC
6 3 (1.30%) Juniper
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle
6 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.87%) Google
7 2 (0.87%) OpenText
8 1 (0.43%) CA
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Splunk