Security Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 13 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 19 99 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.79% 40.91% 21.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.14% 83.19% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 51 34
10th Percentile £463 £363 £252
25th Percentile £478 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £684
90th Percentile £713 £675 £761
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 28 11
10th Percentile £38.90 £25.75 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £29.15 £37.96
Median hourly rate £46.18 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +2.77% -5.47%
75th Percentile £48.00 £48.38 £45.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.52 £58.75
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £37.50 £44.61
% change year-on-year -61.33% -15.94% +1.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 70 119 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 36.08% 49.17% 38.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 63 60
10th Percentile £313 £370 £246
25th Percentile £463 £428 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £487
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +7.86% +21.69%
75th Percentile £704 £600 £609
90th Percentile £720 £695 £719
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 33 27
10th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £24.56
25th Percentile £15.00 £29.30 £37.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% +2.77% -4.93%
75th Percentile - £49.52 £47.64
90th Percentile £46.18 £53.28 £96.09
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.60% -7.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Lancashire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -6 9 £550 +25.71% 16
Blackpool -5 3 £625 +13.64%
Security Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Power View
2 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
1 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Avionics
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Public Speaking
2 1 (5.26%) Publishing
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Deployment Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) JDBC
1 3 (15.79%) JPA
1 3 (15.79%) JWT
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) WebSockets
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) Lucene
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) GitOps
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) SDLC
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Map
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) VMware