Security Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 23 96 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.95% 39.51% 23.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.05% 80.67% 68.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 45 41
10th Percentile £394 £400 £255
25th Percentile £470 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% - +25.79%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £765
90th Percentile £713 £617 £800
North West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 5
10th Percentile £38.90 £25.75 £33.75
25th Percentile £45.88 £29.30 £38.68
Median hourly rate £46.18 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +2.77% +136.31%
75th Percentile £48.00 £48.76 £58.75
90th Percentile £51.18 £56.40 £81.24
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.88% -22.73% +137.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 82 119 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 31.91% 48.97% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 57 58
10th Percentile £313 £330 £237
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £627 £595 £650
90th Percentile £656 £645 £800
North West median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 38 12
10th Percentile £13.06 £25.75 £31.29
25th Percentile - £31.04 £38.68
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £55.10
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% -22.87% +116.08%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.14 £96.06
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.27 £96.23
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £40.68
% change year-on-year -60.43% -0.25% +33.67%

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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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -10 8 £600 +31.87% 14
Blackpool -3 1 - - 3
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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Power View
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PowerPivot
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.35%) Mercurial
3 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
1 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Avionics
2 1 (4.35%) Military
2 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Speaking
2 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Lead
1 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Engagement Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior SAP Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) JDBC
1 3 (13.04%) JPA
1 3 (13.04%) JWT
1 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
1 3 (13.04%) Spring
1 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
1 3 (13.04%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Digital Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) GitOps
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
5 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
6 3 (13.04%) Kanban
6 3 (13.04%) Load Balancing
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 2 (8.70%) MODAF
7 2 (8.70%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) C++
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Argo
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) VMware