Security Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 500 511 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.58% 15.33% 9.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.74% 55.01% 47.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 340 294
10th Percentile £295 £335 £269
25th Percentile £363 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +10.61% +22.22%
75th Percentile £583 £650 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £631
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - +0.09% +9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.08 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.19 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% -11.72% +37.14%
75th Percentile £23.50 £59.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 866 929 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.18% 27.87% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 593 667
10th Percentile £230 £259 £204
25th Percentile £325 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £550
90th Percentile £683 £700 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 64 35
10th Percentile £13.18 £10.90 £11.95
25th Percentile £16.66 £13.31 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% -5.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £42.81 £30.33 £24.63
90th Percentile £57.00 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +2.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +4 367 £480 -11.11% 137
East Midlands 0 132 £550 -6.38% 47
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.60%) CMS
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.40%) CICS
3 7 (1.40%) SAS
4 3 (0.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Revit
5 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Primavera
2 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (5.40%) Azure
2 12 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (1.00%) AWS
4 5 (1.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.80%) OCI
6 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.60%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.60%) IaaS
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.20%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.20%) SaaS
7 1 (0.20%) Serverless
7 1 (0.20%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 85 (17.00%) WAN
2 79 (15.80%) MPLS
3 73 (14.60%) IPsec
4 64 (12.80%) BGP
5 48 (9.60%) VPN
6 45 (9.00%) Junos
7 37 (7.40%) Firewall
8 25 (5.00%) Network Security
9 18 (3.60%) LAN
9 18 (3.60%) SAN
10 17 (3.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (3.00%) DNS
12 13 (2.60%) TCP/IP
13 8 (1.60%) DHCP
13 8 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.40%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (1.40%) Wireless
15 5 (1.00%) Internet
16 4 (0.80%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.40%) MySQL
2 16 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (3.00%) Big Data
4 11 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.80%) DB2
5 9 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.40%) IDMS
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.80%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.60%) Power BI
9 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) Metadata
9 2 (0.40%) MS Access
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 42 (8.40%) PVCS
1 42 (8.40%) Visual Studio
2 23 (4.60%) Git
3 8 (1.60%) JMeter
4 6 (1.20%) JIRA
5 4 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.40%) TestRail
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
General
1 100 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 63 (12.60%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.00%) Finance
5 13 (2.60%) Legal
5 13 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.60%) Electronics
7 8 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.80%) Marketing
9 4 (0.80%) Police
10 3 (0.60%) Games
10 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.60%) Military
10 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Law
11 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (14.00%) Analyst
2 49 (9.80%) Programmer
3 46 (9.20%) C Programmer
4 43 (8.60%) Network Engineer
5 37 (7.40%) Architect
6 34 (6.80%) SOC Analyst
7 32 (6.40%) WAN Engineer
8 29 (5.80%) Network Support
9 25 (5.00%) Developer
10 23 (4.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 23 (4.60%) 3rd Line Support
10 23 (4.60%) Consultant
11 20 (4.00%) Support Engineer
12 19 (3.80%) Senior
13 16 (3.20%) Administrator
14 14 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.80%) Network Architect
15 11 (2.20%) Lead
15 11 (2.20%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.60%) LDAP
3 3 (0.60%) SOAP
3 3 (0.60%) Web Services
3 3 (0.60%) XML
4 2 (0.40%) Regular Expression
4 2 (0.40%) REST
5 1 (0.20%) .NET
5 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.20%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.20%) CSS
5 1 (0.20%) Flask
5 1 (0.20%) HTML
5 1 (0.20%) JSON
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.20%) React
5 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.20%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.40%) PKI
2 31 (6.20%) Cyber Defence
3 22 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
5 18 (3.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (2.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 10 (2.00%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.60%) IBM Mainframe
9 8 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.20%) HP Storage
10 6 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.00%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.00%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.80%) CMDB
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 93 (18.60%) Windows
2 72 (14.40%) Linux
3 22 (4.40%) Windows 7
4 19 (3.80%) Unix
5 17 (3.40%) Windows Vista
6 14 (2.80%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.60%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.40%) Android
8 12 (2.40%) Windows Server
9 10 (2.00%) Mac OS X
10 8 (1.60%) AIX
10 8 (1.60%) Solaris
11 7 (1.40%) zOS
12 5 (1.00%) Debian
13 3 (0.60%) VMS
14 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (12.60%) SIEM
3 44 (8.80%) Agile
4 39 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (7.60%) Load Balancing
6 37 (7.40%) Software Engineering
7 34 (6.80%) Security Operations
8 32 (6.40%) Analytics
9 30 (6.00%) Information Security
10 29 (5.80%) Requirements Gathering
11 28 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (5.40%) Incident Management
13 24 (4.80%) Configuration Management
13 24 (4.80%) Scrum
14 22 (4.40%) Network Design
15 21 (4.20%) Data Analytics
15 21 (4.20%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (4.20%) ITIL
16 20 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 19 (3.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.00%) C
2 43 (8.60%) PL/SQL
3 22 (4.40%) SQL
4 15 (3.00%) C++
5 14 (2.80%) Python
6 10 (2.00%) Java
7 9 (1.80%) COBOL
8 8 (1.60%) C#
8 8 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.40%) CLIST
9 7 (1.40%) REXX
9 7 (1.40%) SELCOPY
10 5 (1.00%) Bash
10 5 (1.00%) R
11 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 337 (67.40%) SC Cleared
2 88 (17.60%) DV Cleared
3 25 (5.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.40%) CCNP
5 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.00%) CCNA
7 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.40%) CISSP
9 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.20%) BC Cleared
10 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.00%) JNCIS
11 4 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.60%) GIAC
12 3 (0.60%) ISEB
13 2 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.40%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.20%) NIST
2 14 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.80%) SLA
3 12 (2.40%) GDPR
3 12 (2.40%) QA
4 10 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.40%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.00%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (1.00%) ISO17020
7 2 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.20%) GPG13
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.20%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.00%) iptables
4 5 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.40%) Docker
5 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 2 (0.40%) XenApp
5 2 (0.40%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 16 (3.20%) Grafana
2 15 (3.00%) SCCM
3 9 (1.80%) Ansible
3 9 (1.80%) Kibana
4 8 (1.60%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (1.60%) logstash
5 7 (1.40%) NetBackup
5 7 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.20%) HP Data Protector
6 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.80%) VxRail
8 3 (0.60%) Terraform
9 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.40%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (16.80%) Juniper
2 59 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.20%) Cisco
4 25 (5.00%) VMware
5 23 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 20 (4.00%) Oracle
7 19 (3.80%) Denodo
8 17 (3.40%) Talend
9 11 (2.20%) SAP
10 10 (2.00%) IBM
11 9 (1.80%) HP
11 9 (1.80%) LogRhythm
12 8 (1.60%) Brocade
12 8 (1.60%) EMC
13 7 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.40%) Syncsort
14 6 (1.20%) F5
14 6 (1.20%) Symantec
15 5 (1.00%) Splunk
15 5 (1.00%) Veeam