Security Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Security Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 570 870 680
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 12.37% 15.58% 9.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.04% 62.63% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 617 462
10th Percentile £400 £388 £326
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £631
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 50 28
10th Percentile - £20.00 £23.73
25th Percentile £10.95 £25.19 £37.51
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.54 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.09% -20.88% +127.17%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.48 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -7.00% +19.08% +25.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,139 1,389 1,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.72% 24.87% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 963 1,002
10th Percentile £310 £325 £205
25th Percentile £415 £440 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 73 78
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.03 £25.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +4.04% +50.00%
75th Percentile £37.96 £49.52 £56.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.94 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £53.61 £41.36
% change year-on-year -25.39% +29.63% +10.28%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
North West -1 408 £515 -1.90% 203
Yorkshire +2 124 £525 -12.50% 46
North East -3 40 £500 -11.46% 26
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.53%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Camunda
5 1 (0.18%) Mendix
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.05%) Revit
5 4 (0.70%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.70%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.53%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 81 (14.21%) AWS
2 54 (9.47%) Azure
3 19 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 13 (2.28%) Route 53
6 12 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.58%) SaaS
9 8 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (1.23%) Serverless
11 6 (1.05%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (1.05%) GCP
11 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.88%) GitHub
12 5 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.54%) Firewall
2 36 (6.32%) VPN
3 24 (4.21%) OSPF
4 21 (3.68%) Wireless
5 15 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
5 15 (2.63%) NetScaler
6 14 (2.46%) BGP
6 14 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
7 13 (2.28%) EIGRP
7 13 (2.28%) HSRP
7 13 (2.28%) IPsec
7 13 (2.28%) WAN
8 12 (2.11%) SNMP
8 12 (2.11%) Spanning Tree
9 11 (1.93%) LAN
9 11 (1.93%) Wireless Security
10 10 (1.75%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.05%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.23%) SAP BW
4 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.88%) Power BI
5 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.53%) MySQL
7 3 (0.53%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.35%) Metadata
8 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.18%) Flink
9 1 (0.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (7.19%) Git
2 29 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.04%) GitLab
4 15 (2.63%) JUnit
5 14 (2.46%) JIRA
6 7 (1.23%) Selenium
7 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.05%) webpack
8 5 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.70%) JMeter
9 4 (0.70%) Maven
9 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.53%) LSMW
10 3 (0.53%) Mocha
10 3 (0.53%) Mockito
11 2 (0.35%) Gatling
11 2 (0.35%) gulp
11 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 142 (24.91%) Public Sector
2 128 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 43 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.96%) Finance
5 22 (3.86%) Legal
6 11 (1.93%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.88%) Banking
10 4 (0.70%) Electronics
10 4 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.35%) Marketing
11 2 (0.35%) Police
11 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.18%) Advertising
12 1 (0.18%) Billing
12 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.18%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.18%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (15.61%) Developer
2 72 (12.63%) Architect
3 60 (10.53%) Lead
4 50 (8.77%) Consultant
5 47 (8.25%) Senior
6 40 (7.02%) Analyst
7 38 (6.67%) Network Engineer
8 27 (4.74%) Java Developer
9 26 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (3.86%) Technical Architect
11 20 (3.51%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.81%) ServiceNow Developer
15 15 (2.63%) Lead Architect
15 15 (2.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
16 14 (2.46%) Capacity Manager
16 14 (2.46%) Problem Manager
16 14 (2.46%) Service Analyst
16 14 (2.46%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.84%) Node.js
2 33 (5.79%) Spring
3 30 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 29 (5.09%) REST
5 23 (4.04%) JPA
5 23 (4.04%) Web Services
6 22 (3.86%) React
7 21 (3.68%) Hibernate
8 12 (2.11%) .NET
8 12 (2.11%) Jinja
9 10 (1.75%) Redux
10 9 (1.58%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.40%) CSS
11 8 (1.40%) HTML
11 8 (1.40%) Spring Security
12 7 (1.23%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.23%) TensorFlow
13 6 (1.05%) Express.js
13 6 (1.05%) React Native
14 5 (0.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.19%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.39%) Cyber Defence
2 25 (4.39%) Virtual Team
3 23 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (3.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 16 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.81%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.75%) CMDB
8 8 (1.40%) PKI
9 7 (1.23%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.88%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.70%) NHS
12 4 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.53%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.09%) Windows
2 35 (6.14%) Linux
3 33 (5.79%) Windows 10
4 32 (5.61%) Android
4 32 (5.61%) Windows Server
5 31 (5.44%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.05%) Unix
7 5 (0.88%) CentOS
7 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.70%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.53%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (16.49%) DevOps
2 93 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (16.14%) Agile
4 77 (13.51%) Mentoring
5 67 (11.75%) CI/CD
6 61 (10.70%) Service Management
7 58 (10.18%) Customer Service
8 56 (9.82%) ITIL
9 44 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (7.54%) Risk Management
11 40 (7.02%) Quality Management
11 40 (7.02%) Service Delivery
11 40 (7.02%) Time Management
12 39 (6.84%) Statistics
13 37 (6.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 37 (6.49%) Threat Intelligence
14 36 (6.32%) ITSM
15 34 (5.96%) Information Security
15 34 (5.96%) Problem Management
15 34 (5.96%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 55 (9.65%) Java
1 55 (9.65%) Python
2 27 (4.74%) JavaScript
3 18 (3.16%) SQL
4 16 (2.81%) C#
5 14 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.46%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.28%) Perl
7 12 (2.11%) Tcl
8 9 (1.58%) Bash
9 8 (1.40%) ABAP
10 7 (1.23%) C++
11 5 (0.88%) Scala
12 4 (0.70%) C
12 4 (0.70%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.70%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.70%) VBA
13 3 (0.53%) Go
13 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 462 (81.05%) SC Cleared
2 57 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 31 (5.44%) Degree
4 29 (5.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.33%) CCNA
7 14 (2.46%) CCNP
8 9 (1.58%) OSCP
9 6 (1.05%) CEH
9 6 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.05%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.05%) GIAC
9 6 (1.05%) GPEN
10 5 (0.88%) CISSP
10 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.70%) CISA
11 4 (0.70%) CISM
11 4 (0.70%) ISSAP
11 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.14%) NIST
2 31 (5.44%) SLA
3 28 (4.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 18 (3.16%) QA
5 17 (2.98%) NIST 800
6 13 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.70%) COBIT
9 4 (0.70%) GDPR
9 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 3 (0.53%) ISO17020
10 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) PMO
12 1 (0.18%) NCSC
12 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.14%) Docker
2 26 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.28%) Firmware
5 11 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.53%) vSphere
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) ACF2
9 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.18%) RACF
9 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 58 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.26%) Terraform
3 24 (4.21%) Ansible
4 8 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.23%) Puppet
5 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.05%) Packer
6 6 (1.05%) SCCM
7 4 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.70%) Grafana
7 4 (0.70%) Rancher
7 4 (0.70%) VxRail
8 3 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.35%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 111 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.91%) SAP
3 26 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.39%) VMware
5 22 (3.86%) Cisco
6 16 (2.81%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 14 (2.46%) Citrix
9 13 (2.28%) Google
10 10 (1.75%) Oracle
11 5 (0.88%) Apple
11 5 (0.88%) CA
12 4 (0.70%) Dell
12 4 (0.70%) IBM
12 4 (0.70%) Siemens
13 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.53%) IFS
13 3 (0.53%) Pega
13 3 (0.53%) Splunk
13 3 (0.53%) Veeam