Security Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 4 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 343 191 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 29.24% 18.45% 7.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.65% 58.95% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 123 87
10th Percentile £213 £402 £425
25th Percentile £519 £488 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +6.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £735 £721 £710
Berkshire median daily rate £580 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 0
10th Percentile £51.03 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £56.13 £64.53 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% - -
75th Percentile £86.10 £77.54 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £21.03
% change year-on-year -4.99% +208.38% -0.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 507 324 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.22% 31.30% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 194 217
10th Percentile £206 £363 £326
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% +12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £643 £600
90th Percentile £719 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 15 1
10th Percentile £42.70 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £53.61 £64.07 £9.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +600.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £85.34 £78.09 £10.25
90th Percentile £87.52 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 18 (5.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) JBoss
3 1 (0.29%) Moodle
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 35 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.17%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.29%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.29%) Blender
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (7.29%) SAP QM
2 21 (6.12%) SAP EWM
3 13 (3.79%) Primavera
4 5 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.29%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 81 (23.62%) Azure
2 30 (8.75%) AWS
3 25 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (5.25%) Azure Storage
5 18 (5.25%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.08%) OCI
7 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.87%) Serverless
9 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.29%) GCP
10 1 (0.29%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.29%) PaaS
10 1 (0.29%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (19.53%) Firewall
2 32 (9.33%) DHCP
2 32 (9.33%) DNS
3 23 (6.71%) LAN
4 22 (6.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 14 (4.08%) SAN
6 10 (2.92%) WAN
7 2 (0.58%) Internet
7 2 (0.58%) MPLS
8 1 (0.29%) BGP
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) GGSN
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) IPsec
8 1 (0.29%) PBX
8 1 (0.29%) RNC
8 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.29%) SGSN
8 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.54%) Oracle Database
3 13 (3.79%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (1.17%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) GIS
7 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (10.50%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.45%) Selenium
3 25 (7.29%) Cucumber
4 24 (7.00%) REST Assured
4 24 (7.00%) SonarQube
5 15 (4.37%) GitLab
6 13 (3.79%) JIRA
7 12 (3.50%) Git
8 7 (2.04%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.87%) JMeter
9 3 (0.87%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.29%) Appium
10 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) JUnit
10 1 (0.29%) MSTest
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 124 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (5.83%) Law
6 13 (3.79%) Police
7 4 (1.17%) Aviation
7 4 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.17%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.87%) Finance
8 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Advertising
9 1 (0.29%) Electronics
9 1 (0.29%) Environmental Health
9 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (14.58%) Consultant
1 50 (14.58%) Senior
2 48 (13.99%) SAP Consultant
3 37 (10.79%) Architect
4 30 (8.75%) Active Directory Support
4 30 (8.75%) Developer
5 28 (8.16%) Security Architect
6 25 (7.29%) Support Specialist
7 24 (7.00%) Active Directory Specialist
7 24 (7.00%) Azure Specialist
7 24 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (7.00%) SAP QM Consultant
8 22 (6.41%) Support Engineer
9 20 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 18 (5.25%) Administrator
10 18 (5.25%) Build Engineer
10 18 (5.25%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (5.25%) Windows Build Engineer
10 18 (5.25%) Windows Engineer
11 17 (4.96%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.04%) ARM Templates
2 28 (8.16%) REST
3 25 (7.29%) Java EE
4 9 (2.62%) Itk
5 8 (2.33%) .NET
6 7 (2.04%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.17%) SAP Basis
7 4 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.87%) Node.js
8 3 (0.87%) Spring
8 3 (0.87%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.87%) Web Services
9 2 (0.58%) ATL
9 2 (0.58%) Kafka
9 2 (0.58%) Mustache
9 2 (0.58%) React
10 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.16%) Driving Licence
2 19 (5.54%) PKI
3 18 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.87%) iPad
8 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.58%) CSOC
9 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.58%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.58%) Robotics
10 1 (0.29%) Animation
10 1 (0.29%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.29%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.29%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (26.82%) Windows
2 62 (18.08%) Windows Server
3 60 (17.49%) Windows 10
4 54 (15.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 54 (15.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (13.70%) Linux
6 32 (9.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 28 (8.16%) Windows 7
8 18 (5.25%) Windows NT
9 14 (4.08%) Windows XP
10 12 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.87%) Unix
12 2 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (29.15%) DevOps
2 87 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (24.20%) ITIL
4 47 (13.70%) Customer Service
5 40 (11.66%) Agile
5 40 (11.66%) Release Management
6 39 (11.37%) Software Engineering
7 37 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
8 36 (10.50%) Service Management
9 34 (9.91%) Performance Tuning
10 33 (9.62%) Decision-Making
10 33 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (9.04%) Test Automation
12 27 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (7.87%) Software Testing
12 27 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (7.58%) Project Management
14 25 (7.29%) Deployment Automation
14 25 (7.29%) Software Architecture
14 25 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.87%) PowerShell
2 32 (9.33%) C#
3 29 (8.45%) Java
4 26 (7.58%) VBScript
5 18 (5.25%) Bicep
5 18 (5.25%) VB
6 17 (4.96%) SQL
7 13 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.21%) Python
9 6 (1.75%) C
10 5 (1.46%) Bash
11 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.58%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 233 (67.93%) DV Cleared
2 161 (46.94%) SC Cleared
3 47 (13.70%) Degree
4 18 (5.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (4.08%) CCNA
5 14 (4.08%) CCNP
5 14 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.54%) QA
2 2 (0.58%) PMO
3 1 (0.29%) NCSC
3 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (18.08%) Active Directory
2 32 (9.33%) Firmware
3 25 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (4.66%) Docker
7 14 (4.08%) Hyper-V
7 14 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (23.03%) SCCM
2 50 (14.58%) WSUS
3 38 (11.08%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.50%) Ansible
5 33 (9.62%) SCOM
6 18 (5.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (5.25%) Sysprep
7 17 (4.96%) Terraform
8 14 (4.08%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (4.08%) NetBackup
8 14 (4.08%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.50%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (3.50%) Podman
10 2 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.58%) vRealize
11 1 (0.29%) Grafana
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (30.03%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.03%) SAP
3 42 (12.24%) HP
4 35 (10.20%) Oracle
5 26 (7.58%) VMware
6 25 (7.29%) Cisco
7 23 (6.71%) Juniper
8 14 (4.08%) 3PAR
8 14 (4.08%) Dell
8 14 (4.08%) EMC
8 14 (4.08%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (4.08%) Palo Alto
8 14 (4.08%) Symantec
8 14 (4.08%) Veeam
9 5 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.17%) Siemens
11 2 (0.58%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.58%) NEC
11 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.29%) Google