Security Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,864 1,530 1,410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.74% 26.25% 18.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.28% 70.12% 56.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,041 898
10th Percentile £388 £329 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £549 £543
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% +1.20% +14.21%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £719 £695
England median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 92 52
10th Percentile £22.52 £20.52 £17.25
25th Percentile £54.48 £48.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £62.07 £62.55 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +35.24% +23.33%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £63.69
90th Percentile £87.46 £75.00 £69.78
England median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +16.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,476 2,182 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.81% 37.43% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,441 1,585
10th Percentile £313 £300 £299
25th Percentile £439 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 144 85
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.30 £19.06
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.02 £69.06 £56.03
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hampshire 0 972 £600 +9.09% 205
Thames Valley +1 782 £567 +11.18% 180
Berkshire +2 629 £575 -1.88% 122
Buckinghamshire 0 146 £525 +12.96% 35
Surrey +9 64 £625 +4.17% 59
West Sussex -12 22 £524 -8.96% 16
Kent +8 13 £294 -2.00% 9
Oxfordshire -12 7 £650 +40.54% 23
M4 Corridor - 5 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
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England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.23%) Confluence
3 22 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.054%) IIS
9 1 (0.054%) JBoss
9 1 (0.054%) Moodle
9 1 (0.054%) nginx
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.054%) Site Server
9 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.59%) Simulink
4 8 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.054%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.054%) Blender
Business Applications
1 26 (1.39%) Primavera
1 26 (1.39%) SAP QM
2 20 (1.07%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.59%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.43%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.21%) SAP BRIM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.16%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP PLM
10 2 (0.11%) SAP PS
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.054%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.054%) SAP Payroll
11 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
11 1 (0.054%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 175 (9.39%) Azure
2 112 (6.01%) AWS
3 47 (2.52%) IaaS
4 41 (2.20%) PaaS
5 39 (2.09%) SaaS
6 37 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 22 (1.18%) GitHub
10 21 (1.13%) OpenShift
11 17 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (0.91%) Power Platform
12 16 (0.86%) Azure Storage
13 15 (0.80%) OCI
14 11 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (0.48%) GCP
16 8 (0.43%) Boomi
16 8 (0.43%) Serverless
17 7 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
18 6 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 165 (8.85%) Firewall
2 105 (5.63%) WAN
3 102 (5.47%) LAN
4 88 (4.72%) DNS
5 74 (3.97%) SSL
6 64 (3.43%) DHCP
7 61 (3.27%) BGP
8 57 (3.06%) SAN
9 46 (2.47%) VPN
10 40 (2.15%) 5G
11 39 (2.09%) Broadband
12 38 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
13 34 (1.82%) Network Security
14 33 (1.77%) OSPF
15 31 (1.66%) MPLS
16 30 (1.61%) TCP/IP
17 29 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
18 27 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (1.34%) EIGRP
20 21 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.50%) Oracle Database
4 18 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
5 15 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (0.70%) MySQL
7 12 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.48%) Metadata
9 6 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.21%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.16%) DB2
12 3 (0.16%) IDMS
12 3 (0.16%) Power BI
12 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 44 (2.36%) Git
3 38 (2.04%) GitLab
4 37 (1.98%) JIRA
5 32 (1.72%) Selenium
6 25 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.29%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.23%) Robot Framework
8 23 (1.23%) TestRail
9 14 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.70%) MSI
11 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.27%) ClearCase
14 5 (0.27%) ClearQuest
15 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 304 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 260 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 117 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (3.59%) Finance
6 62 (3.33%) Law
7 58 (3.11%) Aerospace
8 45 (2.41%) Military
9 28 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 18 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (0.86%) Electronics
12 15 (0.80%) Police
13 14 (0.75%) Aviation
14 10 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.27%) Legal
17 4 (0.21%) Aeronautics
17 4 (0.21%) Billing
17 4 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 478 (25.64%) Architect
2 157 (8.42%) Senior
3 131 (7.03%) Network Architect
4 124 (6.65%) Consultant
5 119 (6.38%) Developer
6 103 (5.53%) Network Engineer
7 92 (4.94%) Analyst
8 83 (4.45%) Security Architect
9 76 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 73 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
11 70 (3.76%) SAP Consultant
12 69 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
13 55 (2.95%) Lead
14 47 (2.52%) Tester
15 45 (2.41%) Project Manager
16 43 (2.31%) Service Architect
17 41 (2.20%) Support Engineer
18 39 (2.09%) Penetration Tester
18 39 (2.09%) Security Specialist
18 39 (2.09%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.88%) Web Services
2 34 (1.82%) REST
3 28 (1.50%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.34%) Java EE
5 24 (1.29%) .NET
6 23 (1.23%) HTML
7 15 (0.80%) ASP.NET
8 13 (0.70%) Flash
8 13 (0.70%) Itk
8 13 (0.70%) Node.js
9 12 (0.64%) CSS
10 10 (0.54%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.48%) Kafka
12 8 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (0.38%) React
13 7 (0.38%) RESTful
13 7 (0.38%) Spring
13 7 (0.38%) YAML
14 6 (0.32%) SAP Basis
14 6 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.83%) PKI
2 46 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 43 (2.31%) Driving Licence
4 40 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 39 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
6 33 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
8 29 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 24 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 20 (1.07%) Client/Server
13 19 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.64%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.59%) Clustering
16 11 (0.59%) FPGA
17 10 (0.54%) Cloud Native
17 10 (0.54%) CMDB
17 10 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 292 (15.67%) Windows
2 205 (11.00%) Linux
3 142 (7.62%) Windows Server
4 96 (5.15%) Windows 10
5 85 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 63 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 60 (3.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (2.41%) Windows 7
10 21 (1.13%) Unix
10 21 (1.13%) Windows NT
11 19 (1.02%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.86%) Debian
13 13 (0.70%) AIX
13 13 (0.70%) Windows XP
14 8 (0.43%) VMS
15 3 (0.16%) Solaris
15 3 (0.16%) zOS
16 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.054%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (16.04%) Agile
2 218 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 181 (9.71%) DevOps
4 168 (9.01%) ITIL
5 162 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
6 108 (5.79%) Project Management
6 108 (5.79%) Service Management
7 106 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 105 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 104 (5.58%) Customer Requirements
10 94 (5.04%) Test Automation
11 93 (4.99%) SIEM
11 93 (4.99%) Software Engineering
12 87 (4.67%) Customer Service
13 76 (4.08%) Network Design
14 73 (3.92%) Prototyping
15 70 (3.76%) Technical Leadership
16 69 (3.70%) Scrum
16 69 (3.70%) Security Architecture
17 64 (3.43%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (8.21%) PowerShell
2 120 (6.44%) Python
3 83 (4.45%) Java
4 63 (3.38%) SQL
5 48 (2.58%) C#
6 36 (1.93%) C++
7 34 (1.82%) VBScript
8 29 (1.56%) C
9 28 (1.50%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.13%) Bash
11 20 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.91%) VB
13 16 (0.86%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.80%) Bicep
15 14 (0.75%) PHP
16 11 (0.59%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.27%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.21%) Ada
18 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 849 (45.55%) DV Cleared
2 845 (45.33%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.26%) Degree
4 57 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (2.74%) CCNP
6 39 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (2.09%) CREST Certified
6 39 (2.09%) GIAC
6 39 (2.09%) GPEN
6 39 (2.09%) OSCP
6 39 (2.09%) SANS
7 30 (1.61%) CCNA
8 27 (1.45%) ISTQB
9 23 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 17 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 14 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (0.64%) JNCIS
13 10 (0.54%) MCSE
13 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.49%) NCSC
2 49 (2.63%) SLA
3 44 (2.36%) GDPR
4 39 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 37 (1.98%) QA
6 29 (1.56%) NIST
7 25 (1.34%) RMADS
8 20 (1.07%) NIST 800
9 16 (0.86%) PMO
10 10 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.27%) ISO 9000
13 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.16%) DO-178B
14 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.11%) IEC 61508
15 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 206 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 117 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.36%) Firmware
4 32 (1.72%) Docker
5 30 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 29 (1.56%) vSphere
7 24 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) UAG
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.054%) LXC
13 1 (0.054%) NFS
13 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.054%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 112 (6.01%) Ansible
2 110 (5.90%) SCCM
3 77 (4.13%) Terraform
4 70 (3.76%) Kubernetes
5 68 (3.65%) WSUS
6 43 (2.31%) SCOM
7 27 (1.45%) FortiGate
8 24 (1.29%) Endace
9 23 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 22 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.13%) Sysprep
12 18 (0.97%) vRealize
13 17 (0.91%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 17 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
14 16 (0.86%) Nessus
15 15 (0.80%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.75%) WMI
17 12 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
17 12 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 331 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 190 (10.19%) Cisco
2 190 (10.19%) VMware
3 159 (8.53%) Juniper
4 96 (5.15%) SAP
5 76 (4.08%) Oracle
6 68 (3.65%) HP
7 58 (3.11%) Fortinet
7 58 (3.11%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.31%) Palo Alto
9 42 (2.25%) Dell
10 39 (2.09%) Virgin Media
11 38 (2.04%) F5
12 28 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.39%) IBM
14 22 (1.18%) EMC
15 19 (1.02%) SolarWinds
15 19 (1.02%) Veeam
16 17 (0.91%) 3PAR
16 17 (0.91%) ArcSight