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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,823 1,473 1,379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.24% 25.87% 17.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.81% 70.14% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 985 891
10th Percentile £388 £325 £388
25th Percentile £473 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -3.23% +14.21%
75th Percentile £675 £623 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £549
% change year-on-year - +0.14% +9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 45
10th Percentile £22.52 £20.47 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £61.65 £62.55 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +39.00% +15.62%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.47 £76.44 £76.62
England median hourly rate £57.29 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.53% +20.00% +17.65%

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 2,437 2,100 2,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.44% 36.89% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,371 1,568
10th Percentile £329 £300 £313
25th Percentile £445 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 142 83
10th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £18.55
25th Percentile £26.39 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £58.55 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +33.21% +9.19%
75th Percentile £67.01 £68.75 £53.88
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.00 £67.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +3.95%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 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
Hampshire 0 989 £600 +9.09% 192
Thames Valley +1 736 £561 +12.14% 213
Berkshire +2 581 £575 +0.88% 144
Buckinghamshire 0 147 £510 +10.64% 45
Surrey +8 61 £625 +6.38% 52
West Sussex -18 18 £550 -4.35% 18
Kent +5 9 £294 -0.34% 9
Oxfordshire -9 8 £650 +44.44% 24
M4 Corridor - 5 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
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England

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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 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.15%) Confluence
3 18 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.16%) CICS
6 3 (0.16%) CMS
6 3 (0.16%) SAS
7 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.055%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) Moodle
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.60%) Simulink
4 10 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.33%) 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 (0.055%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.055%) Blender
Business Applications
1 28 (1.54%) Primavera
2 27 (1.48%) SAP QM
3 22 (1.21%) SAP EWM
4 11 (0.60%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.16%) Infor M3
10 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
10 3 (0.16%) SAP PLM
11 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.055%) SAP FI-CA
11 1 (0.055%) SAP HCM
11 1 (0.055%) SAP Payroll
11 1 (0.055%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 178 (9.76%) Azure
2 107 (5.87%) AWS
3 39 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (1.26%) Entra ID
5 23 (1.26%) OpenShift
6 17 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (0.88%) Azure Storage
7 16 (0.88%) GitHub
7 16 (0.88%) OCI
8 15 (0.82%) Power Platform
9 11 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (0.49%) GCP
10 9 (0.49%) IaaS
11 8 (0.44%) Boomi
12 6 (0.33%) Serverless
13 5 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.22%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.22%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 167 (9.16%) Firewall
2 112 (6.14%) WAN
3 102 (5.60%) LAN
4 86 (4.72%) DNS
5 77 (4.22%) SSL
6 63 (3.46%) DHCP
7 59 (3.24%) BGP
8 53 (2.91%) SAN
9 46 (2.52%) VPN
10 38 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
11 37 (2.03%) Network Security
12 33 (1.81%) MPLS
13 29 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 29 (1.59%) OSPF
14 27 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
15 25 (1.37%) TCP/IP
16 24 (1.32%) EIGRP
17 22 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
19 19 (1.04%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (1.54%) Oracle Database
2 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 16 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (0.71%) MySQL
6 12 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.44%) Metadata
8 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.38%) MariaDB
10 6 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.16%) DB2
13 3 (0.16%) IDMS
14 2 (0.11%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 47 (2.58%) Jenkins
2 40 (2.19%) Git
3 39 (2.14%) GitLab
4 38 (2.08%) JIRA
5 32 (1.76%) Selenium
6 25 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.26%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.15%) TestRail
10 14 (0.77%) MSI
10 14 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.33%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.27%) ClearCase
14 5 (0.27%) ClearQuest
15 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 300 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 258 (14.15%) Public Sector
3 121 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (3.78%) Finance
5 58 (3.18%) Aerospace
6 46 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
7 44 (2.41%) Military
8 27 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.26%) Law
10 17 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (0.88%) Electronics
12 14 (0.77%) Aviation
13 13 (0.71%) Police
14 9 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.44%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.22%) Aeronautics
16 4 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.22%) Legal
16 4 (0.22%) Marketing
16 4 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 479 (26.28%) Architect
2 161 (8.83%) Senior
3 132 (7.24%) Network Architect
4 126 (6.91%) Consultant
5 108 (5.92%) Developer
6 107 (5.87%) Network Engineer
7 97 (5.32%) Analyst
8 84 (4.61%) Security Architect
9 79 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 74 (4.06%) Infrastructure Architect
11 71 (3.89%) SAP Consultant
12 67 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 51 (2.80%) Lead
14 48 (2.63%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.19%) Support Specialist
16 39 (2.14%) Administrator
17 37 (2.03%) Service Architect
18 36 (1.97%) Systems Administrator
19 35 (1.92%) Security Engineer
20 34 (1.87%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.80%) Web Services
2 33 (1.81%) REST
3 29 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.37%) Java EE
5 22 (1.21%) .NET
6 21 (1.15%) HTML
7 14 (0.77%) ASP.NET
8 13 (0.71%) Flash
8 13 (0.71%) Itk
9 11 (0.60%) CSS
9 11 (0.60%) Kafka
9 11 (0.60%) Node.js
10 8 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.44%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.38%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.33%) React
12 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
13 5 (0.27%) Keycloak
13 5 (0.27%) RESTful
13 5 (0.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.12%) PKI
2 44 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 42 (2.30%) Driving Licence
4 40 (2.19%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
5 31 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
7 28 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 22 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.10%) Client/Server
11 18 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.66%) Cloud Native
14 11 (0.60%) Clustering
14 11 (0.60%) FPGA
15 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (0.44%) Replication
17 7 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 291 (15.96%) Windows
2 203 (11.14%) Linux
3 144 (7.90%) Windows Server
4 93 (5.10%) Windows 10
5 85 (4.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 63 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 59 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 53 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 41 (2.25%) Windows 7
10 20 (1.10%) Unix
10 20 (1.10%) Windows NT
11 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.77%) Windows XP
12 13 (0.71%) AIX
13 11 (0.60%) Debian
14 8 (0.44%) VMS
15 3 (0.16%) zOS
16 2 (0.11%) Solaris
17 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (16.46%) Agile
2 220 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (10.04%) DevOps
4 164 (9.00%) ITIL
5 113 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
5 113 (6.20%) Project Management
6 111 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 106 (5.81%) Service Management
8 101 (5.54%) Customer Requirements
9 94 (5.16%) Test Automation
10 93 (5.10%) Software Engineering
11 82 (4.50%) SIEM
12 80 (4.39%) Customer Service
13 79 (4.33%) Network Design
14 73 (4.00%) Prototyping
15 71 (3.89%) Technical Leadership
16 70 (3.84%) Project Delivery
17 68 (3.73%) Scrum
18 67 (3.68%) Stakeholder Management
19 65 (3.57%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (8.72%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.47%) Python
3 81 (4.44%) Java
4 64 (3.51%) SQL
5 47 (2.58%) C#
6 38 (2.08%) C++
7 34 (1.87%) VBScript
8 30 (1.65%) C
9 24 (1.32%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.15%) Bash
11 18 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.93%) VB
13 16 (0.88%) Bicep
14 14 (0.77%) PHP
15 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.38%) Go
17 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.27%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 856 (46.96%) DV Cleared
2 836 (45.86%) SC Cleared
3 153 (8.39%) Degree
4 59 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (2.69%) CCNP
6 34 (1.87%) CCNA
7 33 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 17 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 14 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.60%) CISM
14 10 (0.55%) ISEB
14 10 (0.55%) MCSE
14 10 (0.55%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.49%) JNCIA
15 9 (0.49%) JNCIS
16 8 (0.44%) APMP
16 8 (0.44%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.80%) SLA
2 36 (1.97%) QA
3 30 (1.65%) NIST
4 20 (1.10%) NIST 800
5 18 (0.99%) RMADS
6 16 (0.88%) NCSC
7 15 (0.82%) PMO
8 7 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.27%) GDPR
10 5 (0.27%) ISO 9000
11 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 211 (11.57%) Active Directory
2 119 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.25%) Firmware
4 36 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 29 (1.59%) vSphere
7 28 (1.54%) Docker
8 22 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.055%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.055%) LXC
13 1 (0.055%) NFS
13 1 (0.055%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.055%) UAG
13 1 (0.055%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 117 (6.42%) Ansible
2 106 (5.81%) SCCM
3 81 (4.44%) Terraform
4 73 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 72 (3.95%) WSUS
6 42 (2.30%) SCOM
7 28 (1.54%) Endace
8 26 (1.43%) FortiGate
9 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.10%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.88%) Nessus
13 16 (0.88%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.82%) vRealize
14 15 (0.82%) WMI
15 13 (0.71%) Grafana
15 13 (0.71%) Istio
16 12 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 331 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 193 (10.59%) VMware
3 189 (10.37%) Cisco
4 163 (8.94%) Juniper
5 94 (5.16%) SAP
6 71 (3.89%) Oracle
7 65 (3.57%) HP
8 54 (2.96%) Fortinet
9 51 (2.80%) Red Hat
10 50 (2.74%) F5
11 44 (2.41%) Dell
11 44 (2.41%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.59%) IBM
13 26 (1.43%) ServiceNow
14 21 (1.15%) EMC
15 20 (1.10%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.10%) Veeam
16 18 (0.99%) 3PAR
17 16 (0.88%) ArcSight
18 15 (0.82%) Symantec