Security Cleared Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 2 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 735 658 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.99% 23.42% 13.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.73% 68.47% 45.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 463 367
10th Percentile £213 £323 £360
25th Percentile £425 £410 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £722 £680 £665
South East median daily rate £588 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +11.90% -3.23% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 32 20
10th Percentile £29.80 £23.15 £16.75
25th Percentile £52.55 £48.48 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +207.24% -
75th Percentile £75.68 £73.89 £49.81
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £69.00
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £62.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +39.00% +14.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,054 961 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.14% 34.21% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 637 692
10th Percentile £213 £318 £272
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 44 28
10th Percentile £18.15 £18.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.77 £18.32
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.73 £74.84 £49.81
90th Percentile £87.32 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.59 £44.23
% change year-on-year -2.12% +32.48% +9.20%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +2 581 £575 +0.88% 145
Buckinghamshire 0 146 £510 +10.87% 47
Oxfordshire -9 8 £650 +44.44% 22
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 27 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.14%) JBoss
4 1 (0.14%) Moodle
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 71 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.68%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Blender
Business Applications
1 28 (3.81%) Primavera
2 27 (3.67%) SAP QM
3 22 (2.99%) SAP EWM
4 9 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.09%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 105 (14.29%) Azure
2 46 (6.26%) AWS
3 34 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.59%) Entra ID
5 18 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (2.31%) Azure Storage
6 17 (2.31%) OpenShift
7 14 (1.90%) OCI
8 10 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.41%) Serverless
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.27%) GCP
10 2 (0.27%) PaaS
10 2 (0.27%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.27%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.27%) SaaS
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 91 (12.38%) Firewall
2 60 (8.16%) DNS
3 53 (7.21%) LAN
4 52 (7.07%) DHCP
5 50 (6.80%) WAN
6 30 (4.08%) SAN
7 28 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
8 24 (3.27%) TCP/IP
9 16 (2.18%) Network Security
10 12 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (1.63%) VPN
11 10 (1.36%) SSL
12 9 (1.22%) BGP
12 9 (1.22%) MPLS
13 7 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
15 5 (0.68%) Internet
16 4 (0.54%) IPsec
16 4 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.40%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.09%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.41%) MySQL
8 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) Power BI
9 1 (0.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 29 (3.95%) Selenium
3 25 (3.40%) Cucumber
4 24 (3.27%) REST Assured
4 24 (3.27%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.18%) GitLab
6 14 (1.90%) JIRA
7 12 (1.63%) Git
8 7 (0.95%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.14%) Appium
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
12 1 (0.14%) MSI
12 1 (0.14%) MSTest
12 1 (0.14%) NUnit
12 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 178 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 143 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 58 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (2.72%) Finance
5 20 (2.72%) Law
6 15 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (1.77%) Military
7 13 (1.77%) Police
8 12 (1.63%) Aviation
9 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.54%) Electronics
12 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
14 2 (0.27%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.27%) Legal
15 1 (0.14%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 125 (17.01%) Architect
2 110 (14.97%) Senior
3 72 (9.80%) Consultant
4 62 (8.44%) SAP Consultant
5 57 (7.76%) Developer
6 54 (7.35%) Analyst
6 54 (7.35%) Security Architect
7 39 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (4.49%) Support Specialist
9 29 (3.95%) Active Directory Support
10 28 (3.81%) Support Engineer
11 26 (3.54%) Active Directory Specialist
11 26 (3.54%) Administrator
11 26 (3.54%) Azure Specialist
11 26 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 26 (3.54%) SAP QM Consultant
11 26 (3.54%) Systems Administrator
12 25 (3.40%) Network Engineer
12 25 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (3.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.08%) ARM Templates
2 28 (3.81%) REST
3 25 (3.40%) Java EE
4 13 (1.77%) Itk
5 12 (1.63%) Web Services
6 10 (1.36%) .NET
6 10 (1.36%) Kafka
7 8 (1.09%) ASP.NET
7 8 (1.09%) SAP Basis
8 5 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.54%) YAML
10 3 (0.41%) Node.js
10 3 (0.41%) React
10 3 (0.41%) Spring
10 3 (0.41%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.27%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.27%) CSS
11 2 (0.27%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.31%) PKI
2 32 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 27 (3.67%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 7 (0.95%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.82%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.41%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.41%) iPad
11 3 (0.41%) Robotics
11 3 (0.41%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 142 (19.32%) Windows
2 86 (11.70%) Linux
3 77 (10.48%) Windows 10
3 77 (10.48%) Windows Server
4 65 (8.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 62 (8.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 40 (5.44%) Windows 7
7 36 (4.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (2.72%) Windows NT
9 16 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.90%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.77%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.50%) Debian
13 5 (0.68%) Unix
14 2 (0.27%) VMS
15 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (17.96%) ITIL
1 132 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (17.14%) DevOps
3 94 (12.79%) Agile
4 74 (10.07%) Customer Service
5 57 (7.76%) Project Management
5 57 (7.76%) Release Management
5 57 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (7.07%) Software Engineering
7 51 (6.94%) Service Management
8 48 (6.53%) Decision-Making
8 48 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 47 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
9 47 (6.39%) Performance Tuning
10 43 (5.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 41 (5.58%) Security Architecture
12 40 (5.44%) Configuration Management
13 37 (5.03%) Service Delivery
14 36 (4.90%) Change Management
15 35 (4.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (8.44%) PowerShell
2 33 (4.49%) Python
3 32 (4.35%) C#
4 31 (4.22%) Java
5 27 (3.67%) SQL
6 24 (3.27%) VBScript
7 17 (2.31%) Bicep
7 17 (2.31%) VB
8 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.36%) C
10 6 (0.82%) Bash
10 6 (0.82%) C++
11 5 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 394 (53.61%) DV Cleared
2 358 (48.71%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.97%) Degree
4 34 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (4.22%) CCNP
6 18 (2.45%) CCNA
6 18 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.36%) ISEB
8 8 (1.09%) APMP
9 7 (0.95%) CISM
10 6 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.54%) VCAP
12 4 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) MCSE
13 3 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.40%) QA
2 24 (3.27%) SLA
3 7 (0.95%) NCSC
3 7 (0.95%) PMO
4 6 (0.82%) NIST
5 5 (0.68%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 104 (14.15%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (5.03%) Firmware
4 21 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.72%) Docker
6 19 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.82%) vSphere
9 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) NFS
10 1 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
10 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (13.33%) SCCM
2 55 (7.48%) WSUS
3 50 (6.80%) Kubernetes
4 44 (5.99%) Ansible
5 39 (5.31%) SCOM
6 21 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.72%) Sysprep
8 19 (2.59%) Terraform
9 17 (2.31%) vCenter Server
10 16 (2.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (2.18%) NetBackup
11 14 (1.90%) Nessus
12 12 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.63%) Grafana
12 12 (1.63%) Istio
12 12 (1.63%) Podman
13 8 (1.09%) Argo
13 8 (1.09%) Kibana
13 8 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 200 (27.21%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.48%) VMware
3 72 (9.80%) SAP
4 59 (8.03%) Cisco
5 58 (7.89%) HP
6 51 (6.94%) Juniper
7 50 (6.80%) Oracle
8 27 (3.67%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.54%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.59%) Veeam
12 18 (2.45%) 3PAR
12 18 (2.45%) Dell
13 16 (2.18%) EMC
14 14 (1.90%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (1.90%) Symantec
15 12 (1.63%) ScienceLogic
16 5 (0.68%) Citrix
16 5 (0.68%) NEC
16 5 (0.68%) Siemens