Security Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5,031 5,242 4,419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.51% 22.30% 14.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.55% 67.53% 54.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,643 2,874
10th Percentile £341 £356 £356
25th Percentile £462 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +11.94%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 425 269
10th Percentile £13.79 £18.13 £18.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £58.00 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% +32.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £57.29 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.53% +14.29% +28.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East 0 1,837 £590 +10.28% 506
South West 0 1,547 £550 -8.33% 468
North of England -2 614 £525 -4.55% 252
Midlands +4 513 £500 -7.41% 166
North West -1 439 £525 -1.87% 194
West Midlands +4 379 £480 -11.11% 121
Scotland +18 281 £550 +22.22% 103
East of England -1 242 £533 -3.18% 135
East Midlands -1 133 £550 -4.35% 45
Yorkshire +3 130 £525 -12.50% 35
Wales -7 51 £600 +14.29% 13
North East -3 47 £525 -7.08% 23
Northern Ireland +15 13 £506 +68.75% 24
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 180 (3.58%) Confluence
2 155 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 90 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.42%) CMS
6 11 (0.22%) Apache
7 10 (0.20%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) CICS
9 6 (0.12%) IIS
10 4 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.080%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2000
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2003
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.080%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.060%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 215 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 112 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.44%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.30%) Simulink
8 13 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.099%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Blender
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (0.81%) Primavera
2 28 (0.56%) Teamcenter
3 27 (0.54%) SAP QM
4 26 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 23 (0.46%) SAP EWM
6 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 17 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.099%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.080%) CA PPM
11 4 (0.080%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.060%) Infor M3
12 3 (0.060%) Maximo
12 3 (0.060%) SAP BRIM
12 3 (0.060%) SAP Hybris
12 3 (0.060%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.060%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 3 (0.060%) SAP PLM
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 445 (8.85%) Azure
2 314 (6.24%) AWS
3 129 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (1.81%) Power Platform
5 65 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (1.21%) PaaS
7 56 (1.11%) SaaS
8 52 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 50 (0.99%) IaaS
10 37 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
10 37 (0.74%) OpenShift
11 36 (0.72%) GitHub
12 35 (0.70%) Azure Stack
13 34 (0.68%) Power Automate
14 30 (0.60%) Amazon S3
15 29 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (0.56%) GCP
17 25 (0.50%) OCI
17 25 (0.50%) Serverless
18 24 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 366 (7.27%) Firewall
2 284 (5.65%) WAN
3 189 (3.76%) LAN
4 176 (3.50%) BGP
5 170 (3.38%) VPN
6 164 (3.26%) DNS
7 142 (2.82%) Network Security
8 118 (2.35%) MPLS
9 108 (2.15%) DHCP
10 101 (2.01%) IPsec
11 92 (1.83%) SAN
12 86 (1.71%) SSL
13 72 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
14 60 (1.19%) TCP/IP
15 58 (1.15%) OSPF
16 55 (1.09%) Junos
17 54 (1.07%) Wireless
18 53 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
19 51 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
20 49 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 82 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (1.03%) Power BI
4 47 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 46 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 46 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 35 (0.70%) MySQL
7 30 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 29 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (0.50%) Metadata
10 20 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (0.36%) Big Data
12 17 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 16 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
14 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
14 13 (0.26%) Tableau
15 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 11 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 282 (5.61%) JIRA
2 133 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 119 (2.37%) Git
4 83 (1.65%) GitLab
5 64 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 56 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
7 49 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.95%) Selenium
9 45 (0.89%) PVCS
10 39 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 25 (0.50%) TestRail
13 24 (0.48%) Robot Framework
14 19 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 19 (0.38%) JUnit
14 19 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (0.36%) JMeter
16 14 (0.28%) MSI
General
1 965 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 913 (18.15%) Public Sector
3 389 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.59%) Finance
5 198 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 186 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 127 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 123 (2.44%) Military
9 121 (2.41%) Electronics
10 98 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (1.37%) Marketing
13 68 (1.35%) Legal
14 44 (0.87%) Police
15 36 (0.72%) Law
16 28 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.46%) Aviation
18 22 (0.44%) Retail
19 19 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 15 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 988 (19.64%) Architect
2 458 (9.10%) Analyst
3 356 (7.08%) Senior
4 321 (6.38%) Developer
5 281 (5.59%) Lead
6 273 (5.43%) Consultant
7 247 (4.91%) Network Engineer
8 217 (4.31%) Network Architect
9 200 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 199 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 162 (3.22%) Project Manager
12 116 (2.31%) Administrator
13 115 (2.29%) Support Engineer
14 108 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
14 108 (2.15%) Security Architect
15 105 (2.09%) Lead Architect
16 103 (2.05%) Service Analyst
16 103 (2.05%) SOC Analyst
17 99 (1.97%) Software Engineer
18 96 (1.91%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (1.81%) REST
2 88 (1.75%) Web Services
3 80 (1.59%) .NET
4 62 (1.23%) Node.js
5 56 (1.11%) Spring
6 55 (1.09%) React
7 43 (0.85%) Spring Boot
8 39 (0.78%) HTML
9 35 (0.70%) .NET Core
10 33 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 32 (0.64%) CSS
11 32 (0.64%) XML
12 26 (0.52%) RESTful
13 25 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.50%) Java EE
14 23 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
14 23 (0.46%) JPA
15 22 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (0.42%) Hibernate
17 18 (0.36%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 317 (6.30%) PKI
2 166 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 150 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 110 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
5 107 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 96 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 82 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 79 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 76 (1.51%) Product Ownership
10 61 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 53 (1.05%) Driving Licence
12 51 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 45 (0.89%) Onboarding
14 42 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 40 (0.80%) CSOC
15 40 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
16 39 (0.78%) CMDB
17 37 (0.74%) Analogue Electronics
17 37 (0.74%) Clustering
18 35 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 757 (15.05%) Windows
2 510 (10.14%) Linux
3 254 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 170 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 96 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 94 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 80 (1.59%) Windows 7
8 72 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 71 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 60 (1.19%) Unix
11 54 (1.07%) Apple iOS
12 47 (0.93%) Android
13 34 (0.68%) Ubuntu
14 21 (0.42%) AIX
15 20 (0.40%) Debian
15 20 (0.40%) Solaris
15 20 (0.40%) Windows NT
16 18 (0.36%) Windows Vista
17 16 (0.32%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (15.46%) Agile
2 587 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
3 491 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
4 477 (9.48%) ITIL
5 430 (8.55%) DevOps
6 391 (7.77%) Project Management
7 334 (6.64%) Service Management
8 320 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 291 (5.78%) SIEM
10 268 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 249 (4.95%) Software Engineering
12 230 (4.57%) Customer Service
13 204 (4.05%) CI/CD
14 196 (3.90%) Project Delivery
15 190 (3.78%) Network Management
16 189 (3.76%) Mentoring
17 184 (3.66%) Configuration Management
17 184 (3.66%) Risk Management
18 180 (3.58%) Decision-Making
19 177 (3.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 304 (6.04%) Python
2 295 (5.86%) PowerShell
3 215 (4.27%) Java
4 189 (3.76%) SQL
5 147 (2.92%) C
6 109 (2.17%) C#
7 97 (1.93%) JavaScript
8 88 (1.75%) C++
9 76 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 62 (1.23%) Bash
11 34 (0.68%) VBScript
12 31 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 30 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 26 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.52%) TypeScript
15 24 (0.48%) Go
16 23 (0.46%) Bicep
17 18 (0.36%) Embedded C
17 18 (0.36%) VB
18 15 (0.30%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2,869 (57.03%) SC Cleared
2 1,892 (37.61%) DV Cleared
3 386 (7.67%) Degree
4 155 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 136 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 102 (2.03%) CCNP
7 87 (1.73%) CCNA
8 73 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 72 (1.43%) CISSP
10 55 (1.09%) CISM
11 45 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 42 (0.83%) ISTQB
13 36 (0.72%) APMP
14 34 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.60%) MCSA
15 30 (0.60%) PMP
16 27 (0.54%) HND
16 27 (0.54%) PMI Certification
17 26 (0.52%) MCSE
17 26 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.06%) SLA
2 141 (2.80%) NIST
3 116 (2.31%) QA
4 99 (1.97%) PMO
5 94 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.29%) NCSC
7 61 (1.21%) GDPR
8 53 (1.05%) NIST 800
9 47 (0.93%) JSP 440
10 44 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
11 34 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
12 31 (0.62%) RMADS
13 29 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 23 (0.46%) Accessibility
15 21 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.28%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
19 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 401 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 234 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (2.37%) Docker
4 86 (1.71%) VMware NSX
5 82 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
6 75 (1.49%) vSphere
7 73 (1.45%) Hyper-V
8 65 (1.29%) Firmware
9 41 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
10 21 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.14%) KVM
11 7 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.099%) iptables
13 4 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.080%) XenApp
13 4 (0.080%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 227 (4.51%) Ansible
2 180 (3.58%) Terraform
3 179 (3.56%) Kubernetes
4 161 (3.20%) SCCM
5 81 (1.61%) vCenter Server
5 81 (1.61%) WSUS
6 74 (1.47%) SCOM
7 53 (1.05%) Grafana
8 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 35 (0.70%) Prometheus
11 30 (0.60%) vRealize
12 28 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
12 28 (0.56%) Endace
12 28 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 27 (0.54%) NetBackup
14 25 (0.50%) PowerCLI
15 23 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
15 23 (0.46%) VxRail
16 20 (0.40%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 836 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 414 (8.23%) VMware
3 352 (7.00%) Cisco
4 288 (5.72%) Juniper
5 206 (4.09%) SAP
6 131 (2.60%) Oracle
7 123 (2.44%) Atlassian
8 114 (2.27%) Dell
8 114 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 112 (2.23%) HP
10 86 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 80 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 77 (1.53%) IBM
13 68 (1.35%) Fortinet
14 54 (1.07%) F5
15 53 (1.05%) Citrix
16 46 (0.91%) SolarWinds
17 39 (0.78%) Google
18 38 (0.76%) EMC
19 37 (0.74%) Veeam