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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5,094 4,987 4,549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.17% 21.93% 14.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.30% 67.41% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 3,379 3,006
10th Percentile £340 £360 £359
25th Percentile £458 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £720 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 381 294
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £26.85 £22.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +50.99%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £56.49 £60.00 £52.82
% change year-on-year -5.85% +13.60% +37.18%

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 7,569 7,398 8,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.92% 32.53% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,382 4,891 5,353
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 569 541
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +30.87%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 1,915 £596 +13.43% 498
South West 0 1,539 £560 -6.67% 489
North of England -3 580 £514 -6.59% 255
Midlands +4 548 £525 -5.41% 209
West Midlands +5 417 £519 -6.06% 158
North West -2 404 £514 -2.14% 176
Scotland +18 272 £480 +5.49% 106
East of England -1 271 £550 +4.76% 158
Yorkshire 0 130 £525 -12.50% 57
East Midlands -1 130 £540 -9.31% 50
Wales -6 50 £600 +14.29% 31
North East -2 49 £500 -11.50% 23
Northern Ireland +23 32 £550 +10.00% 33
South Coast - 1 - -
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
1 171 (3.36%) Confluence
2 150 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 107 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
5 23 (0.45%) CMS
6 18 (0.35%) Apache
7 14 (0.27%) IIS
8 11 (0.22%) SAS
9 9 (0.18%) CICS
10 8 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.079%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.059%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.039%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 214 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.43%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.27%) Simulink
8 13 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 4 (0.079%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.039%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Blender
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.020%) Stata
Business Applications
1 31 (0.61%) Primavera
2 27 (0.53%) SAP QM
3 26 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 24 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 23 (0.45%) SAP EWM
5 23 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.16%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.079%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.059%) Maximo
10 3 (0.059%) SAP PS
11 2 (0.039%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.039%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.039%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.039%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 2 (0.039%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 1 (0.020%) Lorenzo
Cloud Services
1 457 (8.97%) Azure
2 310 (6.09%) AWS
3 149 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (1.83%) Power Platform
5 72 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (1.22%) PaaS
7 61 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 57 (1.12%) OpenShift
8 57 (1.12%) SaaS
9 50 (0.98%) IaaS
10 45 (0.88%) GitHub
11 39 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
12 37 (0.73%) Power Automate
13 31 (0.61%) Amazon S3
14 29 (0.57%) GCP
14 29 (0.57%) OCI
15 28 (0.55%) PowerApps
16 27 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (0.53%) Azure Stack
17 26 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 346 (6.79%) Firewall
2 266 (5.22%) WAN
3 173 (3.40%) LAN
4 167 (3.28%) VPN
5 163 (3.20%) BGP
6 157 (3.08%) DNS
7 129 (2.53%) Network Security
8 115 (2.26%) DHCP
9 112 (2.20%) MPLS
10 97 (1.90%) IPsec
11 87 (1.71%) SAN
12 86 (1.69%) SSL
13 72 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
14 55 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
14 55 (1.08%) Junos
15 54 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
16 53 (1.04%) OSPF
17 50 (0.98%) TCP/IP
17 50 (0.98%) Wireless
18 48 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 80 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (1.08%) Power BI
4 48 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 45 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (0.86%) MySQL
7 43 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 29 (0.57%) Big Data
9 27 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (0.43%) Metadata
12 21 (0.41%) MongoDB
13 20 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 14 (0.27%) Tableau
17 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
18 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 11 (0.22%) DB2
19 11 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 269 (5.28%) JIRA
2 140 (2.75%) Git
2 140 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 93 (1.83%) GitLab
4 63 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 55 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
6 51 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 48 (0.94%) Selenium
8 44 (0.86%) PVCS
9 39 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 33 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 25 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 25 (0.49%) Robot Framework
12 24 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (0.43%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.43%) MSI
13 22 (0.43%) TestRail
14 20 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (0.37%) JUnit
16 18 (0.35%) JMeter
General
1 917 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 915 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 387 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (5.56%) Finance
5 203 (3.99%) Telecoms
6 182 (3.57%) Aerospace
7 138 (2.71%) Manufacturing
8 125 (2.45%) Electronics
9 121 (2.38%) Military
10 92 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 83 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 79 (1.55%) Marketing
13 67 (1.32%) Legal
14 33 (0.65%) Police
15 30 (0.59%) Law
16 25 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.39%) Retail
18 19 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (0.35%) Local Government
20 17 (0.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,013 (19.89%) Architect
2 443 (8.70%) Analyst
3 341 (6.69%) Senior
4 299 (5.87%) Developer
5 270 (5.30%) Lead
6 257 (5.05%) Consultant
7 245 (4.81%) Network Engineer
8 231 (4.53%) Network Architect
9 214 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 198 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 165 (3.24%) Project Manager
12 136 (2.67%) Support Engineer
13 135 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
14 128 (2.51%) Administrator
15 113 (2.22%) Software Engineer
16 106 (2.08%) Security Architect
17 104 (2.04%) Service Analyst
18 101 (1.98%) Lead Architect
19 97 (1.90%) Service Desk Analyst
20 96 (1.88%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (2.12%) REST
2 89 (1.75%) Web Services
3 81 (1.59%) .NET
4 58 (1.14%) Node.js
5 55 (1.08%) Spring
6 53 (1.04%) React
7 51 (1.00%) Spring Boot
8 41 (0.80%) HTML
9 40 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
10 38 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 35 (0.69%) CSS
12 34 (0.67%) .NET Core
13 31 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
14 30 (0.59%) XML
15 26 (0.51%) Java EE
15 26 (0.51%) Kafka
16 24 (0.47%) YAML
17 23 (0.45%) JPA
18 22 (0.43%) LDAP
19 21 (0.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 316 (6.20%) PKI
2 158 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 153 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 115 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
5 110 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
6 87 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 86 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 80 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 71 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 66 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 51 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
12 46 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 41 (0.80%) CSOC
15 38 (0.75%) Analogue Electronics
16 37 (0.73%) Cloud Native
17 36 (0.71%) Onboarding
17 36 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 33 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 826 (16.22%) Windows
2 579 (11.37%) Linux
3 281 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 169 (3.32%) Windows 10
5 133 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 104 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 79 (1.55%) Windows 7
8 72 (1.41%) Unix
8 72 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 71 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 64 (1.26%) Apple iOS
11 61 (1.20%) Android
12 28 (0.55%) Solaris
13 26 (0.51%) Ubuntu
14 22 (0.43%) AIX
15 20 (0.39%) zOS
16 18 (0.35%) Windows Vista
17 16 (0.31%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.31%) Windows NT
17 16 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (15.17%) Agile
2 558 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
3 475 (9.32%) DevOps
4 455 (8.93%) ITIL
5 439 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
6 364 (7.15%) Project Management
7 310 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 306 (6.01%) Service Management
9 297 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 273 (5.36%) SIEM
11 264 (5.18%) Software Engineering
12 224 (4.40%) CI/CD
13 217 (4.26%) Customer Service
14 201 (3.95%) Configuration Management
15 193 (3.79%) Project Delivery
16 185 (3.63%) Mentoring
16 185 (3.63%) Network Management
17 177 (3.47%) Change Management
17 177 (3.47%) Migration
18 170 (3.34%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 337 (6.62%) PowerShell
2 317 (6.22%) Python
3 227 (4.46%) Java
4 187 (3.67%) SQL
5 147 (2.89%) C
6 110 (2.16%) C#
7 95 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 91 (1.79%) C++
9 68 (1.33%) Bash
9 68 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 46 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 41 (0.80%) VBScript
12 27 (0.53%) Bicep
12 27 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.51%) Go
14 23 (0.45%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.45%) VB
15 20 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.37%) Embedded C
17 16 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,894 (56.81%) SC Cleared
2 1,918 (37.65%) DV Cleared
3 362 (7.11%) Degree
4 155 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 114 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 81 (1.59%) CCNP
7 73 (1.43%) CCNA
7 73 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 54 (1.06%) CISSP
9 50 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (0.80%) CISM
10 41 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 36 (0.71%) APMP
12 33 (0.65%) MCSA
13 32 (0.63%) A+ Certification
14 31 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 30 (0.59%) MCSE
15 30 (0.59%) PMP
16 28 (0.55%) PMI Certification
17 26 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (3.20%) SLA
2 137 (2.69%) NIST
3 100 (1.96%) QA
4 86 (1.69%) PMO
5 70 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (1.24%) NIST 800
7 50 (0.98%) GDPR
8 44 (0.86%) NCSC
9 37 (0.73%) JSP 440
10 31 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
11 29 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
12 26 (0.51%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.45%) RMADS
14 20 (0.39%) HIPAA
15 18 (0.35%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 11 (0.22%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
19 10 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 416 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 299 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (3.02%) Docker
4 114 (2.24%) VMware NSX
5 98 (1.92%) vSphere
6 91 (1.79%) Hyper-V
7 88 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
8 66 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
9 58 (1.14%) Firmware
10 30 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
11 10 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.16%) VMFS
13 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.098%) iptables
14 5 (0.098%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.098%) XenApp
14 5 (0.098%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.039%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 263 (5.16%) Ansible
2 222 (4.36%) Kubernetes
3 211 (4.14%) Terraform
4 167 (3.28%) SCCM
5 94 (1.85%) WSUS
6 70 (1.37%) SCOM
7 67 (1.32%) vCenter Server
8 64 (1.26%) Grafana
9 47 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 41 (0.80%) Prometheus
11 37 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 37 (0.73%) Kibana
12 29 (0.57%) Endace
13 27 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 26 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
14 26 (0.51%) Puppet
15 25 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
15 25 (0.49%) PowerCLI
15 25 (0.49%) Progress Chef
15 25 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 853 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 493 (9.68%) VMware
3 349 (6.85%) Cisco
4 271 (5.32%) Juniper
5 205 (4.02%) SAP
6 153 (3.00%) Red Hat
7 130 (2.55%) Oracle
8 117 (2.30%) Atlassian
9 111 (2.18%) Dell
10 97 (1.90%) HP
11 91 (1.79%) IBM
12 81 (1.59%) ServiceNow
13 79 (1.55%) Palo Alto
14 68 (1.33%) F5
15 59 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 51 (1.00%) Citrix
17 44 (0.86%) SolarWinds
18 42 (0.82%) Google
19 36 (0.71%) EMC
20 34 (0.67%) Remedy