Security Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,266 3,833 4,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.01% 15.26% 10.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.19% 59.97% 51.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,584 2,578 3,218
10th Percentile £363 £400 £403
25th Percentile £460 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £710 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 200 148
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.48 £25.35
25th Percentile £36.00 £50.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +21.30% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £72.81 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £82.65 £67.59
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,106 6,392 8,786
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.44% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 4,298 6,173
10th Percentile £325 £380 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 280 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.25 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +33.22% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.81 £65.44
90th Percentile £82.84 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Security Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Security Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 95 (4.19%) Confluence
2 94 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
5 17 (0.75%) nginx
6 10 (0.44%) Apache
7 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 8 (0.35%) SAS
8 8 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
10 6 (0.26%) CICS
10 6 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 60 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.35%) Trello
7 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.22%) Sketch
9 4 (0.18%) Revit
10 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.044%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.044%) Blender
11 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.79%) Primavera
1 18 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 16 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.35%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.22%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.13%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.13%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.13%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.088%) SAP BRIM
9 2 (0.088%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.088%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 390 (17.21%) AWS
2 336 (14.83%) Azure
3 102 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (3.09%) Power Platform
5 55 (2.43%) GitHub
6 54 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (1.81%) SaaS
8 38 (1.68%) GCP
9 36 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.59%) PaaS
10 33 (1.46%) Serverless
11 30 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (0.97%) Azure Stack
18 21 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.96%) Firewall
2 59 (2.60%) Network Security
3 40 (1.77%) VPN
4 37 (1.63%) SSL
5 35 (1.54%) DNS
6 32 (1.41%) BGP
7 31 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.37%) WAN
8 29 (1.28%) DHCP
9 25 (1.10%) SAN
10 23 (1.02%) 4G
11 20 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (0.66%) 5G
12 15 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
12 15 (0.66%) OSPF
13 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (0.62%) VoIP
13 14 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.53%) SNMP
15 11 (0.49%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 45 (1.99%) Power BI
4 31 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 29 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
10 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 14 (0.62%) Oracle Database 11g
13 13 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 13 (0.57%) DB2
13 13 (0.57%) Metadata
14 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.49%) MySQL
15 11 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
16 10 (0.44%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 154 (6.80%) JIRA
2 77 (3.40%) Git
2 77 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.12%) Selenium
4 46 (2.03%) GitLab
5 36 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.37%) PVCS
7 27 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.88%) JMeter
10 18 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.79%) JUnit
11 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.53%) Maven
13 11 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
13 11 (0.49%) TestNG
14 10 (0.44%) Postman
14 10 (0.44%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 542 (23.92%) Public Sector
2 415 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 175 (7.72%) Finance
4 150 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (4.15%) Telecoms
6 46 (2.03%) Manufacturing
7 43 (1.90%) Military
8 42 (1.85%) Police
9 41 (1.81%) Electronics
10 39 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (1.59%) Marketing
13 30 (1.32%) Law
14 28 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 26 (1.15%) Banking
16 19 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.75%) Legal
18 13 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 11 (0.49%) Publishing
20 10 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (16.68%) Architect
2 246 (10.86%) Developer
3 204 (9.00%) Senior
4 161 (7.11%) Consultant
5 140 (6.18%) Lead
6 134 (5.91%) Analyst
7 108 (4.77%) Project Manager
8 107 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 93 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 56 (2.47%) Technical Architect
11 53 (2.34%) Security Architect
12 48 (2.12%) Java Developer
13 46 (2.03%) Senior Manager
14 45 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
16 41 (1.81%) Business Analyst
17 39 (1.72%) Designer
17 39 (1.72%) Lead Architect
17 39 (1.72%) Network Engineer
18 38 (1.68%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.91%) Web Services
2 58 (2.56%) REST
3 52 (2.29%) .NET
4 43 (1.90%) Spring Boot
5 41 (1.81%) ARM Templates
5 41 (1.81%) HTML
6 40 (1.77%) CSS
7 38 (1.68%) Spring
8 36 (1.59%) RESTful
9 35 (1.54%) Node.js
10 31 (1.37%) React
11 22 (0.97%) XML
12 18 (0.79%) Kafka
13 15 (0.66%) JSON
13 15 (0.66%) Sass
14 14 (0.62%) Laravel
14 14 (0.62%) WebSockets
15 12 (0.53%) AngularJS
15 12 (0.53%) OpenID
15 12 (0.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.09%) PKI
2 65 (2.87%) Management Information System
3 55 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 28 (1.24%) CMDB
9 27 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 22 (0.97%) Product Ownership
12 21 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 20 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.79%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (0.66%) Security Posture
18 13 (0.57%) Replication
19 10 (0.44%) Low-Code
19 10 (0.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 175 (7.72%) Linux
2 171 (7.55%) Windows
3 45 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.15%) Unix
5 21 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.71%) Debian
8 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.53%) Windows 7
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.31%) Android
12 7 (0.31%) Solaris
12 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.31%) zOS
13 6 (0.26%) VMS
14 3 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (17.96%) Agile
2 277 (12.22%) DevOps
3 202 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (8.47%) ITIL
5 173 (7.63%) Service Management
6 168 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
7 164 (7.24%) Project Management
8 157 (6.93%) CI/CD
9 145 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 128 (5.65%) Migration
11 123 (5.43%) Analytics
12 110 (4.85%) Test Automation
13 108 (4.77%) Business Intelligence
14 105 (4.63%) Configuration Management
15 102 (4.50%) Decision-Making
16 101 (4.46%) Change Management
17 100 (4.41%) Software Engineering
18 98 (4.32%) ITSM
19 90 (3.97%) Roadmaps
20 86 (3.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 196 (8.65%) Python
2 157 (6.93%) SQL
3 145 (6.40%) Java
4 98 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 79 (3.49%) C#
7 64 (2.82%) PL/SQL
8 55 (2.43%) C
9 47 (2.07%) Bash
10 31 (1.37%) TypeScript
11 26 (1.15%) C++
12 20 (0.88%) Bicep
13 18 (0.79%) VB
14 16 (0.71%) VBScript
15 14 (0.62%) PHP
16 12 (0.53%) Go
17 11 (0.49%) ABAP
17 11 (0.49%) COBOL
18 9 (0.40%) Perl
18 9 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,758 (77.58%) SC Cleared
2 455 (20.08%) DV Cleared
3 204 (9.00%) Degree
4 131 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (1.77%) CISSP
6 39 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (1.46%) CISM
7 33 (1.46%) PMP
8 30 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.19%) CCNP
11 26 (1.15%) ISTQB
12 23 (1.02%) CCNA
13 19 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
14 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.66%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.62%) ISEB
17 12 (0.53%) CISA
17 12 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (2.87%) QA
2 54 (2.38%) NCSC
3 49 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.99%) SLA
5 44 (1.94%) NIST
6 38 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.50%) PMO
8 31 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
10 26 (1.15%) GDPR
11 7 (0.31%) COBIT
12 5 (0.22%) GRC
12 5 (0.22%) RMADS
12 5 (0.22%) WCAG
13 4 (0.18%) DO-178B
13 4 (0.18%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 141 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 109 (4.81%) Docker
3 30 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.57%) Firmware
7 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.26%) vSphere
10 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.088%) KVM
12 2 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.044%) ACF2
13 1 (0.044%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.044%) Lustre
13 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.044%) RACF
13 1 (0.044%) UAG
Systems Management
1 157 (6.93%) Terraform
2 135 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 99 (4.37%) Ansible
4 36 (1.59%) SCOM
5 32 (1.41%) SCCM
6 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 24 (1.06%) Grafana
9 21 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.71%) WSUS
11 15 (0.66%) Puppet
12 14 (0.62%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (0.40%) Packer
15 8 (0.35%) Podman
16 7 (0.31%) Kibana
16 7 (0.31%) VxRail
17 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 309 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 111 (4.90%) SAP
3 99 (4.37%) Oracle
4 63 (2.78%) Cisco
5 62 (2.74%) VMware
6 55 (2.43%) Atlassian
7 48 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.94%) Splunk
9 34 (1.50%) Dell
10 32 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.37%) Juniper
12 27 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.06%) IBM
14 17 (0.75%) NetApp
15 16 (0.71%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.71%) Google
15 16 (0.71%) Remedy
16 15 (0.66%) Citrix
16 15 (0.66%) Sparx
17 14 (0.62%) HP