Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Abingdon

Security Clearance
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Abingdon with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Abingdon 33.33% 12.50% -
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £453 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £506 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £588 -
% change year-on-year -23.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.32 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.32 £37.03 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.13% -22.04% +23.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Abingdon

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Abingdon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon 33.33% 25.00% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £453 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £506 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £440 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -18.14% +26.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.32 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.16 £37.03 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% -25.94% +77.56%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Abingdon

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Abingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) Runbook
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) BeyondTrust