Security Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Security Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 253 623 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.57% 31.40% 18.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.81% 69.76% 58.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 330 216
10th Percentile £350 £206 £400
25th Percentile £475 £434 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -1.88% +9.53%
75th Percentile £697 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £550 £582 £549
% change year-on-year -5.50% +6.01% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 72 31
10th Percentile £38.40 £49.23 £23.00
25th Percentile £60.75 £56.23 £50.45
Median hourly rate £63.75 £62.07 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -4.02% +207.24%
75th Percentile £83.75 £84.71 £74.19
90th Percentile £91.05 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £60.25 £61.65 £62.55
% change year-on-year -2.26% -1.45% +31.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading -5 109 £650 +7.44% 89
Wokingham 0 58 £450 -5.26% 3
Maidenhead +4 11 £525 -16.00% 5
Bracknell -10 9 £550 +29.41% 18
Slough -6 4 £323 -1.53% 19
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (3.16%) Apache
2 6 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.58%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.19%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.19%) SAP GRC
3 3 (1.19%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.00%) Azure
2 27 (10.67%) AWS
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.77%) SaaS
4 6 (2.37%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.37%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (1.58%) Azure Stack
5 4 (1.58%) PaaS
5 4 (1.58%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.79%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.79%) GCP
7 2 (0.79%) IaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.30%) DNS
2 17 (6.72%) DHCP
3 14 (5.53%) Firewall
4 13 (5.14%) SMTP
5 11 (4.35%) FTP
5 11 (4.35%) Telnet
6 8 (3.16%) Network Security
7 7 (2.77%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.98%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.58%) tcpdump
9 4 (1.58%) VoIP
10 3 (1.19%) Ethernet
10 3 (1.19%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.19%) MPLS
10 3 (1.19%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.19%) VSAN
11 2 (0.79%) BGP
11 2 (0.79%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.79%) OSPF
11 2 (0.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.16%) Oracle Database
1 8 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.37%) GIS
3 6 (2.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (1.58%) Power BI
5 3 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (1.19%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) MS Access
7 1 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.32%) JIRA
2 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.53%) Selenium
4 13 (5.14%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.14%) GitLab
4 13 (5.14%) REST Assured
5 10 (3.95%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.58%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.79%) Git
7 2 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.40%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.40%) jMock
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Mockito
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (29.25%) Public Sector
2 53 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.79%) Telecoms
4 38 (15.02%) Finance
5 35 (13.83%) Manufacturing
6 31 (12.25%) Marketing
7 30 (11.86%) Electronics
8 19 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.56%) Military
10 8 (3.16%) Law
11 4 (1.58%) Police
12 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (20.95%) Architect
2 45 (17.79%) Senior
3 21 (8.30%) Active Directory Architect
4 17 (6.72%) Security Specialist
4 17 (6.72%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 17 (6.72%) Senior Security Specialist
5 16 (6.32%) Information Security Specialist
5 16 (6.32%) Information Specialist
5 16 (6.32%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 15 (5.93%) Consultant
6 15 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.53%) Analyst
7 14 (5.53%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.74%) Administrator
9 11 (4.35%) Developer
9 11 (4.35%) Lead
10 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (3.56%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.16%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.93%) REST
2 13 (5.14%) Java EE
3 10 (3.95%) ARM Templates
4 6 (2.37%) SOAP
5 5 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.98%) JBoss Seam
6 4 (1.58%) LDAP
6 4 (1.58%) PySpark
6 4 (1.58%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.19%) .NET
7 3 (1.19%) Apache Axis
7 3 (1.19%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.19%) RFC 2544
8 2 (0.79%) Middleware
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.79%) YAML
9 1 (0.40%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.40%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.40%) Spring
9 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.72%) Data Centre
1 17 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.56%) CMDB
4 8 (3.16%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.16%) SCADA
5 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.19%) PKI
6 3 (1.19%) Replication
6 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.79%) Clustering
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Life Science
8 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.53%) Windows
2 25 (9.88%) Linux
3 22 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.79%) Unix
8 2 (0.79%) VMS
8 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (17.79%) Test Automation
2 40 (15.81%) Agile
3 35 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (13.04%) DevOps
4 33 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (12.25%) Programme Management
6 30 (11.86%) Digital Marketing
7 27 (10.67%) Decision-Making
8 26 (10.28%) Identity Access Management
9 25 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (9.49%) Risk Management
11 22 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 21 (8.30%) ITIL
12 21 (8.30%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (7.91%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (7.91%) Security Architecture
14 19 (7.51%) Configuration Management
14 19 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (7.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.42%) PowerShell
2 28 (11.07%) SQL
3 18 (7.11%) Java
4 13 (5.14%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.77%) Python
6 6 (2.37%) ABAP
6 6 (2.37%) Perl
7 5 (1.98%) C#
8 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.79%) Ruby
10 2 (0.79%) VB
11 1 (0.40%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 144 (56.92%) SC Cleared
2 106 (41.90%) DV Cleared
3 17 (6.72%) CISM
4 10 (3.95%) Degree
5 8 (3.16%) CCNP
5 8 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.77%) CISSP
7 5 (1.98%) CCNA
8 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.19%) CCDP
8 3 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.79%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCIP
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.93%) NCSC
3 8 (3.16%) QA
4 5 (1.98%) NIST
4 5 (1.98%) SLA
5 4 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.19%) COBIT
6 3 (1.19%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.79%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (5.53%) NFS
4 11 (4.35%) Docker
5 8 (3.16%) Samba
6 6 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.37%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.98%) vSphere
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.79%) XenApp
8 2 (0.79%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.40%) Postfix
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.11%) Ansible
2 14 (5.53%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.95%) Terraform
3 10 (3.95%) yum
4 9 (3.56%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (3.56%) Podman
5 4 (1.58%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.58%) SCCM
5 4 (1.58%) vRealize
6 3 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (1.19%) WSUS
7 2 (0.79%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.79%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Grafana
8 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 47 (18.58%) SAP
2 30 (11.86%) VMware
3 16 (6.32%) Dell
3 16 (6.32%) Oracle
4 14 (5.53%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.74%) HP
5 12 (4.74%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.35%) Cisco
7 9 (3.56%) Wyse
8 8 (3.16%) Juniper
9 6 (2.37%) BMC
9 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.98%) Darktrace
11 4 (1.58%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.58%) Databricks
11 4 (1.58%) Veritas
12 3 (1.19%) Citrix
13 2 (0.79%) F5
14 1 (0.40%) Splunk
14 1 (0.40%) Xamarin