Security Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Security Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 585 321 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.20% 18.42% 9.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.66% 58.79% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 191 146
10th Percentile £213 £375 £407
25th Percentile £434 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +6.54% +15.68%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £638
90th Percentile £688 £721 £691
South East median daily rate £592 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +12.71% -3.23% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 13
10th Percentile £48.94 £24.35 -
25th Percentile £56.18 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £62.07 £64.84 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +208.02% -
75th Percentile £85.34 £74.49 £53.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £79.50
South East median hourly rate £61.65 £62.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year -1.45% +31.68% +26.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 852 546 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 43.99% 31.33% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 312 381
10th Percentile £213 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% +5.95%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £669
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 15
10th Percentile £41.48 £21.95 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -
75th Percentile £75.68 £75.56 £60.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.04% +31.56% +11.25%

Security Cleared
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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Reading +2 353 £605 +5.22% 98
Bracknell +5 86 £425 +21.43% 13
Wokingham 0 25 £475 -20.83% 3
Newbury +5 13 £525 +20.00% 1
Maidenhead - 7 £625 - 1
Slough +4 4 £328 -46.75% 2
Thatcham 0 1 £625 +316.67%
Security Cleared
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 18 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.17%) JBoss
4 1 (0.17%) Moodle
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 54 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.85%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.17%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.17%) Blender
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (4.79%) Primavera
2 27 (4.62%) SAP QM
3 22 (3.76%) SAP EWM
4 9 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.37%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.51%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 96 (16.41%) Azure
2 45 (7.69%) AWS
3 25 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (2.91%) Entra ID
4 17 (2.91%) OpenShift
5 16 (2.74%) Azure Storage
6 14 (2.39%) OCI
7 10 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (0.68%) Serverless
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.34%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.17%) GCP
11 1 (0.17%) GitHub
11 1 (0.17%) PaaS
11 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (13.50%) Firewall
2 52 (8.89%) LAN
3 50 (8.55%) DNS
4 48 (8.21%) WAN
5 42 (7.18%) DHCP
6 28 (4.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (3.42%) SAN
8 10 (1.71%) SSL
9 9 (1.54%) BGP
9 9 (1.54%) MPLS
10 7 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (0.85%) Internet
12 5 (0.85%) VPN
13 4 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.68%) IPsec
14 3 (0.51%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.51%) NAS
14 3 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 16 (2.74%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.37%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.51%) MySQL
9 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.17%) GIS
10 1 (0.17%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 29 (4.96%) Selenium
3 25 (4.27%) Cucumber
4 24 (4.10%) REST Assured
4 24 (4.10%) SonarQube
5 17 (2.91%) GitLab
6 14 (2.39%) JIRA
7 13 (2.22%) Git
8 7 (1.20%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.51%) JMeter
10 3 (0.51%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.34%) JUnit
11 2 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.17%) Appium
12 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.17%) MSTest
12 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 154 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 118 (20.17%) Public Sector
3 44 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (3.42%) Law
6 13 (2.22%) Police
7 11 (1.88%) Aviation
8 7 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.85%) Finance
10 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.85%) Military
11 4 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Electronics
13 2 (0.34%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.34%) Legal
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 111 (18.97%) Architect
2 86 (14.70%) Senior
3 69 (11.79%) Consultant
4 62 (10.60%) SAP Consultant
5 54 (9.23%) Security Architect
6 40 (6.84%) Developer
7 32 (5.47%) Support Specialist
8 28 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (4.62%) Active Directory Support
10 26 (4.44%) Administrator
10 26 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 26 (4.44%) SAP QM Consultant
10 26 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
11 25 (4.27%) Active Directory Specialist
11 25 (4.27%) Azure Specialist
11 25 (4.27%) Support Engineer
12 23 (3.93%) Build Engineer
13 20 (3.42%) Windows Build Engineer
13 20 (3.42%) Windows Engineer
14 19 (3.25%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.96%) ARM Templates
1 29 (4.96%) REST
2 25 (4.27%) Java EE
3 13 (2.22%) Itk
3 13 (2.22%) Web Services
4 10 (1.71%) Kafka
5 9 (1.54%) .NET
6 8 (1.37%) SAP Basis
7 7 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.68%) Node.js
9 4 (0.68%) Spring
9 4 (0.68%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.68%) YAML
10 3 (0.51%) React
11 2 (0.34%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.34%) Mustache
11 2 (0.34%) RESTful
11 2 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.47%) Driving Licence
2 31 (5.30%) PKI
3 27 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.51%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.51%) iPad
11 3 (0.51%) PMI
11 3 (0.51%) Robotics
11 3 (0.51%) Thin Client
12 2 (0.34%) CSOC
12 2 (0.34%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 126 (21.54%) Windows
2 75 (12.82%) Windows 10
3 74 (12.65%) Windows Server
4 69 (11.79%) Linux
5 65 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 62 (10.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 37 (6.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 34 (5.81%) Windows 7
9 20 (3.42%) Windows NT
10 15 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (2.39%) Windows XP
12 5 (0.85%) Unix
13 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.34%) VMS
15 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (21.37%) DevOps
2 115 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (16.75%) ITIL
4 61 (10.43%) Customer Service
5 53 (9.06%) Agile
6 49 (8.38%) Performance Tuning
7 48 (8.21%) Software Engineering
8 44 (7.52%) Release Management
9 43 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (7.35%) User Acceptance Testing
10 41 (7.01%) Security Architecture
11 39 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
12 38 (6.50%) Service Management
13 37 (6.32%) Decision-Making
14 35 (5.98%) Project Management
15 34 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 33 (5.64%) Test Automation
17 31 (5.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (5.30%) Software Testing
18 30 (5.13%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.57%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.47%) Java
3 30 (5.13%) C#
3 30 (5.13%) SQL
4 23 (3.93%) VBScript
5 17 (2.91%) PL/SQL
6 16 (2.74%) Bicep
6 16 (2.74%) VB
7 13 (2.22%) Python
8 10 (1.71%) C
9 6 (1.03%) Bash
9 6 (1.03%) C++
10 5 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.17%) Go
11 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 320 (54.70%) DV Cleared
2 247 (42.22%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.31%) Degree
4 19 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (3.08%) CCNA
6 16 (2.74%) CCNP
6 16 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.51%) APMP
8 3 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.34%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) CCDP
9 2 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.34%) HND
10 1 (0.17%) CCIP
10 1 (0.17%) HNC
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.10%) QA
2 19 (3.25%) SLA
3 5 (0.85%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) NCSC
5 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (14.87%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.32%) Firmware
3 34 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.59%) Hyper-V
5 19 (3.25%) Docker
6 18 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
9 2 (0.34%) XenApp
9 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 94 (16.07%) SCCM
2 54 (9.23%) WSUS
3 48 (8.21%) Kubernetes
4 41 (7.01%) Ansible
5 35 (5.98%) SCOM
6 20 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (3.42%) Sysprep
6 20 (3.42%) Terraform
7 17 (2.91%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.74%) EMC NetWorker
8 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (2.74%) NetBackup
9 12 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (2.05%) Grafana
9 12 (2.05%) Istio
9 12 (2.05%) Podman
10 8 (1.37%) Argo
10 8 (1.37%) Kibana
10 8 (1.37%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.51%) Endace
Vendors
1 147 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 70 (11.97%) SAP
3 58 (9.91%) HP
4 51 (8.72%) Oracle
5 44 (7.52%) Cisco
6 41 (7.01%) VMware
7 39 (6.67%) Juniper
8 18 (3.08%) 3PAR
8 18 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.91%) Dell
9 17 (2.91%) Veeam
10 16 (2.74%) EMC
10 16 (2.74%) Red Hat
11 14 (2.39%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (2.39%) Palo Alto
11 14 (2.39%) Symantec
12 5 (0.85%) Citrix
12 5 (0.85%) Siemens
13 4 (0.68%) NetApp
13 4 (0.68%) Nimble Storage