Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Security Clearance
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blackpool with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 10 12 43
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 43.48% 48.00% 50.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 92.31% 70.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 34
10th Percentile - £275 £450
25th Percentile £380 £285 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £409 £624
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -34.43% +11.38%
75th Percentile £440 £638 £645
90th Percentile - £722 £676
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +69.23% -40.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £22.12 - -
25th Percentile £24.07 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £60.61 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.25% - -20.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10 13 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 43.48% 52.00% 71.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 49
10th Percentile - £259 £500
25th Percentile £380 £278 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £347 £645
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -46.20% +13.66%
75th Percentile £440 £632 £720
90th Percentile - £704 -
Lancashire median daily rate £539 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +2.67% -16.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £22.12 - -
25th Percentile £24.07 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -0.43%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Blackpool

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Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Project Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Focus Group
1 4 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Computacenter
1 2 (20.00%) Dell
1 2 (20.00%) HP