Security Cleared Contracts in Cambridge

Security Clearance
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 10 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 10 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.77% 1.03% 4.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.46% 3.17% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £468 - £491
25th Percentile £475 £700 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £563
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £800 £584
90th Percentile £595 - £594
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £494 £700 £513
% change year-on-year -29.46% +36.59% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.14 £21.37 £20.25
% change year-on-year -29.15% +5.53% +2.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26 63 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 22.81% 32.47% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 23
10th Percentile £347 £350 £226
25th Percentile £392 £396 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £556
90th Percentile £633 £800 £594
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £15.50 £17.49
25th Percentile - £18.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £17.80 £45.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.52% +28.81% +75.00%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £56.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.87 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.16% +6.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SNA
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Hudson
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) IFS Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) HR Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Accounts Payable
4 1 (10.00%) Accounts Receivable
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Data Repair
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) VCAP
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) VxRail
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Avamar
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) vRealize
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) IFS
3 2 (20.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase