Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Clearance
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 9 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -21
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 33 36 18
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.62% 10.88% 4.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.43% 44.44% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 2
10th Percentile £423 £236 £202
25th Percentile £436 £456 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £353
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +56.03% -35.91%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £469
90th Percentile - £823 £525
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.99 -
Median hourly rate - £15.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year - -29.15% +7.87%
75th Percentile - £17.08 -
90th Percentile - £25.15 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £34.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year +105.88% -41.88% +91.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 105 81 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.61% 24.47% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 10
10th Percentile £180 £204 £220
25th Percentile £290 £379 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +17.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £671 £601 £541
90th Percentile £675 £630 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -5.75% +6.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 41
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £16.30
Median hourly rate £34.13 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +109.39% -23.72% +7.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £24.15 £21.46
90th Percentile - £31.00 £31.13
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £31.64 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.53% -26.42% +104.76%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Cambridge -6 11 £475 -13.64% 11
Huntingdon -6 4 - - 6
Peterborough 0 1 £291 +45.25% 5
Security Cleared
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) ArcGIS
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) Azure
1 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
2 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) VSAN
2 3 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) DHCP
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (3.03%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) MSI
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Electronics
2 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Network Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Data Scientist
3 4 (12.12%) VMware Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) ERP Trainer
6 1 (3.03%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Field Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) FPGA
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) Validation
2 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
3 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
3 4 (12.12%) Data Science
3 4 (12.12%) Operational Stability
3 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
4 3 (9.09%) ETL
4 3 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (6.06%) Change Management
5 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.06%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (6.06%) ERP
5 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning
5 2 (6.06%) Migration
5 2 (6.06%) MLOps
5 2 (6.06%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) C
2 2 (6.06%) C#
2 2 (6.06%) C++
2 2 (6.06%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) DV Cleared
2 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
1 4 (12.12%) vRealize
1 4 (12.12%) VxRail
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) VMware
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco
2 3 (9.09%) Dell
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) IFS
3 2 (6.06%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
4 1 (3.03%) ESRI
4 1 (3.03%) Huawei
4 1 (3.03%) Juniper
4 1 (3.03%) Nokia
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) SAP