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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 32 8
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 32 12 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.20% 2.81% 10.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.11% 16.90% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 14
10th Percentile £277 - £369
25th Percentile £456 £170 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £180 £550
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% -67.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £190 £564
90th Percentile £775 - £601
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.37% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 33
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £15.14 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +7.87% -0.48%
75th Percentile £18.87 - £20.56
90th Percentile £25.15 - £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.32 £59.75 £38.95
% change year-on-year -57.62% +53.40% -22.10%

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 76 71 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.84% 16.63% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 38
10th Percentile £206 £225 £226
25th Percentile £384 £291 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 79
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%
75th Percentile £24.90 - £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £28.77 £43.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -33.10% +100.00% +2.38%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire

Security Cleared
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

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire

Security Cleared
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

Security Cleared
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 16 September 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
Cambridge - 15 £538 - 11
Peterborough +3 9 £200 +11.11% 17
Huntingdon - 3 - - 9
Security Cleared
East of England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 3 (9.38%) General Ledger
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Environmental Health
6 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Consultant
3 7 (21.88%) IFS Consultant
4 6 (18.75%) Service Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Technical Services Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Developer
5 4 (12.50%) IFS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Security Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Web Services
1 2 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (3.13%) JWT
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) FPGA
2 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.13%) Verilog
2 1 (3.13%) VHDL
2 1 (3.13%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) CentOS
2 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
1 7 (21.88%) Migration
1 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
2 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
2 6 (18.75%) Mathematics
2 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 5 (15.63%) ERP
3 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Accounts Payable
5 3 (9.38%) Agile
5 3 (9.38%) Asset Management
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Logistics
5 3 (9.38%) SIEM
5 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) SC Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) A+ Certification
3 6 (18.75%) MCSA
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.25%) SANS
6 1 (3.13%) CEH
6 1 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Ansible
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) IFS
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Citrix
3 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.38%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) Clearswift
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (6.25%) Sybase
6 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (3.13%) Intel
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.13%) Tenable
6 1 (3.13%) Vertica
6 1 (3.13%) Xilinx