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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 29 41 28
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.73% 12.42% 6.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.00% 48.24% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 3
10th Percentile £420 - £234
25th Percentile £450 £195 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £675 £550 £681
90th Percentile - £608 £753
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.91% -6.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 23
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 £21.42
90th Percentile - £25.15 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +52.94% - -13.27%

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 100 85 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.12% 25.76% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 29 12
10th Percentile £168 £195 £225
25th Percentile £289 £200 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £566
90th Percentile £675 £609 £575
East of England median daily rate £507 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +0.90% +0.50% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 57
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.18 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +91.26% -23.72% +37.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £24.15 £21.46
90th Percentile - £31.00 £28.93
East of England median hourly rate £59.50 £32.74 £43.00
% change year-on-year +81.76% -23.87% +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 5 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 5 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 -8 8 £475 -13.64% 15
Huntingdon -4 4 - - 4
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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
2 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) VSAN
2 3 (10.34%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
4 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.45%) VLAN
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) MSI
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Electronics
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Senior
2 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Network Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
3 4 (13.79%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Project Leader
5 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Trainer
5 1 (3.45%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (3.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) FPGA
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) PCIe
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Validation
2 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
3 4 (13.79%) Data Science
3 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
3 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (10.34%) Data Transformation
4 3 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (6.90%) Change Management
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (6.90%) ERP
5 2 (6.90%) ETL
5 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
5 2 (6.90%) Migration
5 2 (6.90%) Prototyping
5 2 (6.90%) Schematic Capture
5 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) C
2 2 (6.90%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) C++
2 2 (6.90%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
1 4 (13.79%) vRealize
1 4 (13.79%) VxRail
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) VMware
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
2 3 (10.34%) Dell
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) IFS
3 2 (6.90%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.45%) Altera
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) SAP