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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 23 35 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.10% 9.62% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.10% 38.04% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 2
10th Percentile £433 £456 £178
25th Percentile £438 £475 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £214
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +157.61% -61.18%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £233
90th Percentile - £875 £241
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year - -11.70% +7.87%
East of England median hourly rate £68.75 £25.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year +173.36% -59.76% +40.45%

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 109 92 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.91% 25.27% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 16
10th Percentile £204 £379 £225
25th Percentile £434 £432 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £591
90th Percentile £675 £625 £606
East of England median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 19
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.18 £16.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £37.87 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +100.66% -11.70% +20.53%
75th Percentile £48.00 £25.15 £24.89
90th Percentile - £32.23 £35.89
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +95.45%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -1 10 £475 -11.63% 35
Peterborough +4 2 £432 - 8
Huntingdon -15 2 £596 - 15
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 2 (8.70%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) VSAN
2 2 (8.70%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (8.70%) GIS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 2 (8.70%) Electronics
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Legal
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Service Manager
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Field Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Functional Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Validation
2 4 (17.39%) Migration
2 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
3 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
3 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (8.70%) ETL
3 2 (8.70%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) Prototyping
3 2 (8.70%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
4 1 (4.35%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) C
2 2 (8.70%) C#
2 2 (8.70%) C++
2 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) vCenter Server
1 4 (17.39%) vRealize
1 4 (17.39%) VxRail
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) ESRI
2 2 (8.70%) Infoblox
2 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.35%) Huawei
3 1 (4.35%) Nokia
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle