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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 29 10
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 45 9 48
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 12.16% 2.84% 11.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.14% 14.06% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 20
10th Percentile £456 £262 £500
25th Percentile £475 £285 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £324 £600
Median % change year-on-year +70.02% -46.08% +3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £362 £700
90th Percentile £875 £385 £720
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £613
% change year-on-year - -18.37% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £25.15 - £21.42
90th Percentile - - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £63.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -62.18% +41.57% -21.93%

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 88 64 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.78% 20.19% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 46
10th Percentile £328 £247 £275
25th Percentile £411 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £709
East of England median daily rate £500 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +4.66% -9.00% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 70
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.58 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.89 £20.56
90th Percentile - £28.06 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £22.71 £63.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -63.95% +152.00% +19.05%

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

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 3 January 2026.

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

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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 3 January 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 +15 25 £525 +62.29% 18
Huntingdon - 9 - - 5
Peterborough -4 2 - - 10
Security Cleared
East of England

Security Cleared
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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.22%) AWS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.22%) GitHub
2 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.22%) PaaS
2 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) DHCP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) LAN
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.22%) Pentaho
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Hudson
2 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
1 12 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Electronics
3 7 (15.56%) Marketing
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.44%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Environmental Health
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Consultant
2 9 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Security Assurance Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Security Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) IFS Consultant
5 4 (8.89%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (8.89%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Migration Technician
6 3 (6.67%) Support Technician
7 2 (4.44%) Developer
7 2 (4.44%) FPGA Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) IFS Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
8 1 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Senior
8 1 (2.22%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) .NET
1 1 (2.22%) JWT
1 1 (2.22%) PySpark
1 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.22%) RESTful
1 1 (2.22%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.22%) Web Services
1 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.44%) FPGA
2 2 (4.44%) Verilog
2 2 (4.44%) VHDL
3 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) CentOS
3 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Migration
2 16 (35.56%) Workflow
3 13 (28.89%) Workflow Management
4 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (15.56%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (15.56%) Programme Management
6 5 (11.11%) Logistics
7 4 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (8.89%) Security Hardening
7 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (6.67%) ERP
8 3 (6.67%) SIEM
9 2 (4.44%) Agile
9 2 (4.44%) Configuration Management
9 2 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (4.44%) Data Migration
9 2 (4.44%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (4.44%) Machine Learning
9 2 (4.44%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (73.33%) SC Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) CEH
3 1 (2.22%) CISSP
3 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) MCP
3 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Istio
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) IFS
1 7 (15.56%) SAP
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) Intel
3 2 (4.44%) Xilinx
4 1 (2.22%) Citrix
4 1 (2.22%) Clearswift
4 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Foundry
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) Sybase
4 1 (2.22%) Tenable
4 1 (2.22%) Vertica