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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 21 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 42 20 56
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.38% 6.92% 11.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.65% 25.97% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 20
10th Percentile £84 £190 £499
25th Percentile £409 £195 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £247 £650
Median % change year-on-year +122.77% -62.00% +23.81%
75th Percentile £617 £525 £705
90th Percentile £675 £545 £731
East of England median daily rate £498 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -0.50% -20.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 29
10th Percentile - £19.65 £19.06
25th Percentile £20.50 - £21.37
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £23.79 £64.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -62.83% +60.00% -30.43%

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 92 77 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.93% 26.64% 38.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 58
10th Percentile £245 £183 £319
25th Percentile £400 £257 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% -8.35% -
75th Percentile £576 £541 £669
90th Percentile £625 £624 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 94
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +37.12% +0.97%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £21.46
90th Percentile £41.40 £26.38 £33.84
East of England median hourly rate £22.57 £65.25 £24.50
% change year-on-year -65.42% +166.33% +16.67%

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 March 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

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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 3 March 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 +11 26 £500 - 15
Huntingdon - 7 - - 4
Peterborough -3 1 - - 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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.38%) Azure
1 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
1 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.38%) GitHub
1 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (2.38%) PaaS
1 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) LAN
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.38%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Hudson
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
1 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
2 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Electronics
3 7 (16.67%) Marketing
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.38%) Police
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) IT Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Consultant
3 6 (14.29%) FPGA Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Security Assurance Manager
3 6 (14.29%) Security Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) VMware Consultant
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Migration Technician
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Support Technician
6 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IFS Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.38%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) .NET
1 1 (2.38%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (2.38%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.38%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.38%) RESTful
1 1 (2.38%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) FPGA
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) PCIe
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Verilog
3 2 (4.76%) VHDL
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Migration
1 14 (33.33%) Workflow
2 11 (26.19%) Workflow Management
3 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 4 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (9.52%) Logistics
5 4 (9.52%) Security Hardening
5 4 (9.52%) Signal Processing
6 2 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (4.76%) FPGA Design
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (4.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (4.76%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (2.38%) MLOps
7 1 (2.38%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) SC Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.38%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (9.52%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) VxRail
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) SAP
2 6 (14.29%) VMware
3 4 (9.52%) Altera
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Dell
4 3 (7.14%) IFS
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 2 (4.76%) Intel
5 2 (4.76%) Xilinx
6 1 (2.38%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.38%) Foundry
6 1 (2.38%) Thales
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam