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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 46 33 54
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.73% 13.15% 11.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.00% 46.48% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 17
10th Percentile £84 - £500
25th Percentile £413 £195 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +37.63% -42.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £719
90th Percentile - - £731
East of England median daily rate £498 £425 £530
% change year-on-year +17.06% -19.81% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 31
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £14.99 £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 £23.83 £63.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -62.18% +72.60% -36.52%

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 71 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.51% 28.29% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 54
10th Percentile £168 £181 £341
25th Percentile £323 £195 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £516
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -11.15% +3.15%
75th Percentile £607 £529 £675
90th Percentile £675 £626 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 95
10th Percentile £16.21 - £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.83 £19.63 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% +20.43% +5.16%
75th Percentile £28.75 £21.46 £21.46
90th Percentile £35.20 £23.05 £31.13
East of England median hourly rate £22.68 £63.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year -64.00% +193.57% +2.19%

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 April 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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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 April 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 +6 24 £463 -11.90% 10
Huntingdon - 9 - - 8
Peterborough -6 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) Azure
1 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) VLAN
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) NX-OS
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.17%) MLflow
1 1 (2.17%) MSI
General
1 10 (21.74%) Manufacturing
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Electronics
3 7 (15.22%) Marketing
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) IT Engineer
1 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
1 7 (15.22%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Security Assurance Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Security Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Data Scientist
4 4 (8.70%) Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) FPGA Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) VMware Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Migration Technician
5 3 (6.52%) Support Technician
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Project Leader
7 1 (2.17%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.70%) FPGA
1 4 (8.70%) PCIe
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
1 12 (26.09%) Workflow
2 9 (19.57%) Workflow Management
3 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (15.22%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (15.22%) Programme Management
4 5 (10.87%) Data Science
5 4 (8.70%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (8.70%) Logistics
5 4 (8.70%) Security Hardening
5 4 (8.70%) Signal Processing
6 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.52%) Data Transformation
6 3 (6.52%) ETL
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning
6 3 (6.52%) MLOps
6 3 (6.52%) Operational Stability
6 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (63.04%) SC Cleared
2 22 (47.83%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.35%) VxRail
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) SAP
2 6 (13.04%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) Altera
3 4 (8.70%) Dell
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) IFS
6 1 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.17%) Juniper
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Thales
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam