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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 32 10
Rank change year-on-year +27 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 47 10 49
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 12.47% 3.45% 10.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.54% 14.93% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 19
10th Percentile £266 £262 £500
25th Percentile £475 £285 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £324 £650
Median % change year-on-year +70.17% -50.23% +15.56%
75th Percentile £625 £362 £700
90th Percentile £755 £385 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £513 £613
% change year-on-year -2.44% -16.33% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 22
10th Percentile - £19.65 -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £19.06
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 £63.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -62.24% +41.57% -22.61%

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 93 67 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.67% 23.10% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 60
10th Percentile £241 £251 £275
25th Percentile £400 £411 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -6.70% -3.61%
75th Percentile £603 £591 £650
90th Percentile £625 £639 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 82
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.13 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £14.04
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -8.65%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £21.46
90th Percentile £41.40 £26.38 £34.39
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £64.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -64.84% +110.01% +45.12%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +19 30 £538 +66.15% 10
Huntingdon - 7 - - 4
Peterborough -3 1 - - 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 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.26%) Azure
2 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
2 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.13%) GitHub
2 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.13%) PaaS
2 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.26%) LAN
3 2 (4.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) DHCP
4 1 (2.13%) DNS
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.13%) SAN
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Hudson
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) MLflow
2 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
1 11 (23.40%) Manufacturing
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Electronics
3 7 (14.89%) Marketing
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Environmental Health
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Consultant
2 8 (17.02%) IT Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Security Assurance Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Security Manager
4 5 (10.64%) FPGA Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) IFS Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Migration Technician
6 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Support Technician
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Senior
8 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) .NET
1 1 (2.13%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (2.13%) JWT
1 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.13%) RESTful
1 1 (2.13%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.13%) Web Services
1 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) FPGA
2 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) PCIe
4 2 (4.26%) Verilog
4 2 (4.26%) VHDL
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) CentOS
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Migration
2 14 (29.79%) Workflow
3 11 (23.40%) Workflow Management
4 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.89%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (14.89%) Programme Management
6 4 (8.51%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (8.51%) Logistics
6 4 (8.51%) Security Hardening
6 4 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.38%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (6.38%) Signal Processing
7 3 (6.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) ERP
8 2 (4.26%) ETL
8 2 (4.26%) Machine Learning
8 2 (4.26%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) Python
1 2 (4.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (72.34%) SC Cleared
2 16 (34.04%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Def Stans
1 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.51%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) Docker
4 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) VxRail
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Istio
2 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) SAP
1 7 (14.89%) VMware
2 6 (12.77%) IFS
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Altera
4 2 (4.26%) Dell
4 2 (4.26%) Intel
4 2 (4.26%) Xilinx
5 1 (2.13%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Clearswift
5 1 (2.13%) Foundry
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) Sybase
5 1 (2.13%) Thales
5 1 (2.13%) Veeam