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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 36 35 44
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.40% 11.99% 8.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.11% 43.75% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 9
10th Percentile £236 - £424
25th Percentile £428 £195 £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -28.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £731
90th Percentile - £588 £745
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 34
10th Percentile £31.01 - -
25th Percentile £39.80 £14.99 £21.37
Median hourly rate £56.33 £15.14 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +272.03% -29.30% +8.10%
75th Percentile £74.73 £15.29 £21.46
90th Percentile £84.64 £15.78 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £41.27
% change year-on-year +4.42% +50.85% -28.23%

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 97 80 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.03% 27.40% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 37
10th Percentile £168 £195 £300
25th Percentile £214 £200 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £618 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £609 £800
East of England median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 90
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £34.13 £15.44 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -27.75% +37.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £18.34 £21.46
90th Percentile - £31.00 £36.50
East of England median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.63
% change year-on-year -5.50% +23.05% +93.49%

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

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +4 15 £475 -13.64% 16
Huntingdon +1 5 - - 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
2 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 3 (8.33%) Network Security
3 2 (5.56%) DHCP
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) VLAN
3 2 (5.56%) VSAN
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) LAN
4 1 (2.78%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) MLflow
2 1 (2.78%) MSI
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Electronics
2 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Network Engineer
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Data Scientist
4 4 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) ERP Trainer
7 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Project Leader
7 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) QA Test Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (2.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) FPGA
2 4 (11.11%) PCIe
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
1 5 (13.89%) Data Science
1 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
2 4 (11.11%) Signal Processing
2 4 (11.11%) Validation
3 3 (8.33%) Data Transformation
3 3 (8.33%) DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) ETL
3 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (8.33%) Migration
3 3 (8.33%) MLOps
3 3 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (5.56%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (5.56%) Prototyping
4 2 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (5.56%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) C
2 2 (5.56%) C#
2 2 (5.56%) C++
2 2 (5.56%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) DV Cleared
2 19 (52.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.56%) Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.78%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) VxRail
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) vRealize
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Dell
2 4 (11.11%) Altera
2 4 (11.11%) Cisco
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) IFS
4 2 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.78%) Juniper
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Thales
5 1 (2.78%) Veeam