Security Cleared Contracts in Cheshire

Security Clearance
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 -10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 39 62 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.37% 12.25% 5.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.50% 46.97% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 15
10th Percentile £350 £386 £202
25th Percentile £389 £500 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £563 £549
90th Percentile £590 £631 £592
North West median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.85
25th Percentile - - £31.13
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - +94.20% -31.00%
75th Percentile - - £39.13
90th Percentile - - £41.15
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £42.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -65.88% -20.93% +22.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 120 132 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 22.68% 26.09% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 73 67
10th Percentile £158 £325 £248
25th Percentile £390 £413 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% +12.11%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £604
90th Percentile £680 £679 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £36.00 £15.05
25th Percentile - £37.00 £20.19
Median hourly rate £14.00 £40.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +40.35% -6.36%
75th Percentile £26.66 £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.38 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.59 £40.01
% change year-on-year -60.43% +1.45% +10.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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
Warrington -2 16 £550 +2.33% 19
Knutsford - 9 £375 - 1
Chester +7 1 £500 - 4
Northwich - 1 £475 -
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) AutoCAD
1 4 (10.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.69%) Route 53
4 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) WAAS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) VSAN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Impala
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.90%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) SCCM Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Design Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Design Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Pega Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Project Planner
6 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
1 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) JSON
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) XHTML
3 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.56%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (2.56%) React Native
3 1 (2.56%) Sass
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
1 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Insider Threat
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.13%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Agile
2 6 (15.38%) DevOps
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (10.26%) 3D Modelling
3 4 (10.26%) CAE
3 4 (10.26%) Change Control
3 4 (10.26%) RBAC
3 4 (10.26%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (7.69%) Asset Management
4 3 (7.69%) B2B
4 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (7.69%) GitOps
4 3 (7.69%) Migration
4 3 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (5.13%) API Development
5 2 (5.13%) API Management
5 2 (5.13%) Budgeting
5 2 (5.13%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (5.13%) Sprint Backlog
5 2 (5.13%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) C#
3 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) Bicep
5 1 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) PMO
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) SCCM
2 3 (7.69%) Grafana
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) IBM
3 2 (5.13%) Nintex
3 2 (5.13%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Symantec
4 1 (2.56%) Veeam
4 1 (2.56%) VMware