Security Cleared Contracts in County Antrim

Security Clearance
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 15 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 10.00% 9.85% 2.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.61% 33.33% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 4
10th Percentile £134 £272 £188
25th Percentile £135 £411 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £300
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +68.75% -
75th Percentile £530 £600 £350
90th Percentile £625 £675 £440
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £506 £300
% change year-on-year -6.17% +68.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.63
Median hourly rate - - £16.25
75th Percentile - - £16.88
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £16.25

All Academic and Professional Certifications
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 49 39 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 32.67% 29.55% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 11
10th Percentile £135 £205 £160
25th Percentile £200 £328 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £516 £350
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +47.50% -19.08%
75th Percentile £523 £594 £438
90th Percentile £588 £663 £500
Northern Ireland median daily rate £369 £520 £413
% change year-on-year -29.09% +26.06% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £22.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.63 -
Median hourly rate £32.13 £31.25 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +124.66% -26.79%
75th Percentile £36.84 £31.88 £14.65
90th Percentile £44.65 - £15.99
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £32.13 £12.25 £13.91
% change year-on-year +162.24% -11.93% -26.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in County Antrim

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in County Antrim

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Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in County Antrim

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in County Antrim

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Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Belfast -5 14 £475 -6.17% 30
Ballymena - 1 - -
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Northern Ireland

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 4 (26.67%) Anypoint
1 4 (26.67%) Mule
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS Field Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Field Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Payroll Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) OpenAPI
2 4 (26.67%) RAML
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Swagger
2 4 (26.67%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) EntireX
3 1 (6.67%) JMS
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (26.67%) API Development
3 4 (26.67%) API Management
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Break/Fix
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) DataWeave
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Software AG
4 1 (6.67%) webMethods