Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Clearance
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 151 71 129
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 14.63% 14.09% 16.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.31% 50.00% 49.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 79
10th Percentile £256 - £150
25th Percentile £407 £200 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -5.09% -6.90%
75th Percentile £556 £585 £616
90th Percentile £700 £665 £678
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 10 27
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.87 - £14.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +34.33% -16.94%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.73 £22.61
90th Percentile £25.77 £29.14 £51.91
England median hourly rate £52.50 £58.04 £52.00
% change year-on-year -9.55% +11.62% -13.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 273 142 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.45% 28.17% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 86 159
10th Percentile £205 £200 £160
25th Percentile £393 £250 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £376
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +19.28% -21.67%
75th Percentile £563 £554 £550
90th Percentile £613 £651 £653
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 13 35
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.87 £23.00 £15.86
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +20.90% +18.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £25.89 £32.03 £51.91
England median hourly rate £39.50 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -21.00% +29.03% -25.48%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Derbyshire 0 60 £450 +125.00% 11
Lincolnshire +2 44 £449 -12.44% 8
Nottinghamshire -5 18 £433 +1.76% 12
Leicestershire -8 14 £475 -26.92% 8
Northamptonshire -11 13 £424 -1.68% 6
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 13 (8.61%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.99%) Confluence
2 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.66%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.27%) Azure
2 9 (5.96%) AWS
3 6 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.99%) GCP
5 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Batch
6 2 (1.32%) IaaS
6 2 (1.32%) PaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.66%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.66%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.66%) SaaS
7 1 (0.66%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) VLAN
2 4 (2.65%) DNS
2 4 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) DHCP
3 3 (1.99%) IPv4
3 3 (1.99%) IPv6
3 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.99%) Wireless
4 2 (1.32%) BGP
4 2 (1.32%) NetScaler
4 2 (1.32%) OSPF
4 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.99%) Power BI
3 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.32%) Big Data
3 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.66%) Aerospike
4 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.66%) MySQL
4 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.66%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Git
2 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.99%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.32%) GitLab
3 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (25.17%) Public Sector
1 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.26%) Finance
3 10 (6.62%) Manufacturing
3 10 (6.62%) Marketing
3 10 (6.62%) Military
4 9 (5.96%) Electronics
4 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.31%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.99%) Legal
7 3 (1.99%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Aviation
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (12.58%) Analyst
1 19 (12.58%) IT Engineer
2 16 (10.60%) Support Engineer
3 13 (8.61%) IT Support
4 10 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (6.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (5.96%) Consultant
5 9 (5.96%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Architect
6 8 (5.30%) Senior
7 4 (2.65%) Build Engineer
7 4 (2.65%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 4 (2.65%) Performance Consultant
7 4 (2.65%) Service Manager
8 3 (1.99%) Automation Tester
8 3 (1.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (1.99%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (1.99%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (1.99%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.99%) ADO
2 2 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.32%) Kafka
2 2 (1.32%) Node.js
2 2 (1.32%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Express.js
3 1 (0.66%) FHIR
3 1 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.66%) MERN Stack
3 1 (0.66%) OSGi
3 1 (0.66%) Pandas
3 1 (0.66%) PySpark
3 1 (0.66%) pytest
3 1 (0.66%) React
3 1 (0.66%) REST
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.66%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Beowulf
2 9 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.31%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.65%) Contract for Difference
6 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.66%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.66%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.56%) Windows
2 7 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.97%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.31%) Linux
5 4 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.99%) Android
6 3 (1.99%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.99%) Unix
7 2 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (21.19%) Migration
2 26 (17.22%) Workflow
3 19 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.26%) Workflow Management
5 14 (9.27%) AI
5 14 (9.27%) Coaching
5 14 (9.27%) Data Science
5 14 (9.27%) Use Case
6 13 (8.61%) Agile
6 13 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (8.61%) Containerisation
6 13 (8.61%) SDLC
6 13 (8.61%) Service Delivery
7 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (7.95%) DevOps
8 11 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.62%) Customer Service
9 10 (6.62%) Machine Learning
9 10 (6.62%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.30%) SQL
2 7 (4.64%) Java
3 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.99%) Python
5 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) R
5 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 113 (74.83%) SC Cleared
2 18 (11.92%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.32%) CCNA
3 2 (1.32%) CCNP
3 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.32%) Degree
4 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.66%) PMP
4 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.66%) VCAP
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.99%) PMO
1 3 (1.99%) QA
1 3 (1.99%) SLA
2 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.66%) GDPR
2 1 (0.66%) GRC
2 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (8.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 11 (7.28%) Docker
3 9 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.31%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.65%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.65%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.66%) Firmware
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.61%) Podman
3 6 (3.97%) SCCM
4 3 (1.99%) Ansible
4 3 (1.99%) WSUS
5 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.32%) Istio
5 2 (1.32%) Puppet
5 2 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (9.27%) ServiceNow
2 12 (7.95%) Fortinet
2 12 (7.95%) SAP
3 11 (7.28%) NetApp
4 9 (5.96%) Cisco
4 9 (5.96%) VMware
5 6 (3.97%) Dell
5 6 (3.97%) HP
6 5 (3.31%) Citrix
6 5 (3.31%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.65%) NVIDIA
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 3 (1.99%) Apple
9 2 (1.32%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Google
10 1 (0.66%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.66%) BT
10 1 (0.66%) Genesys
10 1 (0.66%) Splunk