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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 135 91 122
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 15.85% 12.50% 14.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.94% 54.49% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 88
10th Percentile £154 £281 £263
25th Percentile £348 £310 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £614 £664
90th Percentile £735 £715 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 16 8
10th Percentile £17.80 - £17.72
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £19.64 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +36.46% +48.91%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £18.29
90th Percentile - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% -

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 233 167 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.35% 22.94% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 83 156
10th Percentile £159 £306 £230
25th Percentile £315 £333 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +7.37%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £720 £657 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 17 11
10th Percentile - - £17.71
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £21.62 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +36.46% -9.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £20.00
90th Percentile - £31.41 £20.51
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.95% -0.30% +16.67%

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 2 November 2025.

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
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 2 November 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
Derbyshire 0 60 £538 +16.22% 16
Lincolnshire +6 29 £158 -55.00% 5
Nottinghamshire +13 25 £410 - 16
Northamptonshire -8 13 £395 +3.95% 6
Leicestershire -15 8 £525 -1.87% 4
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 2 (1.48%) Apache
1 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) IIS
2 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Siemens NX
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.22%) Fusion 360
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Teamcenter
2 5 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.74%) PRMS
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.56%) Azure
2 10 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.93%) AWS
4 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.96%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.96%) Serverless
7 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.48%) GCP
8 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.48%) ShareGate
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (4.44%) Wireless
2 2 (1.48%) ATM
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.74%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.48%) Power BI
1 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.74%) Big Data
2 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.74%) Metadata
2 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) Mockito
3 1 (0.74%) Postman
3 1 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.74%) Selenium
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (23.70%) Public Sector
2 18 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.11%) Finance
4 12 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.15%) Marketing
6 10 (7.41%) Electronics
6 10 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (4.44%) Banking
10 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Aviation
11 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (14.81%) Analyst
2 17 (12.59%) Architect
3 13 (9.63%) Developer
4 10 (7.41%) Desktop Support
5 9 (6.67%) Consultant
6 8 (5.93%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) IT Support
7 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.44%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 6 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 5 (3.70%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Senior
10 4 (2.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) ADO
2 3 (2.22%) REST
2 3 (2.22%) Spring
3 2 (1.48%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.48%) Keycloak
3 2 (1.48%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.48%) X-Windows
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.74%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.74%) FHIR
4 1 (0.74%) JDBC
4 1 (0.74%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.74%) Playwright
4 1 (0.74%) SAML
4 1 (0.74%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (0.74%) SOAP
4 1 (0.74%) Web Services
4 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.22%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.74%) AS400
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.74%) FPGA
6 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Life Science
6 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.74%) Smart City
6 1 (0.74%) Verilog
6 1 (0.74%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.56%) Windows
2 6 (4.44%) Android
2 6 (4.44%) Mac OS
2 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.56%) Migration
2 19 (14.07%) DevOps
3 18 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 17 (12.59%) Coaching
5 13 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (8.89%) Workflow
7 11 (8.15%) Programme Management
7 11 (8.15%) Workflow Management
8 10 (7.41%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (6.67%) Break/Fix
9 9 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (5.93%) Analytics
10 8 (5.93%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.93%) PLM
10 8 (5.93%) User Stories
11 7 (5.19%) Agile
11 7 (5.19%) CAD
11 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (5.19%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.41%) SQL
2 5 (3.70%) Java
2 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.70%) Python
3 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
3 4 (2.96%) X++
4 2 (1.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.74%) C#
5 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (74.07%) SC Cleared
2 13 (9.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.22%) BC Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CISA
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.74%) Degree
5 1 (0.74%) GIAC
5 1 (0.74%) MCP
5 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.22%) SLA
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.74%) PMO
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) BitLocker
2 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.48%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.74%) Firmware
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.22%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Ansible
2 2 (1.48%) Argo
2 2 (1.48%) Istio
2 2 (1.48%) SCCM
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (9.63%) SAP
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.67%) Cisco
3 9 (6.67%) Dell
3 9 (6.67%) HP
4 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.93%) Siemens
5 7 (5.19%) Oracle
6 6 (4.44%) Apple
7 5 (3.70%) VMware
8 4 (2.96%) Citrix
9 3 (2.22%) Autodesk
9 3 (2.22%) Computacenter
9 3 (2.22%) IBM
9 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.74%) Meraki
11 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.74%) Solace