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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 117 83 130
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.48% 12.91% 15.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.95% 50.61% 50.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 73
10th Percentile £251 - £152
25th Percentile £404 £200 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -5.09% -9.31%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £685
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 30
10th Percentile £17.64 £16.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £14.72
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.56% -6.18% -33.88%
75th Percentile £25.30 £24.75 £37.94
90th Percentile £62.80 £25.15 £51.91
England median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +76.92% -42.87% -5.19%

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 244 164 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.86% 25.51% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 97 154
10th Percentile £257 £200 £172
25th Percentile £393 £263 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £369
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +22.03% -29.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £564
90th Percentile £611 £676 £670
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 19 36
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.77 £20.73
Median % change year-on-year +19.90% -9.48% -5.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.71 £42.31
90th Percentile £37.98 £25.15 £51.91
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £40.13
% change year-on-year +53.85% -19.00% -27.05%

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 June 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 June 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 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
Derbyshire 0 49 £413 -10.70% 11
Lincolnshire 0 35 £700 +36.59% 5
Leicestershire -5 12 £418 -27.07% 10
Nottinghamshire -17 12 £450 +7.78% 16
Northamptonshire -2 8 £444 +12.34%
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 (11.11%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.85%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.55%) Azure
2 7 (5.98%) AWS
3 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.71%) Azure Batch
4 2 (1.71%) GCP
4 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.71%) IaaS
4 2 (1.71%) PaaS
5 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.85%) Google Sheets
5 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.85%) SaaS
5 1 (0.85%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) VLAN
2 6 (5.13%) DNS
3 5 (4.27%) DHCP
3 5 (4.27%) IPv4
3 5 (4.27%) IPv6
3 5 (4.27%) Network Security
4 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.71%) BGP
5 2 (1.71%) OSPF
5 2 (1.71%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.71%) VPN
5 2 (1.71%) WAN
5 2 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.85%) Firewall
6 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.85%) Big Data
3 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.85%) MySQL
3 1 (0.85%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.85%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) Git
3 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) JMeter
3 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.69%) Military
4 6 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Finance
6 2 (1.71%) Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.71%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Aviation
7 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) IT Engineer
2 14 (11.97%) Analyst
3 13 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.55%) IT Support
4 10 (8.55%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Consultant
6 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Architect
8 5 (4.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes Consultant
9 4 (3.42%) Performance Consultant
9 4 (3.42%) Performance Tester
9 4 (3.42%) Tester
10 3 (2.56%) Deployment Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.56%) Windows Deployment Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) Windows Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) ADO
1 1 (0.85%) Express.js
1 1 (0.85%) J2EE
1 1 (0.85%) Kafka
1 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (0.85%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.85%) Middleware
1 1 (0.85%) Node.js
1 1 (0.85%) OSGi
1 1 (0.85%) Pandas
1 1 (0.85%) React
1 1 (0.85%) RESTful
1 1 (0.85%) scikit-learn
1 1 (0.85%) SOAP
1 1 (0.85%) Software Packaging
1 1 (0.85%) Spring
1 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
1 1 (0.85%) Visualforce
1 1 (0.85%) Web Services
1 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Onboarding
2 13 (11.11%) Beowulf
3 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.42%) Contract for Difference
5 4 (3.42%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.95%) Windows
2 7 (5.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.56%) Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.66%) Migration
2 17 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (14.53%) Workflow
3 14 (11.97%) AI
3 14 (11.97%) Data Science
3 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (11.97%) Use Case
4 13 (11.11%) SDLC
5 12 (10.26%) Coaching
5 12 (10.26%) Containerisation
6 11 (9.40%) Customer Service
6 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (9.40%) Workflow Management
7 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.55%) Machine Learning
8 9 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (6.84%) Agile
10 7 (5.98%) Project Management
10 7 (5.98%) Service Delivery
11 6 (5.13%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.13%) SQL
2 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.42%) Java
4 2 (1.71%) Python
5 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.85%) R
5 1 (0.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 95 (81.20%) SC Cleared
2 11 (9.40%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.56%) Degree
4 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) CCNA
4 2 (1.71%) CCNP
4 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.71%) PMP
5 1 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) SLA
2 3 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 10 (8.55%) Docker
3 6 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.85%) Firmware
5 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.11%) Podman
3 5 (4.27%) WSUS
4 4 (3.42%) SCCM
5 2 (1.71%) Ansible
5 2 (1.71%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.71%) Terraform
6 1 (0.85%) Istio
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
6 1 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (9.40%) Fortinet
1 11 (9.40%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.55%) NetApp
3 8 (6.84%) VMware
4 5 (4.27%) Citrix
5 4 (3.42%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.56%) Cisco
6 3 (2.56%) Dell
6 3 (2.56%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) HP
6 3 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.56%) SAP
7 2 (1.71%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) BT
8 1 (0.85%) Databricks
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Splunk