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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 129 99 117
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.08% 12.86% 15.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.08% 51.56% 61.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 51 62
10th Percentile £200 £189 £272
25th Percentile £344 £312 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.65% -9.57%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £621
90th Percentile £662 £725 £659
England median daily rate £549 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 34 23
10th Percentile £18.07 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.87 £14.30
Median hourly rate £24.28 £20.44 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% +2.18% +12.87%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £47.08
90th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 226 192 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.66% 24.94% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 104 103
10th Percentile £173 £188 £299
25th Percentile £309 £312 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% -8.42%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £644 £725 £659
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 37 24
10th Percentile £16.46 - £12.75
25th Percentile £18.06 £17.87 £14.70
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.30 £22.09
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% -3.58% +23.87%
75th Percentile £26.62 £25.15 £51.91
90th Percentile £59.60 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -3.64%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -1 56 £513 -2.26% 16
Lincolnshire -2 30 £500 +151.89% 13
Nottinghamshire -9 22 £425 +48.30% 28
Leicestershire -2 14 £418 -22.69% 10
Northamptonshire +6 5 £500 +20.12% 2
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 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.78%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.55%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.55%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.91%) Azure
2 14 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.30%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.75%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.20%) AWS
5 8 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.88%) IaaS
6 5 (3.88%) PaaS
6 5 (3.88%) SaaS
7 4 (3.10%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) GCP
9 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) DNS
1 9 (6.98%) VPN
2 8 (6.20%) DHCP
3 7 (5.43%) Firewall
3 7 (5.43%) Network Security
3 7 (5.43%) VLAN
4 6 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.88%) IPv4
5 5 (3.88%) IPv6
5 5 (3.88%) WAN
6 4 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.33%) LAN
8 2 (1.55%) BGP
8 2 (1.55%) OSPF
8 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.78%) SAN
9 1 (0.78%) SSL
9 1 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.75%) Power BI
3 5 (3.88%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.55%) Big Data
5 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.78%) MySQL
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.33%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Git
2 2 (1.55%) JMeter
2 2 (1.55%) Maven
2 2 (1.55%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.55%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.78%) Ant
3 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Gradle
3 1 (0.78%) Selenium
3 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.43%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.65%) Police
7 5 (3.88%) Automotive
7 5 (3.88%) Finance
8 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
10 1 (0.78%) Military
10 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (15.50%) Architect
2 14 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (9.30%) IT Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) Windows Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (7.75%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Deployment Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Server Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Tester
9 6 (4.65%) Performance Tester
9 6 (4.65%) Windows Deployment Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Lead
11 4 (3.10%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.55%) SOAP
2 2 (1.55%) Software Packaging
2 2 (1.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.55%) Web Services
2 2 (1.55%) XML
2 2 (1.55%) YAML
3 1 (0.78%) ADO
3 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.78%) CSS
3 1 (0.78%) CSS3
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.78%) HTML
3 1 (0.78%) HTML5
3 1 (0.78%) JPA
3 1 (0.78%) Kafka
3 1 (0.78%) OAuth
3 1 (0.78%) RESTful
3 1 (0.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.20%) CMDB
3 5 (3.88%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.88%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Beowulf
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.36%) Windows
2 12 (9.30%) Windows 10
2 12 (9.30%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.65%) Linux
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.78%) Unix
5 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.71%) Migration
2 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (11.63%) DevOps
5 14 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (9.30%) Data Modelling
8 11 (8.53%) Agile
8 11 (8.53%) Decision-Making
8 11 (8.53%) Validation
9 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (7.75%) Visualisation
10 9 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (6.98%) Customer Service
10 9 (6.98%) Test Automation
11 8 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (5.43%) Analytics
12 7 (5.43%) Architecture Governance
12 7 (5.43%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (5.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.85%) SQL
2 9 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.10%) Java
4 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.33%) Python
5 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.55%) R
6 1 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 110 (85.27%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.98%) Degree
3 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) CCNA
6 2 (1.55%) CCNP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.55%) MCSA
6 2 (1.55%) MCSE
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.55%) PMP
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CIPD
7 1 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) GDPR
2 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
4 1 (0.78%) PSD2
4 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 19 (14.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.53%) vSphere
4 6 (4.65%) Docker
5 4 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.33%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.55%) Firmware
8 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.78%) NFS
8 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (10.08%) SCCM
2 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.88%) WSUS
4 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.33%) VxRail
5 2 (1.55%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.55%) SCOM
6 1 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.78%) Podman
6 1 (0.78%) Puppet
6 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.28%) VMware
3 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 6 (4.65%) SAP
5 5 (3.88%) Citrix
5 5 (3.88%) Databricks
6 3 (2.33%) Workday
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco
7 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.55%) Google
7 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.78%) Dell
8 1 (0.78%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.78%) HP
8 1 (0.78%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) Siemens
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk