Security Cleared Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 96 138 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.37% 15.86% 15.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.75% 55.87% 59.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 75 117
10th Percentile - £234 £343
25th Percentile £200 £361 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -10.00% +34.83%
75th Percentile £576 £626 £700
90th Percentile £725 £669 £743
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 12
10th Percentile £17.87 £12.75 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.72 £11.80
Median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -8.40% -37.61%
75th Percentile £25.15 £37.94 £65.00
90th Percentile - £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% -4.17% +14.29%

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 182 247 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.35% 28.39% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 143 201
10th Percentile £200 £181 £300
25th Percentile £260 £254 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -20.79% +12.85%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £650
90th Percentile £725 £659 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 36 16
10th Percentile £17.87 £12.75 £10.65
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.72 £11.80
Median hourly rate £22.15 £21.60 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -1.10% -8.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.31 £65.00
90th Percentile - £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.76%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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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 3 July 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 +2 50 £463 -14.35% 37
Lincolnshire 0 18 £513 -21.15% 13
Nottinghamshire +6 14 £410 - 24
Northamptonshire -11 6 £385 -3.75% 11
Leicestershire -14 6 £536 +2.49% 23
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Siemens NX
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.08%) Primavera
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.38%) AWS
2 8 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.08%) GCP
4 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.08%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.08%) Serverless
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (3.13%) DNS
4 2 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (2.08%) Firewall
4 2 (2.08%) HSRP
4 2 (2.08%) IPsec
4 2 (2.08%) LAN
4 2 (2.08%) OSPF
4 2 (2.08%) SAN
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.08%) VLAN
4 2 (2.08%) WAN
5 1 (1.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.04%) Chocolatey
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Maven
3 1 (1.04%) Mockito
3 1 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
1 13 (13.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.04%) Aviation
5 1 (1.04%) Banking
5 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Law
5 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Architect
2 12 (12.50%) Developer
3 10 (10.42%) Consultant
3 10 (10.42%) IT Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Analyst
5 7 (7.29%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (4.17%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) VMware Architect
8 4 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Windows Support Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) CAD Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (2.08%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.08%) Spring
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) J2EE
3 1 (1.04%) JDBC
3 1 (1.04%) JMS
3 1 (1.04%) JSON
3 1 (1.04%) JWT
3 1 (1.04%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
3 1 (1.04%) SOAP
3 1 (1.04%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.08%) FPGA
4 2 (2.08%) VHDL
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.17%) Windows 7
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Vista
5 3 (3.13%) Linux
6 2 (2.08%) Debian
6 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.83%) Break/Fix
2 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (9.38%) Agile
4 8 (8.33%) Coaching
4 8 (8.33%) PLM
4 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (8.33%) User Stories
5 7 (7.29%) CAD
5 7 (7.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (7.29%) Migration
5 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
5 7 (7.29%) Service Delivery
6 6 (6.25%) DevOps
6 6 (6.25%) Ticket Management
6 6 (6.25%) Time Management
7 5 (5.21%) Analytics
7 5 (5.21%) Asset Management
7 5 (5.21%) Configuration Management
7 5 (5.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.29%) Python
2 6 (6.25%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) Apex Code
4 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.08%) C#
5 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.08%) X++
6 1 (1.04%) Bash
6 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 76 (79.17%) SC Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.08%) CCNP
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) Degree
3 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.08%) Docker
5 1 (1.04%) Firmware
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) SCCM
2 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.08%) SCOM
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) VMware
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.33%) Siemens
4 7 (7.29%) Cisco
5 5 (5.21%) Dell
5 5 (5.21%) HP
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) Autodesk
7 3 (3.13%) IBM
7 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) Juniper
8 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.04%) Cognos
9 1 (1.04%) Computacenter
9 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.04%) SAP
9 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.04%) Solace