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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 163 71 127
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 16.91% 12.43% 15.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.70% 50.71% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 79
10th Percentile £154 £200 £160
25th Percentile £326 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -5.68% -
75th Percentile £537 £631 £638
90th Percentile £590 £715 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 12 17
10th Percentile £16.35 - £16.52
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.89 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +29.15% +15.63%
75th Percentile £25.12 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £25.15 - £22.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year -58.08% +2.92% -2.83%

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 298 140 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.91% 24.52% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 74 181
10th Percentile £168 £203 £185
25th Percentile £333 £356 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £550
90th Percentile £575 £703 £664
England median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 14 26
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.82 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +20.90% +18.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £23.74
90th Percentile £25.77 £31.02 £29.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -49.70% +8.27% +2.62%

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 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 69 £413 +106.50% 13
Lincolnshire +9 48 £158 -69.27% 10
Nottinghamshire +6 21 £415 -2.35% 12
Northamptonshire -12 13 £424 +33.05% 6
Leicestershire -12 11 £475 -26.95% 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 9 (5.52%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.84%) Apache
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.84%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.50%) Azure
2 11 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.91%) AWS
4 7 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.84%) GCP
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.23%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.23%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
7 2 (1.23%) ShareGate
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Wireless
2 2 (1.23%) ATM
2 2 (1.23%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.23%) WAN
3 1 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) LAN
3 1 (0.61%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.45%) Power BI
2 2 (1.23%) Big Data
2 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) Aerospike
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) JIRA
2 4 (2.45%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.23%) Git
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (26.38%) Public Sector
2 36 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.50%) Finance
4 16 (9.82%) Manufacturing
5 15 (9.20%) Marketing
6 14 (8.59%) Electronics
6 14 (8.59%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.68%) Military
9 5 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Retail
12 2 (1.23%) Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 20 (12.27%) Analyst
2 17 (10.43%) Support Engineer
3 15 (9.20%) IT Engineer
3 15 (9.20%) IT Support
4 14 (8.59%) Consultant
5 11 (6.75%) Architect
6 9 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (4.91%) Senior
8 6 (3.68%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 6 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 6 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Developer
9 5 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Kubernetes Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.75%) ADO
2 2 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.23%) Kafka
2 2 (1.23%) Node.js
2 2 (1.23%) REST
2 2 (1.23%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.23%) Spring
2 2 (1.23%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.61%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.61%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.61%) FHIR
3 1 (0.61%) LangGraph
3 1 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.61%) MERN Stack
3 1 (0.61%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (0.61%) Pandas
3 1 (0.61%) Playwright
3 1 (0.61%) PySpark
3 1 (0.61%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Beowulf
2 6 (3.68%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.68%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.45%) Contract for Difference
3 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.56%) Windows
2 8 (4.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.68%) Android
3 6 (3.68%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.23%) Linux
6 2 (1.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.70%) Migration
2 26 (15.95%) Workflow
3 20 (12.27%) Workflow Management
4 19 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (11.66%) DevOps
5 17 (10.43%) Service Delivery
6 15 (9.20%) Coaching
6 15 (9.20%) Programme Management
7 14 (8.59%) Digital Marketing
7 14 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (7.36%) Agile
10 11 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (6.75%) Data Science
11 10 (6.13%) AI
11 10 (6.13%) Analytics
11 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (6.13%) SDLC
12 9 (5.52%) ITIL
12 9 (5.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.13%) SQL
2 7 (4.29%) Java
3 4 (2.45%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.84%) Python
5 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.23%) X++
6 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.61%) R
6 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.61%) SOQL
6 1 (0.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (77.30%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.36%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.61%) CISA
4 1 (0.61%) CISSP
4 1 (0.61%) Degree
4 1 (0.61%) GIAC
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.61%) PMP
4 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.61%) VCAP
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.45%) SLA
2 3 (1.84%) PMO
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.13%) Docker
3 9 (5.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 7 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.07%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.45%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.23%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.52%) Podman
3 5 (3.07%) SCCM
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Istio
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.61%) Puppet
4 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (9.82%) SAP
2 15 (9.20%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.75%) Cisco
4 10 (6.13%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.52%) Dell
5 9 (5.52%) HP
6 8 (4.91%) VMware
7 6 (3.68%) Apple
7 6 (3.68%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.68%) NetApp
7 6 (3.68%) Oracle
8 5 (3.07%) Citrix
9 4 (2.45%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.84%) Computacenter
11 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.23%) Databricks
12 1 (0.61%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.61%) Meraki
12 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.61%) Workday