Security Cleared Contracts in the East Midlands

Security Clearance
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 135 190 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.62% 18.20% 9.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.15% 57.93% 47.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 132 68
10th Percentile £150 £313 £187
25th Percentile £413 £463 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £418
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +35.93% +19.29%
75th Percentile £625 £679 £506
90th Percentile £679 £726 £550
England median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 10
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.08 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.72 £11.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.84 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -0.75% -49.71%
75th Percentile £25.00 £62.50 £34.13
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +16.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 254 328 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.16% 31.42% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 228 163
10th Percentile £167 £229 £178
25th Percentile £250 £363 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £484 £420
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% +15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £529
90th Percentile £662 £700 £607
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 49 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.90 £13.20
25th Percentile £14.72 £16.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £16.83 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% -21.72% +11.69%
75th Percentile £35.56 £26.48 £26.12
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

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

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 45 £450 -8.02% 11
Leicestershire +31 44 £525 - 6
Lincolnshire 0 21 £650 +8.33% 3
Nottinghamshire -10 13 £575 -17.86% 4
Northamptonshire +2 7 £408 -10.42% 11
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
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 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.89%) Azure
2 7 (5.19%) AWS
2 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.96%) OCI
4 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.48%) GCP
5 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.74%) IaaS
6 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.11%) SAN
2 8 (5.93%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (5.19%) Firewall
4 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.70%) VPN
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.22%) LAN
6 2 (1.48%) DNS
6 2 (1.48%) NAS
6 2 (1.48%) WAN
6 2 (1.48%) Wireless
7 1 (0.74%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.74%) PBX
7 1 (0.74%) PSTN
7 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.22%) MySQL
3 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.74%) Big Data
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.74%) Metadata
4 1 (0.74%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) JMeter
2 4 (2.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.22%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.48%) Selenium
4 2 (1.48%) TestRail
5 1 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.63%) Finance
4 9 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 9 (6.67%) Electronics
5 7 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.70%) Marketing
7 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (14.07%) Analyst
2 15 (11.11%) Architect
3 11 (8.15%) Administrator
3 11 (8.15%) Developer
4 8 (5.93%) Consultant
4 8 (5.93%) IT Engineer
4 8 (5.93%) Network Engineer
4 8 (5.93%) Senior
5 7 (5.19%) IT Technician
5 7 (5.19%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.44%) IT Administrator
6 6 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) HR Consultant
7 5 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 5 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Test Analyst
8 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 4 (2.96%) IMAC Support
8 4 (2.96%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) CSS
1 3 (2.22%) HTML
1 3 (2.22%) LDAP
2 2 (1.48%) CSS3
2 2 (1.48%) Laravel
2 2 (1.48%) SOAP
2 2 (1.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (1.48%) XML
2 2 (1.48%) Yii
3 1 (0.74%) .NET
3 1 (0.74%) Anaconda
3 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.74%) JSON
3 1 (0.74%) REST
3 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.44%) HP Storage
2 4 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.48%) IoT
4 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.74%) BYOD
5 1 (0.74%) Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) iPad
5 1 (0.74%) iPhone
5 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.74%) PDA
5 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (35.56%) Windows
2 26 (19.26%) Linux
3 24 (17.78%) Windows 7
4 19 (14.07%) Windows Vista
5 8 (5.93%) AIX
5 8 (5.93%) Solaris
6 7 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.70%) Debian
8 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.74%) SUSE
10 1 (0.74%) VMS
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (11.85%) Customer Service
2 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (8.89%) ITIL
4 11 (8.15%) Agile
5 10 (7.41%) Software Engineering
5 10 (7.41%) Software Testing
6 8 (5.93%) Configuration Management
6 8 (5.93%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (5.93%) Data Modelling
7 7 (5.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (4.44%) DevOps
8 6 (4.44%) ITSM
8 6 (4.44%) Network Architecture
8 6 (4.44%) Performance Testing
8 6 (4.44%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (4.44%) Service Management
8 6 (4.44%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (4.44%) Validation
9 5 (3.70%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (3.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.15%) SQL
2 9 (6.67%) Python
3 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.70%) Bash
5 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.48%) PHP
7 1 (0.74%) C#
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) R
7 1 (0.74%) Scala
7 1 (0.74%) X++
Qualifications
1 100 (74.07%) SC Cleared
2 35 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.96%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (2.22%) ISEB
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) ACCA
8 1 (0.74%) CIMA
8 1 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.74%) MCSE
8 1 (0.74%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.44%) SLA
2 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) IFRS
3 1 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.22%) Docker
4 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.74%) KVM
5 1 (0.74%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.74%) XenApp
5 1 (0.74%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.93%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (5.19%) Ansible
3 6 (4.44%) HP Data Protector
3 6 (4.44%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.48%) SCOM
4 2 (1.48%) VxRail
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.15%) Cisco
2 11 (8.15%) Oracle
3 10 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 10 (7.41%) VMware
4 8 (5.93%) Brocade
4 8 (5.93%) EMC
4 8 (5.93%) HP
5 7 (5.19%) SolarWinds
6 6 (4.44%) SAP
6 6 (4.44%) Symantec
7 5 (3.70%) F5
8 4 (2.96%) Computacenter
9 3 (2.22%) Dell
9 3 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.22%) Juniper
10 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.74%) Citrix
10 1 (0.74%) Intel
10 1 (0.74%) Sun