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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 139 121 90
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.15% 14.63% 11.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.60% 55.50% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 57 42
10th Percentile £200 £154 £272
25th Percentile £400 £260 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +12.12% -25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £621
90th Percentile £663 £725 £659
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 44 16
10th Percentile £18.31 - £16.05
25th Percentile £21.06 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £18.87 £22.89
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -17.54% +29.15%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £41.89 - £47.08
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 250 218 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.26% 26.36% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 113 85
10th Percentile £175 £164 £301
25th Percentile £313 £309 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £437 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +9.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £694 £645
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 50 17
10th Percentile £16.46 - £16.24
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £20.06 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -17.04% +36.46%
75th Percentile £29.45 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £47.50 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -2.36%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 68 £575 +12.20% 26
Lincolnshire -6 27 £400 +125.67% 21
Nottinghamshire -9 25 £508 +211.04% 42
Leicestershire +1 14 £418 -20.48% 18
Northamptonshire +6 4 £455 +15.19% 4
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 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.72%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Maximo
1 4 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.44%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.72%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.65%) Azure
2 20 (14.39%) Entra ID
3 19 (13.67%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 9 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (6.47%) IaaS
7 9 (6.47%) PaaS
7 9 (6.47%) SaaS
8 7 (5.04%) AWS
9 3 (2.16%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.16%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (0.72%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.72%) Serverless
10 1 (0.72%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) Firewall
1 12 (8.63%) VPN
2 7 (5.04%) DNS
3 6 (4.32%) DHCP
3 6 (4.32%) Network Security
4 4 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (2.16%) IPv4
5 3 (2.16%) IPv6
5 3 (2.16%) LAN
5 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.16%) VLAN
5 3 (2.16%) WAN
6 2 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.72%) SAN
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) Power BI
1 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.47%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.88%) Db2
5 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.44%) Big Data
6 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.72%) Metadata
7 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.72%) MySQL
7 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Git
1 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.44%) JIRA
1 2 (1.44%) JMeter
1 2 (1.44%) Maven
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (1.44%) Zephyr
2 1 (0.72%) Ant
2 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.72%) GitLab
2 1 (0.72%) Gradle
2 1 (0.72%) Selenium
2 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.35%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Police
6 5 (3.60%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.60%) Automotive
6 5 (3.60%) Finance
7 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Aviation
9 1 (0.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (13.67%) Architect
2 18 (12.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (8.63%) IT Engineer
3 12 (8.63%) Windows Engineer
4 11 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (7.91%) Deployment Engineer
5 10 (7.19%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Developer
7 8 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.76%) Tester
8 7 (5.04%) Server Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Windows Deployment Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Performance Tester
10 5 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) DBA
10 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) Terraform
2 4 (2.88%) YAML
3 3 (2.16%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.44%) SOAP
4 2 (1.44%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.44%) Web Services
4 2 (1.44%) XML
5 1 (0.72%) CSS
5 1 (0.72%) CSS3
5 1 (0.72%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.72%) HTML
5 1 (0.72%) HTML5
5 1 (0.72%) JPA
5 1 (0.72%) JWT
5 1 (0.72%) Kafka
5 1 (0.72%) Middleware
5 1 (0.72%) OAuth
5 1 (0.72%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.72%) RESTful
5 1 (0.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) CMDB
2 9 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.16%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.72%) Replication
6 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.62%) Windows
2 15 (10.79%) Windows 10
3 13 (9.35%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.60%) Linux
5 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.88%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.22%) Migration
2 21 (15.11%) DevOps
3 17 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
7 10 (7.19%) Agile
7 10 (7.19%) Architecture Governance
7 10 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (7.19%) Validation
7 10 (7.19%) Visualisation
8 9 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (6.47%) CI/CD
8 9 (6.47%) Cloud Security
8 9 (6.47%) Decision-Making
8 9 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (6.47%) Test Automation
9 8 (5.76%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.67%) SQL
2 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.88%) Java
4 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.16%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.16%) Python
5 2 (1.44%) R
6 1 (0.72%) ABAP
6 1 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 115 (82.73%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.47%) Degree
3 6 (4.32%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) MCSA
6 2 (1.44%) MCSE
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.44%) PMP
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.32%) GDPR
2 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
4 1 (0.72%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (17.27%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.35%) vSphere
4 7 (5.04%) Docker
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.72%) Firmware
6 1 (0.72%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (12.95%) SCCM
2 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.16%) Ansible
4 3 (2.16%) VxRail
4 3 (2.16%) WSUS
5 2 (1.44%) SCOM
6 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.11%) VMware
3 10 (7.19%) Databricks
3 10 (7.19%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) SAP
5 3 (2.16%) Citrix
5 3 (2.16%) Workday
6 2 (1.44%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.72%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.72%) Google
7 1 (0.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.72%) NetApp
7 1 (0.72%) Siemens