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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 105 117 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.31% 14.74% 13.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.30% 60.31% 54.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 60 84
10th Percentile £175 £286 £379
25th Percentile £275 £322 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -9.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £675
90th Percentile £725 £662 £704
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 5
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.53 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +17.35% -49.37%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.70 £20.00
90th Percentile - £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -59.17% +2.67% +4.35%

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 197 194 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.97% 24.43% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 101 156
10th Percentile £171 £306 £325
25th Percentile £308 £353 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 7
10th Percentile - £12.75 £17.30
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.25 £21.59 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +20.31% -8.75%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £51.91 £20.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 0 51 £500 -7.19% 55
Lincolnshire 0 20 £200 -68.00% 28
Nottinghamshire +6 19 £163 - 30
Northamptonshire -9 12 £416 +9.54% 22
Leicestershire -19 3 £573 +20.78% 28
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 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Siemens NX
2 3 (2.86%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.95%) Primavera
3 1 (0.95%) PRMS
3 1 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) AWS
3 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.86%) GCP
4 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
4 3 (2.86%) Serverless
5 2 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.95%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.90%) ATM
2 2 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) LAN
3 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.90%) Power BI
1 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.90%) Git
3 1 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) JUnit
3 1 (0.95%) Mockito
3 1 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
4 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.95%) Aviation
7 1 (0.95%) Marketing
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (17.14%) Architect
2 15 (14.29%) Analyst
3 10 (9.52%) Developer
3 10 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Consultant
5 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) VMware Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Desktop Support
9 4 (3.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) VMware Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Windows Support Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Integration Developer
10 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) ADO
2 2 (1.90%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.90%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.90%) REST
2 2 (1.90%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.90%) Spring
3 1 (0.95%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.95%) J2EE
3 1 (0.95%) JDBC
3 1 (0.95%) JMS
3 1 (0.95%) JSON
3 1 (0.95%) Kafka
3 1 (0.95%) LangGraph
3 1 (0.95%) LDAP
3 1 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.95%) OAuth
3 1 (0.95%) SAML
3 1 (0.95%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.95%) AS400
5 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) FPGA
5 1 (0.95%) Life Science
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.95%) Smart City
5 1 (0.95%) Verilog
5 1 (0.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (13.33%) Coaching
2 13 (12.38%) Migration
2 13 (12.38%) Service Delivery
3 11 (10.48%) DevOps
3 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (9.52%) Break/Fix
5 8 (7.62%) Analytics
5 8 (7.62%) PLM
5 8 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (7.62%) Translating Business Requirements
5 8 (7.62%) User Stories
5 8 (7.62%) Workflow
6 7 (6.67%) CAD
6 7 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (6.67%) Ticket Management
6 7 (6.67%) Workflow Management
7 6 (5.71%) Asset Management
7 6 (5.71%) CI/CD
7 6 (5.71%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.62%) SQL
2 7 (6.67%) Python
3 4 (3.81%) Java
3 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.86%) Bash
4 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.86%) X++
5 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.95%) C#
5 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (74.29%) SC Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.86%) BC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.95%) CISA
5 1 (0.95%) CISSP
5 1 (0.95%) Degree
5 1 (0.95%) GIAC
5 1 (0.95%) MCP
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.95%) PMP
5 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.90%) Ansible
3 2 (1.90%) Argo
3 2 (1.90%) Istio
3 2 (1.90%) SCCM
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.95%) Podman
4 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (7.62%) Siemens
1 8 (7.62%) VMware
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.76%) Dell
3 5 (4.76%) HP
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.86%) Autodesk
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco
5 3 (2.86%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.86%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) Computacenter
6 2 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) Meraki
7 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.95%) Solace
7 1 (0.95%) Xilinx