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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 121 97 128
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.21% 12.68% 16.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.08% 49.49% 66.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 51 72
10th Percentile £180 - £256
25th Percentile £218 £200 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -11.06% -13.33%
75th Percentile £590 £611 £614
90th Percentile £695 £725 £658
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 26
10th Percentile £17.87 - £12.75
25th Percentile £18.14 £17.87 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.80 £21.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% +8.43% -51.22%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £49.49
90th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +158.45% -56.26% -4.17%

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 212 196 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.89% 25.62% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 107 111
10th Percentile £175 £195 £200
25th Percentile £281 £269 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £594
90th Percentile £650 £725 £659
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 37 28
10th Percentile £16.66 - £12.75
25th Percentile £17.92 £17.87 £14.89
Median hourly rate £22.80 £21.30 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +2.08% -5.16%
75th Percentile £26.34 £25.15 £51.91
90th Percentile £64.40 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 50 £500 - 17
Lincolnshire -2 30 £500 +151.89% 6
Nottinghamshire -15 18 £400 -2.44% 13
Leicestershire +3 17 £418 -22.69% 5
Northamptonshire +7 4 £509 +28.92% 1
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 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.31%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.65%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.14%) Azure
2 10 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
3 9 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.79%) AWS
5 6 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.13%) IaaS
6 5 (4.13%) PaaS
7 4 (3.31%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.48%) SaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Batch
10 1 (0.83%) GCP
10 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) DNS
2 8 (6.61%) DHCP
3 7 (5.79%) Network Security
3 7 (5.79%) VLAN
4 6 (4.96%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.13%) Firewall
5 5 (4.13%) IPv4
5 5 (4.13%) IPv6
5 5 (4.13%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (4.13%) WAN
6 4 (3.31%) VPN
7 3 (2.48%) LAN
8 2 (1.65%) BGP
8 2 (1.65%) OSPF
8 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.83%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.83%) SAN
9 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.26%) Power BI
3 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.65%) Big Data
6 2 (1.65%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.83%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.65%) JMeter
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.65%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.83%) Ant
3 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Maven
3 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.70%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Aerospace
4 6 (4.96%) Police
5 5 (4.13%) Finance
5 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.13%) Military
6 4 (3.31%) Automotive
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (11.57%) Architect
2 13 (10.74%) Analyst
3 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (7.44%) IT Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Deployment Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Developer
5 7 (5.79%) Tester
5 7 (5.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Performance Tester
6 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.96%) Windows Deployment Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (4.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Server Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.65%) SOAP
2 2 (1.65%) Software Packaging
2 2 (1.65%) Web Services
2 2 (1.65%) XML
3 1 (0.83%) ADO
3 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.13%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.13%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.31%) Beowulf
3 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.48%) CMDB
4 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Windows
2 10 (8.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.79%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.96%) Linux
5 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (14.05%) Migration
4 15 (12.40%) Customer Service
4 15 (12.40%) DevOps
4 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (9.92%) Data Modelling
6 11 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 11 (9.09%) Validation
7 10 (8.26%) Visualisation
8 9 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (6.61%) Agile
9 8 (6.61%) Containerisation
9 8 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (6.61%) Test Automation
10 7 (5.79%) Analytics
10 7 (5.79%) Biometrics
10 7 (5.79%) Coaching
10 7 (5.79%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.09%) SQL
2 9 (7.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.48%) Java
3 3 (2.48%) Python
4 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.65%) R
Qualifications
1 98 (80.99%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.44%) Degree
3 8 (6.61%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.65%) CCNA
5 2 (1.65%) CCNP
5 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.65%) MCSA
5 2 (1.65%) MCSE
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CIPD
6 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
6 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) GDPR
2 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) PSD2
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.61%) vSphere
4 4 (3.31%) Docker
4 4 (3.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.65%) Firmware
5 2 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.83%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.96%) SCCM
3 5 (4.13%) WSUS
4 4 (3.31%) Podman
5 3 (2.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.48%) VxRail
6 2 (1.65%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.65%) SCOM
6 2 (1.65%) Terraform
7 1 (0.83%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.88%) VMware
3 7 (5.79%) Oracle
4 6 (4.96%) Fortinet
4 6 (4.96%) SAP
5 5 (4.13%) Citrix
5 5 (4.13%) NetApp
6 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.48%) Databricks
7 3 (2.48%) Workday
8 2 (1.65%) Cisco
8 2 (1.65%) Google
8 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.83%) BT
9 1 (0.83%) Dell
9 1 (0.83%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.83%) HP
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk