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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 143 72 125
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 16.21% 12.14% 16.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.37% 50.35% 54.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 87
10th Percentile £154 £200 £222
25th Percentile £350 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% -8.18% +14.58%
75th Percentile £538 £651 £650
90th Percentile £628 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 13 11
10th Percentile £16.45 - -
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.38 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +21.84% +50.17%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -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 245 143 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.78% 24.11% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 74 151
10th Percentile £160 £233 £213
25th Percentile £335 £325 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -15.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £537 £586 £581
90th Percentile £618 £715 £685
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 15 15
10th Percentile £17.30 - £17.72
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +7.95% +18.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £20.26
90th Percentile £25.62 £29.92 £23.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 52 £500 +56.25% 9
Lincolnshire +10 40 £158 -62.94% 8
Nottinghamshire +9 22 £415 - 6
Northamptonshire -2 16 £395 +12.06% 2
Leicestershire -12 12 £475 -26.98% 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 3 (2.10%) Apache
1 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.10%) Confluence
2 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.70%) PRMS
2 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.69%) Azure
2 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.20%) AWS
4 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.10%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.10%) GCP
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.40%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.40%) Serverless
6 2 (1.40%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Wireless
2 2 (1.40%) ATM
2 2 (1.40%) Firewall
2 2 (1.40%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.70%) DHCP
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) LAN
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.80%) Power BI
2 2 (1.40%) Big Data
3 1 (0.70%) Aerospike
3 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.70%) Metadata
3 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.50%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.10%) Git
4 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (28.67%) Public Sector
2 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.69%) Finance
4 16 (11.19%) Manufacturing
5 15 (10.49%) Marketing
6 14 (9.79%) Electronics
6 14 (9.79%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.50%) Banking
10 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.10%) Legal
11 3 (2.10%) Retail
12 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.70%) Military
12 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (15.38%) Analyst
2 12 (8.39%) Architect
3 9 (6.29%) Consultant
3 9 (6.29%) Support Engineer
4 8 (5.59%) IT Support
4 8 (5.59%) Senior
5 7 (4.90%) IT Engineer
6 6 (4.20%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 6 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (4.20%) Desktop Support
6 6 (4.20%) Developer
6 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.20%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.50%) Deployment Engineer
8 4 (2.80%) Build Engineer
8 4 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (2.80%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (2.10%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) ADO
2 2 (1.40%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.40%) Kafka
2 2 (1.40%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.40%) Node.js
2 2 (1.40%) REST
2 2 (1.40%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.40%) Spring
2 2 (1.40%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.70%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.70%) FHIR
3 1 (0.70%) LangGraph
3 1 (0.70%) MERN Stack
3 1 (0.70%) Playwright
3 1 (0.70%) PySpark
3 1 (0.70%) pytest
3 1 (0.70%) React
3 1 (0.70%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.20%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.40%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.70%) Beowulf
6 1 (0.70%) Contract for Difference
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.70%) FPGA
6 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Life Science
6 1 (0.70%) Smart City
6 1 (0.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.99%) Windows
2 7 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.20%) Android
3 6 (4.20%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.40%) Linux
5 2 (1.40%) Unix
5 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.08%) Migration
2 22 (15.38%) Workflow
3 20 (13.99%) Service Delivery
4 18 (12.59%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (12.59%) DevOps
5 17 (11.89%) Workflow Management
6 16 (11.19%) Programme Management
7 15 (10.49%) Coaching
8 14 (9.79%) Digital Marketing
9 13 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (8.39%) Agile
10 12 (8.39%) Change Management
10 12 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (6.99%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.99%) ITIL
12 8 (5.59%) Analytics
12 8 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (4.90%) Logistics
13 7 (4.90%) Project Delivery
14 5 (3.50%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.99%) SQL
2 6 (4.20%) Python
3 5 (3.50%) Java
3 5 (3.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.40%) Bash
4 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.40%) X++
5 1 (0.70%) C#
5 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.70%) R
5 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (74.83%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.90%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) BC Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CISA
5 1 (0.70%) CISSP
5 1 (0.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) GIAC
5 1 (0.70%) MCP
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.70%) PMP
5 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.70%) VCAP
5 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) PMO
2 3 (2.10%) SLA
3 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.70%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.80%) BitLocker
3 4 (2.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.10%) Docker
5 2 (1.40%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Ansible
2 3 (2.10%) Istio
2 3 (2.10%) SCCM
3 2 (1.40%) Argo
3 2 (1.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) Podman
4 1 (0.70%) Puppet
4 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) SAP
2 11 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.99%) Cisco
3 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.29%) Dell
4 9 (6.29%) HP
5 7 (4.90%) VMware
6 6 (4.20%) Apple
6 6 (4.20%) Oracle
7 5 (3.50%) Citrix
8 4 (2.80%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.40%) Databricks
9 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.40%) Remedy
9 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.70%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.70%) Workday