Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Security Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 347 212 271
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 15.36% 18.68% 14.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.03% 56.38% 47.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 90 127
10th Percentile £212 £188 £203
25th Percentile £428 £225 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 - £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 81 94
10th Percentile £17.87 £15.44 £21.37
25th Percentile £22.64 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +33.28% -28.23%
75th Percentile £74.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £85.75 £74.48
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +151.03% -56.26% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 578 376 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.59% 33.13% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 162 213
10th Percentile £168 £178 £214
25th Percentile £378 £246 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £600 £671
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 106 212
10th Percentile £17.37 £15.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.94 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.37 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.51% -15.79% +100.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 £73.44 £64.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.38 £74.83
England median hourly rate £53.45 £28.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +87.54% -32.94% -22.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the East of England

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Hertfordshire +1 187 £575 +4.55% 74
Bedfordshire +6 70 £425 +37.99% 9
Cambridgeshire +5 35 £557 +11.30% 30
Suffolk -1 24 £625 +177.78%
Essex -5 19 £450 +194.12% 12
Norfolk -12 12 £212 -61.11% 2
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.73%) NetWeaver
3 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Mendix
6 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.73%) Simulink
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.29%) CATIA
5 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.86%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.58%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (8.93%) Azure
2 23 (6.63%) AWS
3 8 (2.31%) SaaS
4 7 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.73%) Cohesity
5 6 (1.73%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.44%) GCP
6 5 (1.44%) IaaS
7 4 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.15%) GitHub
7 4 (1.15%) PaaS
7 4 (1.15%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.86%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.86%) Serverless
9 2 (0.58%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.61%) Firewall
2 15 (4.32%) DNS
3 11 (3.17%) Ethernet
4 9 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.31%) Network Security
6 7 (2.02%) Skype
6 7 (2.02%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (1.44%) SAN
7 5 (1.44%) VLAN
8 4 (1.15%) DHCP
8 4 (1.15%) IPsec
8 4 (1.15%) LAN
8 4 (1.15%) SNMP
8 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.15%) VPN
8 4 (1.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.86%) VSAN
9 3 (0.86%) Wireless
10 2 (0.58%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.73%) MaxDB
2 6 (1.73%) SAP HANA
2 6 (1.73%) Sybase ASE
3 5 (1.44%) Metadata
4 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.15%) Power BI
5 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.19%) Git
2 14 (4.03%) JIRA
3 11 (3.17%) GitLab
4 10 (2.88%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.59%) Rational Rhapsody
5 9 (2.59%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.44%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.58%) Gradle
7 2 (0.58%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) Hudson
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) MSI
8 1 (0.29%) Newman
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Serenity BDD
General
1 67 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (5.48%) Aerospace
4 18 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.17%) Legal
7 10 (2.88%) Finance
8 7 (2.02%) Law
8 7 (2.02%) Military
9 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.44%) Electronics
11 4 (1.15%) Aviation
12 3 (0.86%) Automotive
12 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.58%) Retail
14 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 51 (14.70%) Software Engineer
2 27 (7.78%) Senior
3 24 (6.92%) Principal Engineer
4 23 (6.63%) Administrator
4 23 (6.63%) Architect
5 21 (6.05%) Principal Software Engineer
6 19 (5.48%) Analyst
6 19 (5.48%) Consultant
7 17 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.61%) SAP Support
8 16 (4.61%) SOC Engineer
9 13 (3.75%) Network Engineer
9 13 (3.75%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.17%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.88%) SAP Administrator
11 10 (2.88%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.59%) Ada Engineer
12 9 (2.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 9 (2.59%) Senior Network Engineer
12 9 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.17%) .NET
2 9 (2.59%) React
3 8 (2.31%) REST
3 8 (2.31%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.02%) Kafka
4 7 (2.02%) Node.js
5 6 (1.73%) LDAP
5 6 (1.73%) Middleware
5 6 (1.73%) SAP Basis
5 6 (1.73%) SAPUI5
6 5 (1.44%) Web Services
7 4 (1.15%) eBPF
7 4 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.15%) SOAP
7 4 (1.15%) WPF
8 3 (0.86%) CSS
8 3 (0.86%) HTML
8 3 (0.86%) JSON
8 3 (0.86%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.32%) Data Centre
1 15 (4.32%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (3.46%) FPGA
3 11 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.59%) CMDB
6 8 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.73%) PCIe
8 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.73%) Smartcard
8 6 (1.73%) YubiKey
9 5 (1.44%) Verilog
9 5 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.15%) Clustering
10 4 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.71%) Windows
2 30 (8.65%) Linux
3 15 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.88%) CentOS
6 4 (1.15%) Rocky
6 4 (1.15%) Unix
7 3 (0.86%) Android
7 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.58%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.29%) AIX
9 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (18.16%) Software Engineering
2 53 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (10.95%) Agile
4 35 (10.09%) CI/CD
5 30 (8.65%) Test Automation
6 28 (8.07%) DevOps
7 26 (7.49%) Change Management
7 26 (7.49%) Validation
8 22 (6.34%) ITSM
8 22 (6.34%) Migration
8 22 (6.34%) SDLC
9 21 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (5.19%) Security Monitoring
10 18 (5.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (4.90%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (4.90%) Software Testing
12 16 (4.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (4.61%) ITIL
13 15 (4.32%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.36%) Python
2 25 (7.20%) C++
3 19 (5.48%) Ada
3 19 (5.48%) C#
4 15 (4.32%) C
5 14 (4.03%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.75%) SQL
7 11 (3.17%) MATLAB
8 9 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.31%) Bash
10 7 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
10 7 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.73%) Java
11 6 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.44%) SystemVerilog
13 3 (0.86%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.58%) Tcl
15 1 (0.29%) Cypher
15 1 (0.29%) ProC
Qualifications
1 208 (59.94%) SC Cleared
2 104 (29.97%) DV Cleared
3 19 (5.48%) Degree
4 11 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.86%) HNC
8 3 (0.86%) HND
8 3 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.32%) SLA
2 11 (3.17%) GDPR
2 11 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.88%) GRC
4 7 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.02%) Def Stans
4 7 (2.02%) QA
5 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.86%) DO-178B
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.58%) DO-254
7 2 (0.58%) ISA99
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.29%) MISRA
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.31%) Firmware
4 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.86%) Docker
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (8.07%) Ansible
2 14 (4.03%) Terraform
3 7 (2.02%) Grafana
3 7 (2.02%) SCCM
3 7 (2.02%) vCenter Server
4 6 (1.73%) Check_MK
4 6 (1.73%) Nessus
4 6 (1.73%) Podman
4 6 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (1.73%) WSUS
5 5 (1.44%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.15%) NetBackup
6 4 (1.15%) vRealize
6 4 (1.15%) VxRail
7 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.78%) VMware
3 26 (7.49%) SAP
4 23 (6.63%) Splunk
5 19 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.75%) Oracle
7 11 (3.17%) Remedy
8 10 (2.88%) Cisco
9 9 (2.59%) Dell
10 7 (2.02%) BMC
10 7 (2.02%) Tenable
11 6 (1.73%) Altera
11 6 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.73%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.73%) Sybase
11 6 (1.73%) Xilinx
12 5 (1.44%) Intel
12 5 (1.44%) Microsemi
12 5 (1.44%) NetApp
12 5 (1.44%) Veeam