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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 291 178 351
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 18.81% 13.98% 19.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.75% 48.63% 54.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 74 183
10th Percentile £153 £220 £400
25th Percentile £220 £313 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -17.35% +10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £675 £770
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 58 73
10th Percentile £18.56 £21.46 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £38.80 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% +41.57% -11.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £69.50 £73.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £58.43 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.96% -2.61% -

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 479 366 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.96% 28.75% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 136 322
10th Percentile £189 £183 £273
25th Percentile £363 £306 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £483 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -9.77% +7.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £690 £650 £743
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 89 150
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.78 £14.52
Median hourly rate £22.79 £62.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.54% +108.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £56.00 £68.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.00 £72.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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
Hertfordshire 0 147 £528 -4.00% 179
Bedfordshire +3 43 £413 -4.62% 11
Cambridgeshire +19 41 £550 +70.02% 17
Norfolk -4 21 £545 +21.11% 1
Essex +9 20 £153 -73.96% 10
Suffolk +1 19 £220 -3.30% 10
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 12 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
3 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 16 (5.50%) Spreadsheet
2 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.09%) Simulink
4 5 (1.72%) FrameMaker
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.69%) Windchill
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.34%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.34%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Maximo
2 2 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.34%) assyst
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Primavera
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.50%) Azure
2 8 (2.75%) AWS
3 7 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.06%) npm
5 4 (1.37%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.03%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.69%) GCP
7 2 (0.69%) PaaS
7 2 (0.69%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.69%) SaaS
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub
8 1 (0.34%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.34%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.44%) Ethernet
1 10 (3.44%) VPN
2 8 (2.75%) DNS
2 8 (2.75%) Firewall
3 7 (2.41%) Network Security
4 6 (2.06%) FTP
4 6 (2.06%) HTTP
4 6 (2.06%) SMTP
4 6 (2.06%) SSL
4 6 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.37%) BGP
5 4 (1.37%) OSPF
5 4 (1.37%) SpaceWire
5 4 (1.37%) VLAN
6 3 (1.03%) LAN
6 3 (1.03%) RS-232
6 3 (1.03%) SAN
6 3 (1.03%) WAN
7 2 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.03%) DB2
2 3 (1.03%) Power BI
3 2 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.34%) Big Data
4 1 (0.34%) Metadata
4 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.34%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.09%) JIRA
1 9 (3.09%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.06%) Artifactory
2 6 (2.06%) GitLab
2 6 (2.06%) Hudson
3 4 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.03%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.69%) Git
6 1 (0.34%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.28%) Aerospace
3 27 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.90%) Electronics
4 23 (7.90%) Military
5 22 (7.56%) Manufacturing
6 20 (6.87%) Finance
7 14 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.12%) Marketing
8 12 (4.12%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.78%) Aviation
10 10 (3.44%) Law
10 10 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.75%) Legal
13 6 (2.06%) Games
13 6 (2.06%) Publishing
14 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (7.90%) Consultant
2 22 (7.56%) Software Engineer
3 20 (6.87%) Analyst
4 18 (6.19%) Developer
5 17 (5.84%) Security Engineer
6 16 (5.50%) Lead
7 15 (5.15%) IT Engineer
7 15 (5.15%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.81%) Desktop Engineer
9 12 (4.12%) Desktop Support
10 11 (3.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 10 (3.44%) Administrator
11 10 (3.44%) Network Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
12 9 (3.09%) SOC Analyst
12 9 (3.09%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (2.75%) Migration Engineer
14 7 (2.41%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.78%) XML
2 9 (3.09%) .NET
2 9 (3.09%) Node.js
2 9 (3.09%) Web Services
3 7 (2.41%) AngularJS
3 7 (2.41%) SOAP
4 6 (2.06%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.06%) CSS
4 6 (2.06%) HTML
4 6 (2.06%) LDAP
4 6 (2.06%) React
4 6 (2.06%) SGML
4 6 (2.06%) Svelte
4 6 (2.06%) Vue
5 3 (1.03%) Flash
5 3 (1.03%) REST
6 2 (0.69%) RESTful
7 1 (0.34%) OpenID
7 1 (0.34%) Qt
7 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.81%) Algorithms
1 14 (4.81%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (3.78%) FPGA
3 8 (2.75%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.75%) Verilog
4 7 (2.41%) PCIe
5 6 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.06%) CSOC
5 6 (2.06%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.72%) VHDL
7 4 (1.37%) Analogue Electronics
7 4 (1.37%) Insider Threat
7 4 (1.37%) iPhone
7 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.40%) Windows
2 17 (5.84%) Windows 10
3 16 (5.50%) Linux
4 11 (3.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (14.09%) Migration
2 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (11.34%) Workflow
4 31 (10.65%) Asset Management
4 31 (10.65%) Time Management
5 27 (9.28%) Software Engineering
5 27 (9.28%) Ticket Management
6 26 (8.93%) Workflow Management
7 23 (7.90%) Agile
8 21 (7.22%) Logistics
9 18 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (5.84%) AI
10 17 (5.84%) ITIL
11 16 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (5.50%) Customer Service
11 16 (5.50%) Information Assurance
12 15 (5.15%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.15%) Computer Science
12 15 (5.15%) Incident Management
13 14 (4.81%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.53%) Python
2 18 (6.19%) C++
2 18 (6.19%) JavaScript
3 14 (4.81%) C
4 13 (4.47%) C#
5 10 (3.44%) SQL
6 9 (3.09%) MATLAB
6 9 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.41%) Tcl
8 6 (2.06%) Ada
8 6 (2.06%) SystemVerilog
8 6 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.03%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.03%) Java
11 1 (0.34%) ABAP
11 1 (0.34%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 242 (83.16%) SC Cleared
2 33 (11.34%) Degree
3 28 (9.62%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.47%) HNC
5 13 (4.47%) HND
6 7 (2.41%) CISSP
7 6 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) CCNP
10 3 (1.03%) CISM
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.34%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.34%) CBAP
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
12 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.34%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.25%) NIST
2 17 (5.84%) SLA
3 16 (5.50%) JSP 440
4 15 (5.15%) NCSC
4 15 (5.15%) QA
5 14 (4.81%) NIST 800
6 8 (2.75%) GDPR
6 8 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.06%) DO-254
8 5 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.69%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (7.90%) Active Directory
1 23 (7.90%) Firmware
2 7 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.06%) Docker
4 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.06%) SCCM
4 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.37%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.03%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.34%) Ansible
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) SCOM
7 1 (0.34%) Terraform
7 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.90%) SAP
3 18 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.44%) IFS
4 10 (3.44%) VMware
5 8 (2.75%) Intel
5 8 (2.75%) Xilinx
6 6 (2.06%) Actel
6 6 (2.06%) Altera
6 6 (2.06%) Cisco
6 6 (2.06%) Microsemi
7 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.37%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.37%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.37%) IBM
8 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.37%) Starlink
9 3 (1.03%) Aruba
9 3 (1.03%) McAfee
10 2 (0.69%) Meraki