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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 325 252 229
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 14.83% 20.08% 13.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.41% 61.31% 48.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 94 113
10th Percentile £323 £195 £200
25th Percentile £447 £343 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -0.93% -2.92%
75th Percentile £681 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £593 £638
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 113 87
10th Percentile £18.11 £16.16 £21.37
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% +2.99% -15.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.80 £68.00
England median hourly rate £64.09 £25.15 £58.05
% change year-on-year +154.83% -56.67% -3.26%

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 547 411 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.97% 32.75% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 158 168
10th Percentile £175 £187 £210
25th Percentile £410 £316 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £629 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 137 177
10th Percentile £17.73 £16.20 £15.64
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £62.00 £32.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.77% -24.42% +100.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.40 £71.30
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -44.11% -18.18%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 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
Hertfordshire +1 180 £600 +9.09% 59
Bedfordshire +3 60 £220 -41.33% 29
Cambridgeshire +1 32 £606 +21.25% 29
Suffolk +1 27 £550 +144.44% 13
Essex -13 18 £450 +194.12% 19
Norfolk -15 8 £475 -12.84% 3
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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.85%) NetWeaver
3 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
Applications
1 17 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.54%) Simulink
3 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) CATIA
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.62%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.31%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.15%) Azure
2 23 (7.08%) AWS
3 8 (2.46%) Entra ID
3 8 (2.46%) SaaS
4 7 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.85%) Cohesity
6 5 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.54%) IaaS
6 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.23%) GCP
7 4 (1.23%) PaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.92%) GitHub
8 3 (0.92%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Serverless
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.85%) DNS
2 18 (5.54%) Firewall
3 11 (3.38%) SAN
4 9 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.46%) Network Security
5 8 (2.46%) Skype
5 8 (2.46%) VLAN
6 7 (2.15%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.15%) Structured Cabling
7 6 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (1.85%) Wireless
8 5 (1.54%) DHCP
8 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.54%) VPN
8 5 (1.54%) VSAN
9 4 (1.23%) IPsec
9 4 (1.23%) SNMP
10 3 (0.92%) Internet
10 3 (0.92%) LAN
10 3 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.46%) Metadata
3 6 (1.85%) MaxDB
3 6 (1.85%) SAP HANA
3 6 (1.85%) Sybase ASE
4 5 (1.54%) Power BI
5 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.62%) MySQL
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.31%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.31%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (4.92%) Git
2 13 (4.00%) JIRA
3 9 (2.77%) GitLab
4 7 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.54%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.62%) Gradle
8 2 (0.62%) Selenium
8 2 (0.62%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.31%) CppUnit
9 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.31%) Hudson
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.31%) MSI
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.31%) PVCS
General
1 60 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (4.92%) Aerospace
4 15 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.38%) Finance
5 11 (3.38%) Law
6 7 (2.15%) Legal
6 7 (2.15%) Military
7 6 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.54%) Aviation
8 5 (1.54%) Electronics
8 5 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.62%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.62%) Retail
11 1 (0.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.31%) Games
11 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (12.62%) Software Engineer
2 29 (8.92%) Senior
3 23 (7.08%) Architect
4 22 (6.77%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (6.15%) Consultant
6 19 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.54%) Administrator
8 17 (5.23%) Principal Software Engineer
9 16 (4.92%) SAP Support
9 16 (4.92%) SOC Engineer
10 15 (4.62%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Monitoring Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Senior Network Engineer
12 11 (3.38%) Analyst
12 11 (3.38%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.38%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) SAP Administrator
13 10 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (2.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 9 (2.77%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.46%) Kafka
1 8 (2.46%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (2.15%) REST
3 6 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.85%) React
3 6 (1.85%) SAP Basis
3 6 (1.85%) SAPUI5
4 5 (1.54%) .NET
4 5 (1.54%) Node.js
4 5 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (1.54%) Web Services
5 4 (1.23%) eBPF
5 4 (1.23%) LDAP
5 4 (1.23%) Middleware
5 4 (1.23%) SOAP
6 3 (0.92%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.62%) JSON
7 2 (0.62%) WinForms
7 2 (0.62%) WPF
7 2 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.69%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.38%) CMDB
5 10 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.08%) Replication
6 9 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.46%) FPGA
7 8 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.15%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.85%) Smartcard
9 6 (1.85%) YubiKey
10 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.54%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.23%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.23%) Windows
2 34 (10.46%) Linux
3 21 (6.46%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.31%) CentOS
6 10 (3.08%) Rocky
7 4 (1.23%) Android
7 4 (1.23%) Unix
8 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.62%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (15.08%) Software Engineering
2 47 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (10.77%) Agile
4 32 (9.85%) CI/CD
5 28 (8.62%) Change Management
6 26 (8.00%) Test Automation
6 26 (8.00%) Validation
7 25 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (7.08%) ITSM
8 23 (7.08%) Migration
9 22 (6.77%) DevOps
10 21 (6.46%) SDLC
11 18 (5.54%) ITIL
11 18 (5.54%) Software Testing
12 17 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (5.23%) Project Management
12 17 (5.23%) Security Monitoring
13 16 (4.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (4.92%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.15%) Python
2 22 (6.77%) PowerShell
3 20 (6.15%) C++
3 20 (6.15%) SQL
4 13 (4.00%) C
4 13 (4.00%) C#
5 10 (3.08%) Ada
6 9 (2.77%) Bash
7 8 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.46%) MATLAB
8 6 (1.85%) Java
8 6 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (1.85%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.23%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.23%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) ProC
11 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 197 (60.62%) SC Cleared
2 97 (29.85%) DV Cleared
3 21 (6.46%) Degree
4 12 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.92%) MCSE
8 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.62%) CCNA
9 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.62%) PMP
10 1 (0.31%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.00%) SLA
2 11 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.08%) GDPR
3 10 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.08%) QA
4 6 (1.85%) GRC
5 3 (0.92%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.92%) DO-178B
5 3 (0.92%) NCSC
6 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.62%) ISA99
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.62%) NIST
6 2 (0.62%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.31%) DO-254
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) MISRA
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.85%) Firmware
4 6 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.92%) Docker
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (9.85%) Ansible
2 14 (4.31%) Terraform
3 10 (3.08%) NetBackup
4 9 (2.77%) SCCM
4 9 (2.77%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.46%) Grafana
6 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.85%) Nessus
7 6 (1.85%) vRealize
7 6 (1.85%) WSUS
8 5 (1.54%) Check_MK
8 5 (1.54%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.54%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.54%) VxRail
9 4 (1.23%) Podman
9 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.62%) SCOM
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 32 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.00%) SAP
2 26 (8.00%) VMware
3 23 (7.08%) Splunk
4 18 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.00%) Cisco
6 12 (3.69%) Oracle
7 11 (3.38%) NetApp
7 11 (3.38%) Remedy
7 11 (3.38%) Veeam
8 7 (2.15%) BMC
8 7 (2.15%) Dell
8 7 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.15%) Tenable
9 6 (1.85%) Sybase
10 5 (1.54%) Cribl.io
10 5 (1.54%) Xilinx
11 4 (1.23%) Intel
11 4 (1.23%) Microsemi
11 4 (1.23%) Red Hat