Security Cleared Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 171 251 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 18.11% 13.14% 22.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.11% 42.18% 60.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 116 248
10th Percentile £195 £200 £273
25th Percentile £210 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £650 £700
90th Percentile £625 £725 £738
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 75 123
10th Percentile £14.99 £21.37 £15.73
25th Percentile £31.35 £21.42 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £24.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +161.46% -58.26% +6.98%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £78.10 £73.40
England median hourly rate £55.52 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.46% +20.00%

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 322 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.11% 31.15% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 226 380
10th Percentile £181 £207 £222
25th Percentile £244 £346 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £719 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 219 195
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £43.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 88 £525 -4.55% 68
Cambridgeshire +2 36 £494 -29.46% 25
Suffolk 0 23 £225 -52.63% 8
Bedfordshire +7 17 £310 -32.19% 35
Essex +11 6 £625 +33.69% 23
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.26%) Confluence
3 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.92%) CMS
4 5 (2.92%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.34%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (1.75%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.58%) Apache
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (9.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.51%) Simulink
5 4 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (2.34%) Windchill
6 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Teamcenter
2 5 (2.92%) Primavera
3 1 (0.58%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.60%) Azure
3 9 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.09%) Cohesity
5 4 (2.34%) GitHub
6 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.58%) AWS
8 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.58%) GCP
8 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.20%) DNS
2 18 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (9.94%) SMTP
4 15 (8.77%) Network Security
5 14 (8.19%) FTP
5 14 (8.19%) HTTP
5 14 (8.19%) SSL
5 14 (8.19%) VPN
6 9 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.09%) Firewall
8 6 (3.51%) Ethernet
8 6 (3.51%) SAN
8 6 (3.51%) Skype
9 4 (2.34%) VSAN
10 3 (1.75%) IMAP
10 3 (1.75%) SpaceWire
11 2 (1.17%) Intranet
11 2 (1.17%) Software-Defined Radio
12 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) DB2
2 3 (1.75%) Power BI
3 2 (1.17%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.17%) Metadata
3 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) Flink
4 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Git
1 5 (2.92%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.34%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.34%) Hudson
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) MagicDraw
3 1 (0.58%) MSI
3 1 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.58%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 83 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.68%) Electronics
7 7 (4.09%) Military
7 7 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.51%) Finance
8 6 (3.51%) Legal
9 5 (2.92%) Aviation
9 5 (2.92%) Law
9 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.75%) Games
10 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.75%) Marketing
11 2 (1.17%) Back Office
11 2 (1.17%) Billing
11 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (26.32%) Analyst
2 22 (12.87%) Service Analyst
2 22 (12.87%) Service Desk Analyst
3 19 (11.11%) Senior
4 17 (9.94%) SOC Analyst
5 16 (9.36%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (8.77%) Architect
7 12 (7.02%) Technical Analyst
7 12 (7.02%) Technical Services Analyst
8 11 (6.43%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Desktop Support
10 9 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 5 (2.92%) Consultant
14 5 (2.92%) Network Architect
14 5 (2.92%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.19%) LDAP
2 4 (2.34%) Web Services
3 3 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.58%) CSS
4 1 (0.58%) Kafka
4 1 (0.58%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.70%) Management Information System
2 19 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.19%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (7.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (7.60%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (7.02%) Cyberattack
6 9 (5.26%) FPGA
7 8 (4.68%) Driving Licence
8 7 (4.09%) iPad
8 7 (4.09%) iPhone
9 6 (3.51%) CMDB
9 6 (3.51%) CSOC
9 6 (3.51%) VHDL
10 5 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.92%) Verilog
11 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.34%) Blackberry
11 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.73%) Windows
2 15 (8.77%) Linux
3 7 (4.09%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.75%) Unix
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.58%) Android
7 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.58%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (19.30%) ITIL
3 26 (15.20%) Customer Service
4 23 (13.45%) Agile
5 19 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 19 (11.11%) Time Management
6 18 (10.53%) Service Delivery
7 17 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (9.94%) Information Management
8 16 (9.36%) Mathematics
9 14 (8.19%) Inventory Management
9 14 (8.19%) ITSM
9 14 (8.19%) Project Management
10 13 (7.60%) Customer Requirements
10 13 (7.60%) Security Operations
11 12 (7.02%) Threat Detection
12 11 (6.43%) Data Management
12 11 (6.43%) Incident Response
12 11 (6.43%) Validation
13 10 (5.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.85%) SQL
3 8 (4.68%) Python
4 6 (3.51%) MATLAB
4 6 (3.51%) Tcl
5 5 (2.92%) C
5 5 (2.92%) C++
5 5 (2.92%) SystemVerilog
6 4 (2.34%) Bash
6 4 (2.34%) C#
7 3 (1.75%) Java
7 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.17%) VBA
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (86.55%) SC Cleared
2 31 (18.13%) DV Cleared
3 20 (11.70%) Degree
4 16 (9.36%) A+ Certification
4 16 (9.36%) MCSA
4 16 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.75%) CISSP
7 3 (1.75%) HNC
7 3 (1.75%) HND
8 2 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.17%) GCIA
8 2 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.17%) VCAP
8 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CISM
9 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.68%) SLA
2 6 (3.51%) QA
3 3 (1.75%) DO-254
4 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.17%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (23.98%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.85%) Firmware
3 8 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.92%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.34%) vSphere
7 3 (1.75%) Docker
7 3 (1.75%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Ansible
2 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.09%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (3.51%) VxRail
5 5 (2.92%) WSUS
6 4 (2.34%) SCCM
6 4 (2.34%) Terraform
7 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.75%) PowerCLI
7 3 (1.75%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.17%) Avamar
8 2 (1.17%) Nessus
8 2 (1.17%) vRealize
9 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) PTC Integrity
9 1 (0.58%) Puppet
9 1 (0.58%) SCOM
9 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (32.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.20%) ServiceNow
3 16 (9.36%) Citrix
3 16 (9.36%) VMware
4 9 (5.26%) Xilinx
5 8 (4.68%) Apple
6 7 (4.09%) Dell
6 7 (4.09%) LogRhythm
6 7 (4.09%) McAfee
6 7 (4.09%) Samsung
6 7 (4.09%) SOTI
6 7 (4.09%) Splunk
7 6 (3.51%) NetApp
8 5 (2.92%) Darktrace
8 5 (2.92%) FireEye
8 5 (2.92%) Intel
8 5 (2.92%) Microsemi
9 4 (2.34%) EMC
9 4 (2.34%) IFS
9 4 (2.34%) Twitter