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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 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 327 241 256
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 14.59% 19.64% 14.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.39% 59.21% 47.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 95 129
10th Percentile £300 £192 £200
25th Percentile £450 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £590 £675
England median daily rate £530 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 101 90
10th Percentile £17.87 £15.44 £21.37
25th Percentile £32.86 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% +2.99% -24.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £85.00 £70.33
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.47
% change year-on-year +152.49% -56.24% -4.22%

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 560 407 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.98% 33.17% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 167 208
10th Percentile £168 £178 £210
25th Percentile £416 £319 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.83% -2.75%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.28% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 125 194
10th Percentile £17.49 £15.46 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £60.00 £32.74 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.29% -23.87% +62.26%
75th Percentile £74.00 £72.50 £64.81
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.60 £74.48
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -38.37% -22.17%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +1 183 £575 +4.55% 56
Bedfordshire +4 65 £220 -41.33% 11
Cambridgeshire 0 34 £569 +13.75% 27
Suffolk -3 20 £625 +177.78% 1
Essex -11 17 £450 +194.12% 13
Norfolk -15 8 £475 -12.84%
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 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.83%) NetWeaver
3 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.92%) CMS
3 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.83%) Simulink
3 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) CATIA
5 1 (0.31%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.92%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.31%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (9.48%) Azure
2 23 (7.03%) AWS
3 8 (2.45%) SaaS
4 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.83%) Cohesity
4 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (1.53%) IaaS
5 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.22%) GCP
6 4 (1.22%) GitHub
6 4 (1.22%) PaaS
7 3 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (0.92%) iPaaS
7 3 (0.92%) Serverless
8 2 (0.61%) dbt
8 2 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.50%) DNS
2 16 (4.89%) Firewall
3 10 (3.06%) Ethernet
4 9 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.45%) SAN
6 7 (2.14%) Network Security
6 7 (2.14%) Skype
6 7 (2.14%) Structured Cabling
6 7 (2.14%) VLAN
7 5 (1.53%) DHCP
7 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (1.22%) IPsec
8 4 (1.22%) SNMP
8 4 (1.22%) VPN
8 4 (1.22%) VSAN
8 4 (1.22%) Wireless
9 3 (0.92%) LAN
9 3 (0.92%) WAN
10 2 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.45%) Metadata
3 6 (1.83%) MaxDB
3 6 (1.83%) SAP HANA
3 6 (1.83%) Sybase ASE
4 5 (1.53%) Power BI
5 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.61%) MySQL
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.31%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.31%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (4.89%) Git
2 12 (3.67%) JIRA
3 9 (2.75%) GitLab
4 8 (2.45%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.83%) Rational Rhapsody
7 5 (1.53%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.61%) Gradle
8 2 (0.61%) Selenium
8 2 (0.61%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.31%) Hudson
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) MLflow
9 1 (0.31%) MSI
9 1 (0.31%) Newman
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) Serenity BDD
General
1 62 (18.96%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (5.50%) Aerospace
4 14 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.06%) Finance
7 8 (2.45%) Legal
8 7 (2.14%) Law
8 7 (2.14%) Military
9 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.53%) Electronics
10 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Aviation
12 3 (0.92%) Automotive
12 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.61%) Retail
14 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (14.07%) Software Engineer
2 27 (8.26%) Senior
3 24 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
4 22 (6.73%) Architect
5 20 (6.12%) Consultant
5 20 (6.12%) Principal Software Engineer
6 19 (5.81%) Administrator
7 18 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.89%) SAP Support
8 16 (4.89%) SOC Engineer
9 14 (4.28%) Analyst
10 13 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.06%) SAP Administrator
12 10 (3.06%) Senior Network Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.45%) Ada Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.75%) .NET
2 8 (2.45%) Kafka
2 8 (2.45%) React
2 8 (2.45%) REST
2 8 (2.45%) SAP Fiori
3 7 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.14%) Node.js
4 6 (1.83%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.83%) SAPUI5
5 5 (1.53%) Web Services
6 4 (1.22%) eBPF
6 4 (1.22%) LDAP
6 4 (1.22%) Middleware
6 4 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.22%) SOAP
7 3 (0.92%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.92%) WPF
7 3 (0.92%) XML
8 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.89%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.36%) FPGA
4 10 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.75%) CMDB
5 9 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.14%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.14%) Replication
7 7 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.83%) Smartcard
8 6 (1.83%) YubiKey
9 5 (1.53%) PCIe
9 5 (1.53%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.53%) Verilog
10 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.13%) Windows
2 28 (8.56%) Linux
3 18 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.36%) CentOS
6 7 (2.14%) Rocky
7 4 (1.22%) Unix
8 2 (0.61%) Android
8 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.61%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (17.43%) Software Engineering
2 51 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (11.01%) Agile
4 34 (10.40%) CI/CD
5 29 (8.87%) Test Automation
6 27 (8.26%) Change Management
7 26 (7.95%) Validation
8 25 (7.65%) DevOps
9 23 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 22 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (6.42%) ITSM
11 21 (6.42%) Migration
11 21 (6.42%) SDLC
12 18 (5.50%) Security Monitoring
12 18 (5.50%) Software Testing
13 16 (4.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (4.89%) Test Scripting
14 15 (4.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (4.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.17%) Python
2 22 (6.73%) C++
3 18 (5.50%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.50%) SQL
4 17 (5.20%) Ada
4 17 (5.20%) C#
5 15 (4.59%) C
6 9 (2.75%) Bash
6 9 (2.75%) MATLAB
7 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.14%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (1.83%) Java
9 6 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.53%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.92%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.61%) Tcl
14 1 (0.31%) ProC
14 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 194 (59.33%) SC Cleared
2 100 (30.58%) DV Cleared
3 21 (6.42%) Degree
4 12 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (1.53%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.92%) HNC
8 3 (0.92%) HND
8 3 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.67%) SLA
2 10 (3.06%) GDPR
2 10 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.45%) GRC
4 7 (2.14%) QA
5 6 (1.83%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.92%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.61%) DO-254
7 2 (0.61%) ISA99
7 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.31%) MISRA
8 1 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (7.03%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.14%) Firmware
3 7 (2.14%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.92%) Docker
4 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (8.87%) Ansible
2 14 (4.28%) Terraform
3 8 (2.45%) SCCM
3 8 (2.45%) vCenter Server
4 7 (2.14%) Grafana
4 7 (2.14%) NetBackup
5 6 (1.83%) Nessus
5 6 (1.83%) WSUS
6 5 (1.53%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.53%) vRealize
6 5 (1.53%) VxRail
7 4 (1.22%) Podman
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.61%) SCOM
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 31 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.26%) SAP
3 24 (7.34%) VMware
4 23 (7.03%) Splunk
5 18 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.67%) Oracle
7 11 (3.36%) Remedy
8 10 (3.06%) Cisco
9 8 (2.45%) Dell
9 8 (2.45%) NetApp
9 8 (2.45%) Veeam
10 7 (2.14%) BMC
10 7 (2.14%) Tenable
11 6 (1.83%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.83%) Sybase
11 6 (1.83%) Xilinx
12 5 (1.53%) Altera
12 5 (1.53%) Intel
12 5 (1.53%) Microsemi
13 4 (1.22%) Red Hat