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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 446 265 210
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 18.56% 19.78% 14.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.37% 59.55% 48.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 108 107
10th Percentile £351 £198 £220
25th Percentile £450 £450 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.20%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £575
90th Percentile £775 £629 £600
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 119 58
10th Percentile £22.98 £17.47 £21.37
25th Percentile £61.00 £18.87 £38.40
Median hourly rate £68.75 £25.15 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +173.36% -59.76% +40.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.15 £67.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 662 445 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.55% 33.21% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 179 164
10th Percentile £203 £200 £202
25th Percentile £413 £381 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £750 £665 £600
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 151 115
10th Percentile £20.36 £15.91 £20.55
25th Percentile £36.43 £18.87 £36.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +95.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.75 £71.45
England median hourly rate £49.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +96.82% -52.10% -2.36%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +1 265 £650 +18.18% 160
Bedfordshire +3 96 £500 +11.11% 101
Essex -3 37 £500 +226.80% 74
Suffolk -8 24 £419 +45.84% 11
Cambridgeshire -3 23 £565 +2.73% 81
Norfolk -21 1 - - 9
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 13 (2.91%) CMS
2 8 (1.79%) Confluence
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.12%) IIS
4 5 (1.12%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.22%) Mendix
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.02%) Windchill
4 5 (1.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.90%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 26 (5.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.79%) SAP PP
2 8 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.45%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.22%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (6.95%) Azure
2 20 (4.48%) AWS
3 17 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.24%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.02%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.02%) Google Workspace
6 8 (1.79%) Cohesity
6 8 (1.79%) OCI
7 6 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (0.90%) GCP
9 4 (0.90%) GitHub
9 4 (0.90%) SaaS
10 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.67%) Google Docs
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.05%) Firewall
2 26 (5.83%) DNS
3 22 (4.93%) SAN
4 16 (3.59%) Ethernet
5 15 (3.36%) HTTP
5 15 (3.36%) LAN
6 14 (3.14%) Network Security
7 13 (2.91%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.69%) H.323
8 12 (2.69%) VLAN
9 10 (2.24%) Wireless
10 9 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (2.02%) SSL
11 8 (1.79%) BGP
11 8 (1.79%) OSPF
11 8 (1.79%) WLAN
12 7 (1.57%) DHCP
12 7 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (1.57%) VRRP
12 7 (1.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.02%) Power BI
2 8 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.35%) Looker
5 5 (1.12%) MaxDB
5 5 (1.12%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.12%) Sybase ASE
6 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.67%) Metadata
7 2 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.45%) GIS
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (7.85%) JIRA
2 15 (3.36%) Git
3 12 (2.69%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (2.47%) GitLab
5 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.45%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.45%) Gradle
8 2 (0.45%) PVCS
8 2 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.45%) Selenium
8 2 (0.45%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.22%) Newman
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 57 (12.78%) Aerospace
3 46 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.28%) Manufacturing
5 27 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.26%) Finance
7 18 (4.04%) Electronics
7 18 (4.04%) Law
8 15 (3.36%) Military
9 9 (2.02%) Legal
9 9 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.12%) Aviation
11 5 (1.12%) Back Office
11 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Retail
15 1 (0.22%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 38 (8.52%) Lead
2 33 (7.40%) Consultant
3 32 (7.17%) Software Engineer
4 27 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (6.05%) Senior
5 26 (5.83%) Network Engineer
6 25 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
7 19 (4.26%) Architect
8 18 (4.04%) Administrator
8 18 (4.04%) Hardware Engineer
8 18 (4.04%) Windows Engineer
9 16 (3.59%) Monitoring Engineer
10 15 (3.36%) Principal Software Engineer
10 15 (3.36%) Technical Administrator
11 14 (3.14%) Developer
11 14 (3.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 13 (2.91%) Analyst
12 13 (2.91%) SOC Engineer
13 11 (2.47%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.24%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.14%) LDAP
2 12 (2.69%) Terraform
2 12 (2.69%) XMPP
3 11 (2.47%) REST
4 7 (1.57%) JSON
4 7 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.35%) Kafka
5 6 (1.35%) XML
6 5 (1.12%) .NET
6 5 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (1.12%) Regular Expression
6 5 (1.12%) SAP Basis
6 5 (1.12%) SAPUI5
7 4 (0.90%) eBPF
7 4 (0.90%) Web Services
8 3 (0.67%) JSP
8 3 (0.67%) Node.js
8 3 (0.67%) SOAP
8 3 (0.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.73%) CMDB
2 24 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.04%) FPGA
3 18 (4.04%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.81%) Embedded Systems
4 17 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.36%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.69%) Replication
7 12 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.57%) Analogue Electronics
9 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.35%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.12%) PCIe
11 5 (1.12%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.39%) Windows
2 50 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 41 (9.19%) Linux
4 22 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.14%) CentOS
6 12 (2.69%) Rocky
7 4 (0.90%) Android
7 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.67%) Unix
8 3 (0.67%) VMS
9 2 (0.45%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (9.42%) ITSM
4 38 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (8.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 37 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (8.07%) Software Engineering
7 35 (7.85%) Agile
7 35 (7.85%) ITIL
8 33 (7.40%) Validation
9 31 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (6.73%) Service Management
11 29 (6.50%) CI/CD
11 29 (6.50%) Incident Management
11 29 (6.50%) Migration
12 28 (6.28%) Configuration Management
12 28 (6.28%) Incident Response
13 27 (6.05%) Change Management
14 26 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (5.61%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.52%) Python
2 26 (5.83%) PowerShell
2 26 (5.83%) SQL
3 14 (3.14%) C++
4 11 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.24%) C#
5 10 (2.24%) Java
6 9 (2.02%) Ada
6 9 (2.02%) Bash
6 9 (2.02%) C
7 7 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.57%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.12%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.22%) Cypher
12 1 (0.22%) ProC
12 1 (0.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 291 (65.25%) SC Cleared
2 110 (24.66%) DV Cleared
3 37 (8.30%) Degree
4 29 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.59%) CCNP
7 8 (1.79%) CCNA
8 7 (1.57%) HND
9 6 (1.35%) HNC
10 4 (0.90%) CCNP Voice
10 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.67%) ISACA
11 3 (0.67%) MCSE
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.22%) City & Guilds
13 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.62%) SLA
2 17 (3.81%) QA
3 11 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.35%) Def Stans
5 6 (1.35%) GDPR
5 6 (1.35%) NIST
6 5 (1.12%) GRC
6 5 (1.12%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.90%) DO-254
7 4 (0.90%) NCSC
8 3 (0.67%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) GxP
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.22%) MISRA
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 42 (9.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.81%) Firmware
4 11 (2.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (2.47%) vSphere
5 8 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.12%) Docker
6 5 (1.12%) NFS
7 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (6.50%) Ansible
2 12 (2.69%) Cisco CUCM
2 12 (2.69%) NetBackup
3 10 (2.24%) SCCM
4 7 (1.57%) Grafana
4 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.35%) Nagios
5 6 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.12%) Functional Safety
6 5 (1.12%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.12%) Nessus
6 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.12%) vRealize
6 5 (1.12%) WSUS
7 4 (0.90%) VxRail
8 3 (0.67%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.67%) SCOM
9 2 (0.45%) Podman
9 2 (0.45%) QRadar
9 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.21%) VMware
3 39 (8.74%) SAP
4 33 (7.40%) Cisco
5 27 (6.05%) Remedy
6 23 (5.16%) ServiceNow
7 21 (4.71%) NetApp
8 20 (4.48%) Splunk
9 18 (4.04%) Veeam
10 16 (3.59%) Oracle
11 13 (2.91%) EMC
12 11 (2.47%) Google
12 11 (2.47%) Xilinx
13 8 (1.79%) Intel
14 7 (1.57%) Altera
14 7 (1.57%) BMC
14 7 (1.57%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.35%) Microsemi
15 6 (1.35%) Snow
15 6 (1.35%) SolarWinds