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

6 months to
29 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 333 263 209
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 15.03% 20.44% 13.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.21% 62.17% 48.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 95 105
10th Percentile £366 £195 £200
25th Percentile £450 £356 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year - +3.68% -7.74%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £620 £595
England median daily rate £545 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +1.40% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 120 67
10th Percentile £26.66 £16.50 £21.37
25th Percentile £59.25 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.24% -46.82% +95.24%
75th Percentile £80.00 £66.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.96 £85.08 £67.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -58.08% -

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 544 423 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.56% 32.87% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 160 160
10th Percentile £183 £197 £205
25th Percentile £400 £350 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £650 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 146 142
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £63.00 £30.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -29.86% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.63 £84.50 £68.68
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -9.09%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +1 176 £600 +9.09% 103
Bedfordshire +2 70 £323 -14.00% 95
Cambridgeshire +2 33 £575 +4.55% 52
Suffolk -1 26 £550 +144.44% 12
Essex -12 20 £475 +210.46% 70
Norfolk -18 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 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.50%) NetWeaver
3 3 (0.90%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Mendix
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.80%) Windchill
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.50%) Simulink
4 3 (0.90%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.90%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.30%) Primavera
6 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.91%) Azure
2 26 (7.81%) AWS
3 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.40%) SaaS
4 7 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.10%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (1.80%) Cohesity
6 5 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.50%) OCI
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.20%) GitHub
7 4 (1.20%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.90%) GCP
8 3 (0.90%) IaaS
8 3 (0.90%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.90%) PaaS
8 3 (0.90%) Serverless
9 2 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.31%) DNS
1 21 (6.31%) Firewall
2 13 (3.90%) SAN
3 11 (3.30%) Network Security
4 8 (2.40%) VLAN
4 8 (2.40%) VPN
4 8 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.10%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (2.10%) DHCP
5 7 (2.10%) Skype
5 7 (2.10%) Wireless
6 6 (1.80%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.80%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.50%) VSAN
8 4 (1.20%) IPsec
8 4 (1.20%) SNMP
9 3 (0.90%) Internet
9 3 (0.90%) NAS
9 3 (0.90%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.10%) Metadata
1 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
1 7 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.50%) MaxDB
2 5 (1.50%) SAP HANA
2 5 (1.50%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (1.20%) Power BI
4 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.60%) MySQL
5 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.30%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (5.41%) Git
2 14 (4.20%) JIRA
3 9 (2.70%) GitLab
4 8 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.40%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.90%) Selenium
5 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.60%) Gradle
6 2 (0.60%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.60%) VectorCAST
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.30%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.30%) Hudson
7 1 (0.30%) Newman
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) PVCS
7 1 (0.30%) Serenity BDD
General
1 71 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (8.71%) Aerospace
3 28 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.50%) Finance
7 14 (4.20%) Law
8 12 (3.60%) Electronics
9 11 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.70%) Military
11 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.20%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.90%) Aviation
14 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Retail
16 1 (0.30%) Automotive
16 1 (0.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (10.21%) Software Engineer
2 31 (9.31%) Senior
3 26 (7.81%) Consultant
4 22 (6.61%) Architect
4 22 (6.61%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (5.11%) Lead
7 16 (4.80%) Monitoring Engineer
7 16 (4.80%) SOC Engineer
8 15 (4.50%) Network Engineer
8 15 (4.50%) Principal Software Engineer
9 12 (3.60%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.00%) Administrator
11 10 (3.00%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.70%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) VMware Consultant
14 7 (2.10%) Ada Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.90%) Terraform
2 11 (3.30%) REST
3 8 (2.40%) Kafka
3 8 (2.40%) LDAP
4 7 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.10%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (1.80%) React
6 5 (1.50%) .NET
6 5 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (1.50%) SAP Basis
6 5 (1.50%) SAPUI5
7 4 (1.20%) eBPF
7 4 (1.20%) Middleware
7 4 (1.20%) SOAP
7 4 (1.20%) XML
8 3 (0.90%) JSON
9 2 (0.60%) JSP
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.60%) WinForms
9 2 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.11%) Data Centre
1 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.80%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (3.90%) FPGA
3 13 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.30%) CMDB
4 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.30%) Replication
5 9 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.40%) PKI
6 8 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.50%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.50%) Smartcard
8 5 (1.50%) YubiKey
9 4 (1.20%) Analogue Electronics
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.22%) Windows
2 34 (10.21%) Linux
3 26 (7.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.50%) CentOS
6 11 (3.30%) Rocky
7 4 (1.20%) Android
7 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.90%) Unix
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.60%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (12.01%) Software Engineering
3 33 (9.91%) Agile
4 30 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (8.71%) CI/CD
5 29 (8.71%) Migration
5 29 (8.71%) Validation
6 25 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (7.21%) Test Automation
8 22 (6.61%) Change Management
8 22 (6.61%) DevOps
9 21 (6.31%) ITSM
10 19 (5.71%) ITIL
11 18 (5.41%) Security Monitoring
12 17 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (5.11%) Risk Management
13 16 (4.80%) Project Management
13 16 (4.80%) Roadmaps
14 15 (4.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.61%) Python
2 23 (6.91%) PowerShell
2 23 (6.91%) SQL
3 11 (3.30%) C
3 11 (3.30%) C++
4 10 (3.00%) Bash
5 9 (2.70%) Ada
5 9 (2.70%) MATLAB
6 8 (2.40%) C#
6 8 (2.40%) Java
7 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.80%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (1.80%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.20%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (0.90%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.30%) ProC
11 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 206 (61.86%) SC Cleared
2 90 (27.03%) DV Cleared
3 26 (7.81%) Degree
4 14 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.50%) CCNP
6 5 (1.50%) HND
6 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.20%) HNC
7 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.90%) MCSE
8 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CCNA
9 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.60%) ISACA
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.11%) SLA
2 15 (4.50%) QA
3 13 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.70%) GDPR
5 5 (1.50%) Def Stans
5 5 (1.50%) NCSC
6 4 (1.20%) DO-254
6 4 (1.20%) NIST
7 3 (0.90%) DO-178B
7 3 (0.90%) GRC
7 3 (0.90%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.90%) PMO
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) GxP
8 2 (0.60%) ISA99
8 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 28 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.60%) Firmware
4 7 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.20%) Docker
6 4 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (9.61%) Ansible
2 11 (3.30%) NetBackup
3 9 (2.70%) SCCM
4 8 (2.40%) Grafana
5 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.10%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.80%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.80%) vRealize
7 5 (1.50%) Check_MK
7 5 (1.50%) Nessus
7 5 (1.50%) WSUS
8 4 (1.20%) Podman
8 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.20%) VxRail
9 3 (0.90%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.90%) SCOM
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceCenter
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 35 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.51%) VMware
3 23 (6.91%) Splunk
4 21 (6.31%) SAP
5 17 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.80%) Cisco
7 14 (4.20%) Oracle
8 12 (3.60%) NetApp
9 11 (3.30%) Remedy
9 11 (3.30%) Veeam
10 8 (2.40%) Xilinx
11 7 (2.10%) BMC
11 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.10%) EMC
11 7 (2.10%) Intel
12 6 (1.80%) Dell
13 5 (1.50%) Cribl.io
13 5 (1.50%) Sybase
13 5 (1.50%) Tenable
14 4 (1.20%) Microsemi