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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 353 259 202
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 15.68% 20.33% 13.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.15% 62.26% 48.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 96 101
10th Percentile £350 £196 £200
25th Percentile £431 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year - +3.68% -11.58%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £588
England median daily rate £549 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 116 64
10th Percentile £38.95 £16.74 £21.37
25th Percentile £61.00 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.50 £28.48 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year +147.54% -52.33% +96.06%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.13 £85.38 £67.85
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 568 416 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.23% 32.65% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 159 153
10th Percentile £183 £198 £201
25th Percentile £400 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +5.60% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £650 £598
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 140 136
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £36.13 £18.87 £25.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% -29.86% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.08 £71.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -2.86%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +1 187 £600 +9.09% 123
Bedfordshire +2 75 £425 +13.33% 79
Cambridgeshire -2 33 £574 +4.36% 52
Suffolk +1 30 £450 +71.43% 10
Essex -18 20 £475 +210.46% 65
Norfolk -19 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 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.42%) NetWeaver
3 4 (1.13%) Confluence
3 4 (1.13%) IIS
4 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Mendix
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.70%) Windchill
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.42%) Simulink
4 3 (0.85%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (3.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.85%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.28%) Primavera
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.92%) Azure
2 27 (7.65%) AWS
3 9 (2.55%) Entra ID
3 9 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.27%) SaaS
5 7 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (1.70%) Cohesity
6 6 (1.70%) OCI
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.42%) GitHub
8 4 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.13%) GCP
8 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.85%) IaaS
9 3 (0.85%) iPaaS
9 3 (0.85%) PaaS
9 3 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.23%) DNS
1 22 (6.23%) Firewall
2 14 (3.97%) SAN
3 10 (2.83%) Network Security
4 9 (2.55%) VLAN
5 8 (2.27%) VPN
5 8 (2.27%) Wireless
6 7 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.98%) DHCP
6 7 (1.98%) Skype
6 7 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.70%) Ethernet
7 6 (1.70%) HTTP
8 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.42%) VSAN
9 4 (1.13%) IPsec
9 4 (1.13%) SNMP
9 4 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.85%) Internet
10 3 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.98%) Metadata
1 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
1 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.42%) MaxDB
2 5 (1.42%) SAP HANA
2 5 (1.42%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (1.13%) Power BI
4 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.57%) MySQL
5 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.28%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (5.38%) Git
2 17 (4.82%) JIRA
3 11 (3.12%) GitLab
4 9 (2.55%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.85%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.57%) Gradle
7 2 (0.57%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.57%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.28%) CppUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.28%) Hudson
8 1 (0.28%) Newman
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Serenity BDD
General
1 70 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (9.35%) Aerospace
3 30 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.23%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (4.53%) Law
6 15 (4.25%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.68%) Finance
8 12 (3.40%) Electronics
9 10 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.55%) Military
11 7 (1.98%) Legal
12 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Back Office
14 4 (1.13%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.85%) Aviation
15 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Retail
17 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (9.35%) Software Engineer
2 29 (8.22%) Senior
3 28 (7.93%) Consultant
4 24 (6.80%) Principal Engineer
5 23 (6.52%) Architect
6 21 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (5.95%) Lead
7 16 (4.53%) Monitoring Engineer
7 16 (4.53%) SOC Engineer
8 15 (4.25%) Principal Software Engineer
9 13 (3.68%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.12%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.12%) Hardware Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) Administrator
11 10 (2.83%) Senior Network Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.55%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.55%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (2.27%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.68%) Terraform
2 12 (3.40%) LDAP
3 11 (3.12%) REST
4 8 (2.27%) Kafka
5 7 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.98%) JSON
5 7 (1.98%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (1.70%) React
7 5 (1.42%) .NET
7 5 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.42%) SAP Basis
7 5 (1.42%) SAPUI5
8 4 (1.13%) eBPF
8 4 (1.13%) Middleware
8 4 (1.13%) Regular Expression
8 4 (1.13%) SOAP
8 4 (1.13%) XML
9 2 (0.57%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.57%) Playwright
9 2 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.53%) Embedded Systems
3 15 (4.25%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.68%) FPGA
5 12 (3.40%) CMDB
5 12 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.40%) Replication
6 11 (3.12%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (2.27%) PKI
8 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.42%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.42%) Smartcard
10 5 (1.42%) YubiKey
11 4 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.13%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 68 (19.26%) Windows
2 36 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 35 (9.92%) Linux
4 17 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (4.53%) CentOS
6 12 (3.40%) Rocky
7 5 (1.42%) Android
8 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.85%) Unix
10 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.57%) VMS
10 2 (0.57%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (11.05%) Software Engineering
3 33 (9.35%) Agile
4 30 (8.50%) CI/CD
4 30 (8.50%) Migration
4 30 (8.50%) Validation
5 29 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (7.65%) Root Cause Analysis
8 25 (7.08%) Test Automation
9 24 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (6.23%) DevOps
11 22 (6.23%) ITSM
12 20 (5.67%) ITIL
12 20 (5.67%) Roadmaps
13 19 (5.38%) Change Management
13 19 (5.38%) Data Modelling
14 18 (5.10%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.20%) Python
2 28 (7.93%) PowerShell
3 22 (6.23%) SQL
4 10 (2.83%) Bash
4 10 (2.83%) C
4 10 (2.83%) C++
5 9 (2.55%) Ada
5 9 (2.55%) Java
5 9 (2.55%) MATLAB
6 8 (2.27%) C#
7 6 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.70%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.70%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.13%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.57%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.28%) ProC
10 1 (0.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 213 (60.34%) SC Cleared
2 98 (27.76%) DV Cleared
3 25 (7.08%) Degree
4 13 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.42%) CCNP
6 5 (1.42%) HND
6 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.13%) HNC
7 4 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.85%) MCSE
8 3 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.57%) CCNA
9 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.57%) ISACA
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.80%) SLA
2 16 (4.53%) QA
3 13 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.55%) GDPR
5 5 (1.42%) Def Stans
5 5 (1.42%) NCSC
5 5 (1.42%) NIST
6 4 (1.13%) DO-254
7 3 (0.85%) DO-178B
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.85%) PMO
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.57%) GxP
8 2 (0.57%) ISA99
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 42 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.40%) Firmware
4 9 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.42%) Docker
8 4 (1.13%) NFS
8 4 (1.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (9.35%) Ansible
2 12 (3.40%) NetBackup
3 9 (2.55%) SCCM
4 8 (2.27%) Grafana
4 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.98%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.70%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.70%) vRealize
7 5 (1.42%) Check_MK
7 5 (1.42%) Nessus
7 5 (1.42%) WSUS
8 4 (1.13%) Podman
8 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.13%) VxRail
9 3 (0.85%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.85%) SCOM
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 35 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.50%) VMware
3 23 (6.52%) Splunk
4 21 (5.95%) SAP
5 17 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.25%) Cisco
7 14 (3.97%) NetApp
7 14 (3.97%) Oracle
8 13 (3.68%) Veeam
9 12 (3.40%) Remedy
10 8 (2.27%) Xilinx
11 7 (1.98%) BMC
11 7 (1.98%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.98%) EMC
11 7 (1.98%) Intel
12 5 (1.42%) Cribl.io
12 5 (1.42%) Sybase
12 5 (1.42%) Tenable
13 4 (1.13%) Dell
13 4 (1.13%) Red Hat