HMG Security Policy Framework Contract Job Trends in England

HMG Security Policy Framework (SPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring HMG Security Policy Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 512 530
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +213
Contract jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework 10 11 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.035% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% 0.27% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 45
10th Percentile £471 £575 £506
25th Percentile £584 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £675 £673
90th Percentile £735 £690 £683
UK median daily rate £663 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% +4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

HMG Security Policy Framework falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,004 4,138 5,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 13.10% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,254 2,404 3,944
10th Percentile £301 £291 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £718 £750 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 190 242
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.94 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.13 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.50 £33.93 £35.82
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -5.26% +49.23%
75th Percentile £63.40 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +44.81%

HMG Security Policy Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HMG Security Policy Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

HMG Security Policy Framework job vacancy trend in England

HMG Security Policy Framework
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework in England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HMG Security Policy Framework in England

HMG Security Policy Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
London +18 7 £650 +9.06% 1
East of England - 1 £375 -
HMG Security Policy Framework
UK

HMG Security Policy Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (10.00%) Asana
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) Google Drive
6 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) DKIM
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) DMARC
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) MSTest
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Advisor
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) AI
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (20.00%) SABSA
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) SOQL
4 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) CISSP
3 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) CASP
4 2 (20.00%) CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) CISM
4 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
4 2 (20.00%) CSSLP
4 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) GIAC
4 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) NCSC
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (20.00%) NIST
4 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (10.00%) ISO 22301
4 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
4 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SELinux
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce