Security Cleared Contracts in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 4,692 7,000 7,881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.29% 18.85% 16.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.97% 61.83% 61.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,062 4,568 5,284
10th Percentile £338 £356 £381
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £737
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 540 418
10th Percentile £18.48 £14.48 £19.06
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% -4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.75 £83.31
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £56.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.21% -6.43% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,956 11,322 12,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.02% 30.49% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,004 6,987 8,579
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 1,002 635
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.67
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.45 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.68
% change year-on-year -31.61% -26.47% +25.11%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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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 Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 0 1,698 £525 -0.94% 2,464
South East -1 837 £550 -8.33% 1,673
South West 0 793 £563 +2.27% 1,367
North of England +2 571 £500 -2.15% 1,156
North West +1 381 £500 -2.27% 730
Midlands -2 369 £513 -2.35% 795
West Midlands -1 268 £525 +2.39% 519
East of England -2 208 £500 -9.09% 783
Yorkshire +2 132 £492 -6.29% 323
East Midlands -4 96 £475 -12.84% 273
North East 0 66 £480 +1.05% 108
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 167 (3.56%) Confluence
2 105 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.66%) Apache
4 72 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 29 (0.62%) nginx
8 23 (0.49%) IIS
9 22 (0.47%) Skype for Business
10 21 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 15 (0.32%) CMS
12 12 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.21%) Camunda
13 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
13 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (0.21%) SAS
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) NetWeaver
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) MTS
Applications
1 106 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.34%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.32%) Simulink
8 14 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
9 11 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.15%) Windchill
11 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
11 5 (0.11%) Sketch
12 4 (0.085%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.085%) Revit
13 3 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.064%) Fusion 360
13 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.064%) Trello
14 2 (0.043%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 36 (0.77%) Teamcenter
2 33 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 32 (0.68%) Primavera
4 24 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.30%) SAP PS
6 10 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.17%) Maximo
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
9 7 (0.15%) SAP CRM
10 6 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.13%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PP
11 5 (0.11%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 875 (18.65%) AWS
2 653 (13.92%) Azure
3 162 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 154 (3.28%) GCP
5 148 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (3.11%) GitHub
7 145 (3.09%) Serverless
8 138 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 117 (2.49%) SaaS
10 100 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 83 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
17 60 (1.28%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.24%) PaaS
19 54 (1.15%) OCI
20 50 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 330 (7.03%) Firewall
2 213 (4.54%) DNS
3 148 (3.15%) VPN
4 132 (2.81%) Network Security
5 110 (2.34%) WAN
6 82 (1.75%) LAN
7 81 (1.73%) BGP
8 75 (1.60%) DHCP
9 58 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 57 (1.21%) SAN
11 54 (1.15%) OSPF
12 53 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
13 51 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
14 49 (1.04%) IPsec
14 49 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
15 45 (0.96%) SSL
16 43 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
17 42 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
17 42 (0.90%) SMTP
18 40 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (2.62%) Power BI
3 100 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 88 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 79 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 72 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 61 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 56 (1.19%) MySQL
10 51 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 49 (1.04%) Big Data
12 46 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
12 46 (0.98%) Tableau
13 45 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 32 (0.68%) Metadata
16 27 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
16 27 (0.58%) Redis
17 25 (0.53%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 275 (5.86%) JIRA
2 267 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 205 (4.37%) Git
4 180 (3.84%) GitLab
5 79 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 61 (1.30%) JUnit
7 57 (1.21%) Selenium
8 44 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 44 (0.94%) Maven
9 43 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.92%) Mockito
10 38 (0.81%) Liquibase
11 37 (0.79%) Gradle
12 36 (0.77%) Cucumber
13 29 (0.62%) MSI
14 27 (0.58%) REST Assured
15 24 (0.51%) JMeter
16 22 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (0.45%) CircleCI
18 20 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 1,211 (25.81%) Public Sector
2 1,202 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 424 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.67%) Finance
5 170 (3.62%) Military
6 150 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 110 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 98 (2.09%) Electronics
9 88 (1.88%) Marketing
10 84 (1.79%) Legal
11 69 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 67 (1.43%) Law
13 57 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 54 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 52 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
16 49 (1.04%) Police
17 43 (0.92%) Banking
18 42 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 690 (14.71%) Architect
2 435 (9.27%) Developer
3 375 (7.99%) Senior
4 311 (6.63%) Analyst
5 303 (6.46%) Consultant
6 289 (6.16%) Lead
7 186 (3.96%) Network Engineer
8 175 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 170 (3.62%) Data Engineer
10 145 (3.09%) Support Engineer
11 134 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 119 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
13 117 (2.49%) Security Architect
14 108 (2.30%) Project Manager
15 97 (2.07%) Java Developer
16 88 (1.88%) Business Analyst
17 87 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
18 84 (1.79%) Network Architect
19 80 (1.71%) Technical Architect
20 79 (1.68%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (3.39%) Kafka
2 143 (3.05%) React
3 123 (2.62%) Spring
4 121 (2.58%) REST
5 112 (2.39%) Spring Boot
6 102 (2.17%) Node.js
7 87 (1.85%) HTML
8 84 (1.79%) Web Services
9 83 (1.77%) SOAP
10 66 (1.41%) CSS
11 65 (1.39%) .NET
12 63 (1.34%) XML
13 61 (1.30%) AngularJS
14 56 (1.19%) RESTful
15 53 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
16 46 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
17 42 (0.90%) Swagger
18 41 (0.87%) Middleware
19 39 (0.83%) OpenAPI
20 36 (0.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 187 (3.99%) Data Centre
2 167 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 140 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 121 (2.58%) PKI
5 75 (1.60%) Driving Licence
6 74 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 56 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.04%) CMDB
9 48 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 48 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (0.94%) Cloud Native
11 39 (0.83%) Security Posture
12 37 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
13 35 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (0.75%) Replication
14 34 (0.72%) Algorithms
14 34 (0.72%) CSOC
15 33 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 32 (0.68%) Private Cloud
17 31 (0.66%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 569 (12.13%) Windows
2 356 (7.59%) Linux
3 218 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 127 (2.71%) Windows 10
5 76 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 61 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 45 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (0.68%) Unix
9 30 (0.64%) Android
9 30 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 29 (0.62%) Windows 7
11 24 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (0.49%) VMS
13 21 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
14 15 (0.32%) CentOS
15 14 (0.30%) Apple iOS
16 12 (0.26%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
18 8 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
19 7 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (19.74%) Agile
2 686 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
3 566 (12.06%) DevOps
4 444 (9.46%) CI/CD
5 391 (8.33%) Migration
6 345 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 323 (6.88%) ITIL
8 273 (5.82%) Containerisation
9 269 (5.73%) Microservices
10 265 (5.65%) Service Management
11 263 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
12 246 (5.24%) Test Automation
13 242 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 240 (5.12%) Software Engineering
15 228 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
16 226 (4.82%) Analytics
17 224 (4.77%) Project Management
18 204 (4.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 187 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 186 (3.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 575 (12.25%) Python
2 445 (9.48%) SQL
3 390 (8.31%) Java
4 350 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 243 (5.18%) JavaScript
6 180 (3.84%) Bash
7 113 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 109 (2.32%) C#
9 72 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 55 (1.17%) C++
11 46 (0.98%) Perl
12 32 (0.68%) Go
13 27 (0.58%) Groovy
14 25 (0.53%) C
15 24 (0.51%) ABAP
15 24 (0.51%) VB
16 21 (0.45%) R
17 20 (0.43%) Scala
17 20 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3,599 (76.71%) SC Cleared
2 888 (18.93%) DV Cleared
3 252 (5.37%) Degree
4 174 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 146 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
6 96 (2.05%) CCNP
7 87 (1.85%) CISSP
8 80 (1.71%) AWS Certification
9 67 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 61 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.09%) CISM
12 49 (1.04%) CCNA
13 45 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 45 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 43 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 28 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 23 (0.49%) ISTQB
17 21 (0.45%) Master's Degree
17 21 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.77%) QA
2 120 (2.56%) SLA
3 104 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (1.94%) NIST
5 84 (1.79%) NCSC
6 79 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 60 (1.28%) GDPR
8 46 (0.98%) PMO
9 36 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 32 (0.68%) JSP 440
11 23 (0.49%) RMADS
12 21 (0.45%) Def Stans
13 20 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 19 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 18 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 17 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.32%) GRC
18 14 (0.30%) WCAG
19 11 (0.23%) PCI DSS
20 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 341 (7.27%) Docker
2 325 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 228 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
5 61 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 54 (1.15%) vSphere
7 41 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 33 (0.70%) Firmware
8 33 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 20 (0.43%) BitLocker
12 19 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
13 18 (0.38%) NFS
14 14 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
15 10 (0.21%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.19%) Postfix
17 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
18 6 (0.13%) Brightmail
18 6 (0.13%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 384 (8.18%) Terraform
2 382 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 307 (6.54%) Ansible
4 94 (2.00%) SCCM
5 91 (1.94%) Grafana
6 83 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 68 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 62 (1.32%) Puppet
9 57 (1.21%) vCenter Server
10 48 (1.02%) WSUS
11 44 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 37 (0.79%) Progress Chef
13 28 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
14 25 (0.53%) FortiGate
15 22 (0.47%) Packer
16 20 (0.43%) Data Guard
16 20 (0.43%) Kibana
17 18 (0.38%) SCOM
18 17 (0.36%) Nessus
18 17 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 602 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 351 (7.48%) Cisco
3 349 (7.44%) VMware
4 251 (5.35%) Oracle
5 239 (5.09%) SAP
6 176 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 121 (2.58%) Google
8 118 (2.51%) Splunk
9 114 (2.43%) Juniper
10 103 (2.20%) Dell
11 95 (2.02%) HP
12 93 (1.98%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.64%) Red Hat
14 72 (1.53%) Atlassian
15 70 (1.49%) SolarWinds
16 66 (1.41%) IBM
17 59 (1.26%) Databricks
17 59 (1.26%) F5
18 57 (1.21%) Citrix
19 43 (0.92%) NetApp