Security Cleared Contracts in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,128 8,634 7,696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.28% 17.08% 10.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.56% 61.55% 50.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,647 5,944 5,101
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £732 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 474 325
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £28.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +16.63%
75th Percentile £71.75 £70.66 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £60.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.29% +15.62% +23.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +4 2,151 £550 -4.35% 313
South East 0 1,864 £582 +6.01% 523
South West 0 1,562 £550 -6.78% 439
North of England -1 624 £525 -4.55% 239
Midlands +4 514 £500 -7.41% 151
North West -1 456 £525 -2.33% 187
West Midlands +4 379 £450 -16.67% 116
East of England -1 246 £500 -9.09% 156
East Midlands +1 135 £550 -3.08% 35
Yorkshire +4 126 £525 -8.70% 31
North East -3 44 £525 -7.08% 21
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
1 234 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 194 (2.72%) Confluence
3 118 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 62 (0.87%) Apache
5 37 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
6 27 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
7 26 (0.36%) nginx
8 25 (0.35%) CMS
8 25 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
9 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 17 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 13 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 13 (0.18%) SAS
11 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
12 10 (0.14%) CICS
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.13%) IIS
14 6 (0.084%) SharePoint 2013
14 6 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 233 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 126 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 53 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 29 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 19 (0.27%) Simulink
8 17 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.098%) Revit
10 5 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.070%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.042%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.042%) Windchill
12 2 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.028%) Trello
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) Blender
13 1 (0.014%) SPSS
13 1 (0.014%) Weka
Business Applications
1 50 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 43 (0.60%) Primavera
3 36 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 31 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 29 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 27 (0.38%) SAP QM
7 23 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 11 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
8 11 (0.15%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.084%) SAP PSCD
12 5 (0.070%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.070%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.070%) Siebel CRM
13 4 (0.056%) CA PPM
13 4 (0.056%) Maximo
13 4 (0.056%) SAP PM
13 4 (0.056%) SAP PS
13 4 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 881 (12.36%) AWS
2 753 (10.56%) Azure
3 217 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
4 147 (2.06%) Power Platform
5 127 (1.78%) PaaS
6 121 (1.70%) Serverless
7 118 (1.66%) SaaS
8 112 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 109 (1.53%) IaaS
10 107 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (1.15%) GCP
13 80 (1.12%) GitHub
14 78 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (0.90%) Entra ID
16 57 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
17 56 (0.79%) OpenShift
18 54 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
18 54 (0.76%) OCI
18 54 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 507 (7.11%) Firewall
2 348 (4.88%) WAN
3 237 (3.32%) LAN
4 204 (2.86%) VPN
5 203 (2.85%) BGP
6 184 (2.58%) DNS
7 180 (2.53%) Network Security
8 129 (1.81%) MPLS
9 121 (1.70%) IPsec
10 103 (1.45%) DHCP
11 94 (1.32%) SSL
12 92 (1.29%) SAN
13 90 (1.26%) Wireless
14 81 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
15 80 (1.12%) OSPF
16 78 (1.09%) TCP/IP
17 59 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
17 59 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
17 59 (0.83%) Junos
18 57 (0.80%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 90 (1.26%) Power BI
4 89 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 87 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 84 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 70 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 61 (0.86%) Metadata
9 59 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 58 (0.81%) Oracle Database
11 55 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 55 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 49 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 47 (0.66%) MySQL
14 41 (0.58%) Big Data
15 40 (0.56%) Flink
16 36 (0.51%) Data Lake
17 34 (0.48%) Data Vault
18 31 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
19 22 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 330 (4.63%) JIRA
2 271 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 239 (3.35%) Git
4 155 (2.17%) GitLab
5 89 (1.25%) Selenium
6 69 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 66 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 60 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 58 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
10 56 (0.79%) JUnit
11 47 (0.66%) PVCS
11 47 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 41 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 31 (0.43%) JMeter
14 29 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 26 (0.36%) TestRail
16 24 (0.34%) Robot Framework
17 22 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
18 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
19 20 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 1,506 (21.13%) Public Sector
2 1,284 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 518 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 508 (7.13%) Finance
5 264 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 190 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 184 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 170 (2.38%) Electronics
9 166 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 162 (2.27%) Military
11 130 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 113 (1.59%) Marketing
13 109 (1.53%) Law
14 91 (1.28%) Police
15 82 (1.15%) Legal
16 75 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (0.65%) Banking
18 31 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 29 (0.41%) Publishing
20 28 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,321 (18.53%) Architect
2 595 (8.35%) Developer
3 590 (8.28%) Analyst
4 484 (6.79%) Senior
5 392 (5.50%) Lead
6 382 (5.36%) Consultant
7 314 (4.41%) Network Engineer
8 283 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 257 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 239 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 234 (3.28%) Project Manager
12 220 (3.09%) Network Architect
13 182 (2.55%) Data Engineer
14 155 (2.17%) Security Architect
15 150 (2.10%) Support Engineer
16 137 (1.92%) Administrator
17 132 (1.85%) Software Engineer
18 127 (1.78%) Java Developer
19 120 (1.68%) Lead Architect
20 118 (1.66%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (2.08%) REST
2 143 (2.01%) React
2 143 (2.01%) Spring
3 141 (1.98%) Web Services
4 123 (1.73%) .NET
5 117 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 112 (1.57%) Kafka
7 109 (1.53%) Node.js
8 89 (1.25%) HTML
9 80 (1.12%) CSS
10 61 (0.86%) JSON
11 58 (0.81%) RESTful
12 50 (0.70%) JPA
13 49 (0.69%) XML
14 47 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (0.66%) Hibernate
15 46 (0.65%) .NET Core
16 42 (0.59%) AngularJS
17 38 (0.53%) ARM Templates
18 34 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 346 (4.85%) PKI
2 205 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 197 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 122 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
5 117 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 103 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
7 100 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 90 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 85 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 82 (1.15%) Product Ownership
11 69 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 66 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 60 (0.84%) Driving Licence
13 60 (0.84%) Mobile App
14 57 (0.80%) Cloud Native
15 55 (0.77%) CMDB
15 55 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 55 (0.77%) Replication
16 48 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
16 48 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 913 (12.81%) Windows
2 673 (9.44%) Linux
3 317 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 185 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 121 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 108 (1.52%) Windows 7
7 100 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 99 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 97 (1.36%) Unix
9 97 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (0.94%) Android
11 54 (0.76%) Apple iOS
12 37 (0.52%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 26 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.31%) Debian
16 21 (0.29%) AIX
16 21 (0.29%) Windows NT
17 19 (0.27%) Windows Vista
18 18 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (16.20%) Agile
2 775 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
3 707 (9.92%) DevOps
4 626 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
5 593 (8.32%) ITIL
6 529 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 473 (6.64%) Project Management
8 459 (6.44%) CI/CD
9 422 (5.92%) Service Management
10 354 (4.97%) SIEM
11 327 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 320 (4.49%) Migration
13 302 (4.24%) Software Engineering
14 286 (4.01%) Decision-Making
15 264 (3.70%) Scrum
16 262 (3.68%) Customer Service
16 262 (3.68%) Project Delivery
17 260 (3.65%) Change Management
18 255 (3.58%) Mentoring
19 242 (3.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 589 (8.26%) Python
2 461 (6.47%) Java
3 385 (5.40%) SQL
4 333 (4.67%) PowerShell
5 234 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 178 (2.50%) C#
7 160 (2.24%) C
8 122 (1.71%) Bash
9 102 (1.43%) C++
10 89 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 79 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 44 (0.62%) Go
13 38 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 36 (0.51%) PHP
15 35 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 34 (0.48%) VBScript
17 27 (0.38%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.34%) Bicep
18 24 (0.34%) Perl
19 23 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 4,471 (62.72%) SC Cleared
2 2,312 (32.44%) DV Cleared
3 467 (6.55%) Degree
4 218 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 160 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 116 (1.63%) CCNP
7 100 (1.40%) CCNA
8 87 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (1.16%) CISSP
9 83 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 67 (0.94%) SANS
11 60 (0.84%) CISM
12 55 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 53 (0.74%) OSCP
14 50 (0.70%) GIAC
15 48 (0.67%) CREST Certified
15 48 (0.67%) PMP
16 46 (0.65%) GPEN
17 43 (0.60%) PMI Certification
18 37 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (2.60%) QA
2 171 (2.40%) SLA
3 148 (2.08%) NIST
4 130 (1.82%) NCSC
5 112 (1.57%) PMO
6 111 (1.56%) GDPR
7 100 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 79 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 65 (0.91%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.80%) NIST 800
11 54 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 46 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
12 46 (0.65%) JSP 440
13 37 (0.52%) RMADS
14 30 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 22 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.21%) Def Stans
17 14 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 458 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 296 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 283 (3.97%) Docker
4 102 (1.43%) VMware NSX
5 88 (1.23%) vSphere
6 78 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 75 (1.05%) Firmware
8 67 (0.94%) Hyper-V
9 60 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
10 26 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.070%) iptables
12 5 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.070%) UAG
13 3 (0.042%) XenApp
13 3 (0.042%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.028%) KVM
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.028%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 401 (5.63%) Terraform
2 378 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 354 (4.97%) Ansible
4 178 (2.50%) SCCM
5 81 (1.14%) vCenter Server
6 79 (1.11%) Grafana
7 78 (1.09%) SCOM
8 76 (1.07%) WSUS
9 62 (0.87%) Prometheus
10 57 (0.80%) Puppet
11 52 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 49 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 46 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 36 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 36 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 33 (0.46%) vRealize
16 32 (0.45%) VxRail
17 30 (0.42%) Kibana
18 26 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
18 26 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 971 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 483 (6.78%) VMware
3 418 (5.86%) Cisco
4 320 (4.49%) Juniper
5 306 (4.29%) SAP
6 262 (3.68%) Oracle
7 149 (2.09%) Dell
8 134 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 124 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 116 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 115 (1.61%) HP
12 98 (1.37%) Atlassian
13 97 (1.36%) Fortinet
14 96 (1.35%) IBM
15 70 (0.98%) Splunk
16 63 (0.88%) F5
17 60 (0.84%) Sparx
17 60 (0.84%) Veeam
18 58 (0.81%) Citrix
19 57 (0.80%) SolarWinds