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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,103 8,517 7,716
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.16% 17.05% 10.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.42% 61.58% 50.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 5,848 5,139
10th Percentile £351 £381 £375
25th Percentile £458 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £547
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% +9.40%
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 490 461 325
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £28.70 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.40 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.50% +14.29% +28.05%

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 11,565 13,831 15,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.20% 27.69% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,138 9,255 10,137
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 738 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +38.16% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.48 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.71
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +3 2,144 £550 -4.35% 367
South East 0 1,854 £588 +8.80% 554
South West 0 1,559 £550 -8.33% 493
North of England -2 619 £525 -4.55% 266
Midlands +4 514 £500 -7.41% 193
North West -1 444 £525 -0.94% 206
West Midlands +4 383 £469 -13.15% 121
East of England -1 252 £525 -4.55% 140
East Midlands -1 131 £550 -3.08% 71
Yorkshire 0 130 £525 -10.64% 37
North East -3 47 £525 -7.08% 23
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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
1 231 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 192 (2.70%) Confluence
3 116 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 60 (0.84%) Apache
5 37 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
6 32 (0.45%) nginx
7 27 (0.38%) CMS
8 26 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
9 24 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
10 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 15 (0.21%) Skype for Business
12 13 (0.18%) SAS
13 12 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
15 10 (0.14%) CICS
15 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
15 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.13%) IIS
17 6 (0.084%) SharePoint 2013
17 6 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 235 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 131 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 68 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Simulink
9 7 (0.099%) 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
12 2 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.028%) Trello
12 2 (0.028%) Windchill
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) Blender
13 1 (0.014%) CATIA
13 1 (0.014%) Weka
Business Applications
1 46 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 45 (0.63%) Primavera
3 36 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 28 (0.39%) SAP QM
6 27 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 25 (0.35%) 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%) Maximo
12 5 (0.070%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.070%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.070%) Siebel CRM
13 4 (0.056%) CA PPM
13 4 (0.056%) Oracle Financials
13 4 (0.056%) SAP PS
13 4 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 886 (12.47%) AWS
2 760 (10.70%) Azure
3 220 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (2.14%) Power Platform
5 122 (1.72%) Serverless
6 111 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 102 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
9 91 (1.28%) PaaS
10 84 (1.18%) GCP
11 79 (1.11%) SaaS
12 78 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (1.06%) GitHub
14 69 (0.97%) IaaS
15 65 (0.92%) Entra ID
16 57 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
16 57 (0.80%) OCI
16 57 (0.80%) OpenShift
17 55 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
18 54 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 498 (7.01%) Firewall
2 334 (4.70%) WAN
3 225 (3.17%) LAN
4 196 (2.76%) BGP
5 194 (2.73%) VPN
6 181 (2.55%) DNS
7 166 (2.34%) Network Security
8 126 (1.77%) MPLS
9 119 (1.68%) IPsec
10 103 (1.45%) DHCP
11 95 (1.34%) SAN
11 95 (1.34%) SSL
12 85 (1.20%) Wireless
13 80 (1.13%) TCP/IP
13 80 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
14 74 (1.04%) OSPF
15 60 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
16 59 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
17 58 (0.82%) Junos
18 55 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 94 (1.32%) Power BI
4 87 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 84 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 84 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 71 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 62 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (0.86%) Metadata
9 59 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 58 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 55 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 53 (0.75%) MySQL
13 49 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 43 (0.61%) Big Data
15 40 (0.56%) Data Lake
16 39 (0.55%) Flink
17 34 (0.48%) Data Vault
18 31 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
19 22 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 327 (4.60%) JIRA
2 269 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 242 (3.41%) Git
4 153 (2.15%) GitLab
5 91 (1.28%) Selenium
6 69 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 68 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 59 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
9 58 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 57 (0.80%) JUnit
11 49 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 47 (0.66%) PVCS
13 41 (0.58%) REST Assured
14 32 (0.45%) JMeter
15 30 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 25 (0.35%) TestRail
17 24 (0.34%) Robot Framework
18 22 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
19 21 (0.30%) Artifactory
20 20 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 1,508 (21.23%) Public Sector
2 1,287 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 517 (7.28%) Finance
4 513 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (3.72%) Telecoms
6 191 (2.69%) Aerospace
7 182 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 168 (2.37%) Electronics
9 162 (2.28%) Military
10 127 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 125 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 111 (1.56%) Marketing
13 85 (1.20%) Police
14 82 (1.15%) Legal
15 71 (1.00%) Law
16 61 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 53 (0.75%) Banking
18 29 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 28 (0.39%) Publishing
19 28 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,322 (18.61%) Architect
2 602 (8.48%) Developer
3 587 (8.26%) Analyst
4 482 (6.79%) Senior
5 397 (5.59%) Lead
6 388 (5.46%) Consultant
7 314 (4.42%) Network Engineer
8 276 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 270 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 237 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 236 (3.32%) Project Manager
12 225 (3.17%) Network Architect
13 172 (2.42%) Data Engineer
14 155 (2.18%) Security Architect
15 145 (2.04%) Support Engineer
16 138 (1.94%) Administrator
17 131 (1.84%) Software Engineer
18 128 (1.80%) Java Developer
19 120 (1.69%) Lead Architect
19 120 (1.69%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (2.14%) REST
2 147 (2.07%) React
3 142 (2.00%) Spring
4 124 (1.75%) .NET
5 122 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 111 (1.56%) Node.js
7 110 (1.55%) Kafka
8 100 (1.41%) Web Services
9 94 (1.32%) HTML
10 84 (1.18%) CSS
11 59 (0.83%) JSON
12 55 (0.77%) RESTful
13 50 (0.70%) JPA
14 49 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
14 49 (0.69%) XML
15 48 (0.68%) Hibernate
16 46 (0.65%) .NET Core
17 42 (0.59%) AngularJS
18 39 (0.55%) ARM Templates
19 34 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 346 (4.87%) PKI
2 205 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 192 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 126 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
5 123 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
6 108 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 103 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
8 92 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 86 (1.21%) Product Ownership
10 70 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 68 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 60 (0.84%) Driving Licence
13 56 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 54 (0.76%) Replication
15 51 (0.72%) Cloud Native
16 50 (0.70%) CMDB
16 50 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 42 (0.59%) Security Posture
18 41 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 920 (12.95%) Windows
2 683 (9.62%) Linux
3 319 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 186 (2.62%) Windows 10
5 121 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 104 (1.46%) Unix
7 103 (1.45%) Windows 7
8 101 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 101 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 99 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (0.94%) Android
11 54 (0.76%) Apple iOS
12 37 (0.52%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.42%) Mac OS X
14 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.31%) Debian
16 21 (0.30%) AIX
16 21 (0.30%) Windows NT
17 20 (0.28%) Solaris
18 19 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (16.47%) Agile
2 771 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
3 715 (10.07%) DevOps
4 600 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
5 589 (8.29%) ITIL
6 478 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 476 (6.70%) Project Management
8 459 (6.46%) CI/CD
9 420 (5.91%) Service Management
10 354 (4.98%) SIEM
11 326 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 322 (4.53%) Migration
13 308 (4.34%) Software Engineering
14 275 (3.87%) Decision-Making
15 271 (3.82%) Project Delivery
16 266 (3.74%) Scrum
17 261 (3.67%) Change Management
18 258 (3.63%) Customer Service
19 255 (3.59%) Mentoring
20 243 (3.42%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 578 (8.14%) Python
2 461 (6.49%) Java
3 389 (5.48%) SQL
4 339 (4.77%) PowerShell
5 237 (3.34%) JavaScript
6 182 (2.56%) C#
7 160 (2.25%) C
8 122 (1.72%) Bash
9 101 (1.42%) C++
10 91 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 78 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.70%) Go
13 37 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 36 (0.51%) PHP
15 35 (0.49%) MATLAB
15 35 (0.49%) VBScript
16 27 (0.38%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.35%) Bicep
18 24 (0.34%) Perl
19 20 (0.28%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4,453 (62.69%) SC Cleared
2 2,345 (33.01%) DV Cleared
3 474 (6.67%) Degree
4 221 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 159 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 114 (1.60%) CCNP
7 100 (1.41%) CCNA
8 92 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 85 (1.20%) CISSP
9 85 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (0.86%) CISM
11 52 (0.73%) ISTQB
12 49 (0.69%) PMP
13 44 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 38 (0.53%) Azure Certification
15 36 (0.51%) APMP
15 36 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 31 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
17 30 (0.42%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (2.59%) QA
2 171 (2.41%) SLA
3 152 (2.14%) NIST
4 115 (1.62%) PMO
5 102 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 88 (1.24%) NCSC
7 81 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 72 (1.01%) GDPR
9 64 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.80%) NIST 800
11 47 (0.66%) JSP 440
12 46 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
13 36 (0.51%) RMADS
14 30 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 23 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.21%) Def Stans
16 15 (0.21%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
18 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 464 (6.53%) Active Directory
2 295 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 286 (4.03%) Docker
4 106 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 89 (1.25%) vSphere
6 76 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 72 (1.01%) Firmware
7 72 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 64 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.070%) iptables
10 5 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.056%) UAG
11 4 (0.056%) XenApp
11 4 (0.056%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 413 (5.81%) Terraform
2 387 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 358 (5.04%) Ansible
4 177 (2.49%) SCCM
5 86 (1.21%) Grafana
6 82 (1.15%) WSUS
7 79 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 77 (1.08%) SCOM
9 67 (0.94%) Prometheus
10 55 (0.77%) Puppet
11 53 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 51 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 48 (0.68%) FortiGate
14 39 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
15 35 (0.49%) Progress Chef
15 35 (0.49%) VxRail
16 32 (0.45%) vRealize
17 30 (0.42%) Packer
18 28 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
18 28 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 988 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 489 (6.88%) VMware
3 412 (5.80%) Cisco
4 320 (4.51%) Juniper
5 299 (4.21%) SAP
6 263 (3.70%) Oracle
7 150 (2.11%) Dell
8 127 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 124 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 114 (1.60%) HP
11 113 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 97 (1.37%) IBM
13 94 (1.32%) Atlassian
14 90 (1.27%) Fortinet
15 69 (0.97%) Splunk
16 67 (0.94%) F5
17 58 (0.82%) Veeam
18 56 (0.79%) SolarWinds
19 55 (0.77%) Citrix
19 55 (0.77%) Sparx