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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,073 8,564 7,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.18% 17.12% 10.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.46% 61.71% 50.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,647 5,884 5,119
10th Percentile £350 £381 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £733 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 466 327
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £18.94
25th Percentile £21.46 £28.75 £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 £71.08 £63.50
90th Percentile £83.94 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £60.00 £52.25
% change year-on-year -4.50% +14.83% +24.93%

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 11,509 13,878 15,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.75% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 9,286 10,105
10th Percentile £310 £331 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
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% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 746 688
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.88
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.59
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 2,133 £550 -4.35% 352
South East 0 1,841 £590 +9.26% 517
South West 0 1,561 £550 -8.33% 463
North of England -3 617 £525 -4.55% 254
Midlands +4 511 £500 -7.41% 168
North West -1 442 £525 -0.94% 197
West Midlands +4 380 £457 -15.46% 122
East of England -1 249 £513 -6.82% 136
East Midlands -1 131 £550 -3.08% 45
Yorkshire 0 130 £525 -11.58% 35
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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 192 (2.71%) Confluence
3 115 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 60 (0.85%) Apache
5 37 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
6 32 (0.45%) nginx
7 26 (0.37%) CMS
7 26 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
8 24 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 13 (0.18%) SAS
12 12 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
14 10 (0.14%) CICS
14 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 10 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.13%) IIS
16 6 (0.085%) SharePoint 2013
16 6 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 230 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 130 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Simulink
9 7 (0.099%) Revit
10 5 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.071%) 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 (0.64%) Primavera
3 36 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 28 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 27 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 25 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 11 (0.16%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.085%) SAP PSCD
12 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.071%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.071%) Siebel CRM
13 4 (0.057%) CA PPM
13 4 (0.057%) Maximo
13 4 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
13 4 (0.057%) SAP PS
13 4 (0.057%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 883 (12.48%) AWS
2 756 (10.69%) Azure
3 219 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (2.15%) Power Platform
5 122 (1.72%) Serverless
6 111 (1.57%) Amazon S3
7 102 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 96 (1.36%) PaaS
10 84 (1.19%) GCP
11 83 (1.17%) SaaS
12 78 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (1.06%) GitHub
14 73 (1.03%) IaaS
15 65 (0.92%) Entra ID
16 57 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
16 57 (0.81%) OCI
17 56 (0.79%) OpenShift
18 55 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
19 54 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 496 (7.01%) Firewall
2 334 (4.72%) WAN
3 225 (3.18%) LAN
4 196 (2.77%) BGP
5 194 (2.74%) VPN
6 181 (2.56%) DNS
7 166 (2.35%) Network Security
8 126 (1.78%) MPLS
9 119 (1.68%) IPsec
10 103 (1.46%) 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 (1.05%) OSPF
15 60 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
16 59 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
17 58 (0.82%) Junos
18 55 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 94 (1.33%) Power BI
4 85 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 84 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 83 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
7 71 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 62 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 61 (0.86%) Metadata
10 59 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (0.82%) Oracle Database
12 55 (0.78%) MongoDB
13 53 (0.75%) MySQL
14 49 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 43 (0.61%) Big Data
16 39 (0.55%) 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 (4.62%) JIRA
2 269 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 242 (3.42%) Git
4 153 (2.16%) GitLab
5 91 (1.29%) Selenium
6 69 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 68 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 59 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
9 58 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 57 (0.81%) 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 1,500 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 1,281 (18.11%) Social Skills
3 510 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 509 (7.20%) Finance
5 264 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 191 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 182 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 168 (2.38%) Electronics
9 162 (2.29%) Military
10 130 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 127 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 111 (1.57%) Marketing
13 85 (1.20%) Police
14 81 (1.15%) Legal
15 75 (1.06%) Law
16 61 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (0.69%) Banking
18 29 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 28 (0.40%) Publishing
19 28 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,316 (18.61%) Architect
2 602 (8.51%) Developer
3 583 (8.24%) Analyst
4 479 (6.77%) Senior
5 396 (5.60%) Lead
6 387 (5.47%) Consultant
7 313 (4.43%) Network Engineer
8 274 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 270 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 236 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 234 (3.31%) Project Manager
12 225 (3.18%) Network Architect
13 172 (2.43%) Data Engineer
14 155 (2.19%) Security Architect
15 145 (2.05%) Support Engineer
16 135 (1.91%) Administrator
17 131 (1.85%) Software Engineer
18 128 (1.81%) Java Developer
19 120 (1.70%) Lead Architect
19 120 (1.70%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (2.15%) REST
2 147 (2.08%) React
3 142 (2.01%) Spring
4 124 (1.75%) .NET
5 122 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 111 (1.57%) Node.js
7 109 (1.54%) Kafka
8 105 (1.48%) Web Services
9 93 (1.31%) HTML
10 84 (1.19%) CSS
11 59 (0.83%) JSON
12 55 (0.78%) RESTful
13 50 (0.71%) 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
1 344 (4.86%) PKI
2 205 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 191 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 126 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
5 123 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
6 105 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 102 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 91 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (1.22%) Private Cloud
10 84 (1.19%) Product Ownership
11 70 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 70 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 59 (0.83%) Driving Licence
13 56 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 54 (0.76%) Replication
15 50 (0.71%) Cloud Native
15 50 (0.71%) CMDB
15 50 (0.71%) Virtual Team
16 42 (0.59%) Security Posture
17 41 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 913 (12.91%) Windows
2 679 (9.60%) Linux
3 317 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 186 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 121 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 103 (1.46%) Windows 7
7 101 (1.43%) Unix
7 101 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 99 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 99 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 66 (0.93%) Android
10 53 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 37 (0.52%) Ubuntu
12 30 (0.42%) Mac OS X
13 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (0.31%) Debian
15 21 (0.30%) AIX
15 21 (0.30%) Windows NT
16 20 (0.28%) Solaris
17 19 (0.27%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,167 (16.50%) Agile
2 767 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
3 714 (10.09%) DevOps
4 602 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
5 589 (8.33%) ITIL
6 483 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 473 (6.69%) Project Management
8 459 (6.49%) CI/CD
9 419 (5.92%) Service Management
10 354 (5.00%) SIEM
11 325 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 320 (4.52%) Migration
13 307 (4.34%) Software Engineering
14 275 (3.89%) Decision-Making
15 268 (3.79%) Project Delivery
16 266 (3.76%) Scrum
17 259 (3.66%) Change Management
18 258 (3.65%) Customer Service
19 255 (3.61%) Mentoring
20 241 (3.41%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 577 (8.16%) Python
2 460 (6.50%) Java
3 382 (5.40%) SQL
4 338 (4.78%) PowerShell
5 237 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 182 (2.57%) C#
7 160 (2.26%) C
8 122 (1.72%) Bash
9 101 (1.43%) C++
10 90 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 78 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.71%) Go
13 36 (0.51%) PHP
13 36 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 35 (0.49%) MATLAB
14 35 (0.49%) VBScript
15 27 (0.38%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.35%) Bicep
17 24 (0.34%) Perl
18 20 (0.28%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4,436 (62.72%) SC Cleared
2 2,330 (32.94%) DV Cleared
3 473 (6.69%) Degree
4 217 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 158 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
6 114 (1.61%) 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 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 48 (0.68%) PMP
13 44 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 37 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 36 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 33 (0.47%) SANS
17 32 (0.45%) APMP
18 31 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
19 30 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (2.57%) QA
2 171 (2.42%) SLA
3 152 (2.15%) NIST
4 115 (1.63%) PMO
5 101 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 93 (1.31%) NCSC
7 80 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 77 (1.09%) GDPR
9 64 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.81%) 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 (0.33%) HIPAA
16 20 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 15 (0.21%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
19 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 13 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 461 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 294 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 286 (4.04%) Docker
4 104 (1.47%) VMware NSX
5 89 (1.26%) vSphere
6 76 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 72 (1.02%) Firmware
8 71 (1.00%) Hyper-V
9 63 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
10 26 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.071%) iptables
11 5 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.057%) UAG
12 4 (0.057%) XenApp
12 4 (0.057%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.042%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 412 (5.82%) Terraform
2 386 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 357 (5.05%) Ansible
4 177 (2.50%) SCCM
5 85 (1.20%) Grafana
6 81 (1.15%) WSUS
7 79 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 77 (1.09%) SCOM
9 66 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 55 (0.78%) Puppet
11 52 (0.74%) 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 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
19 27 (0.38%) Endace
Vendors
1 979 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 485 (6.86%) VMware
3 412 (5.82%) Cisco
4 320 (4.52%) Juniper
5 299 (4.23%) SAP
6 260 (3.68%) Oracle
7 150 (2.12%) Dell
8 127 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 124 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 114 (1.61%) HP
11 113 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 95 (1.34%) IBM
13 94 (1.33%) Atlassian
14 90 (1.27%) Fortinet
15 68 (0.96%) Splunk
16 64 (0.90%) F5
17 58 (0.82%) Veeam
18 55 (0.78%) Citrix
18 55 (0.78%) SolarWinds
18 55 (0.78%) Sparx