Security Cleared Contracts in Essex

Security Clearance
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6 9 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.50% 4.05% 13.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.50% 20.00% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile £463 - £271
25th Percentile £519 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £656 - £642
90th Percentile £668 - £651
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile - £54.75 £56.88
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +71.43%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £65.63
90th Percentile - £80.00 £67.50
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £24.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +160.42% -58.26% +6.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16 45 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.00% 20.27% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 43
10th Percentile £463 £105 £120
25th Percentile £519 £400 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £656 £649 £566
90th Percentile £668 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 4
10th Percentile £21.03 £12.62 £56.63
25th Percentile £21.06 £35.65 £57.19
Median hourly rate £21.75 £55.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -60.45% -13.73% +131.99%
75th Percentile £23.06 £66.94 £69.13
90th Percentile £23.48 £80.00 £69.81
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chelmsford - 2 £638 - 24
Basildon -3 1 - - 26
Security Cleared
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) FPGA
1 4 (66.67%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Scorecard
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Xilinx
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto