Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Security Clearance
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 80 55 68
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 54.05% 51.40% 51.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 86.02% 88.71% 72.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 51 34
10th Percentile £385 £363 £399
25th Percentile £483 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.82% +7.14%
75th Percentile £634 £673 £655
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.50% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £77.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +166.67% -42.86%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -32.64% -41.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 62 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 62.84% 57.94% 71.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 53 55
10th Percentile £365 £318 £300
25th Percentile £456 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +12.15%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £705
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile - £67.50 £41.00
25th Percentile - £72.19 £61.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -3.23% +29.17%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - £78.75 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -41.67% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Farnborough over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Farnborough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (3.75%) AWS
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) MPLS
3 3 (3.75%) BGP
3 3 (3.75%) OSPF
3 3 (3.75%) VPN
4 2 (2.50%) LAN
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 2 (2.50%) SNMP
4 2 (2.50%) WAN
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.25%) DMZ
5 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.50%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Consultant
2 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Architect
4 8 (10.00%) Service Design Consultant
5 7 (8.75%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.75%) IP Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IP Network Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) VMware Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Middleware
1 7 (8.75%) React
2 4 (5.00%) RESTful
2 4 (5.00%) Swagger
3 2 (2.50%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) LDAP
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 2 (2.50%) REST
3 2 (2.50%) SAML
4 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.25%) RFC 2544
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Private Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) CMDB
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (1.25%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Linux
2 10 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
2 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (13.75%) High Availability
5 10 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 10 (12.50%) Presales
6 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
6 9 (11.25%) Migration
7 8 (10.00%) Service Design
8 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (8.75%) DevOps
9 6 (7.50%) Agile
9 6 (7.50%) ITIL
9 6 (7.50%) Risk Management
9 6 (7.50%) Service Management
10 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (6.25%) Open Source
10 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (5.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.75%) SQL
5 10 (12.50%) Java
6 9 (11.25%) C#
7 6 (7.50%) Bash
8 3 (3.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (56.25%) DV Cleared
2 39 (48.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.50%) CISA
3 2 (2.50%) CRISC
4 1 (1.25%) CEH
4 1 (1.25%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) GCIA
4 1 (1.25%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) GRC
2 2 (2.50%) ISO 31000
2 2 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.25%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) UAG
4 1 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Ansible
2 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.25%) Terraform
4 4 (5.00%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.75%) Salt
5 3 (3.75%) vRealize
6 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.50%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) VMware
2 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.75%) Cisco
5 5 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.00%) Nokia
7 2 (2.50%) F5
7 2 (2.50%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint