Security Cleared Contracts in Gloucestershire

Security Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 128 242 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 46.72% 56.41% 65.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 88.89% 91.67% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 131 228
10th Percentile £385 £425 £400
25th Percentile £475 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.62% +4.94%
75th Percentile £676 £706 £675
90th Percentile £771 £763 £725
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.78% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 21
10th Percentile £57.32 - £52.50
25th Percentile £64.19 £15.75 £67.50
Median hourly rate £71.50 £33.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.69% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 £83.31
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.28% +1.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 264 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 52.55% 61.54% 71.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 144 242
10th Percentile £250 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £691 £675
90th Percentile £752 £759 £724
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 28
10th Percentile £53.87 £15.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £58.25 £15.86 £64.63
Median hourly rate £71.50 £24.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +194.85% -68.91% +41.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £83.31
90th Percentile - £68.88 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham 0 52 £600 +6.67% 56
Gloucester 0 40 £550 -8.33% 65
Filton +2 9 £400 -37.50% 5
Tewkesbury -1 1 - - 13
Security Cleared
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 11 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.25%) Apache
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.34%) Confluence
4 3 (2.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Appian
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.03%) Azure
2 26 (20.31%) AWS
3 16 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 12 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.91%) GitHub
6 4 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.56%) GCP
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.78%) IaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.78%) PaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.88%) DNS
2 19 (14.84%) Firewall
3 13 (10.16%) DHCP
4 12 (9.38%) Kerberos
5 11 (8.59%) HTTP
5 11 (8.59%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.25%) VPN
7 5 (3.91%) LAN
7 5 (3.91%) WAN
8 4 (3.13%) BGP
9 3 (2.34%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (2.34%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (2.34%) VoIP
10 2 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.56%) SAN
10 2 (1.56%) VLAN
10 2 (1.56%) WebEx
11 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.69%) Big Data
2 6 (4.69%) Hadoop
2 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.56%) Flink
5 2 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.25%) JIRA
3 7 (5.47%) Git
4 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.56%) Rational Statemate
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) GitLab
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.81%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.13%) Finance
6 2 (1.56%) Legal
6 2 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Aviation
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (15.63%) Architect
2 13 (10.16%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 10 (7.81%) Software Engineer
5 7 (5.47%) Analyst
5 7 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.47%) Lead
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 6 (4.69%) Senior
6 6 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) Administrator
7 5 (3.91%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) .NET
2 5 (3.91%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (3.13%) YAML
4 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.34%) React
4 3 (2.34%) Spring
4 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.56%) Kafka
5 2 (1.56%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.56%) Node.js
5 2 (1.56%) REST
5 2 (1.56%) RESTful
6 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) JPA
6 1 (0.78%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.78%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.78%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.94%) PKI
2 12 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.38%) Replication
3 8 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.91%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.13%) iPad
5 4 (3.13%) iPhone
5 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.56%) Linux
2 31 (24.22%) Windows
3 20 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.91%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.56%) Android
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.78%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (15.63%) Containerisation
3 19 (14.84%) DevOps
4 18 (14.06%) CI/CD
5 15 (11.72%) Agile
6 14 (10.94%) Software Engineering
7 12 (9.38%) RBAC
7 12 (9.38%) Service Management
8 11 (8.59%) Task Automation
9 9 (7.03%) Incident Management
9 9 (7.03%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
11 7 (5.47%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.47%) Migration
11 7 (5.47%) Project Management
11 7 (5.47%) Software Testing
11 7 (5.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.44%) Java
2 27 (21.09%) PowerShell
2 27 (21.09%) Python
3 14 (10.94%) SQL
4 11 (8.59%) Bash
4 11 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.13%) C
7 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.56%) C#
8 2 (1.56%) C++
8 2 (1.56%) Go
8 2 (1.56%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.78%) Ada
9 1 (0.78%) VB
9 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (56.25%) SC Cleared
2 63 (49.22%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.34%) Degree
5 3 (2.34%) MCSE
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) APMP
6 1 (0.78%) CCNA
6 1 (0.78%) CCNP
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.78%) MCP
6 1 (0.78%) MCSA
6 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) NCSC
1 4 (3.13%) PMO
2 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.34%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (23.44%) Docker
2 21 (16.41%) Active Directory
3 18 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (13.28%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 25 (19.53%) Terraform
3 20 (15.63%) Ansible
4 11 (8.59%) Puppet
5 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.13%) Grafana
6 4 (3.13%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.13%) SCCM
7 3 (2.34%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.34%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.78%) vMotion
8 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.63%) VMware
3 11 (8.59%) Red Hat
4 9 (7.03%) McAfee
5 8 (6.25%) Oracle
6 7 (5.47%) Cisco
7 4 (3.13%) Symantec
8 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.56%) Citrix
9 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.56%) Tenable
9 2 (1.56%) Veeam
10 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.78%) Dell
10 1 (0.78%) Exabeam
10 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.78%) SAP
10 1 (0.78%) Splunk
10 1 (0.78%) Twitter