Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Security Clearance
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hereford 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 19 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 90.48% 82.61% 81.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 90.48% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £499 £513 -
25th Percentile £522 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £725
90th Percentile £590 £600 £733
Herefordshire median daily rate £600 £612 £675
% change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19 21 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 90.48% 91.30% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £499 - -
25th Percentile £522 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £725
90th Percentile £590 £600 £733
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £675
% change year-on-year +6.21% -9.33% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year -22.62% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Hereford

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Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hereford

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Hereford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hereford

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) InfluxDB
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Military
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Site Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Migration
1 8 (42.11%) Workflow
1 8 (42.11%) Workflow Management
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
3 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Observability
4 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.26%) Anomaly Detection
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (5.26%) Operations Management
6 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.26%) SIEM
6 1 (5.26%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (5.26%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Go
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
2 6 (31.58%) Progress Chef
2 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk