Security Cleared Contracts in Herefordshire

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 20 62 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 58.82% 81.58% 47.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 83.33% 100.00% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 43 12
10th Percentile £468 £563 -
25th Percentile £490 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £635 £663
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -4.15% +32.50%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £725
90th Percentile £900 £850 £736
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £20.99 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.23% -20.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24 62 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 70.59% 81.58% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 12
10th Percentile £468 £563 -
25th Percentile £531 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £635 £663
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -4.15% +32.50%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £725
90th Percentile £900 £850 £736
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -5.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £20.99 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £25.80
% change year-on-year -11.58% +31.51% +29.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Herefordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Herefordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Herefordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Herefordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Hereford 0 11 £485 -20.82% 4
Ledbury -1 6 £850 +38.89% 3
Security Cleared
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) IaaS
2 3 (15.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) BGP
1 2 (10.00%) DMVPN
1 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) IPsec
1 2 (10.00%) OSPF
1 2 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (10.00%) VLAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
1 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Military
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Workflow
3 4 (20.00%) Workflow Management
4 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (10.00%) Observability
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Server Management
5 2 (10.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.00%) CCNA
5 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
6 1 (5.00%) JNCIA
6 1 (5.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) NCSC
2 2 (10.00%) SLA
3 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Podman
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco
1 2 (10.00%) Juniper
1 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle