Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Kent

Security Clearance
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 8 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 6.45% 3.08% 5.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.44% 14.63% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £241 - £57
25th Percentile £311 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £65
Median % change year-on-year - - -80.30%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £568
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £41.85
25th Percentile - £37.40 £52.13
Median hourly rate - £38.85 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -29.36% +48.13%
75th Percentile - £53.66 £70.22
90th Percentile - £61.68 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -59.17% +2.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 41 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 14.52% 21.03% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £146 £162 £65
25th Percentile £190 £180 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £200 £525
Median % change year-on-year +66.38% -61.90% +21.39%
75th Percentile £375 £445 £538
90th Percentile £426 £565 £567
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £20.01 £41.85
25th Percentile - £22.80 £52.13
Median hourly rate - £31.43 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.86% +48.13%
75th Percentile - £40.30 £70.22
90th Percentile - £53.66 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +33.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Kent

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Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Kent over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Kent

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Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Dover - 4 £375 - 1
Maidstone - 3 £205 -
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) VLAN
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix
1 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (50.00%) Veeam
1 4 (50.00%) VMware