Security Cleared Contracts in Knutsford

Security Clearance
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 13 14 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 5.70% 8.19% -
As % of the Qualifications category 27.08% 35.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 0
10th Percentile £337 £349 -
25th Percentile £350 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% - -
75th Percentile £494 £572 -
90th Percentile £557 £576 -
Cheshire median daily rate £363 £450 £540
% change year-on-year -19.44% -16.67% +47.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 48 40 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 21.05% 23.39% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 12
10th Percentile £343 £364 £330
25th Percentile £388 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £536 £568
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% -5.64% -9.92%
75th Percentile £519 £576 £610
90th Percentile £553 £707 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -11.24% -6.11% +8.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Knutsford over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (7.69%) CICS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.69%) npm
2 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Grunt
2 1 (7.69%) gulp
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (84.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS3
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Ajax
3 1 (7.69%) JDBC
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) LESS
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CMDB
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) API Integration
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Perforce
2 1 (7.69%) Ping Identity
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow