Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Security Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 85 42 73
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 40.48% 29.17% 32.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.65% 77.78% 66.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 18 46
10th Percentile £163 £200 £450
25th Percentile £258 £252 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £575
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -43.48% +3.60%
75th Percentile £603 £538 £645
90th Percentile £682 £633 £669
North West median daily rate £525 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +5.85% -9.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 17
10th Percentile £46.14 - £45.88
25th Percentile £48.86 £37.00 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £74.26 £48.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.48 £57.87 £50.10
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £37.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% -19.88% +55.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 117 54 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 55.71% 37.50% 48.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 25 63
10th Percentile £160 £200 £450
25th Percentile £198 £259 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -17.20% +16.28%
75th Percentile £576 £540 £720
90th Percentile £680 £601 -
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 31
10th Percentile - £36.45 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.46 £37.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.78 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.28% - -0.43%
75th Percentile £71.13 - -
90th Percentile £74.72 £52.72 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +85.42%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Preston 0 37 £550 +69.23% 6
Lytham St Annes 0 7 £170 +13.33% 2
Blackpool 0 4 £410 +0.24% 4
Lancaster -1 1 £700 +250.00%
Security Cleared
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) MTS
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.53%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (3.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.18%) Maximo
2 1 (1.18%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.18%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.18%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.24%) Azure
3 5 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.53%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.18%) GCP
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) Firewall
2 8 (9.41%) BGP
2 8 (9.41%) Software-Defined Networking
2 8 (9.41%) VLAN
3 6 (7.06%) WebEx
4 5 (5.88%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.53%) Network Security
5 3 (3.53%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.35%) DNS
6 2 (2.35%) SSL
6 2 (2.35%) X.25
7 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) DB2
2 1 (1.18%) Pentaho
2 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Git
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Legal
4 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (16.47%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (12.94%) Senior
3 7 (8.24%) Consultant
3 7 (8.24%) Developer
3 7 (8.24%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Accountant
4 6 (7.06%) Assistant Accountant
4 6 (7.06%) IT Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Project Accountant
5 5 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 5 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Project Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) XML
2 6 (7.06%) SOAP
2 6 (7.06%) XMPP
3 5 (5.88%) JSON
4 4 (4.71%) Web Services
5 3 (3.53%) JMS
5 3 (3.53%) OAuth
6 2 (2.35%) Middleware
6 2 (2.35%) REST
7 1 (1.18%) .NET
7 1 (1.18%) CSS
7 1 (1.18%) HTML
7 1 (1.18%) JWT
7 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.18%) RESTful
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.18%) SAP TM
7 1 (1.18%) SAPUI5
7 1 (1.18%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.06%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.53%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.53%) Handset
5 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.35%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) CMDB
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Windows
2 13 (15.29%) Linux
3 12 (14.12%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 17 (20.00%) Service Management
4 14 (16.47%) ITSM
5 13 (15.29%) User Stories
6 12 (14.12%) DevOps
7 11 (12.94%) Change Control
8 10 (11.76%) Knowledge Management
8 10 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.59%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.41%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (9.41%) Agile
10 8 (9.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (9.41%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (9.41%) Product Requirements
11 7 (8.24%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (8.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 14 (16.47%) Python
3 12 (14.12%) Bash
4 9 (10.59%) Perl
5 5 (5.88%) SQL
6 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.35%) C#
8 1 (1.18%) ABAP
8 1 (1.18%) Java
8 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (94.12%) SC Cleared
2 33 (38.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (11.76%) Degree
4 7 (8.24%) CCDP
4 7 (8.24%) CCNA
4 7 (8.24%) CCNP
4 7 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.35%) CISM
5 2 (2.35%) CISSP
5 2 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) NIST
2 5 (5.88%) NCSC
2 5 (5.88%) SLA
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Docker
3 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (4.71%) SCCM
2 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (27.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.18%) SAP
3 10 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.59%) Citrix
5 8 (9.41%) Cisco
6 7 (8.24%) VMware
7 6 (7.06%) Axway
8 5 (5.88%) IBM
9 4 (4.71%) webMethods
10 3 (3.53%) Software AG
11 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.35%) Siemens
12 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 1 (1.18%) Oracle
12 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow