Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Lincoln

Security Clearance
Lincolnshire > Lincoln

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lincoln with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 17 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Lincoln 73.91% 30.77% 28.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 94.44% 80.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £233 - £515
25th Percentile £281 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £788
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.18%
75th Percentile £481 - £850
90th Percentile £538 - -
Lincolnshire median daily rate £197 £350 £655
% change year-on-year -43.71% -46.56% +19.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile - £42.09 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £44.10 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% - -
75th Percentile - £51.91 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £25.08 £48.56 -
% change year-on-year -48.36% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lincoln

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 Lincoln.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 5 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln 78.26% 38.46% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile £261 - £330
25th Percentile £351 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £825 £375
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% +120.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £541 - £738
90th Percentile £562 - £850
Lincolnshire median daily rate £200 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -65.22% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile - £42.09 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £44.10 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% - -
75th Percentile - £51.91 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £25.08 £48.56 £19.23
% change year-on-year -48.36% +152.55% -0.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lincoln

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Lincoln

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Daily Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lincoln

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Lincoln over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lincoln

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincoln 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Integration Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (5.88%) PC Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Asset Management
2 6 (35.29%) Ticket Management
2 6 (35.29%) Workflow
2 6 (35.29%) Workflow Management
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) GitOps
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (5.88%) Log Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Presales
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.88%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Argo
1 2 (11.76%) Istio
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Dell
1 4 (23.53%) HP
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Computacenter
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft