Security Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Security Clearance
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 188 331 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 12.26% 17.45% 9.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.54% 66.33% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 238 168
10th Percentile £335 £400 £334
25th Percentile £475 £469 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £694 £649 £639
90th Percentile £825 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 5
10th Percentile £29.95 - £33.05
25th Percentile £41.00 £20.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £20.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +250.16% -60.56% +23.53%
75th Percentile £73.75 £26.78 £56.25
90th Percentile £96.00 £70.00 £61.50
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £37.50 £46.72
% change year-on-year -61.33% -19.73% +6.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 372 499 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.27% 26.30% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 368 348
10th Percentile £300 £338 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% +4.99% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £616 £630
90th Percentile £798 £700 £679
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 14
10th Percentile £24.14 - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.00 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +96.00% +60.10% -44.75%
75th Percentile £73.75 £37.50 £48.44
90th Percentile £94.50 £70.00 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.61% -7.61%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Stockport +5 7 £450 -29.41% 1
Bolton +2 4 £480 - 2
Salford 0 3 £425 -22.73% 3
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 1 £150 +11.11%
Security Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Revit
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.53%) Primavera
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.53%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.72%) AWS
2 21 (11.17%) Azure
3 12 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (5.85%) Amazon S3
5 10 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.19%) Route 53
8 5 (2.66%) Serverless
9 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.13%) IaaS
10 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.06%) GCP
11 2 (1.06%) Kong
11 2 (1.06%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.55%) VPN
2 24 (12.77%) Firewall
3 13 (6.91%) Wireless
4 11 (5.85%) Wireless Security
5 10 (5.32%) Ethernet
5 10 (5.32%) LAN
5 10 (5.32%) OSPF
5 10 (5.32%) WAN
6 6 (3.19%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.06%) DNS
7 2 (1.06%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.53%) SAN
8 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.72%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.60%) Power BI
6 3 (1.60%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.60%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.06%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.53%) Metadata
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (9.04%) GitLab
2 14 (7.45%) Git
3 10 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.26%) JUnit
5 6 (3.19%) webpack
6 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.60%) JIRA
6 3 (1.60%) LSMW
6 3 (1.60%) Mocha
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) ERwin
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 46 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 34 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.85%) Legal
4 10 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Finance
6 7 (3.72%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.66%) Electronics
7 5 (2.66%) Police
8 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (21.28%) Architect
2 33 (17.55%) Developer
2 33 (17.55%) Lead
3 22 (11.70%) Technical Architect
4 20 (10.64%) Network Engineer
4 20 (10.64%) Technical Leader
5 18 (9.57%) Java Developer
6 16 (8.51%) Lead Architect
7 14 (7.45%) Consultant
7 14 (7.45%) Senior
8 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Analyst
9 8 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.19%) Product Manager
12 4 (2.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.68%) Node.js
2 19 (10.11%) Spring
2 19 (10.11%) Spring Boot
3 16 (8.51%) REST
4 15 (7.98%) React
5 14 (7.45%) Hibernate
5 14 (7.45%) JPA
6 9 (4.79%) Redux
7 8 (4.26%) Spring Security
8 6 (3.19%) Express.js
9 4 (2.13%) RESTful
10 3 (1.60%) BAPI
10 3 (1.60%) Jest
11 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.06%) Middleware
11 2 (1.06%) PySpark
11 2 (1.06%) React Native
12 1 (0.53%) .NET
12 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.26%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.13%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
8 2 (1.06%) CMDB
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Life Science
8 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Robotics
8 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Tandem
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.21%) Windows
2 27 (14.36%) Android
2 27 (14.36%) Apple iOS
3 26 (13.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.98%) Linux
5 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) CentOS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.98%) CI/CD
2 56 (29.79%) Agile
3 39 (20.74%) DevOps
4 28 (14.89%) Security Architecture
5 25 (13.30%) Zero Trust
6 24 (12.77%) Mobile Device Management
6 24 (12.77%) Risk Management
7 23 (12.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 23 (12.23%) Threat Intelligence
8 21 (11.17%) Microservices
9 20 (10.64%) Front End Development
9 20 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (9.57%) Design Patterns
11 16 (8.51%) Roadmaps
12 15 (7.98%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (5.85%) Data Protection
15 10 (5.32%) Customer Engagement
15 10 (5.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.77%) Java
2 13 (6.91%) Python
3 8 (4.26%) MATLAB
4 6 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.19%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.66%) Bash
6 3 (1.60%) ABAP
6 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.60%) SQL
7 2 (1.06%) C
7 2 (1.06%) C#
7 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) Go
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (77.13%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.51%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.79%) Degree
5 7 (3.72%) CCNA
5 7 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.60%) BC Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) OSCP
7 2 (1.06%) CISM
7 2 (1.06%) CISSP
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.06%) RIBA
7 2 (1.06%) VCAP
7 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ISEB
8 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.13%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) SLA
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) NCSC
4 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (10.64%) Docker
2 11 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.79%) Hyper-V
3 9 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.72%) Firmware
5 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.57%) Terraform
3 6 (3.19%) Ansible
3 6 (3.19%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.53%) Consul
5 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Graphite
5 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.53%) Istio
5 1 (0.53%) linkerd
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.53%) Packer
5 1 (0.53%) Podman
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (7.45%) SAP
1 14 (7.45%) VMware
2 11 (5.85%) Dell
3 8 (4.26%) Isilon
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.66%) Apple
5 5 (2.66%) Google
5 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.13%) Cisco
7 3 (1.60%) 3PAR
7 3 (1.60%) Siemens
7 3 (1.60%) Splunk
8 2 (1.06%) Databricks
8 2 (1.06%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.06%) HP
8 2 (1.06%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (1.06%) Veeam
9 1 (0.53%) Brocade
9 1 (0.53%) CA