Security Cleared Contracts in Merseyside

Security Clearance
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 12 1
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 29 22 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.26% 9.65% 32.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.72% 26.51% 76.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 90
10th Percentile £203 £450 £400
25th Percentile £434 £467 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.66% -2.79%
75th Percentile £631 £656 £657
90th Percentile £670 £675 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -35.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £14.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +313.79% -61.33% -15.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 53 83 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 31.55% 36.40% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 110
10th Percentile £160 £168 £361
25th Percentile £203 £213 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -13.46% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £665 £675 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £14.52 £12.54 -
25th Percentile - £14.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% - +2.86%
75th Percentile - £34.24 £20.38
90th Percentile £18.72 £44.16 £22.40
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Merseyside

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Merseyside

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Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Merseyside

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Liverpool +6 20 £550 -4.35% 21
Southport 0 8 £523 +10.00%
Bootle +2 1 - -
Security Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (6.90%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) GCP
1 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
1 1 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (3.45%) MPLS
2 1 (3.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Military
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Change and Release Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Change Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Release Manager
3 7 (24.14%) Siebel Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Cabling Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Siebel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JMS
1 5 (17.24%) SOAP
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Solaris
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (31.03%) ITIL
4 7 (24.14%) Change Management
4 7 (24.14%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (20.69%) Release Management
5 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) EAI
6 5 (17.24%) SDLC
7 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (13.79%) Service Management
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (10.34%) Test Management
8 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PL/SQL
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Grafana
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle
2 8 (27.59%) Siebel
3 3 (10.34%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Software AG
4 1 (3.45%) webMethods