Security Cleared Contracts in Merseyside

Security Clearance
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 1 9
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 22 111 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.65% 32.46% 15.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.51% 76.03% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 90 48
10th Percentile £450 £400 £410
25th Percentile £467 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% -2.79% +19.44%
75th Percentile £656 £657 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
Median hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +28.57% -
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £37.50 £44.61
% change year-on-year -61.33% -15.94% +1.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 83 146 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 36.40% 42.69% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 110 74
10th Percentile £168 £361 £196
25th Percentile £213 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +6.67% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £513 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 5
10th Percentile £12.54 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £34.24 £20.38 £18.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £22.40 £31.65
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.60% -8.68%

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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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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
Liverpool -13 20 £575 +10.05% 6
Southport 0 1 £475 -7.32%
Bootle -1 1 £450 -30.77%
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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
1 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
1 1 (4.55%) SaaS
1 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) ATM
2 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) Selenium
1 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Incident Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) CMDB
1 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
1 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) PLM
2 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
3 2 (9.09%) Agile
3 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (4.55%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (4.55%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.55%) Test Management
4 1 (4.55%) Test Planning
4 1 (4.55%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (4.55%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) HP