Security Cleared Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Security Clearance
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Cleared 60 38 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 29.41% 25.50% 28.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.42% 71.70% 67.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 24 33
10th Percentile £415 £350 £350
25th Percentile £447 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £588
90th Percentile £650 £714 £770
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £510 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.33% -14.29% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £50.00 -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +268.42% -
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -25.71% +268.42% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 89 53 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 43.63% 35.57% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 35 51
10th Percentile £400 £350 £280
25th Percentile £430 £394 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £597 £575 £698
90th Percentile £670 £680 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £480 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £21.50 -
25th Percentile - £43.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +215.79% -
75th Percentile - £70.00 £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +215.79% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 10 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Documentum
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 31 (51.67%) AWS
2 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.67%) IaaS
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.00%) Kong
4 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) Azure
5 2 (3.33%) Figma
5 2 (3.33%) GCP
5 2 (3.33%) Google Workspace
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) ATM
1 1 (1.67%) DHCP
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) SSL
1 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) MongoDB
2 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.33%) MySQL
3 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Power BI
5 2 (3.33%) Tableau
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.67%) Looker
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) JIRA
2 10 (16.67%) Git
3 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.67%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (5.00%) gulp
7 3 (5.00%) Maven
8 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.33%) Selenium
9 1 (1.67%) Gatling
9 1 (1.67%) JMeter
9 1 (1.67%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 33 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Finance
4 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Architect
4 8 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.00%) Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Lead
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
9 3 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Data Visualisation Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Node.js
2 7 (11.67%) Spring
3 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.33%) Keycloak
5 4 (6.67%) CSS
5 4 (6.67%) HTML
5 4 (6.67%) Jest
5 4 (6.67%) Kafka
5 4 (6.67%) React
5 4 (6.67%) RESTful
5 4 (6.67%) Sass
6 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.00%) Apache CXF
6 3 (5.00%) Express.js
6 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.00%) JAX-RS
6 3 (5.00%) Mongoose
6 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.00%) Spring MVC
6 3 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) FPGA
3 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Microservices
3 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (16.67%) Migration
5 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.00%) TDD
8 5 (8.33%) DevOps
8 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.33%) Validation
9 4 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (6.67%) Front End Development
9 4 (6.67%) Incident Management
9 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (6.67%) MVC
9 4 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (6.67%) Security Architecture
9 4 (6.67%) User Experience
9 4 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Java
2 10 (16.67%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) Bash
4 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (3.33%) Go
6 2 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.67%) C
7 1 (1.67%) COBOL
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
7 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (85.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) CISSP
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
1 5 (8.33%) WCAG
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Terraform
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.33%) Ansible
4 5 (8.33%) Istio
5 4 (6.67%) Argo
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
6 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) VMware