Security Cleared Contracts in the North East

Security Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 80 44 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 25.24% 12.94% 41.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.02% 40.37% 84.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 19 139
10th Percentile £305 £378 £384
25th Percentile £425 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.08% -13.08%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £694
90th Percentile £650 £650 £760
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
10th Percentile £22.18 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £27.15 £13.99 -
Median hourly rate £35.44 £33.09 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% - -
75th Percentile £43.72 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £48.69 £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.52 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.46% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 109 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 40.69% 32.06% 48.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 43 166
10th Percentile £200 £315 £280
25th Percentile £356 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.96% +7.62%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £645
90th Percentile £650 £650 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 1
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.15 -
25th Percentile £13.23 £13.99 £48.50
Median hourly rate £18.81 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile £41.41 £47.14 £49.50
90th Percentile £50.38 £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the North East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Tyne and Wear +3 66 £531 +1.19% 22
Durham +8 7 £155 - 3
Northumberland -4 2 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 7 (8.75%) nginx
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) Traefik
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) AWS
2 9 (11.25%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (7.50%) Kong
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.00%) Figma
4 4 (5.00%) IaaS
4 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) Serverless
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (3.75%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) SSL
2 4 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (3.75%) DNS
4 2 (2.50%) SMS
4 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.00%) Metadata
2 4 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Tableau
4 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) GitLab
2 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) Git
3 6 (7.50%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.75%) gulp
5 3 (3.75%) Maven
5 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
7 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 36 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Military
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Electronics
5 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Developer
2 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (10.00%) Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
4 7 (8.75%) Lead
4 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Desktop Support
7 4 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Product Designer
7 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) Node.js
2 9 (11.25%) Kafka
3 6 (7.50%) Spring
3 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.25%) CSS
4 5 (6.25%) HTML
4 5 (6.25%) React
5 4 (5.00%) Jest
5 4 (5.00%) Sass
6 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.75%) Apache CXF
6 3 (3.75%) Dropwizard
6 3 (3.75%) Express.js
6 3 (3.75%) JAX-RS
6 3 (3.75%) MEAN Stack
6 3 (3.75%) MERN Stack
6 3 (3.75%) Mongoose
6 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.75%) REST
6 3 (3.75%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) PKI
2 3 (3.75%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.25%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
2 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) CentOS
4 1 (1.25%) AIX
4 1 (1.25%) Android
4 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.25%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.50%) DevOps
2 11 (13.75%) Agile
2 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
4 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
4 7 (8.75%) Migration
4 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (7.50%) ETL
5 6 (7.50%) Incident Management
5 6 (7.50%) Microservices
5 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (6.25%) TDD
7 4 (5.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (5.00%) Design Thinking
7 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (5.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (5.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Java
2 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.75%) SQL
4 6 (7.50%) Python
5 4 (5.00%) Groovy
5 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) ABAP
6 2 (2.50%) Bash
6 2 (2.50%) Go
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) C
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) WCAG
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
3 5 (6.25%) Packer
3 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.00%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Consul
5 2 (2.50%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.50%) Istio
5 2 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.50%) linkerd
5 2 (2.50%) Rancher
5 2 (2.50%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.25%) Kibana
6 1 (1.25%) logstash
6 1 (1.25%) SCCM
6 1 (1.25%) VxRail
6 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Databricks
2 5 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.75%) Dell
4 3 (3.75%) Google
4 3 (3.75%) HP
5 2 (2.50%) Apple
5 2 (2.50%) ESET
5 2 (2.50%) Okta
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.25%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.25%) F5
6 1 (1.25%) Juniper
6 1 (1.25%) Nokia
6 1 (1.25%) Pega
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat