Security Cleared Contracts in the North East

Security Clearance
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 47 180 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 13.95% 41.38% 14.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.34% 84.51% 54.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 141 42
10th Percentile £378 £388 £464
25th Percentile £460 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -13.08% +37.00%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £734
90th Percentile £650 £758 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.99 - -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.03% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 111 213 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 32.94% 48.97% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 169 90
10th Percentile £315 £305 £153
25th Percentile £414 £495 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +5.12% +19.44%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £650
90th Percentile £650 £729 £738
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 3
10th Percentile £12.61 £50.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £13.99 £52.88 £32.13
Median hourly rate £20.77 £57.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.88% +16.16% +86.79%
75th Percentile £46.18 £61.88 £52.75
90th Percentile £53.00 £64.35 £54.55
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 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
Tyne and Wear -3 36 £525 -7.08% 20
Northumberland - 9 - - 1
Durham -4 1 - - 1
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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 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) AWS
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.13%) GCP
2 1 (2.13%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DHCP
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) VSAN
1 2 (4.26%) Wireless
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.13%) SMTP
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.26%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) Metadata
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.13%) Gradle
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) JUnit
3 1 (2.13%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Lead
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Administrator
4 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Tester
5 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (4.26%) Telephony Analyst
6 1 (2.13%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (2.13%) Data Scientist
6 1 (2.13%) Digital Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (2.13%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) PyTorch
1 7 (14.89%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.38%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.13%) CSS
3 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.13%) HTML
3 1 (2.13%) Jest
3 1 (2.13%) jQuery
3 1 (2.13%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.13%) LDAP
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) Spring
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.13%) Swagger
3 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
1 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Clustering
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Verilog
4 1 (2.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.38%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Visualisation
2 9 (19.15%) Digital Engineering
2 9 (19.15%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
4 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) GitOps
4 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
5 4 (8.51%) Agile
5 4 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (8.51%) ITIL
5 4 (8.51%) Validation
6 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.38%) Cost Control
6 3 (6.38%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (6.38%) Document Management
6 3 (6.38%) Functional Testing
6 3 (6.38%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (4.26%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) Python
2 6 (12.77%) C#
3 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) C++
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) R
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) SC Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.26%) CEH
5 2 (4.26%) CISA
5 2 (4.26%) CISM
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) CREST Certified
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) GIAC
5 2 (4.26%) GPEN
5 2 (4.26%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.26%) OSCP
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) MCSE
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) NIST
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) COBIT
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) Docker
5 2 (4.26%) vSphere
6 1 (2.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.13%) Firmware
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.13%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) vCenter Server
3 4 (8.51%) vRealize
4 2 (4.26%) vMotion
5 1 (2.13%) Anchore
5 1 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.13%) Packer
5 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) VMware
3 3 (6.38%) IFS
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Citrix
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.13%) HP
5 1 (2.13%) Huawei
5 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.13%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (2.13%) Nokia
5 1 (2.13%) Symantec
5 1 (2.13%) Xilinx