Security Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Security Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 581 632 956
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 17.75% 13.19% 16.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.40% 50.48% 63.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 422 688
10th Percentile £299 £400 £372
25th Percentile £419 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £666 £725 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 72 51
10th Percentile £21.00 - £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £23.56
Median hourly rate £56.04 £14.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +286.48% -61.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 £49.25 £49.52
90th Percentile £85.78 £73.75 £67.00
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,068 1,252 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.62% 26.14% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 692 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £286 £325
25th Percentile £375 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £580 £625 £625
90th Percentile £665 £720 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West 0 412 £500 -4.76% 202
Yorkshire +2 98 £525 - 71
North East +4 80 £508 -3.33% 30
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 25 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.61%) Confluence
4 16 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (2.07%) nginx
5 12 (2.07%) Skype for Business
6 7 (1.20%) Traefik
7 4 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
8 3 (0.52%) Mendix
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Apache
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.17%) CICS
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) FileNet
Applications
1 14 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.03%) Siemens NX
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.89%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.38%) SAP PP
4 5 (0.86%) Primavera
5 3 (0.52%) SAP LE
5 3 (0.52%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.34%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.17%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 123 (21.17%) AWS
2 68 (11.70%) Azure
3 27 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 25 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (3.61%) Serverless
6 16 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (2.58%) GitHub
8 13 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (2.24%) GCP
8 13 (2.24%) SaaS
9 12 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
11 10 (1.72%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.47%) Firewall
2 44 (7.57%) DNS
3 32 (5.51%) BGP
3 32 (5.51%) OSPF
4 31 (5.34%) Cisco ASA
4 31 (5.34%) Cisco Firepower
4 31 (5.34%) HSRP
4 31 (5.34%) IPsec
5 28 (4.82%) EIGRP
5 28 (4.82%) WAN
6 26 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (3.96%) VPN
8 20 (3.44%) NetScaler
9 17 (2.93%) Cisco ISE
9 17 (2.93%) Structured Cabling
10 15 (2.58%) Skype
11 11 (1.89%) DHCP
11 11 (1.89%) LAN
11 11 (1.89%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.30%) MongoDB
2 25 (4.30%) Oracle Database
3 18 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 17 (2.93%) MySQL
5 11 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.55%) SAP HANA
8 8 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (1.20%) Metadata
9 7 (1.20%) Power BI
10 6 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.03%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.86%) Big Data
11 5 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
12 4 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.69%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 42 (7.23%) GitLab
2 41 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.51%) JIRA
4 26 (4.48%) Git
5 18 (3.10%) JUnit
6 10 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.72%) Gradle
6 10 (1.72%) Liquibase
6 10 (1.72%) Mockito
7 8 (1.38%) Jasmine
8 7 (1.20%) Maven
8 7 (1.20%) Selenium
9 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.86%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.86%) gulp
10 5 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
10 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.69%) Postman
11 4 (0.69%) SoapUI
General
1 160 (27.54%) Public Sector
2 123 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 44 (7.57%) Finance
4 32 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.99%) Manufacturing
6 22 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.44%) Military
8 14 (2.41%) Electronics
9 13 (2.24%) Marketing
10 12 (2.07%) Legal
11 10 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.55%) Banking
13 8 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Automotive
16 1 (0.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (16.70%) Developer
2 76 (13.08%) Senior
3 75 (12.91%) Network Engineer
4 62 (10.67%) Architect
5 37 (6.37%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 34 (5.85%) Analyst
6 34 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 24 (4.13%) Support Engineer
9 23 (3.96%) Lead
10 22 (3.79%) ABAP Developer
11 21 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.27%) Consultant
12 19 (3.27%) SAP Developer
12 19 (3.27%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (2.93%) Data Architect
15 15 (2.58%) Java Developer
15 15 (2.58%) Technical Architect
16 14 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.37%) Kafka
2 32 (5.51%) Node.js
3 28 (4.82%) React
4 27 (4.65%) Spring
4 27 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 16 (2.75%) Swagger
6 15 (2.58%) 802.1X
6 15 (2.58%) cloud-init
6 15 (2.58%) OpenAPI
6 15 (2.58%) RESTful
6 15 (2.58%) Web Services
7 12 (2.07%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.89%) SOAP
9 10 (1.72%) CSS
9 10 (1.72%) HTML
9 10 (1.72%) REST
10 9 (1.55%) BAPI
10 9 (1.55%) XML
11 8 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (1.38%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (2.75%) Data Centre
2 16 (2.75%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (1.72%) PKI
3 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
4 9 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.55%) Fibre Optics
5 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.03%) Smartphone
6 5 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (0.86%) Life Science
7 4 (0.69%) Blackberry
7 4 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.69%) Handset
7 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.69%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.34%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.36%) Linux
2 52 (8.95%) Windows
3 34 (5.85%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.44%) Unix
6 18 (3.10%) CentOS
7 11 (1.89%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.20%) Android
8 7 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.69%) Solaris
9 4 (0.69%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.52%) AIX
10 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.34%) HPUX
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (18.59%) Agile
2 92 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (12.91%) DevOps
4 64 (11.02%) CI/CD
5 58 (9.98%) Migration
6 55 (9.47%) Microservices
7 45 (7.75%) ITIL
8 44 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (7.40%) Containerisation
10 41 (7.06%) ITSM
11 39 (6.71%) Software Engineering
12 38 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
13 35 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 31 (5.34%) Performance Tuning
14 31 (5.34%) Roadmaps
15 30 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (4.99%) Load Balancing
17 27 (4.65%) TDD
17 27 (4.65%) Test Automation
18 26 (4.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (12.56%) SQL
2 57 (9.81%) Python
3 53 (9.12%) Java
4 50 (8.61%) Bash
5 40 (6.88%) PowerShell
6 28 (4.82%) PL/SQL
7 27 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.30%) ABAP
9 22 (3.79%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.27%) Perl
11 17 (2.93%) Go
12 7 (1.20%) Groovy
13 5 (0.86%) VB
13 5 (0.86%) VBScript
14 4 (0.69%) C++
14 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.52%) C#
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 484 (83.30%) SC Cleared
2 33 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (4.30%) Degree
5 20 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
10 7 (1.20%) CCNA
10 7 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.34%) PMP
13 2 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.34%) QA
2 18 (3.10%) SLA
3 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.55%) NCSC
4 7 (1.20%) WCAG
5 3 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.17%) COBIT
7 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 34 (5.85%) Docker
3 18 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.55%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.20%) Firmware
7 6 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.34%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 64 (11.02%) Terraform
2 52 (8.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.27%) Packer
4 18 (3.10%) Grafana
5 16 (2.75%) SCCM
5 16 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.41%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.07%) Ansible
7 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (1.89%) Istio
9 9 (1.55%) ZABBIX
10 8 (1.38%) Consul
10 8 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (1.38%) linkerd
10 8 (1.38%) Rancher
10 8 (1.38%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.20%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.69%) Kibana
12 4 (0.69%) Puppet
12 4 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (14.97%) Cisco
2 70 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 59 (10.15%) SAP
4 52 (8.95%) Palo Alto
5 39 (6.71%) Oracle
6 27 (4.65%) Google
7 23 (3.96%) CheckPoint
8 22 (3.79%) VMware
9 21 (3.61%) Splunk
10 18 (3.10%) Databricks
11 16 (2.75%) ServiceNow
12 15 (2.58%) Meraki
13 11 (1.89%) HP
14 9 (1.55%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.38%) Okta
15 8 (1.38%) Siebel
16 7 (1.20%) Apple
16 7 (1.20%) ESET
16 7 (1.20%) SolarWinds
17 6 (1.03%) Atlassian