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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 585 586 857
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 17.49% 12.45% 15.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.57% 51.68% 63.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 378 601
10th Percentile £263 £400 £388
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -6.35% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 75 50
10th Percentile £19.30 - £20.20
25th Percentile £25.15 £10.95 £25.75
Median hourly rate £29.27 £14.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.86% -65.88% -19.05%
75th Percentile £59.90 £50.00 £51.48
90th Percentile £69.00 £73.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £56.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.19% -5.85% +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 1,072 1,134 1,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.06% 24.10% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 631 932
10th Percentile £230 £310 £325
25th Percentile £375 £416 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 174 72
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.02 £13.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.38 £16.06 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -60.43% +27.83%
75th Percentile £50.38 £43.10 £50.17
90th Percentile £70.75 £63.38 £66.97
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +37.50%

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

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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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 0 407 £500 -2.91% 240
Yorkshire +8 119 £496 -5.52% 94
North East +1 67 £480 -4.05% 52
Security Cleared
England

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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 24 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.25%) Confluence
4 16 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (1.88%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.85%) IIS
7 4 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.51%) Mendix
9 2 (0.34%) Apache
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) CICS
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Documentum
10 1 (0.17%) FileNet
10 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.37%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (2.22%) Teamcenter
2 10 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.03%) Primavera
4 5 (0.85%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.68%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.51%) SAP LE
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) LabWindows
8 1 (0.17%) Maximo
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 119 (20.34%) AWS
2 71 (12.14%) Azure
3 25 (4.27%) Serverless
4 21 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (3.42%) Entra ID
5 20 (3.42%) GitHub
6 16 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (2.74%) SaaS
7 14 (2.39%) GCP
8 12 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.54%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (1.54%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.37%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.40%) Firewall
2 40 (6.84%) DNS
3 32 (5.47%) Cisco Firepower
4 31 (5.30%) WAN
5 28 (4.79%) BGP
5 28 (4.79%) HSRP
5 28 (4.79%) IPsec
5 28 (4.79%) OSPF
6 26 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
7 25 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (4.10%) EIGRP
9 21 (3.59%) Cisco ISE
9 21 (3.59%) VPN
10 18 (3.08%) NetScaler
11 17 (2.91%) Structured Cabling
12 16 (2.74%) Network Security
13 14 (2.39%) Skype
14 11 (1.88%) DHCP
15 10 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (1.71%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.10%) Oracle Database
3 18 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 15 (2.56%) MySQL
4 15 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.37%) Power BI
7 8 (1.37%) SAP HANA
7 8 (1.37%) Siebel EIM
8 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.03%) Metadata
10 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.85%) Big Data
10 5 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.85%) Tableau
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.68%) ObjectStore
11 4 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (7.01%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.15%) GitLab
3 31 (5.30%) Git
4 29 (4.96%) JIRA
5 15 (2.56%) JUnit
6 14 (2.39%) Selenium
7 13 (2.22%) Maven
8 11 (1.88%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.88%) Gradle
9 10 (1.71%) Liquibase
9 10 (1.71%) Mockito
9 10 (1.71%) Postman
9 10 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.37%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.20%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.03%) JMeter
13 6 (1.03%) TestNG
14 5 (0.85%) gulp
General
1 149 (25.47%) Public Sector
2 123 (21.03%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.69%) Finance
4 37 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.76%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.91%) Military
8 12 (2.05%) Banking
8 12 (2.05%) Electronics
9 11 (1.88%) Legal
10 10 (1.71%) Marketing
11 9 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.34%) Law
17 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 84 (14.36%) Developer
2 78 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 62 (10.60%) Senior
4 61 (10.43%) Architect
5 41 (7.01%) Analyst
5 41 (7.01%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 29 (4.96%) Data Engineer
7 26 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (4.44%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.27%) Lead
9 21 (3.59%) Consultant
10 20 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (2.74%) Data Architect
12 15 (2.56%) Desktop Support
12 15 (2.56%) Technical Architect
13 14 (2.39%) IT Engineer
13 14 (2.39%) SAP Developer
14 13 (2.22%) ABAP Developer
14 13 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.22%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.98%) Node.js
2 28 (4.79%) Kafka
3 25 (4.27%) React
4 22 (3.76%) Spring
5 20 (3.42%) Spring Boot
6 18 (3.08%) Web Services
7 14 (2.39%) 802.1X
7 14 (2.39%) RESTful
8 12 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 11 (1.88%) SOAP
9 11 (1.88%) XML
10 10 (1.71%) OpenAPI
10 10 (1.71%) Swagger
11 9 (1.54%) JMS
12 8 (1.37%) BAPI
12 8 (1.37%) PySpark
13 7 (1.20%) CSS
13 7 (1.20%) HTML
13 7 (1.20%) REST
14 6 (1.03%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.44%) Data Centre
2 21 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (2.39%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.54%) Fibre Optics
5 9 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.85%) Life Science
9 4 (0.68%) Blackberry
9 4 (0.68%) Handset
9 4 (0.68%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.68%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.51%) PKI
10 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.38%) Windows
2 45 (7.69%) Linux
3 34 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.20%) Android
7 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.03%) Unix
9 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) CentOS
10 4 (0.68%) Solaris
10 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.51%) AIX
11 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.34%) HPUX
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (18.63%) Agile
2 88 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 65 (11.11%) Migration
4 60 (10.26%) DevOps
5 48 (8.21%) ITIL
5 48 (8.21%) Microservices
6 45 (7.69%) ITSM
7 42 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (6.50%) Containerisation
9 34 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (5.81%) Performance Tuning
10 33 (5.64%) Analytics
11 32 (5.47%) Software Engineering
11 32 (5.47%) Test Automation
12 27 (4.62%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (4.44%) Load Balancing
13 26 (4.44%) TDD
13 26 (4.44%) User Experience
14 25 (4.27%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.99%) SQL
2 54 (9.23%) Python
3 50 (8.55%) Java
4 38 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.30%) Bash
5 31 (5.30%) PL/SQL
6 30 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.42%) Perl
8 18 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.56%) ABAP
10 7 (1.20%) Groovy
11 5 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.85%) VB
11 5 (0.85%) VBScript
12 4 (0.68%) C++
12 4 (0.68%) Go
12 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.68%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.34%) Bicep
13 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 490 (83.76%) SC Cleared
2 35 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 31 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (3.93%) Degree
5 22 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.03%) CCNA
10 6 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.17%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.17%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.98%) QA
2 21 (3.59%) SLA
3 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.22%) WCAG
5 7 (1.20%) NIST
6 5 (0.85%) GDPR
6 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.30%) Docker
3 19 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.54%) BitLocker
4 9 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.34%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 48 (8.21%) Terraform
2 35 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (2.56%) Ansible
4 15 (2.56%) SCCM
5 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.71%) Grafana
7 9 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.03%) Puppet
10 5 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.85%) WSUS
11 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.68%) Istio
11 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (0.68%) NetApp OnCommand
11 4 (0.68%) vMotion
12 3 (0.51%) Kibana
12 3 (0.51%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.51%) SELinux
Vendors
1 88 (15.04%) Cisco
2 82 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 42 (7.18%) SAP
5 39 (6.67%) Oracle
6 26 (4.44%) Google
7 22 (3.76%) VMware
8 21 (3.59%) CheckPoint
9 19 (3.25%) Splunk
10 17 (2.91%) Databricks
10 17 (2.91%) ServiceNow
11 14 (2.39%) Meraki
11 14 (2.39%) Siebel
12 11 (1.88%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.71%) HP
14 8 (1.37%) IBM
14 8 (1.37%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.20%) Dell
16 5 (0.85%) CyberArk