Security Cleared Contracts in the North West

Security Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 446 642 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 16.41% 20.32% 11.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.39% 65.64% 51.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 437 311
10th Percentile £363 £374 £344
25th Percentile £451 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.98%
75th Percentile £666 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £545
% change year-on-year - +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 23
10th Percentile - £20.00 £28.89
25th Percentile £10.95 £25.00 £37.38
Median hourly rate £14.50 £37.50 £46.72
Median % change year-on-year -61.33% -19.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.52 £59.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £57.30 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +20.00% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 820 978 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.17% 30.96% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 665 595
10th Percentile £268 £325 £263
25th Percentile £415 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £691 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 66 66
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.19 £17.88
Median hourly rate £16.06 £38.75 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -58.55% -2.45% -6.53%
75th Percentile £41.76 £51.48 £52.75
90th Percentile £71.32 £66.85 £63.86
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +1.34%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Manchester -3 180 £550 - 70
Cumbria 0 166 £515 +11.35% 42
Cheshire +1 55 £448 -17.13% 45
Merseyside -10 22 £563 +9.76% 13
Lancashire -14 17 £588 +12.98% 28
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.67%) IIS
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Camunda
4 1 (0.22%) nginx
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 45 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.35%) Revit
5 4 (0.90%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Primavera
2 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.12%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.67%) Maximo
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.90%) AWS
2 41 (9.19%) Azure
3 15 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (3.14%) Amazon S3
5 12 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.02%) Route 53
8 7 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (1.35%) Serverless
10 5 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.12%) SaaS
11 4 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.67%) IaaS
12 3 (0.67%) PaaS
13 2 (0.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.42%) Firewall
2 37 (8.30%) VPN
3 24 (5.38%) OSPF
4 15 (3.36%) Cisco ISE
4 15 (3.36%) NetScaler
5 14 (3.14%) BGP
5 14 (3.14%) WAN
5 14 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (3.14%) Wireless
6 13 (2.91%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (2.91%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (2.91%) EIGRP
6 13 (2.91%) HSRP
6 13 (2.91%) IPsec
7 12 (2.69%) LAN
7 12 (2.69%) SNMP
7 12 (2.69%) Spanning Tree
8 11 (2.47%) Wireless Security
9 10 (2.24%) Ethernet
10 8 (1.79%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (1.57%) MongoDB
2 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.90%) Power BI
5 3 (0.67%) MySQL
5 3 (0.67%) SAP BW
5 3 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Big Data
7 1 (0.22%) Impala
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Power View
7 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.26%) Git
1 19 (4.26%) GitLab
2 15 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.24%) JIRA
4 8 (1.79%) JUnit
5 6 (1.35%) webpack
6 4 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.67%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.67%) LSMW
7 3 (0.67%) Mocha
7 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) ERwin
9 1 (0.22%) Gradle
9 1 (0.22%) JMeter
9 1 (0.22%) Maven
9 1 (0.22%) Mockito
9 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (27.58%) Public Sector
2 107 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 35 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.40%) Finance
5 15 (3.36%) Legal
6 9 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.35%) Electronics
8 5 (1.12%) Banking
8 5 (1.12%) Police
8 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.90%) Marketing
9 4 (0.90%) Military
10 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Billing
12 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.22%) Publishing
12 1 (0.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (16.59%) Architect
2 43 (9.64%) Developer
2 43 (9.64%) Lead
3 41 (9.19%) Consultant
4 39 (8.74%) Senior
5 37 (8.30%) Network Engineer
6 27 (6.05%) Analyst
7 24 (5.38%) Technical Architect
8 20 (4.48%) Technical Leader
9 19 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 16 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (3.59%) Lead Architect
11 15 (3.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 14 (3.14%) Capacity Manager
12 14 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.14%) Service Analyst
12 14 (3.14%) Service Desk Analyst
13 13 (2.91%) Domain Architect
13 13 (2.91%) Problem Manager
14 12 (2.69%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.97%) Node.js
2 22 (4.93%) Spring
3 20 (4.48%) REST
3 20 (4.48%) Spring Boot
4 17 (3.81%) JPA
5 16 (3.59%) React
6 14 (3.14%) Hibernate
7 12 (2.69%) Jinja
8 10 (2.24%) Redux
9 8 (1.79%) Spring Security
10 6 (1.35%) CSS
10 6 (1.35%) Express.js
10 6 (1.35%) HTML
10 6 (1.35%) React Native
11 5 (1.12%) .NET
11 5 (1.12%) RESTful
12 4 (0.90%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.90%) JSON
13 3 (0.67%) BAPI
13 3 (0.67%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.38%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.36%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.24%) CMDB
4 10 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.57%) PKI
7 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.90%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.90%) NHS
9 3 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.67%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.39%) Windows
2 35 (7.85%) Windows 10
3 29 (6.50%) Android
4 28 (6.28%) Apple iOS
5 27 (6.05%) Windows Server
6 19 (4.26%) Linux
7 3 (0.67%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.45%) Unix
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (18.61%) Agile
3 67 (15.02%) CI/CD
4 66 (14.80%) DevOps
5 53 (11.88%) Mentoring
6 46 (10.31%) Risk Management
7 44 (9.87%) Service Management
7 44 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (8.97%) Customer Service
8 40 (8.97%) Statistics
8 40 (8.97%) Time Management
9 39 (8.74%) Decision-Making
9 39 (8.74%) Quality Management
10 37 (8.30%) ITIL
11 34 (7.62%) Security Architecture
12 32 (7.17%) Problem Management
13 29 (6.50%) Microservices
14 27 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (5.61%) Zero Trust
16 24 (5.38%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.62%) Java
2 32 (7.17%) Python
3 14 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.69%) Perl
4 12 (2.69%) Tcl
5 10 (2.24%) SQL
6 8 (1.79%) C#
7 7 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.35%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.12%) Bash
10 4 (0.90%) ABAP
10 4 (0.90%) C
11 2 (0.45%) Bicep
11 2 (0.45%) C++
11 2 (0.45%) Go
11 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 379 (84.98%) SC Cleared
2 29 (6.50%) Degree
3 20 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 20 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.26%) CCNA
5 12 (2.69%) CCNP
6 3 (0.67%) CISSP
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.67%) OSCP
7 2 (0.45%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.45%) CISM
7 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (0.45%) RIBA
7 2 (0.45%) VCAP
7 2 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.50%) SLA
2 28 (6.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 13 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.47%) QA
5 8 (1.79%) NIST
6 6 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.12%) GDPR
8 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.67%) ISO17020
8 3 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (4.71%) Active Directory
1 21 (4.71%) Docker
2 18 (4.04%) Firmware
3 10 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.16%) Terraform
3 18 (4.04%) Ansible
4 6 (1.35%) SCCM
4 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (0.90%) Grafana
6 4 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.90%) VxRail
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.22%) WSUS
9 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.93%) SAP
3 20 (4.48%) Cisco
4 19 (4.26%) VMware
5 16 (3.59%) Palo Alto
6 15 (3.36%) SolarWinds
7 14 (3.14%) Citrix
8 11 (2.47%) Dell
9 7 (1.57%) Oracle
10 6 (1.35%) Google
10 6 (1.35%) Isilon
11 5 (1.12%) Apple
11 5 (1.12%) CA
11 5 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.90%) Siemens
13 3 (0.67%) Meraki
13 3 (0.67%) Nintex
13 3 (0.67%) Pega
13 3 (0.67%) Splunk