Security Cleared Contracts in Northamptonshire

Security Clearance
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.94% 3.19% 4.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.51% 39.13% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £301 £311 £370
25th Percentile £363 £358 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £396 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% -16.74% -0.52%
75th Percentile £538 £451 -
90th Percentile £575 £524 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £591
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.92% +32.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - - £18.75
75th Percentile - - £19.38
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.50 £20.00 £21.67
% change year-on-year +22.50% -7.71% -38.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 37 23 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 14.34% 8.16% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 36
10th Percentile £276 £311 £376
25th Percentile £352 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £400 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -11.60% -7.65%
75th Percentile £474 £462 £488
90th Percentile £564 £500 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £442 £400 £520
% change year-on-year +10.56% -23.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £40.55 -
25th Percentile - £42.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +156.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile - £55.63 £19.38
90th Percentile - £58.25 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.15 £21.46 £20.71
% change year-on-year +3.22% +3.65% -11.89%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Northampton -11 5 £395 -0.13% 9
Security Cleared
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JDBC
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Solace