Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Security Clearance
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 23 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 12.30% 4.03% 7.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.65% 18.18% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 12
10th Percentile £146 - £435
25th Percentile £405 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £700
90th Percentile £558 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.87 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.21% +21.84% +50.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 34 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 18.18% 22.15% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 22
10th Percentile £175 £314 £290
25th Percentile £216 £363 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £491 £545 £700
90th Percentile £581 £600 £749
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile - £39.83 -
25th Percentile - £52.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £74.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.09% - -
75th Percentile - £96.19 -
90th Percentile £17.89 £108.68 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.19% +7.95% +18.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Nottinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Security Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Nottingham +11 23 £415 - 4
Security Cleared
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) ATM Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ADO
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Express.js
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.35%) MERN Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
1 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
1 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Coaching
1 10 (43.48%) Service Delivery
2 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.70%) Change Management
5 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
5 2 (8.70%) Microservices
5 2 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (4.35%) API Integration
6 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.35%) Pattern Recognition
6 1 (4.35%) Service Design
6 1 (4.35%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Java
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 1 (4.35%) Computacenter
2 1 (4.35%) Genesys
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) SAP