Security Cleared Contracts in Portsmouth

Security Clearance
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 84 122 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 68.29% 40.80% 66.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 90.32% 73.05% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 75 113
10th Percentile £200 £488 £201
25th Percentile £400 £519 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £592 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +18.35% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £733 £570
90th Percentile £625 £850 £618
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 14
10th Percentile £24.66 - £51.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £60.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.20% -3.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £87.23 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £98.31 £70.89
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.90% +7.87%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 167 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.61% 55.85% 72.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 79 122
10th Percentile £200 £470 £201
25th Percentile £400 £519 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £592 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +18.35% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £733 £570
90th Percentile £625 £850 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 52 16
10th Percentile £24.66 - £48.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £53.40 £51.81
Median hourly rate £58.75 £57.35 £60.59
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.34% +21.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £83.01 £70.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £62.50 £57.35 £61.59
% change year-on-year +8.98% -6.88% +26.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
2 4 (4.76%) GitHub
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.19%) AWS
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.19%) MinIO
3 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.19%) PaaS
3 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (9.52%) LAN
3 6 (7.14%) SNMP
4 5 (5.95%) Firewall
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.57%) WAN
5 3 (3.57%) Wireless
6 2 (2.38%) HTTP
6 2 (2.38%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.57%) GIS
3 2 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) ObjectStore
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (20.24%) JIRA
2 13 (15.48%) Robot Framework
3 12 (14.29%) GoogleTest
4 11 (13.10%) Bitbucket
5 10 (11.90%) Eclipse
5 10 (11.90%) Git
6 9 (10.71%) Jenkins
7 7 (8.33%) GitLab
8 1 (1.19%) Poetry
General
1 36 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Aerospace
3 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.57%) Military
5 2 (2.38%) Finance
5 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (1.19%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Aviation
6 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.19%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (11.90%) Communications Engineer
2 9 (10.71%) Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Developer
3 8 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) Architect
5 6 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Juniper Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) CSS
2 6 (7.14%) HTML
3 3 (3.57%) Flask
3 3 (3.57%) SOAP
4 2 (2.38%) Celery
4 2 (2.38%) Django
4 2 (2.38%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
4 2 (2.38%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.38%) Next.js
4 2 (2.38%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) pytest
4 2 (2.38%) React
4 2 (2.38%) RESTful
4 2 (2.38%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) .NET
5 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.19%) NumPy
5 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) Operational Technology
1 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
1 3 (3.57%) SCADA
1 3 (3.57%) Verilog
1 3 (3.57%) VHDL
2 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.38%) FPGA
2 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.38%) PKI
3 1 (1.19%) CSOC
3 1 (1.19%) CUDA
3 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.19%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.62%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Solaris
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Agile
2 17 (20.24%) Migration
2 17 (20.24%) Software Engineering
3 15 (17.86%) Scrum
4 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.71%) SysML
5 9 (10.71%) UML
5 9 (10.71%) Validation
6 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (8.33%) Network Design
6 7 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 7 (8.33%) Software Testing
7 6 (7.14%) Network Architecture
7 6 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (7.14%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.14%) Verification and Validation
8 5 (5.95%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (5.95%) Project Management
8 5 (5.95%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) C++
2 10 (11.90%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) SQL
4 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.57%) Perl
5 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (2.38%) Java
6 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 71 (84.52%) SC Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) CCNA
3 7 (8.33%) CCNP
3 7 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (8.33%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.19%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Dell Certification
4 1 (1.19%) HND
4 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.62%) SLA
2 3 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.19%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Firmware
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.57%) Terraform
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Packer
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (27.38%) Google
2 13 (15.48%) Cisco
3 11 (13.10%) Atlassian
4 10 (11.90%) Juniper
5 8 (9.52%) Intel
6 7 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 6 (7.14%) Fujitsu
8 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.76%) VMware
10 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.38%) Algorithmics
11 2 (2.38%) Citrix
11 2 (2.38%) Oracle
11 2 (2.38%) Palantir
12 1 (1.19%) Dell
12 1 (1.19%) HP
12 1 (1.19%) Splunk
12 1 (1.19%) Twitter
12 1 (1.19%) Xilinx