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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Cleared 120 74 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 60.61% 34.91% 70.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 93.02% 66.67% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 49 134
10th Percentile - £360 £273
25th Percentile £200 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +26.90% -
75th Percentile £556 £700 £600
90th Percentile £610 £850 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 8
10th Percentile £24.66 £36.96 £44.00
25th Percentile £24.91 £58.66 £53.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £66.25 £63.34
Median % change year-on-year -62.04% +4.59% +0.15%
75th Percentile £49.38 £92.09 £69.06
90th Percentile £58.75 £92.37 £70.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -59.76% +0.81% -0.93%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 111 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 65.15% 52.36% 76.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 50 145
10th Percentile - £360 £273
25th Percentile £200 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £624 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +24.70% -
75th Percentile £556 £700 £600
90th Percentile £598 £850 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £596 £525
% change year-on-year -9.74% +13.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 45 10
10th Percentile £24.66 - £28.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £53.40 £51.21
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.35 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% -3.54% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £68.73
90th Percentile £59.25 £83.50 £70.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £62.25
% change year-on-year -56.15% -7.87% +3.75%

Security Cleared
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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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 20 August 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 9 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.50%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.33%) GitHub
2 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.83%) MinIO
2 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.17%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (2.50%) BGP
3 3 (2.50%) LAN
3 3 (2.50%) OSPF
3 3 (2.50%) VLAN
4 2 (1.67%) HTTP
4 2 (1.67%) SNMP
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.83%) FTP
5 1 (0.83%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) GIS
3 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.67%) Redis
4 1 (0.83%) ObjectStore
4 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) JIRA
2 8 (6.67%) GoogleTest
2 8 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.67%) Robot Framework
3 7 (5.83%) Git
4 6 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 6 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.67%) Postman
5 2 (1.67%) Selenium
5 2 (1.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.83%) Poetry
General
1 51 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.83%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.33%) Military
5 3 (2.50%) Finance
5 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.67%) Electronics
6 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.67%) Marketing
6 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) Automotive
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Architect
2 25 (20.83%) Service Architect
3 22 (18.33%) Communications Engineer
4 8 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 8 (6.67%) Developer
5 7 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (2.50%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.50%) Consultant
9 3 (2.50%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) CSS
2 3 (2.50%) SOAP
3 2 (1.67%) Celery
3 2 (1.67%) Flask
3 2 (1.67%) HTML
3 2 (1.67%) Kafka
3 2 (1.67%) Keycloak
3 2 (1.67%) Next.js
3 2 (1.67%) Node.js
3 2 (1.67%) React
3 2 (1.67%) REST
3 2 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (0.83%) Django
4 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.83%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.83%) NumPy
4 1 (0.83%) Pandas
4 1 (0.83%) pytest
4 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (2.50%) e-Learning
2 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.50%) SCADA
3 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.67%) PKI
4 1 (0.83%) CMDB
4 1 (0.83%) CUDA
4 1 (0.83%) PMI
4 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.67%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Solaris
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (20.83%) IT4IT
1 25 (20.83%) ITIL
1 25 (20.83%) Project Delivery
1 25 (20.83%) Service Design
1 25 (20.83%) Service Management
2 22 (18.33%) Agile
3 21 (17.50%) Migration
4 13 (10.83%) Workflow Management
5 12 (10.00%) Scrum
5 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (10.00%) Workflow
6 8 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (5.83%) Test Automation
8 6 (5.00%) Inventory Control
8 6 (5.00%) Inventory Management
8 6 (5.00%) Storage Management
8 6 (5.00%) Time Management
9 5 (4.17%) Decision-Making
9 5 (4.17%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.00%) C++
2 5 (4.17%) Python
2 5 (4.17%) SQL
3 3 (2.50%) Perl
3 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.67%) Bash
4 2 (1.67%) Java
4 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.83%) C#
5 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (93.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.67%) Degree
3 6 (5.00%) CCNP
3 6 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.50%) CCNA
4 3 (2.50%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.83%) HNC
5 1 (0.83%) HND
5 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.50%) SLA
2 25 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 9 (7.50%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) ECSS
5 1 (0.83%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.50%) Firmware
3 2 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Ansible
1 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) Packer
2 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (26.67%) Google
2 8 (6.67%) VMware
3 7 (5.83%) Juniper
4 6 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.00%) Cisco
4 6 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (5.00%) Intel
5 3 (2.50%) Adobe
5 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.67%) Fujitsu
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle
6 2 (1.67%) Palantir
6 2 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) Citrix
7 1 (0.83%) NetApp
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk