Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Renfrewshire

Security Clearance
Scotland > Renfrewshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Renfrewshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5 22 49
As % of all contract jobs in Renfrewshire 71.43% 95.65% 73.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 100.00% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 15
10th Percentile £354 £300 -
25th Percentile £500 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.07% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £763 £575 £575
90th Percentile - £593 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £481 £600
% change year-on-year -3.75% -19.91% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £55.14
25th Percentile - - £59.10
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -59.70% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Renfrewshire

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 Renfrewshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5 22 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Renfrewshire 71.43% 95.65% 82.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 19
10th Percentile £354 £300 £340
25th Percentile £500 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.07% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £763 £575 £544
90th Percentile - £593 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £55.14
25th Percentile - - £59.10
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +370.22%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.58 £22.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% -62.43% +141.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Renfrewshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Renfrewshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Renfrewshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Renfrewshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Renfrewshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Renfrewshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Renfrewshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Renfrewshire

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 Renfrewshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Erskine 0 1 £500 -2.68% 1
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Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Renfrewshire 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
1 1 (20.00%) OSINT
1 1 (20.00%) RBAC
1 1 (20.00%) SIEM
1 1 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
1 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware