Security Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Security Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 285 228 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 12.91% 7.99% 5.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.03% 38.91% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 152 109
10th Percentile £261 £260 £181
25th Percentile £438 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% +6.86%
75th Percentile £650 £553 £581
90th Percentile £710 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 17
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.71 £20.60
25th Percentile £45.00 £21.57 £22.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.25 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +15.75% -26.60%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.15 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £60.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.29% +15.62% +23.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 606 586 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.46% 20.53% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 407 366
10th Percentile £188 £162 £174
25th Percentile £363 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £668 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 19
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.95 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +88.92% -45.81% +8.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.02 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £66.50 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +7 109 £575 +21.69% 28
South Lanarkshire 0 98 £600 +33.33% 3
Edinburgh +59 34 £393 -6.55% 35
Renfrewshire 0 31 £475 -8.65% 2
Dundee +12 5 - - 1
Highlands - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire +2 1 £400 - 9
Fife -1 1 £250 - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 77 (27.02%) Confluence
2 18 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.56%) AWS
2 12 (4.21%) Azure
3 11 (3.86%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.51%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.16%) Power Automate
5 9 (3.16%) PowerApps
6 5 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.35%) IaaS
8 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.35%) PaaS
8 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.67%) DNS
2 14 (4.91%) DHCP
3 11 (3.86%) VoIP
4 9 (3.16%) VPN
5 8 (2.81%) Firewall
6 6 (2.11%) VSAN
7 5 (1.75%) SMTP
8 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.70%) VLAN
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.86%) Power BI
3 10 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.40%) Metadata
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.70%) GIS
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.35%) DTS
8 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.35%) MySQL
8 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 92 (32.28%) JIRA
2 5 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.05%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.05%) Git
4 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.35%) Gatling
5 1 (0.35%) JMeter
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 115 (40.35%) Public Sector
2 49 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.91%) Finance
5 6 (2.11%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.75%) Electronics
7 4 (1.40%) Law
7 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.40%) Marketing
7 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.05%) Police
9 2 (0.70%) Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (14.39%) Senior
2 25 (8.77%) Analyst
3 18 (6.32%) Product Manager
4 17 (5.96%) Consultant
5 16 (5.61%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.26%) DBA
6 15 (5.26%) SQL DBA
7 14 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
8 13 (4.56%) Exchange Engineer
8 13 (4.56%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 13 (4.56%) Senior Manager
9 12 (4.21%) Senior DBA
9 12 (4.21%) Senior SQL DBA
10 11 (3.86%) Risk Officer
11 10 (3.51%) Administrator
11 10 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Architect
11 10 (3.51%) Senior SQL Server DBA
11 10 (3.51%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (3.51%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.81%) REST
2 7 (2.46%) WebRTC
3 5 (1.75%) LDAP
3 5 (1.75%) Web Services
4 2 (0.70%) .NET
4 2 (0.70%) .NET Remoting
4 2 (0.70%) JSON
4 2 (0.70%) PostGIS
4 2 (0.70%) React
4 2 (0.70%) RESTful
4 2 (0.70%) XML
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.35%) OAuth
5 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.35%) Spring
5 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.35%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.56%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.51%) Clustering
4 7 (2.46%) PKI
5 5 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.40%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.35%) CMDB
9 1 (0.35%) iPad
9 1 (0.35%) iPhone
9 1 (0.35%) Verilog
9 1 (0.35%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.63%) Windows
2 32 (11.23%) Linux
3 17 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.46%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.05%) Kali Linux
8 3 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.70%) Android
9 2 (0.70%) Solaris
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (23.51%) Agile
2 34 (11.93%) Project Management
3 24 (8.42%) Risk Management
4 22 (7.72%) Roadmaps
5 21 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (7.37%) High Availability
6 20 (7.02%) Problem Management
7 19 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (6.32%) Analytics
8 18 (6.32%) Epics
8 18 (6.32%) User Research
9 17 (5.96%) User Stories
10 16 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (5.26%) Break/Fix
11 15 (5.26%) Service Management
12 14 (4.91%) DevOps
12 14 (4.91%) PRINCE2
13 13 (4.56%) Project Delivery
13 13 (4.56%) Scrum
13 13 (4.56%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.61%) SQL
3 15 (5.26%) Python
4 14 (4.91%) T-SQL
5 9 (3.16%) Bash
6 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.40%) Java
8 3 (1.05%) Ada
8 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 230 (80.70%) SC Cleared
2 47 (16.49%) DV Cleared
3 19 (6.67%) Degree
4 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.40%) CISA
5 4 (1.40%) CISM
5 4 (1.40%) CISSP
5 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.05%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.05%) CGEIT
6 3 (1.05%) CRISC
6 3 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 3 (1.05%) OSCP
7 2 (0.70%) RHCE
8 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) MCP
8 1 (0.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.56%) PMO
2 11 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.86%) NIST
3 9 (3.16%) SLA
4 8 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) GDPR
7 2 (0.70%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 47 (16.49%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (4.21%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.75%) BitLocker
5 5 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.75%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.05%) Docker
6 3 (1.05%) KVM
6 3 (1.05%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.56%) vCenter Server
2 12 (4.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 10 (3.51%) vMotion
4 8 (2.81%) SCCM
5 6 (2.11%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (2.11%) vRealize
6 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.75%) Terraform
6 5 (1.75%) WSUS
7 3 (1.05%) Grafana
8 2 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.35%) Ansible
9 1 (0.35%) Nagios
9 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 48 (16.84%) Atlassian
3 26 (9.12%) VMware
4 12 (4.21%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.16%) McAfee
6 8 (2.81%) Citrix
7 7 (2.46%) Oracle
8 6 (2.11%) Apple
8 6 (2.11%) SAP
9 5 (1.75%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.40%) Cisco
11 3 (1.05%) HP
12 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.70%) Symantec
12 2 (0.70%) Veritas
13 1 (0.35%) EMC
13 1 (0.35%) Mentor Graphics
13 1 (0.35%) NetApp
13 1 (0.35%) Splunk
13 1 (0.35%) Xilinx