Security Cleared Contracts in Sheffield

Security Clearance
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -19 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 14 28 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.19% 7.39% 12.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.45% 47.46% 63.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 49
10th Percentile £320 £386 £510
25th Percentile £334 £423 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £466 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £675 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £369 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -29.71% -19.23% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 51 59 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.27% 15.57% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 71
10th Percentile £220 £395 £463
25th Percentile £328 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.98% -10.42% +20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £700
90th Percentile £650 £710 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £414 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -21.14% -12.50% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.14%
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.37%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Sheffield over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) CloudBees
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Vagrant
4 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Commvault Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) EntireX
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) LLM
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Groovy
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Commvault
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Software AG
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) webMethods