Security Cleared Contracts in Somerset

Security Clearance
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 54 36 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 38.85% 17.73% 34.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.26% 45.00% 79.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 53
10th Percentile £563 £263 £505
25th Percentile £625 £450 £582
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -10.77% +26.83%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £715
90th Percentile £845 £625 £802
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.78% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile - £53.75 £41.22
Median hourly rate £18.51 £57.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year -67.81% -6.95% +17.99%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £79.67
90th Percentile - - £86.25
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.28% +1.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 69 80 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 49.64% 39.41% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 65
10th Percentile £306 £185 £363
25th Percentile £505 £285 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% +30.62%
75th Percentile £685 £613 £693
90th Percentile £781 £625 £776
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 11
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - £25.00 £34.38
Median hourly rate £18.51 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.05% -35.00% -4.53%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £65.65
90th Percentile - - £82.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Somerset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Somerset

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Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Somerset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Somerset

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bath +2 22 £650 +30.00% 22
Yeovil +5 11 - - 4
Bridgwater +2 1 - - 1
Taunton -2 1 £865 +47.23% 1
Street - 1 £325 - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (1.85%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
4 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) BGP
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
1 2 (3.70%) MPLS
1 2 (3.70%) OSPF
1 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.70%) VLAN
1 2 (3.70%) VPN
1 2 (3.70%) WAN
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Git
1 1 (1.85%) NUnit
1 1 (1.85%) Postman
1 1 (1.85%) Selenium
1 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (42.59%) Finance
2 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Legal
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Lead
2 10 (18.52%) Desktop Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Desktop Support
2 10 (18.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 10 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 3 (5.56%) Field Service Technician
3 3 (5.56%) Head of AI
3 3 (5.56%) Head of Data Science
3 3 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (3.70%) Analyst
4 2 (3.70%) Architect
4 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 2 (3.70%) Network Architect
4 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
4 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.70%) Transition Manager
5 1 (1.85%) Security Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
1 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.85%) Playwright
2 1 (1.85%) Swagger
2 1 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 10 (18.52%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Business Strategy
1 14 (25.93%) Collaborative Working
1 14 (25.93%) Contract Negotiation
2 13 (24.07%) Asset Management
2 13 (24.07%) Target Operating Model
2 13 (24.07%) Ticket Management
3 12 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 12 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
4 10 (18.52%) Customer Experience
4 10 (18.52%) Mathematics
5 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (7.41%) Business Case
6 4 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (7.41%) Data Science
6 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
6 4 (7.41%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (5.56%) Agile
7 3 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.70%) Python
1 2 (3.70%) R
1 2 (3.70%) SQL
2 1 (1.85%) Bash
2 1 (1.85%) C#
2 1 (1.85%) C++
2 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (92.59%) SC Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) Dell Certification
3 8 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.70%) CCIE
5 2 (3.70%) CCNP
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) JNCIE
5 2 (3.70%) JNCIP
5 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.70%) MBA
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.85%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Ansible
1 1 (1.85%) Puppet
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Dell
2 10 (18.52%) HP
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco
3 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.70%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) Juniper
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce