Security Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,815 1,436 1,379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.21% 25.47% 17.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.88% 69.98% 56.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 956 897
10th Percentile £388 £325 £375
25th Percentile £475 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -3.23% +14.21%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £650
90th Percentile £738 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 83 43
10th Percentile £21.79 £23.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.53 £20.01
Median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +32.63% +20.25%
75th Percentile £80.00 £72.44 £64.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.50 £79.60
England median hourly rate £56.15 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.00% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,424 2,052 2,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.35% 36.39% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,344 1,574
10th Percentile £334 £300 £313
25th Percentile £449 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% +4.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 132 82
10th Percentile £17.00 £20.62 £18.53
25th Percentile £26.05 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +32.12% +5.88%
75th Percentile £67.01 £70.00 £54.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.68 £67.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Hampshire 0 996 £600 +9.09% 219
Thames Valley +1 726 £563 +12.50% 243
Berkshire +2 568 £585 +2.63% 169
Buckinghamshire 0 149 £510 +10.41% 50
Surrey +9 58 £625 +5.26% 41
West Sussex -19 17 £563 -2.17% 20
Kent +6 9 £294 -0.34% 5
Oxfordshire -6 9 £650 +44.44% 24
M4 Corridor - 4 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 - 1
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England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.21%) Confluence
3 19 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
5 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.055%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) Moodle
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.61%) Simulink
4 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.28%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.055%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.055%) Blender
8 1 (0.055%) Stata
Business Applications
1 29 (1.60%) Primavera
2 27 (1.49%) SAP QM
3 22 (1.21%) SAP EWM
4 10 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.50%) SAP HR
6 8 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
10 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.055%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.055%) SAP FI-CA
11 1 (0.055%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 179 (9.86%) Azure
2 101 (5.56%) AWS
3 43 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (1.54%) OpenShift
5 27 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 18 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (0.94%) Azure Storage
9 16 (0.88%) GitHub
9 16 (0.88%) OCI
9 16 (0.88%) Power Platform
10 9 (0.50%) IaaS
11 8 (0.44%) GCP
11 8 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.33%) Boomi
12 6 (0.33%) PaaS
13 5 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.28%) Serverless
14 4 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 170 (9.37%) Firewall
2 111 (6.12%) WAN
3 99 (5.45%) LAN
4 88 (4.85%) DNS
5 75 (4.13%) SSL
6 65 (3.58%) DHCP
7 57 (3.14%) BGP
8 52 (2.87%) SAN
9 45 (2.48%) VPN
10 39 (2.15%) Network Security
11 37 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
12 32 (1.76%) MPLS
13 29 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
14 27 (1.49%) OSPF
15 26 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.32%) TCP/IP
17 23 (1.27%) EIGRP
18 22 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
20 20 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 17 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (0.72%) MySQL
5 13 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.50%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) MariaDB
8 7 (0.39%) Metadata
9 6 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) DB2
12 3 (0.17%) IDMS
13 2 (0.11%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.11%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 48 (2.64%) Jenkins
2 41 (2.26%) Git
3 39 (2.15%) GitLab
4 38 (2.09%) JIRA
5 32 (1.76%) Selenium
6 25 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.27%) Robot Framework
9 20 (1.10%) TestRail
10 14 (0.77%) MSI
10 14 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.33%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.28%) ClearCase
14 5 (0.28%) ClearQuest
14 5 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 295 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 264 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 120 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.64%) Finance
5 56 (3.09%) Aerospace
6 46 (2.53%) Military
7 44 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.27%) Law
10 18 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (0.83%) Electronics
12 14 (0.77%) Aviation
13 13 (0.72%) Police
14 7 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.17%) Advertising
16 3 (0.17%) Aeronautics
16 3 (0.17%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 479 (26.39%) Architect
2 163 (8.98%) Senior
3 136 (7.49%) Network Architect
4 119 (6.56%) Consultant
5 107 (5.90%) Developer
6 103 (5.67%) Network Engineer
7 98 (5.40%) Analyst
8 82 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 82 (4.52%) Security Architect
9 75 (4.13%) Infrastructure Architect
10 67 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.53%) SAP Consultant
12 50 (2.75%) Lead
12 50 (2.75%) Project Manager
13 42 (2.31%) Administrator
14 41 (2.26%) Support Specialist
15 38 (2.09%) Security Engineer
16 37 (2.04%) Service Architect
17 36 (1.98%) Systems Administrator
18 33 (1.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.70%) Web Services
2 33 (1.82%) REST
3 30 (1.65%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.38%) Java EE
5 23 (1.27%) .NET
6 22 (1.21%) HTML
7 14 (0.77%) ASP.NET
7 14 (0.77%) Kafka
8 13 (0.72%) Flash
8 13 (0.72%) Itk
9 12 (0.66%) CSS
10 10 (0.55%) Node.js
11 9 (0.50%) SAP Basis
12 7 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.33%) React
13 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (0.28%) Keycloak
14 5 (0.28%) LDAP
15 4 (0.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.32%) PKI
2 44 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 41 (2.26%) Driving Licence
3 41 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 31 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 23 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 22 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 18 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (0.83%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.61%) Clustering
12 11 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.55%) FPGA
13 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.44%) Replication
15 7 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
16 6 (0.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 296 (16.31%) Windows
2 209 (11.52%) Linux
3 153 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 89 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 61 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 58 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 53 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (2.09%) Windows 7
10 23 (1.27%) Unix
11 19 (1.05%) Windows NT
12 14 (0.77%) AIX
12 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.77%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.61%) Debian
14 8 (0.44%) VMS
15 3 (0.17%) Solaris
15 3 (0.17%) zOS
16 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (16.86%) Agile
2 217 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (10.19%) DevOps
4 160 (8.82%) ITIL
5 115 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 113 (6.23%) Project Management
7 107 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
8 102 (5.62%) Service Management
9 99 (5.45%) Customer Requirements
10 95 (5.23%) Software Engineering
11 93 (5.12%) Test Automation
12 82 (4.52%) SIEM
13 79 (4.35%) Network Design
14 75 (4.13%) Customer Service
15 73 (4.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (3.97%) Prototyping
17 69 (3.80%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (3.80%) Technical Leadership
18 67 (3.69%) Project Delivery
18 67 (3.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 167 (9.20%) PowerShell
2 123 (6.78%) Python
3 81 (4.46%) Java
4 62 (3.42%) SQL
5 48 (2.64%) C#
6 40 (2.20%) C++
7 36 (1.98%) VBScript
8 31 (1.71%) C
9 23 (1.27%) Bash
9 23 (1.27%) JavaScript
10 19 (1.05%) VB
11 18 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.94%) Bicep
13 14 (0.77%) PHP
13 14 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.61%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.39%) Go
16 5 (0.28%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.28%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 863 (47.55%) DV Cleared
2 824 (45.40%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.21%) Degree
4 58 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (2.64%) CCNP
6 34 (1.87%) CCNA
7 30 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.32%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 18 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (0.66%) CISM
13 11 (0.61%) MCSE
14 10 (0.55%) ISEB
14 10 (0.55%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.50%) JNCIA
15 9 (0.50%) JNCIS
16 8 (0.44%) APMP
16 8 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.70%) SLA
2 34 (1.87%) QA
3 30 (1.65%) NIST
4 20 (1.10%) NIST 800
5 16 (0.88%) PMO
6 11 (0.61%) RMADS
7 9 (0.50%) NCSC
8 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.33%) GDPR
10 5 (0.28%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.28%) ISO 9000
11 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.17%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 1 (0.055%) WCAG
System Software
1 213 (11.74%) Active Directory
2 129 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 40 (2.20%) Firmware
5 32 (1.76%) VMware NSX
6 29 (1.60%) Docker
6 29 (1.60%) vSphere
7 22 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.055%) LXC
12 1 (0.055%) NFS
12 1 (0.055%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.055%) UAG
12 1 (0.055%) vCloud
12 1 (0.055%) XenApp
12 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 120 (6.61%) Ansible
2 103 (5.67%) SCCM
3 85 (4.68%) Terraform
4 79 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 76 (4.19%) WSUS
6 43 (2.37%) SCOM
7 28 (1.54%) Endace
8 26 (1.43%) FortiGate
9 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 19 (1.05%) Sysprep
13 18 (0.99%) Grafana
14 16 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
14 16 (0.88%) Istio
14 16 (0.88%) Nessus
15 15 (0.83%) WMI
16 14 (0.77%) Argo
16 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 336 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 205 (11.29%) VMware
3 186 (10.25%) Cisco
4 165 (9.09%) Juniper
5 85 (4.68%) SAP
6 67 (3.69%) Oracle
7 59 (3.25%) HP
8 54 (2.98%) Fortinet
9 53 (2.92%) F5
10 51 (2.81%) Red Hat
11 42 (2.31%) Palo Alto
12 41 (2.26%) Dell
13 31 (1.71%) IBM
14 25 (1.38%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.16%) EMC
16 20 (1.10%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.10%) Veeam
17 16 (0.88%) ArcSight
18 15 (0.83%) 3PAR
18 15 (0.83%) Symantec