Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Security Clearance
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Lanarkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 20 4 119
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 83.33% 80.00% 73.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 100.00% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 64
10th Percentile £473 £370 £308
25th Percentile £550 £391 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year +41.86% -28.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £653 £466 £664
90th Percentile £828 £487 £700
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +27.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20 4 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 83.33% 80.00% 74.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 66
10th Percentile £473 £370 £313
25th Percentile £550 £391 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year +41.86% -28.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £653 £466 £671
90th Percentile £828 £487 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Lanarkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South Lanarkshire over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in South Lanarkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Security Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
East Kilbride 0 20 £610 +41.86% 2
Security Cleared
Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
1 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Military
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) OAT Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Security Advisor
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior User Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.00%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 5 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (25.00%) SIEM
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Open Source
5 2 (10.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bash
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle