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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,883 1,547 1,441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.84% 26.51% 18.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.38% 70.61% 57.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,052 912
10th Percentile £388 £332 £375
25th Percentile £475 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% +0.96% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £719 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 92 54
10th Percentile £22.52 £20.52 £19.52
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.48 £21.05
Median hourly rate £61.65 £62.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +31.68% +35.70%
75th Percentile £79.78 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £75.00 £69.34
England median hourly rate £56.15 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.00% +17.65%

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 2,498 2,191 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.89% 37.54% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,444 1,591
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £438 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £618
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 146 87
10th Percentile £17.53 £21.50 £19.52
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +28.17% +11.81%
75th Percentile £66.94 £68.75 £57.00
90th Percentile £85.29 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 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
Hampshire 0 972 £600 +9.09% 192
Thames Valley 0 796 £561 +10.05% 179
Berkshire +2 637 £575 -1.88% 120
Buckinghamshire 0 152 £525 +14.13% 34
Surrey +9 69 £613 +2.08% 56
West Sussex -12 22 £524 -8.96% 12
Kent +10 13 £294 -2.00% 8
Oxfordshire -11 7 £650 +40.54% 25
M4 Corridor - 5 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
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England

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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 35 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.22%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.053%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.053%) Moodle
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.053%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.053%) Site Server
9 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
Applications
1 79 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.58%) Simulink
4 9 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.053%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.053%) Blender
Business Applications
1 26 (1.38%) Primavera
1 26 (1.38%) SAP QM
2 20 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.58%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.42%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
8 4 (0.21%) SAP BRIM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.16%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP PLM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.11%) SAP PS
11 1 (0.053%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
11 1 (0.053%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 175 (9.29%) Azure
2 111 (5.89%) AWS
3 55 (2.92%) IaaS
4 49 (2.60%) PaaS
5 47 (2.50%) SaaS
6 36 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.22%) GitHub
9 22 (1.17%) Entra ID
10 21 (1.12%) OpenShift
11 17 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 16 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (0.80%) Azure Storage
14 14 (0.74%) OCI
15 11 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
16 9 (0.48%) GCP
17 8 (0.42%) Boomi
17 8 (0.42%) Serverless
18 7 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
19 6 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 164 (8.71%) Firewall
2 106 (5.63%) WAN
3 103 (5.47%) LAN
4 86 (4.57%) DNS
5 74 (3.93%) SSL
6 62 (3.29%) DHCP
7 61 (3.24%) BGP
8 56 (2.97%) SAN
9 48 (2.55%) 5G
10 47 (2.50%) Broadband
11 46 (2.44%) VPN
12 38 (2.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 34 (1.81%) Network Security
14 33 (1.75%) OSPF
15 31 (1.65%) MPLS
16 30 (1.59%) TCP/IP
17 29 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
18 28 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (1.33%) EIGRP
20 21 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 18 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
5 15 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (0.69%) MySQL
7 12 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.48%) Metadata
9 7 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.21%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.16%) DB2
13 3 (0.16%) IDMS
13 3 (0.16%) Power BI
13 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (2.55%) Jenkins
2 44 (2.34%) Git
3 38 (2.02%) GitLab
4 37 (1.96%) JIRA
5 32 (1.70%) Selenium
6 25 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.27%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.22%) Robot Framework
8 23 (1.22%) TestRail
9 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.69%) MSI
11 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.27%) ClearCase
14 5 (0.27%) ClearQuest
14 5 (0.27%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 303 (16.09%) Social Skills
2 265 (14.07%) Public Sector
3 119 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
5 70 (3.72%) Finance
5 70 (3.72%) Law
6 58 (3.08%) Aerospace
7 45 (2.39%) Military
8 29 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 21 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (0.90%) Electronics
11 15 (0.80%) Police
12 14 (0.74%) Aviation
13 10 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.32%) Marketing
15 5 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.27%) Legal
15 5 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.21%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 477 (25.33%) Architect
2 158 (8.39%) Senior
3 130 (6.90%) Network Architect
4 125 (6.64%) Consultant
5 120 (6.37%) Developer
6 103 (5.47%) Network Engineer
7 97 (5.15%) Analyst
8 83 (4.41%) Security Architect
9 75 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 73 (3.88%) Infrastructure Architect
11 70 (3.72%) SAP Consultant
12 69 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
13 55 (2.92%) Lead
13 55 (2.92%) Tester
14 47 (2.50%) Penetration Tester
14 47 (2.50%) Security Penetration Tester
14 47 (2.50%) Security Specialist
14 47 (2.50%) Security Tester
14 47 (2.50%) Testing Specialist
15 45 (2.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.26%) Web Services
2 34 (1.81%) REST
3 27 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.33%) Java EE
5 24 (1.27%) .NET
6 23 (1.22%) HTML
7 15 (0.80%) ASP.NET
8 13 (0.69%) Flash
8 13 (0.69%) Itk
8 13 (0.69%) Node.js
9 12 (0.64%) CSS
10 10 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.53%) Kafka
11 8 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.37%) React
12 7 (0.37%) RESTful
12 7 (0.37%) SOAP
12 7 (0.37%) Spring
12 7 (0.37%) YAML
13 6 (0.32%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.70%) PKI
2 48 (2.55%) Mobile App
3 47 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 42 (2.23%) Driving Licence
5 39 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
6 34 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
8 29 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 28 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 20 (1.06%) Client/Server
13 19 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.64%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.58%) Clustering
16 11 (0.58%) FPGA
17 10 (0.53%) Cloud Native
17 10 (0.53%) CMDB
17 10 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 291 (15.45%) Windows
2 203 (10.78%) Linux
3 141 (7.49%) Windows Server
4 95 (5.05%) Windows 10
5 83 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 61 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 59 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (2.39%) Windows 7
10 21 (1.12%) Windows NT
11 20 (1.06%) Unix
12 19 (1.01%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.85%) Debian
14 13 (0.69%) AIX
15 12 (0.64%) Windows XP
16 8 (0.42%) VMS
17 3 (0.16%) Solaris
17 3 (0.16%) zOS
18 1 (0.053%) CentOS
18 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (15.99%) Agile
2 220 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (9.56%) DevOps
4 170 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
5 165 (8.76%) ITIL
6 114 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 108 (5.74%) Service Management
8 107 (5.68%) Customer Requirements
8 107 (5.68%) Project Management
9 105 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 93 (4.94%) SIEM
10 93 (4.94%) Software Engineering
10 93 (4.94%) Test Automation
11 87 (4.62%) Customer Service
12 76 (4.04%) Network Design
13 73 (3.88%) Prototyping
13 73 (3.88%) Scrum
14 70 (3.72%) Technical Leadership
15 69 (3.66%) Security Architecture
16 64 (3.40%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (7.97%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.32%) Python
3 83 (4.41%) Java
4 66 (3.51%) SQL
5 47 (2.50%) C#
6 35 (1.86%) C++
7 33 (1.75%) VBScript
8 29 (1.54%) C
9 28 (1.49%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.06%) Bash
10 20 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.85%) VB
12 15 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.74%) Bicep
13 14 (0.74%) PHP
14 11 (0.58%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
15 5 (0.27%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.21%) Ada
16 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 854 (45.35%) SC Cleared
2 846 (44.93%) DV Cleared
3 153 (8.13%) Degree
4 57 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (2.71%) CCNP
6 47 (2.50%) CREST Certified
6 47 (2.50%) GIAC
6 47 (2.50%) GPEN
6 47 (2.50%) OSCP
6 47 (2.50%) SANS
7 40 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.59%) CCNA
9 27 (1.43%) ISTQB
10 23 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 16 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 14 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (0.64%) JNCIS
14 10 (0.53%) MCSE
14 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.88%) NCSC
2 52 (2.76%) GDPR
3 50 (2.66%) SLA
4 47 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 37 (1.96%) QA
6 29 (1.54%) NIST
7 25 (1.33%) RMADS
8 20 (1.06%) NIST 800
9 16 (0.85%) PMO
10 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.32%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 9000
14 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 3 (0.16%) DO-178B
15 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
16 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.11%) IEC 61508
16 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 204 (10.83%) Active Directory
2 119 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.34%) Firmware
4 32 (1.70%) Docker
5 30 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.59%) vSphere
6 23 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.11%) UAG
10 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) XenApp
10 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.053%) LXC
11 1 (0.053%) NFS
11 1 (0.053%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.053%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 111 (5.89%) Ansible
2 108 (5.74%) SCCM
3 76 (4.04%) Terraform
4 69 (3.66%) Kubernetes
5 66 (3.51%) WSUS
6 41 (2.18%) SCOM
7 27 (1.43%) FortiGate
8 24 (1.27%) Endace
9 22 (1.17%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (1.12%) Sysprep
11 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (0.96%) vRealize
13 17 (0.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 16 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
14 16 (0.85%) Nessus
15 14 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.74%) WMI
16 12 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
16 12 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 330 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 192 (10.20%) VMware
3 190 (10.09%) Cisco
4 157 (8.34%) Juniper
5 97 (5.15%) SAP
6 76 (4.04%) Oracle
7 68 (3.61%) HP
8 58 (3.08%) Fortinet
8 58 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 47 (2.50%) Virgin Media
10 42 (2.23%) Palo Alto
11 41 (2.18%) Dell
12 38 (2.02%) F5
13 31 (1.65%) ServiceNow
14 25 (1.33%) IBM
15 21 (1.12%) EMC
16 19 (1.01%) SolarWinds
17 18 (0.96%) Veeam
18 17 (0.90%) ArcSight
19 16 (0.85%) 3PAR