Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Security Clearance
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 30 54 51
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 19.11% 40.00% 32.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.18% 78.26% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 27
10th Percentile £401 £165 £194
25th Percentile £456 £420 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +14.72% -9.55%
75th Percentile £684 £611 £609
90th Percentile £730 £720 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £53.85 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.25 £24.66 £62.50
% change year-on-year +128.10% -60.54% +0.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 61 69 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 38.85% 51.11% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 32
10th Percentile £127 £175 £200
25th Percentile £403 £344 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £620 £601 £600
90th Percentile £701 £686 £649
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £538 £597
% change year-on-year +6.98% -9.93% +13.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £12.71 - -
25th Percentile £14.79 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £29.26 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +166.67%
75th Percentile £53.44 - -
90th Percentile £61.75 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +106.76% -56.15% -7.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Southampton

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Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Southampton over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Southampton

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Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Batch
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Intranet
1 1 (3.33%) MQTT
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) QGIS
2 1 (3.33%) Redis
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) CMake
3 1 (3.33%) GoogleTest
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) NUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Advertising
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Safety Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 2 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) Keycloak
1 2 (6.67%) WinForms
1 2 (6.67%) WPF
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) Flask
2 1 (3.33%) gRPC
2 1 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) pytest
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) CAN bus
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (10.00%) ERP
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.67%) Business Forecasting
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.67%) Microservices
6 2 (6.67%) Planning and Forecasting
6 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) Secure Coding
6 2 (6.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) C#
3 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Bicep
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) Embedded C++
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Rust
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) APMP
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Grafana
2 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Argo
3 1 (3.33%) Podman
3 1 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Rancher
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (6.67%) Databricks
2 2 (6.67%) IFS
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (3.33%) Siemens
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Tenable
3 1 (3.33%) VMware