Government Security Classifications Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 3.13% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 34.38% 12.50% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £314 - £365
25th Percentile £325 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £375 £488 £581
90th Percentile £386 - £615
Staffordshire median daily rate £410 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -13.68% - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.50 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £10.93
75th Percentile £20.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £20.00 - £15.90
% change year-on-year - - -29.05%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Government Security Classifications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Government Security Classifications job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Government Security Classifications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft