Government Security Classifications Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.25% - 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.49% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £571
25th Percentile - - £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £595
75th Percentile - - £599
90th Percentile - - £606
South East median daily rate - £475 £595
% change year-on-year - -20.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 74 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 16.54% 17.21% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 107
10th Percentile £256 £154 £158
25th Percentile £400 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £560
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.04% +23.08%
75th Percentile £632 £545 £644
90th Percentile £688 £693 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £33.10 £21.85 £19.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £70.16 £24.18 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year +190.16% -64.05% -
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £75.98 £56.69 -
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £50.00 £52.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -5.32% +151.46%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Government Security Classifications job vacancy trend in Surrey

Government Security Classifications
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Government Security Classifications within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Horley - 1 - -
Government Security Classifications
South East

Government Security Classifications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft