Security Cleared Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Security Clearance
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 65 36 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.64% 14.81% 47.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.66% 39.56% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 20 134
10th Percentile £328 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -4.87% -9.60%
75th Percentile £612 £641 £684
90th Percentile £650 £650 £759
North East median daily rate £508 £538 £565
% change year-on-year -5.58% -4.87% -13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £33.09 -
% change year-on-year +7.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 99 91 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 40.57% 37.45% 54.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 42 154
10th Percentile £305 £313 £354
25th Percentile £403 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -9.69% +2.73%
75th Percentile £590 £634 £650
90th Percentile £650 £695 £752
North East median daily rate £500 £523 £565
% change year-on-year -4.31% -7.52% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £13.99 -
Median hourly rate £29.57 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.85% - -
75th Percentile £49.56 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.03 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £18.81 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.44% -57.61% -1.01%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Tyne and Wear

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 64 £538 - 31
Security Cleared
North East

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (10.77%) nginx
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.08%) Traefik
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 27 (41.54%) AWS
2 8 (12.31%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (9.23%) Kong
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.15%) IaaS
4 4 (6.15%) Serverless
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (4.62%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.08%) Figma
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) SSL
2 3 (4.62%) DNS
3 2 (3.08%) SMS
3 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.15%) Metadata
2 4 (6.15%) MySQL
3 3 (4.62%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Power BI
3 3 (4.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) GitLab
2 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.23%) Git
4 5 (7.69%) JIRA
5 4 (6.15%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.62%) gulp
6 3 (4.62%) Maven
6 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
6 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.54%) JUnit
7 1 (1.54%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 30 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Military
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Electronics
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Developer
2 10 (15.38%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Analyst
3 7 (10.77%) Architect
3 7 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Lead
4 6 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) Node.js
2 9 (13.85%) Kafka
3 5 (7.69%) Spring
3 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.15%) CSS
4 4 (6.15%) HTML
4 4 (6.15%) Jest
4 4 (6.15%) React
4 4 (6.15%) Sass
5 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.62%) Dropwizard
5 3 (4.62%) Express.js
5 3 (4.62%) JAX-RS
5 3 (4.62%) MEAN Stack
5 3 (4.62%) MERN Stack
5 3 (4.62%) Mongoose
5 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.62%) REST
5 3 (4.62%) Sequelize
5 3 (4.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.62%) PKI
2 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) CentOS
3 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Android
4 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) DevOps
2 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (12.31%) Agile
3 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
4 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
4 7 (10.77%) Migration
5 6 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (9.23%) ETL
5 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
6 5 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 5 (7.69%) Microservices
7 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis
7 4 (6.15%) Front End Development
7 4 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (6.15%) Software Delivery
7 4 (6.15%) TDD
7 4 (6.15%) Test Strategy
7 4 (6.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Java
2 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.77%) SQL
4 6 (9.23%) Python
5 4 (6.15%) Groovy
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) ABAP
7 2 (3.08%) Bash
7 2 (3.08%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) PHP
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) WCAG
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 11 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.69%) Grafana
3 5 (7.69%) Packer
3 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.15%) Ansible
5 2 (3.08%) Consul
5 2 (3.08%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.08%) Istio
5 2 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (3.08%) linkerd
5 2 (3.08%) Rancher
5 2 (3.08%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.54%) Kibana
6 1 (1.54%) logstash
6 1 (1.54%) SCCM
6 1 (1.54%) VxRail
6 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Databricks
2 5 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 5 (7.69%) SAP
3 3 (4.62%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Apple
4 2 (3.08%) ESET
4 2 (3.08%) Okta
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
4 2 (3.08%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) F5
5 1 (1.54%) HP
5 1 (1.54%) Juniper
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Pega
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat