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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 60 37 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.90% 15.35% 47.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.50% 39.78% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 123
10th Percentile £328 £357 £400
25th Percentile £458 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -4.87% +0.44%
75th Percentile £608 £641 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £760
North East median daily rate £500 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% -3.83%
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 96 93 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 38.25% 38.59% 53.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 41 140
10th Percentile £305 £335 £350
25th Percentile £390 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.50% +7.62%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £758
North East median daily rate £480 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -4.05% -11.46% +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 9 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 9 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 +1 59 £520 -3.26% 26
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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
1 4 (6.67%) nginx
2 2 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (11.67%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) Kong
4 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.67%) IaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.33%) Figma
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.67%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (3.33%) SMS
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) MySQL
2 3 (5.00%) Metadata
2 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Tableau
3 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) GitLab
2 6 (10.00%) Git
3 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.33%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.00%) gulp
5 3 (5.00%) Maven
5 3 (5.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) JUnit
6 1 (1.67%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 29 (48.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Military
5 3 (5.00%) Electronics
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 7 (11.67%) Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Lead
3 6 (10.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Node.js
2 6 (10.00%) Kafka
3 5 (8.33%) Spring
3 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) CSS
4 4 (6.67%) HTML
4 4 (6.67%) Jest
4 4 (6.67%) React
4 4 (6.67%) Sass
5 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.00%) Apache CXF
5 3 (5.00%) Dropwizard
5 3 (5.00%) Express.js
5 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.00%) JAX-RS
5 3 (5.00%) MEAN Stack
5 3 (5.00%) MERN Stack
5 3 (5.00%) Mongoose
5 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.00%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.00%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.67%) FPGA
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.67%) VMS
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.00%) Agile
2 9 (15.00%) DevOps
3 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (11.67%) Migration
3 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
4 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (10.00%) ETL
5 5 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (8.33%) Microservices
5 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.67%) Front End Development
6 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (6.67%) Software Delivery
6 4 (6.67%) Test Strategy
6 4 (6.67%) User Experience
6 4 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Java
2 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.33%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.33%) ABAP
8 1 (1.67%) C
8 1 (1.67%) PHP
8 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (81.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) WCAG
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (5.00%) Packer
5 2 (3.33%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Kibana
6 1 (1.67%) logstash
6 1 (1.67%) SCCM
6 1 (1.67%) VxRail
6 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Databricks
2 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.33%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle