Clearswift Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Clearswift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Clearswift products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clearswift over the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Clearswift Limited.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 379 420
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 +92
Contract jobs citing Clearswift 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.006% 0.042%
As % of the Vendors category 0.027% 0.013% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £331
25th Percentile £825 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £413
75th Percentile £875 - £450
90th Percentile - - £488
UK median daily rate £850 - £413

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Clearswift falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,444 7,883 9,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.72% 44.43% 46.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,615 4,533 6,410
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £392 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 547 507
10th Percentile £14.54 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.10 £15.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.35 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -29.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £40.55 £64.18 £60.63
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.87% +83.35%

Clearswift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clearswift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clearswift in the UK excluding London

Clearswift
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clearswift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clearswift

Clearswift
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clearswift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clearswift

Clearswift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clearswift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
East of England - 2 £850 - 1
Clearswift
UK

Clearswift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Istio