Security Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 4,988 5,216 4,427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.49% 22.19% 14.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.54% 67.49% 55.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,613 2,885
10th Percentile £340 £357 £359
25th Percentile £460 £455 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.78%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 416 280
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.31 £19.03
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.88 £22.14
Median hourly rate £58.00 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £63.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.09 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.86% +14.29% +25.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,496 7,729 8,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.81% 32.89% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,169 5,225
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 630 538
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.99 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £63.52 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.86
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.14% +14.47%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
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 Security Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
South East 0 1,823 £590 +12.38% 519
South West 0 1,550 £550 -8.33% 457
North of England -2 596 £525 -4.55% 255
Midlands +4 503 £500 -7.83% 169
North West -1 426 £525 - 194
West Midlands +4 370 £485 -10.19% 118
Scotland +19 276 £550 +22.22% 104
East of England -1 243 £550 - 148
East Midlands -1 132 £550 -6.38% 50
Yorkshire +1 127 £525 -12.50% 40
Wales -6 50 £600 +9.09% 15
North East -3 45 £525 -7.04% 21
Northern Ireland +16 13 £506 +58.20% 21
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
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:

Application Platforms
1 181 (3.63%) Confluence
2 153 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 93 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.42%) CMS
6 15 (0.30%) Apache
7 10 (0.20%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) CICS
9 6 (0.12%) IIS
10 4 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.080%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2000
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2003
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.080%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.060%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 212 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 112 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.44%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.30%) Simulink
8 13 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.10%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Blender
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (0.70%) Primavera
2 28 (0.56%) Teamcenter
3 27 (0.54%) SAP QM
4 26 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 23 (0.46%) SAP EWM
6 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 17 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.10%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.080%) CA PPM
11 4 (0.080%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.060%) Infor M3
12 3 (0.060%) Maximo
12 3 (0.060%) SAP BRIM
12 3 (0.060%) SAP Hybris
12 3 (0.060%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.060%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 3 (0.060%) SAP PLM
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 444 (8.90%) Azure
2 313 (6.28%) AWS
3 128 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (1.78%) Power Platform
5 65 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (1.22%) PaaS
7 56 (1.12%) SaaS
8 52 (1.04%) Entra ID
9 50 (1.00%) IaaS
10 42 (0.84%) OpenShift
11 38 (0.76%) GitHub
12 36 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
13 35 (0.70%) Azure Stack
14 34 (0.68%) Power Automate
15 30 (0.60%) Amazon S3
16 29 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (0.56%) GCP
18 25 (0.50%) OCI
18 25 (0.50%) PowerApps
18 25 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 363 (7.28%) Firewall
2 280 (5.61%) WAN
3 187 (3.75%) LAN
4 172 (3.45%) BGP
5 169 (3.39%) VPN
6 162 (3.25%) DNS
7 139 (2.79%) Network Security
8 115 (2.31%) MPLS
9 108 (2.17%) DHCP
10 98 (1.96%) IPsec
11 88 (1.76%) SAN
12 86 (1.72%) SSL
13 72 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
14 57 (1.14%) OSPF
15 55 (1.10%) TCP/IP
16 54 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
16 54 (1.08%) Junos
16 54 (1.08%) Wireless
17 51 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
18 49 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 83 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (1.00%) Power BI
4 46 (0.92%) Oracle Database
4 46 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 44 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (0.72%) MySQL
7 29 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 27 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (0.48%) Metadata
10 21 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (0.36%) Big Data
13 16 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
13 16 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
14 13 (0.26%) Tableau
15 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 11 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 283 (5.67%) JIRA
2 134 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 118 (2.37%) Git
4 85 (1.70%) GitLab
5 63 (1.26%) Visual Studio
6 54 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
7 49 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.96%) Selenium
9 44 (0.88%) PVCS
10 39 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 25 (0.50%) TestRail
13 24 (0.48%) Robot Framework
14 19 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 19 (0.38%) JUnit
14 19 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (0.36%) JMeter
16 15 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 955 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 900 (18.04%) Public Sector
3 388 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.63%) Finance
5 198 (3.97%) Telecoms
6 186 (3.73%) Aerospace
7 127 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 121 (2.43%) Electronics
8 121 (2.43%) Military
9 97 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 85 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (1.38%) Legal
11 69 (1.38%) Marketing
12 41 (0.82%) Police
13 33 (0.66%) Law
14 27 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (0.46%) Aviation
16 22 (0.44%) Retail
17 19 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 982 (19.69%) Architect
2 458 (9.18%) Analyst
3 352 (7.06%) Senior
4 314 (6.30%) Developer
5 279 (5.59%) Lead
6 267 (5.35%) Consultant
7 246 (4.93%) Network Engineer
8 217 (4.35%) Network Architect
9 201 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 201 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 160 (3.21%) Project Manager
11 117 (2.35%) Administrator
12 116 (2.33%) Support Engineer
13 112 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 107 (2.15%) Security Architect
15 105 (2.11%) Lead Architect
16 104 (2.09%) Service Analyst
17 103 (2.06%) SOC Analyst
18 100 (2.00%) Software Engineer
19 97 (1.94%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (1.92%) REST
2 88 (1.76%) Web Services
3 77 (1.54%) .NET
4 62 (1.24%) Node.js
5 57 (1.14%) Spring
6 54 (1.08%) React
7 42 (0.84%) HTML
7 42 (0.84%) Spring Boot
8 35 (0.70%) .NET Core
8 35 (0.70%) CSS
9 33 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 31 (0.62%) XML
11 26 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
11 26 (0.52%) RESTful
12 25 (0.50%) Java EE
13 23 (0.46%) JPA
14 22 (0.44%) AngularJS
14 22 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (0.42%) Hibernate
16 20 (0.40%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 316 (6.34%) PKI
2 167 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 148 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 111 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
5 102 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
6 92 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
7 81 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 79 (1.58%) Private Cloud
9 73 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 61 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 54 (1.08%) Driving Licence
12 51 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (0.84%) Onboarding
13 42 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 40 (0.80%) CSOC
15 39 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
16 37 (0.74%) Analogue Electronics
16 37 (0.74%) Clustering
16 37 (0.74%) CMDB
17 35 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 761 (15.26%) Windows
2 513 (10.28%) Linux
3 255 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 172 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 96 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 96 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 80 (1.60%) Windows 7
7 72 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 71 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 61 (1.22%) Unix
10 54 (1.08%) Apple iOS
11 47 (0.94%) Android
12 30 (0.60%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.44%) Solaris
14 21 (0.42%) AIX
15 20 (0.40%) Windows NT
16 17 (0.34%) Windows Vista
17 16 (0.32%) Debian
17 16 (0.32%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (15.38%) Agile
2 577 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
3 475 (9.52%) ITIL
4 472 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
5 434 (8.70%) DevOps
6 387 (7.76%) Project Management
7 330 (6.62%) Service Management
8 313 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 284 (5.69%) SIEM
10 271 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 252 (5.05%) Software Engineering
12 229 (4.59%) Customer Service
13 206 (4.13%) CI/CD
14 195 (3.91%) Project Delivery
15 191 (3.83%) Network Management
16 189 (3.79%) Mentoring
17 180 (3.61%) Risk Management
18 179 (3.59%) Configuration Management
19 175 (3.51%) Migration
20 174 (3.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 299 (5.99%) Python
2 294 (5.89%) PowerShell
3 218 (4.37%) Java
4 189 (3.79%) SQL
5 146 (2.93%) C
6 106 (2.13%) C#
7 97 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 87 (1.74%) C++
9 76 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 61 (1.22%) Bash
11 34 (0.68%) VBScript
12 32 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 26 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.52%) TypeScript
15 25 (0.50%) Go
16 23 (0.46%) Bicep
17 18 (0.36%) Embedded C
17 18 (0.36%) VB
18 15 (0.30%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2,845 (57.04%) SC Cleared
2 1,879 (37.67%) DV Cleared
3 377 (7.56%) Degree
4 154 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 136 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 101 (2.02%) CCNP
7 86 (1.72%) CCNA
8 75 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (1.34%) CISSP
10 52 (1.04%) CISM
11 42 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (0.72%) APMP
14 35 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (0.62%) MCSA
16 29 (0.58%) MCSE
16 29 (0.58%) PMP
17 27 (0.54%) HND
17 27 (0.54%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.52%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (3.13%) SLA
2 140 (2.81%) NIST
3 112 (2.25%) QA
4 96 (1.92%) PMO
5 87 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.14%) GDPR
6 57 (1.14%) NCSC
7 53 (1.06%) NIST 800
8 47 (0.94%) JSP 440
9 41 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
10 33 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
11 29 (0.58%) RMADS
12 28 (0.56%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.46%) Accessibility
14 21 (0.42%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 13 (0.26%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
19 10 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 401 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 234 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (2.51%) Docker
4 86 (1.72%) VMware NSX
5 79 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 74 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 73 (1.46%) vSphere
8 64 (1.28%) Firmware
9 40 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
10 20 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.16%) KVM
12 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.10%) iptables
14 4 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.080%) XenApp
14 4 (0.080%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 227 (4.55%) Ansible
2 187 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 178 (3.57%) Terraform
4 163 (3.27%) SCCM
5 83 (1.66%) WSUS
6 77 (1.54%) vCenter Server
7 75 (1.50%) SCOM
8 55 (1.10%) Grafana
9 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 37 (0.74%) Prometheus
11 35 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
12 28 (0.56%) Endace
12 28 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 27 (0.54%) NetBackup
13 27 (0.54%) vRealize
14 25 (0.50%) PowerCLI
15 23 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
15 23 (0.46%) VxRail
16 20 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 829 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 410 (8.22%) VMware
3 352 (7.06%) Cisco
4 284 (5.69%) Juniper
5 206 (4.13%) SAP
6 132 (2.65%) Oracle
7 123 (2.47%) Atlassian
8 114 (2.29%) Dell
9 113 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 110 (2.21%) HP
11 82 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 79 (1.58%) IBM
12 79 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 68 (1.36%) Fortinet
14 56 (1.12%) F5
15 53 (1.06%) Citrix
16 46 (0.92%) SolarWinds
17 39 (0.78%) Google
18 38 (0.76%) EMC
19 37 (0.74%) Veeam