HMG Security Policy Framework Contract Job Trends

HMG Security Policy Framework (SPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HMG Security Policy Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 552 582
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +219
Contract jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework 8 11 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.029% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.22% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 43
10th Percentile £453 £575 £503
25th Percentile £563 £625 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £673
90th Percentile £713 £690 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -42.31% +8.33% +6.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

HMG Security Policy Framework 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,857 5,047 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 13.42% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,746 2,937 4,562
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 253
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.26 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.71 £17.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.67 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -23.14% +45.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £79.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +72.22%

HMG Security Policy Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HMG Security Policy Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HMG Security Policy Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

HMG Security Policy Framework
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HMG Security Policy Framework in the UK

HMG Security Policy Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 16 October 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
England +18 8 £650 - 11
London +21 6 £650 +9.06%
Work from Home +22 2 £513 -21.15% 4
UK excluding London -22 1 £375 -42.31% 10
East of England - 1 £375 -

HMG Security Policy Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Asana
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Google Drive
4 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) DKIM
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DMARC
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Advisor
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (25.00%) SABSA
3 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SOQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CASP
3 2 (25.00%) CCSP
3 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (25.00%) CSSLP
3 2 (25.00%) GIAC
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) NCSC
3 2 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
4 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SELinux
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce