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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 555 615
Rank change year-on-year +9 +60 +201
Contract jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework 7 8 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.021% 0.087%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.16% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 29
10th Percentile £494 £567 £510
25th Percentile £631 £604 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.29%
75th Percentile £731 £681 £673
90th Percentile £750 £693 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £648
% change year-on-year -42.31% +0.39% +18.16%

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 5,600 5,146 7,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 13.40% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,584 3,077 4,815
10th Percentile £300 £282 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -3.14% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 262 249
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -22.60% +41.64%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.83 £70.00 £78.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.54 £26.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -24.29% +66.47%

HMG Security Policy Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HMG Security Policy Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HMG Security Policy Framework in the UK

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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 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HMG Security Policy Framework in the UK

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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 14 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
England +9 7 £650 - 12
London +18 6 £650 +9.06% 2
Work from Home +15 2 £513 -21.15% 10
UK excluding London -5 1 £375 -42.31% 14
East of England - 1 £375 -

HMG Security Policy Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Asana
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Google Drive
5 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DKIM
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) DMARC
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Debt
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) BPMN
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
3 2 (28.57%) SABSA
3 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) VB
4 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) CASP
1 2 (28.57%) CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) CREST Certified
1 2 (28.57%) CSSLP
1 2 (28.57%) GIAC
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 22301
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SELinux
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce