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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Security Clearance UK |
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6 months to
16 Nov 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
12 |
16 |
16 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
0 |
-4 |
| Contract jobs citing Security Cleared |
8,200 |
8,667 |
7,840 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
9.84% |
8.34% |
7.62% |
| As % of the Qualifications category |
48.38% |
44.51% |
40.45% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4,987 |
5,083 |
4,623 |
| UK median daily rate |
£476 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.67% |
+5.88% |
+2.41% |
| 10th Percentile |
£291 |
£269 |
£220 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£596 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£463 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+9.05% |
+6.25% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
472 |
437 |
453 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£40.50 |
£32.50 |
£32.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+24.62% |
+1.56% |
-1.77% |
| 10th Percentile |
£16.25 |
£13.00 |
£13.51 |
| 90th Percentile |
£64.88 |
£50.50 |
£50.74 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.50 |
£35.00 |
£35.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+15.71% |
- |
+9.38% |
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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.
| All Academic and Professional Certifications UK |
| Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications |
16,950 |
19,474 |
19,384 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.34% |
18.74% |
18.84% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
10,376 |
11,492 |
11,854 |
| UK median daily rate |
£463 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.88% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£263 |
£250 |
£224 |
| 90th Percentile |
£644 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£423 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.51% |
+5.63% |
+3.23% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
855 |
955 |
928 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£25.00 |
£27.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+40.00% |
-7.41% |
+3.85% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.00 |
£12.63 |
£12.05 |
| 90th Percentile |
£58.75 |
£51.00 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£25.31 |
£29.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+38.29% |
-12.72% |
+7.41% |
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Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Security Cleared as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Security Cleared.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 16 November 2019.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 16 November 2019.
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Top 16 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 16 November 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 16 November 2019, IT contractor jobs citing Security Cleared also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Security Cleared.
| 1 |
5,943 (72.48%) |
SC Cleared |
| 2 |
2,084 (25.41%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
1,562 (19.05%) |
Windows |
| 4 |
1,436 (17.51%) |
DV Cleared |
| 5 |
1,276 (15.56%) |
Microsoft |
| 6 |
1,185 (14.45%) |
Public Sector |
| 7 |
1,179 (14.38%) |
Linux |
| 8 |
1,085 (13.23%) |
DevOps |
| 9 |
1,047 (12.77%) |
Java |
| 10 |
1,016 (12.39%) |
AWS |
| 11 |
928 (11.32%) |
SQL |
| 12 |
874 (10.66%) |
Migration |
| 13 |
837 (10.21%) |
Active Directory |
| 14 |
834 (10.17%) |
Azure |
| 15 |
719 (8.77%) |
Python |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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