Security Cleared Contracts in Wiltshire

Security Clearance
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 302 690 719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 69.27% 73.40% 66.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 93.50% 95.44% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 538 602
10th Percentile £335 £400 £415
25th Percentile £488 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +5.27%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £680
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 12
10th Percentile £18.73 - £60.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £68.00 £61.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £71.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.58% +8.40% -0.46%
75th Percentile £26.85 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £41.13 - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £54.99 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +7.69% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 323 723 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 74.08% 76.91% 70.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 564 639
10th Percentile £308 £400 £413
25th Percentile £486 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +7.22%
75th Percentile £635 £675 £678
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.09% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £18.73 - £29.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% -34.73% +1.31%
75th Percentile £26.85 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £41.13 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +3.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Wiltshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Corsham 0 186 £575 +4.55% 34
Salisbury 0 44 £525 +4.95% 12
Swindon -4 6 £550 -35.29% 21
Chippenham +2 5 £604 +29.78% 27
Melksham - 2 £550 - 1
Warminster - 1 - - 1
Security Cleared
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 23 (7.62%) Confluence
2 14 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.98%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.99%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (4.97%) AWS
1 15 (4.97%) Azure
2 6 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.32%) PaaS
3 4 (1.32%) SaaS
4 3 (0.99%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.66%) Akamai
5 2 (0.66%) IaaS
5 2 (0.66%) OpenShift
5 2 (0.66%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.95%) Firewall
2 17 (5.63%) DNS
3 14 (4.64%) VPN
4 12 (3.97%) Skype
5 10 (3.31%) DHCP
6 9 (2.98%) BGP
7 8 (2.65%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (2.32%) Network Security
8 7 (2.32%) OSPF
8 7 (2.32%) VSAN
9 6 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.99%) DMVPN
9 6 (1.99%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.99%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.66%) SSL
10 5 (1.66%) VoIP
11 4 (1.32%) PBX
12 3 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (0.66%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.66%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (8.28%) JIRA
2 19 (6.29%) Git
3 16 (5.30%) Bitbucket
4 11 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.66%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.33%) MSI
6 1 (0.33%) Snyk
6 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 100 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.85%) Public Sector
3 59 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.28%) Military
5 20 (6.62%) Finance
6 17 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.30%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.32%) Billing
11 6 (1.99%) Electronics
11 6 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.99%) Marketing
11 6 (1.99%) Police
12 5 (1.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 4 (1.32%) Legal
14 3 (0.99%) Advertising
15 1 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (9.93%) Architect
2 23 (7.62%) Service Manager
3 20 (6.62%) Administrator
4 19 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (6.29%) Network Engineer
5 16 (5.30%) Analyst
6 15 (4.97%) Lead
7 12 (3.97%) Consultant
7 12 (3.97%) Coordinator
7 12 (3.97%) Security Architect
8 10 (3.31%) Network Administrator
8 10 (3.31%) Security Assurance Coordinator
8 10 (3.31%) Senior
8 10 (3.31%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 9 (2.98%) IT Engineer
9 9 (2.98%) IT Support
9 9 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (2.65%) Capacity Manager
10 8 (2.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (2.65%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.97%) REST
1 12 (3.97%) SOAP
2 10 (3.31%) Flash
3 5 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.32%) LDAP
4 4 (1.32%) Spine.js
5 3 (0.99%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.99%) Ajax
5 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.99%) CSS
5 3 (0.99%) HTML
5 3 (0.99%) Web Services
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.33%) .NET
7 1 (0.33%) LAMP
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth
7 1 (0.33%) OpenID
7 1 (0.33%) Playwright
7 1 (0.33%) SAML
7 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.62%) PKI
2 18 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.31%) Clustering
4 10 (3.31%) CMDB
5 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.32%) Blackberry
7 3 (0.99%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.33%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.33%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.33%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (24.83%) Windows
2 34 (11.26%) Windows Server
3 26 (8.61%) Linux
4 23 (7.62%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.66%) VMS
10 1 (0.33%) Android
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.13%) Service Management
2 79 (26.16%) ITIL
3 54 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (17.22%) Agile
5 38 (12.58%) NsoIT
6 31 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (9.93%) System Testing
7 30 (9.93%) Validation
8 29 (9.60%) Configuration Management
9 28 (9.27%) Project Management
10 25 (8.28%) Change Management
11 22 (7.28%) Critical Thinking
12 21 (6.95%) Service Delivery
12 21 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (5.96%) ITSM
14 18 (5.96%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.96%) Waterfall
15 17 (5.63%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.27%) PowerShell
2 26 (8.61%) Python
3 16 (5.30%) Bash
4 13 (4.30%) SQL
5 7 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.99%) Java
7 1 (0.33%) Groovy
7 1 (0.33%) PHP
7 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 213 (70.53%) SC Cleared
2 124 (41.06%) DV Cleared
3 38 (12.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 33 (10.93%) ITIL Certification
5 29 (9.60%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (7.62%) CCNP
6 23 (7.62%) Degree
7 11 (3.64%) OCA
7 11 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (3.31%) RHCA
8 10 (3.31%) RHCE
9 8 (2.65%) CCNA
9 8 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.32%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.32%) MCSA
10 7 (2.32%) MCSE
10 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.99%) CISSP
12 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.66%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.97%) JSP 440
1 12 (3.97%) SLA
2 9 (2.98%) RMADS
3 7 (2.32%) QA
4 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.66%) PMO
5 3 (0.99%) NCSC
5 3 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (15.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (10.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.63%) VMware NSX
4 15 (4.97%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.30%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.99%) Docker
8 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.33%) RACF
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.27%) Ansible
1 28 (9.27%) vCenter Server
2 16 (5.30%) Terraform
3 13 (4.30%) Puppet
4 12 (3.97%) Kubernetes
5 11 (3.64%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.31%) OPNET
7 8 (2.65%) SCCM
8 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.32%) vRealize
9 6 (1.99%) WSUS
10 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.32%) VxRail
11 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.99%) Kibana
11 3 (0.99%) logstash
11 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.99%) SCOM
12 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 67 (22.19%) VMware
2 53 (17.55%) Cisco
2 53 (17.55%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.95%) Atlassian
4 18 (5.96%) Oracle
5 16 (5.30%) Juniper
6 10 (3.31%) Remedy
7 9 (2.98%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.32%) F5
8 7 (2.32%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.99%) HP
9 6 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.99%) SAP
9 6 (1.99%) Veeam
10 4 (1.32%) Avaya
10 4 (1.32%) Dell
10 4 (1.32%) Ericsson
10 4 (1.32%) Nokia
10 4 (1.32%) Ribbon
11 3 (0.99%) Broadcom