Security Cleared Contracts in Worcestershire

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 19 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 38.78% 25.33% 30.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.52% 79.17% 68.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 25
10th Percentile £525 £509 £483
25th Percentile £563 £516 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile - £575 £675
90th Percentile £900 £610 £683
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £24.52 - -
25th Percentile £34.10 - -
Median hourly rate £50.07 - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £75.61 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.65 £14.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year +161.75% -32.38% +59.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 29 24 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 59.18% 32.00% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 37
10th Percentile £145 £466 £413
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +65.52%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £650
90th Percentile £860 £609 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £460 £540
% change year-on-year +8.64% -14.77% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £17.40 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% - -
75th Percentile £34.10 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £62.84 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £27.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +39.74% +12.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Worcestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Worcestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Worcestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Worcestershire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Worcestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Malvern 0 15 £600 +9.09% 9
Worcester +2 10 £700 +25.00% 73
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West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 3 (15.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Junior IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Rocky
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
3 5 (26.32%) DevSecOps
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Workflow
5 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
6 2 (10.53%) API Design
6 2 (10.53%) API Development
6 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Go
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) DV Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NCSC
1 3 (15.79%) PMO
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
4 2 (10.53%) Kibana
4 2 (10.53%) logstash
5 1 (5.26%) Grafana
5 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) Dell
2 1 (5.26%) Nexthink