Security Cleared Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,617 2,385 3,966
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.31% 15.51% 15.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.50% 55.79% 60.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,637 2,672
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 119 211
10th Percentile £21.70 £13.99 £20.00
25th Percentile £39.04 £36.00 £49.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +20.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.46 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £50.95 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.13% -4.46% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,764 4,275 6,590
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.89% 27.80% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,864 2,670 4,421
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £726 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 267 292
10th Percentile £19.50 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.63% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.69 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £84.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Security Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Security Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 56 (3.46%) Confluence
2 50 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) nginx
5 10 (0.62%) Apache
6 9 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.31%) Camunda
9 5 (0.31%) Traefik
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.19%) Documentum
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.19%) MTS
11 3 (0.19%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
5 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.56%) Primavera
4 7 (0.43%) SAP PP
4 7 (0.43%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.31%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.25%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 372 (23.01%) AWS
2 282 (17.44%) Azure
3 103 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.45%) Serverless
5 71 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 57 (3.53%) GitHub
9 56 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 53 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (2.72%) Entra ID
12 44 (2.72%) GCP
13 41 (2.54%) SaaS
14 40 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (2.16%) PowerApps
16 34 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.75%) Firewall
2 69 (4.27%) DNS
3 46 (2.84%) VPN
4 37 (2.29%) Network Security
5 33 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.79%) WAN
7 25 (1.55%) DHCP
8 22 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
9 20 (1.24%) LAN
10 18 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (1.05%) HTTP
12 14 (0.87%) BGP
13 13 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.80%) Skype
14 12 (0.74%) Internet
15 11 (0.68%) MPLS
15 11 (0.68%) OSPF
16 10 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (0.62%) VSAN
16 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.64%) Power BI
2 56 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (3.34%) Relational Database
4 50 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 32 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 27 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.36%) Neo4j
10 21 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 18 (1.11%) Metadata
12 15 (0.93%) Big Data
13 14 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.87%) Redis
14 13 (0.80%) MySQL
14 13 (0.80%) SAP HANA
14 13 (0.80%) Tableau
15 11 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 122 (7.54%) JIRA
2 102 (6.31%) Git
3 88 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 65 (4.02%) GitLab
5 28 (1.73%) Selenium
6 24 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 19 (1.18%) JUnit
8 16 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.99%) MSI
9 15 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.80%) JMeter
11 11 (0.68%) Gradle
11 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.56%) Liquibase
12 9 (0.56%) Mockito
13 8 (0.49%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.49%) QARun
13 8 (0.49%) WinRunner
General
1 441 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 377 (23.31%) Social Skills
3 155 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (7.85%) Finance
5 38 (2.35%) Military
6 37 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 32 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 29 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (1.42%) Legal
11 21 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.11%) Law
13 17 (1.05%) Police
14 16 (0.99%) Marketing
15 15 (0.93%) Electronics
15 15 (0.93%) General Ledger
16 13 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.68%) Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (17.32%) Architect
2 198 (12.24%) Developer
3 167 (10.33%) Senior
4 112 (6.93%) Analyst
5 109 (6.74%) Lead
6 99 (6.12%) Consultant
7 87 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (3.40%) Data Engineer
10 50 (3.09%) Technical Architect
11 46 (2.84%) Network Engineer
12 43 (2.66%) Software Engineer
13 40 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
14 39 (2.41%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.16%) AWS Architect
16 34 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (2.04%) Data Architect
18 31 (1.92%) Designer
18 31 (1.92%) Project Manager
18 31 (1.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (4.27%) React
2 57 (3.53%) REST
3 42 (2.60%) HTML
4 41 (2.54%) Kafka
5 36 (2.23%) Node.js
6 35 (2.16%) Spring Boot
7 34 (2.10%) .NET
7 34 (2.10%) CSS
8 33 (2.04%) Web Services
9 32 (1.98%) SOAP
10 31 (1.92%) Spring
11 28 (1.73%) AngularJS
12 23 (1.42%) RESTful
13 21 (1.30%) Plotly
14 20 (1.24%) Swagger
14 20 (1.24%) XML
15 19 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.18%) OpenAPI
16 15 (0.93%) PySpark
17 14 (0.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 48 (2.97%) Onboarding
2 47 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 39 (2.41%) PKI
4 25 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 24 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 15 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 12 (0.74%) Clustering
9 11 (0.68%) CMDB
9 11 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
9 11 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 10 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.56%) SCADA
11 9 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 161 (9.96%) Windows
2 146 (9.03%) Linux
3 45 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.67%) Unix
6 25 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.74%) AIX
9 11 (0.68%) Android
9 11 (0.68%) CentOS
9 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.56%) VMS
11 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.19%) HPUX
13 3 (0.19%) Solaris
13 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (21.40%) Agile
2 261 (16.14%) DevOps
3 231 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 229 (14.16%) CI/CD
5 138 (8.53%) Migration
6 131 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 114 (7.05%) Containerisation
8 113 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (6.43%) Software Engineering
10 103 (6.37%) Test Automation
11 100 (6.18%) Microservices
12 95 (5.88%) ITIL
12 95 (5.88%) Project Management
13 90 (5.57%) Analytics
14 79 (4.89%) Business Intelligence
15 78 (4.82%) Continuous Integration
16 77 (4.76%) Service Management
17 67 (4.14%) Data Modelling
18 66 (4.08%) Roadmaps
19 64 (3.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 232 (14.35%) Python
2 177 (10.95%) SQL
3 130 (8.04%) JavaScript
4 117 (7.24%) Java
5 83 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 67 (4.14%) C#
7 66 (4.08%) Bash
8 47 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.67%) ABAP
9 27 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.24%) Go
11 15 (0.93%) C++
12 9 (0.56%) Ruby
12 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.49%) PHP
13 8 (0.49%) R
14 7 (0.43%) C
14 7 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,385 (85.65%) SC Cleared
2 138 (8.53%) DV Cleared
3 84 (5.19%) Degree
4 72 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (1.55%) CISSP
10 22 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (1.30%) CCNA
12 16 (0.99%) CCNP
12 16 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.87%) CISM
13 14 (0.87%) MCSE
14 13 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.74%) PMP
16 11 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
16 11 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.39%) QA
2 34 (2.10%) NIST
3 30 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.61%) NCSC
5 17 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.93%) GDPR
7 13 (0.80%) PMO
8 11 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.37%) SLA
10 6 (0.37%) WCAG
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.25%) GRC
12 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 123 (7.61%) Docker
2 78 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 69 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.61%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.43%) Firmware
8 7 (0.43%) NFS
9 5 (0.31%) vSphere
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.19%) Samba
11 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.062%) HDFS
12 1 (0.062%) LXC
12 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (9.65%) Terraform
2 144 (8.91%) Kubernetes
3 100 (6.18%) Ansible
4 44 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (2.35%) Grafana
6 35 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 26 (1.61%) Puppet
8 21 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.18%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.05%) SCCM
11 16 (0.99%) Packer
12 12 (0.74%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.68%) WSUS
14 9 (0.56%) Consul
14 9 (0.56%) Istio
14 9 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.49%) Rancher
16 7 (0.43%) ZABBIX
17 6 (0.37%) linkerd
Vendors
1 210 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.94%) Cisco
2 96 (5.94%) SAP
2 96 (5.94%) VMware
3 92 (5.69%) Oracle
4 45 (2.78%) Databricks
5 44 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 37 (2.29%) Splunk
7 36 (2.23%) Google
7 36 (2.23%) Palo Alto
8 33 (2.04%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.48%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 22 (1.36%) F5
12 17 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.99%) Apple
14 15 (0.93%) IBM
15 14 (0.87%) HP
16 13 (0.80%) Citrix
16 13 (0.80%) Juniper