Security Cleared Contracts with Work from Home 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,150 3,507 4,560
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.57% 14.69% 10.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.54% 58.62% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 2,362 3,252
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 181 157
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.25 £24.69
25th Percentile £33.75 £49.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +41.24%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.75 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +40.70%

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 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Security Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 98 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 83 (3.86%) Confluence
3 69 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
5 12 (0.56%) Apache
5 12 (0.56%) nginx
6 10 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (0.37%) SAS
7 8 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.28%) CICS
9 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.23%) CMS
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 55 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Trello
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.19%) Revit
9 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.047%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.047%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.047%) Blender
11 1 (0.047%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 20 (0.93%) Teamcenter
2 17 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.60%) Primavera
4 11 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.23%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.19%) SAP PS
10 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 2 (0.093%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.093%) SAP GTS
12 2 (0.093%) SAP HR
13 1 (0.047%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 360 (16.74%) AWS
2 332 (15.44%) Azure
3 116 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (3.16%) GitHub
5 64 (2.98%) Power Platform
6 54 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 41 (1.91%) SaaS
9 37 (1.72%) GCP
9 37 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (1.44%) PaaS
11 29 (1.35%) Serverless
12 28 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 28 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (1.16%) Azure Storage
14 24 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.19%) Firewall
2 50 (2.33%) Network Security
3 41 (1.91%) DNS
4 37 (1.72%) DHCP
5 35 (1.63%) SSL
6 31 (1.44%) BGP
7 28 (1.30%) VPN
8 25 (1.16%) WAN
9 24 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
9 24 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.88%) SAN
11 17 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 17 (0.79%) OSPF
12 15 (0.70%) EIGRP
12 15 (0.70%) IPsec
12 15 (0.70%) NetScaler
13 14 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
14 13 (0.60%) HSRP
14 13 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 36 (1.67%) Power BI
4 30 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 25 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.12%) Adabas
7 21 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.74%) MySQL
10 15 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
11 14 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 12 (0.56%) DB2
12 12 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
13 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.51%) Oracle BI EE
14 10 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 140 (6.51%) JIRA
2 75 (3.49%) Git
3 65 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.86%) GitLab
5 38 (1.77%) Selenium
6 33 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.44%) PVCS
8 22 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 19 (0.88%) JMeter
11 16 (0.74%) JUnit
11 16 (0.74%) Maven
12 14 (0.65%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.42%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.42%) TestRail
16 8 (0.37%) TestNG
17 7 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 494 (22.98%) Public Sector
2 383 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 160 (7.44%) Finance
4 127 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 38 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 36 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (1.53%) Marketing
8 33 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (1.49%) Military
10 30 (1.40%) Electronics
11 29 (1.35%) Police
12 25 (1.16%) Law
13 23 (1.07%) Banking
14 22 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.02%) Legal
15 17 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.51%) Local Government
18 7 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (16.88%) Architect
2 233 (10.84%) Developer
3 188 (8.74%) Senior
4 167 (7.77%) Consultant
5 123 (5.72%) Analyst
5 123 (5.72%) Lead
6 120 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 92 (4.28%) Project Manager
8 89 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (2.93%) Technical Architect
10 52 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (2.19%) Java Developer
12 45 (2.09%) Network Engineer
13 43 (2.00%) AWS DevOps
13 43 (2.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 43 (2.00%) Security Architect
14 42 (1.95%) Support Engineer
15 41 (1.91%) Senior Manager
16 40 (1.86%) Service Manager
17 39 (1.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.98%) REST
1 64 (2.98%) Web Services
2 50 (2.33%) .NET
3 47 (2.19%) Spring Boot
4 45 (2.09%) ARM Templates
5 39 (1.81%) HTML
6 38 (1.77%) CSS
7 34 (1.58%) Spring
8 33 (1.53%) RESTful
9 30 (1.40%) Node.js
10 28 (1.30%) React
11 22 (1.02%) XML
12 20 (0.93%) Kafka
13 15 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (0.65%) .NET Framework
15 13 (0.60%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.56%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.56%) FastAPI
16 12 (0.56%) JSON
16 12 (0.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.21%) PKI
2 63 (2.93%) Management Information System
3 58 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 40 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 21 (0.98%) Mainframe
11 20 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 20 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 19 (0.88%) Private Cloud
13 17 (0.79%) CMDB
13 17 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.65%) Replication
15 12 (0.56%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 10 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (8.19%) Windows
2 168 (7.81%) Linux
3 52 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.44%) zOS
5 28 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.84%) Unix
10 15 (0.70%) Android
11 14 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.56%) Windows 7
14 10 (0.47%) Debian
14 10 (0.47%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.23%) Solaris
18 4 (0.19%) VMS
19 3 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (17.21%) Agile
2 301 (14.00%) DevOps
3 179 (8.33%) ITIL
4 178 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (7.58%) Service Management
6 152 (7.07%) Project Management
7 142 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
8 130 (6.05%) CI/CD
9 126 (5.86%) Migration
10 123 (5.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 120 (5.58%) Analytics
12 105 (4.88%) Software Engineering
13 102 (4.74%) Change Management
14 100 (4.65%) Configuration Management
15 95 (4.42%) Test Automation
16 94 (4.37%) Business Intelligence
17 92 (4.28%) ITSM
18 91 (4.23%) Roadmaps
19 84 (3.91%) Infrastructure as Code
20 79 (3.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 172 (8.00%) Python
2 149 (6.93%) SQL
3 143 (6.65%) Java
4 101 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 95 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 80 (3.72%) C#
7 63 (2.93%) PL/SQL
8 51 (2.37%) C
9 38 (1.77%) Bash
10 32 (1.49%) TypeScript
11 25 (1.16%) Bicep
12 24 (1.12%) Natural
12 24 (1.12%) VB
13 22 (1.02%) C++
13 22 (1.02%) VBScript
14 17 (0.79%) Go
15 12 (0.56%) ABAP
16 11 (0.51%) COBOL
16 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,674 (77.86%) SC Cleared
2 439 (20.42%) DV Cleared
3 187 (8.70%) Degree
4 120 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (1.53%) CISSP
7 29 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.30%) CCNP
8 28 (1.30%) PMP
9 25 (1.16%) CCNA
10 24 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 24 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 22 (1.02%) CISM
11 22 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
15 11 (0.51%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.47%) BC Cleared
16 10 (0.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.28%) QA
2 45 (2.09%) SLA
3 43 (2.00%) NCSC
3 43 (2.00%) NIST
4 34 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.12%) PMO
7 20 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
9 13 (0.60%) GDPR
10 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.28%) COBIT
12 5 (0.23%) GRC
12 5 (0.23%) RMADS
13 4 (0.19%) WCAG
14 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.093%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 145 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 104 (4.84%) Docker
3 35 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.47%) Firmware
7 10 (0.47%) vSphere
8 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.14%) VMFS
11 2 (0.093%) KVM
11 2 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.093%) XenApp
11 2 (0.093%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.047%) ACF2
12 1 (0.047%) RACF
12 1 (0.047%) Snort
12 1 (0.047%) UAG
Systems Management
1 162 (7.53%) Terraform
2 147 (6.84%) Kubernetes
3 94 (4.37%) Ansible
4 39 (1.81%) SCCM
5 37 (1.72%) SCOM
6 34 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (1.40%) Grafana
8 27 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.02%) WSUS
11 15 (0.70%) Puppet
12 14 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.56%) Kibana
14 10 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.37%) Argo
15 8 (0.37%) logstash
15 8 (0.37%) Packer
15 8 (0.37%) Podman
16 7 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 328 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 102 (4.74%) SAP
3 95 (4.42%) Oracle
4 62 (2.88%) VMware
5 61 (2.84%) Cisco
6 50 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.09%) Atlassian
8 38 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.58%) Splunk
10 27 (1.26%) Dell
11 25 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.12%) Software AG
13 19 (0.88%) Citrix
13 19 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.88%) IBM
13 19 (0.88%) NetApp
14 18 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.79%) Juniper
16 16 (0.74%) Google
17 15 (0.70%) SolarWinds