Security Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Security Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 569 318 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.77% 18.33% 9.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.06% 58.56% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 184 144
10th Percentile £213 £366 £395
25th Percentile £439 £459 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +6.54% +12.63%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £638
90th Percentile £688 £721 £692
South East median daily rate £590 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +12.38% -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 12
10th Percentile £48.76 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £56.05 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +209.16% -0.12%
75th Percentile £85.02 £74.79 £56.63
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £81.00
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% +32.63% +20.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 836 543 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 43.75% 31.30% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 305 377
10th Percentile £213 £327 £330
25th Percentile £430 £431 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £720 £671
South East median daily rate £550 £522 £500
% change year-on-year +5.41% +4.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 14
10th Percentile £41.40 £21.60 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +209.16% -0.12%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +4.71%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Reading +3 341 £605 +5.22% 126
Bracknell +6 84 £425 +17.24% 12
Wokingham -1 22 £488 -18.70% 3
Newbury +5 12 £525 +20.00% 1
Maidenhead - 9 £625 -
Slough +3 4 £328 -46.75% 4
Thatcham 0 1 £625 +316.67%
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 19 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) JBoss
4 1 (0.18%) Moodle
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 54 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.88%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.18%) Blender
Business Applications
1 29 (5.10%) Primavera
2 27 (4.75%) SAP QM
3 22 (3.87%) SAP EWM
4 10 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.41%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 96 (16.87%) Azure
2 40 (7.03%) AWS
3 25 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.34%) OpenShift
5 18 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.99%) Azure Storage
7 14 (2.46%) OCI
8 10 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.53%) Serverless
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.35%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.18%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.18%) GCP
11 1 (0.18%) PaaS
11 1 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (14.06%) Firewall
2 50 (8.79%) DNS
2 50 (8.79%) LAN
3 46 (8.08%) WAN
4 43 (7.56%) DHCP
5 28 (4.92%) Intrusion Detection
6 18 (3.16%) SAN
7 10 (1.76%) SSL
8 8 (1.41%) BGP
8 8 (1.41%) MPLS
9 7 (1.23%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.05%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.70%) Internet
12 4 (0.70%) IPsec
12 4 (0.70%) VPN
13 3 (0.53%) NAS
14 2 (0.35%) GGSN
14 2 (0.35%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.22%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (2.28%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (1.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.58%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.53%) MySQL
8 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) GIS
9 1 (0.18%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.10%) Selenium
3 25 (4.39%) Cucumber
4 24 (4.22%) REST Assured
4 24 (4.22%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.81%) GitLab
6 14 (2.46%) JIRA
7 12 (2.11%) Git
8 7 (1.23%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.53%) JMeter
10 3 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.18%) Appium
12 1 (0.18%) JUnit
12 1 (0.18%) MSTest
12 1 (0.18%) NUnit
12 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 153 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.09%) Public Sector
3 45 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.27%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (3.51%) Law
6 13 (2.28%) Police
7 11 (1.93%) Aviation
8 7 (1.23%) Finance
8 7 (1.23%) Military
9 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Electronics
12 2 (0.35%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.18%) Advertising
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (18.45%) Architect
2 85 (14.94%) Senior
3 66 (11.60%) Consultant
4 58 (10.19%) SAP Consultant
5 51 (8.96%) Security Architect
6 38 (6.68%) Developer
7 31 (5.45%) Support Specialist
8 28 (4.92%) Active Directory Support
8 28 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (4.57%) Administrator
9 26 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 26 (4.57%) SAP QM Consultant
9 26 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
10 25 (4.39%) Active Directory Specialist
10 25 (4.39%) Azure Specialist
11 24 (4.22%) Support Engineer
12 22 (3.87%) Build Engineer
13 19 (3.34%) Network Architect
13 19 (3.34%) Windows Build Engineer
13 19 (3.34%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.27%) ARM Templates
2 28 (4.92%) REST
3 25 (4.39%) Java EE
4 13 (2.28%) Itk
5 12 (2.11%) Kafka
5 12 (2.11%) Web Services
6 9 (1.58%) .NET
6 9 (1.58%) SAP Basis
7 7 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 6 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.70%) YAML
10 3 (0.53%) Node.js
10 3 (0.53%) React
10 3 (0.53%) Spring
10 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.35%) ATL
11 2 (0.35%) Mustache
12 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.45%) PKI
2 30 (5.27%) Driving Licence
3 25 (4.39%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.23%) Client/Server
8 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.53%) Fat Client
10 3 (0.53%) iPad
10 3 (0.53%) PMI
10 3 (0.53%) Robotics
10 3 (0.53%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.35%) CSOC
11 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.35%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (0.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 119 (20.91%) Windows
2 74 (13.01%) Windows Server
3 70 (12.30%) Windows 10
4 67 (11.78%) Linux
5 62 (10.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (10.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 33 (5.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 31 (5.45%) Windows 7
9 19 (3.34%) Windows NT
10 14 (2.46%) Windows XP
11 12 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.70%) Unix
13 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.35%) VMS
15 1 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (21.97%) DevOps
2 113 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (16.87%) ITIL
4 57 (10.02%) Customer Service
5 54 (9.49%) Agile
6 48 (8.44%) Performance Tuning
6 48 (8.44%) Software Engineering
7 46 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (7.38%) Release Management
9 41 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
10 39 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (6.68%) Security Architecture
12 37 (6.50%) Decision-Making
12 37 (6.50%) Service Management
13 36 (6.33%) Project Management
14 34 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 33 (5.80%) Change Management
15 33 (5.80%) Test Automation
16 32 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.02%) PowerShell
2 31 (5.45%) C#
2 31 (5.45%) Java
3 25 (4.39%) SQL
4 24 (4.22%) VBScript
5 17 (2.99%) Bicep
5 17 (2.99%) VB
6 14 (2.46%) PL/SQL
7 13 (2.28%) Python
8 10 (1.76%) C
9 6 (1.05%) Bash
9 6 (1.05%) C++
10 4 (0.70%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) Go
12 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 314 (55.18%) DV Cleared
2 235 (41.30%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.48%) Degree
4 19 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (3.16%) CCNA
6 17 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (2.81%) CCNP
8 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.53%) APMP
9 3 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.35%) CCDP
10 2 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.35%) HND
11 1 (0.18%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.18%) CCIP
11 1 (0.18%) HNC
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.87%) QA
2 17 (2.99%) SLA
3 5 (0.88%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (14.94%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (6.15%) Firmware
4 23 (4.04%) Hyper-V
5 19 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (3.16%) Docker
7 17 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 90 (15.82%) SCCM
2 54 (9.49%) WSUS
3 50 (8.79%) Kubernetes
4 40 (7.03%) Ansible
5 36 (6.33%) SCOM
6 21 (3.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (3.34%) Sysprep
7 19 (3.34%) Terraform
8 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.99%) vCenter Server
9 16 (2.81%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (2.46%) Grafana
10 14 (2.46%) Istio
10 14 (2.46%) NetBackup
11 12 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (2.11%) Podman
12 10 (1.76%) Argo
12 10 (1.76%) Kibana
12 10 (1.76%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 144 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.60%) SAP
3 51 (8.96%) HP
4 47 (8.26%) Oracle
5 43 (7.56%) Cisco
5 43 (7.56%) VMware
6 38 (6.68%) Juniper
7 17 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.99%) Veeam
8 16 (2.81%) Dell
8 16 (2.81%) EMC
9 15 (2.64%) 3PAR
10 14 (2.46%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (2.46%) Palo Alto
10 14 (2.46%) Symantec
11 13 (2.28%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.88%) Siemens
13 4 (0.70%) Citrix
13 4 (0.70%) F5
14 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds