Security Cleared Contracts in Cheshire

Security Clearance
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 14 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 33 42 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.43% 10.37% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.83% 46.15% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 14
10th Percentile £343 £411 £251
25th Percentile £401 £430 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £472
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +5.88% +2.11%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £534
90th Percentile £686 £750 £546
North West median daily rate £475 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -11.63% +1.42% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £38.17 £24.37
25th Percentile - £44.31 £26.11
Median hourly rate - £54.54 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year - +88.07% -42.00%
75th Percentile - £64.77 £35.75
90th Percentile - £70.91 £39.80
North West median hourly rate £37.00 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.88% -23.03% +55.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 123 91 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.98% 22.47% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 50 95
10th Percentile £356 £424 £294
25th Percentile £425 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £630
90th Percentile £640 £675 £633
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.38 £15.87
25th Percentile - £27.65 £20.59
Median hourly rate £24.00 £37.04 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +41.89% -12.91%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £32.38
90th Percentile - £60.00 £38.45
North West median hourly rate £38.66 £46.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% +15.45% +95.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Knutsford -4 14 £518 +7.53% 2
Warrington -1 9 £438 -14.63% 6
Crewe - 4 £750 - 1
Chester - 2 £680 - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (12.12%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) MTS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (6.06%) SAP PM
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) AWS
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) VLAN
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) Skype
3 2 (6.06%) SAN
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Bitbucket
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) JProfiler
3 1 (3.03%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.03%) VisualVM
3 1 (3.03%) YourKit
General
1 19 (57.58%) Public Sector
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Publishing
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Consultant
2 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Build Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) SAP PM Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Server Build Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Copywriter
5 1 (3.03%) Functional Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.03%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (3.03%) Loki
2 1 (3.03%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) Change Management
3 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
3 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.09%) Observability
5 3 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (9.09%) Server Building
5 3 (9.09%) Visualisation
6 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.06%) Data Migration
6 2 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (6.06%) Incident Management
6 2 (6.06%) Information Security
6 2 (6.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (6.06%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) CCNA
3 3 (9.09%) CCNP
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
1 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) VMware NSX
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) Firmware
5 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
1 3 (9.09%) WSUS
2 1 (3.03%) Ambari
2 1 (3.03%) Ganglia
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (3.03%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Nessus
2 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
4 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 3 (9.09%) Tanium
5 2 (6.06%) BMC
5 2 (6.06%) Remedy
5 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.06%) Veeam
5 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.03%) Aruba
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) HP