Security Cleared Contracts in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,026 8,335 7,586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.11% 17.02% 10.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.52% 61.60% 49.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,618 5,706 5,064
10th Percentile £353 £381 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year - +0.39% +9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 447 323
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.30 £25.50
Median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £81.90 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.19% +14.29% +26.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,420 13,530 15,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.07% 27.63% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,032 9,064 10,005
10th Percentile £313 £335 £320
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 713 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%
75th Percentile £61.82 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +3 2,123 £540 -5.26% 333
South East 0 1,841 £592 +12.71% 516
South West 0 1,551 £550 -8.33% 451
North of England -2 605 £525 -4.55% 256
Midlands +4 506 £500 -7.41% 168
North West -1 432 £525 -0.94% 193
West Midlands +5 371 £480 -11.11% 120
East of England -1 244 £550 - 149
East Midlands -1 134 £550 -5.78% 47
Yorkshire +1 129 £525 -12.50% 43
North East -3 46 £525 -7.28% 20
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 226 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 191 (2.72%) Confluence
3 118 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 65 (0.93%) Apache
5 37 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
6 32 (0.46%) nginx
7 26 (0.37%) CMS
7 26 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
8 24 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 15 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.21%) Skype for Business
10 14 (0.20%) SAS
11 12 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
12 11 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
13 10 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 10 (0.14%) CICS
13 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 9 (0.13%) IIS
15 8 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.085%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 233 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 22 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.26%) Simulink
9 7 (0.100%) Revit
10 5 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.071%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.043%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.028%) Sketch
12 2 (0.028%) Trello
12 2 (0.028%) Windchill
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.014%) InVision
Business Applications
1 45 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 40 (0.57%) Primavera
3 36 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 30 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 28 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 25 (0.36%) SAP EWM
6 25 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.16%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
9 5 (0.071%) Maximo
9 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.071%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.071%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.071%) Siebel CRM
10 4 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.057%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.057%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.057%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 884 (12.58%) AWS
2 754 (10.73%) Azure
3 220 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (2.13%) Power Platform
5 119 (1.69%) Serverless
6 110 (1.57%) Amazon S3
7 102 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
9 91 (1.30%) PaaS
10 85 (1.21%) GCP
11 82 (1.17%) GitHub
12 81 (1.15%) SaaS
13 78 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (0.98%) IaaS
15 65 (0.93%) OpenShift
16 64 (0.91%) Entra ID
17 57 (0.81%) OCI
18 55 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
19 54 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 52 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 480 (6.83%) Firewall
2 319 (4.54%) WAN
3 217 (3.09%) LAN
4 182 (2.59%) BGP
4 182 (2.59%) VPN
5 176 (2.50%) DNS
6 161 (2.29%) Network Security
7 121 (1.72%) MPLS
8 106 (1.51%) IPsec
9 100 (1.42%) DHCP
10 97 (1.38%) SSL
11 90 (1.28%) SAN
12 79 (1.12%) Wireless
13 78 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
14 76 (1.08%) TCP/IP
15 67 (0.95%) OSPF
16 60 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
17 56 (0.80%) Junos
18 55 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
19 54 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (2.43%) SQL Server
3 92 (1.31%) Power BI
4 86 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 85 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 80 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 71 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 64 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 59 (0.84%) Metadata
9 59 (0.84%) Oracle Database
10 54 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 54 (0.77%) MySQL
11 47 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (0.58%) Big Data
13 39 (0.56%) Data Lake
13 39 (0.56%) Flink
14 34 (0.48%) Data Vault
15 31 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
16 22 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 329 (4.68%) JIRA
2 267 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 239 (3.40%) Git
4 159 (2.26%) GitLab
5 93 (1.32%) Selenium
6 69 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 67 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 59 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 58 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
10 56 (0.80%) JUnit
11 49 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 46 (0.65%) PVCS
13 41 (0.58%) REST Assured
14 34 (0.48%) JMeter
15 30 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 27 (0.38%) TestRail
17 24 (0.34%) Robot Framework
18 22 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
19 21 (0.30%) Artifactory
20 20 (0.28%) TestNG
General
1 1,475 (20.99%) Public Sector
2 1,270 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 510 (7.26%) Finance
4 501 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (3.67%) Telecoms
6 191 (2.72%) Aerospace
7 177 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 163 (2.32%) Electronics
9 159 (2.26%) Military
10 121 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 119 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 105 (1.49%) Marketing
13 83 (1.18%) Legal
14 78 (1.11%) Police
15 71 (1.01%) Law
16 58 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (0.78%) Banking
18 29 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 28 (0.40%) Publishing
19 28 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,318 (18.76%) Architect
2 586 (8.34%) Analyst
3 583 (8.30%) Developer
4 491 (6.99%) Senior
5 395 (5.62%) Lead
6 377 (5.37%) Consultant
7 306 (4.36%) Network Engineer
8 277 (3.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 274 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 237 (3.37%) Project Manager
11 236 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 222 (3.16%) Network Architect
13 170 (2.42%) Data Engineer
14 153 (2.18%) Security Architect
15 139 (1.98%) Support Engineer
16 137 (1.95%) Administrator
17 132 (1.88%) Software Engineer
18 129 (1.84%) Java Developer
19 122 (1.74%) Service Analyst
20 121 (1.72%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (2.22%) REST
2 149 (2.12%) React
3 142 (2.02%) Spring
4 120 (1.71%) .NET
4 120 (1.71%) Spring Boot
5 117 (1.67%) Kafka
6 109 (1.55%) Node.js
7 101 (1.44%) HTML
7 101 (1.44%) Web Services
8 91 (1.30%) CSS
9 58 (0.83%) JSON
10 54 (0.77%) RESTful
11 49 (0.70%) JPA
11 49 (0.70%) XML
12 47 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
12 47 (0.67%) Hibernate
13 43 (0.61%) .NET Core
14 37 (0.53%) AngularJS
14 37 (0.53%) ARM Templates
15 32 (0.46%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 332 (4.73%) PKI
2 203 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 193 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 124 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
5 120 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
6 111 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 97 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 91 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 87 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 85 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 70 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 59 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 59 (0.84%) Driving Licence
13 57 (0.81%) Public Cloud
14 53 (0.75%) Replication
15 52 (0.74%) Cloud Native
16 51 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 48 (0.68%) CMDB
18 42 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
19 40 (0.57%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 915 (13.02%) Windows
2 687 (9.78%) Linux
3 314 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 186 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 119 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 103 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 103 (1.47%) Unix
7 101 (1.44%) Windows 7
8 99 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 94 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (0.95%) Android
11 54 (0.77%) Apple iOS
12 34 (0.48%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 25 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.30%) AIX
16 20 (0.28%) Solaris
16 20 (0.28%) Windows NT
17 19 (0.27%) Debian
17 19 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (16.30%) Agile
2 752 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
3 720 (10.25%) DevOps
4 586 (8.34%) ITIL
5 571 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
6 468 (6.66%) Project Management
7 463 (6.59%) CI/CD
7 463 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 415 (5.91%) Service Management
9 334 (4.75%) SIEM
10 324 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 315 (4.48%) Migration
12 310 (4.41%) Software Engineering
13 266 (3.79%) Decision-Making
13 266 (3.79%) Project Delivery
14 261 (3.71%) Change Management
15 254 (3.62%) Customer Service
16 253 (3.60%) Scrum
17 251 (3.57%) Mentoring
18 238 (3.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 580 (8.26%) Python
2 464 (6.60%) Java
3 387 (5.51%) SQL
4 336 (4.78%) PowerShell
5 238 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 173 (2.46%) C#
7 158 (2.25%) C
8 119 (1.69%) Bash
9 101 (1.44%) C++
10 89 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 82 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.75%) Go
13 38 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 35 (0.50%) PHP
15 34 (0.48%) VBScript
16 32 (0.46%) MATLAB
17 27 (0.38%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.36%) Bicep
19 24 (0.34%) Perl
20 19 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 4,403 (62.67%) SC Cleared
2 2,318 (32.99%) DV Cleared
3 468 (6.66%) Degree
4 215 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 158 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
6 112 (1.59%) CCNP
7 98 (1.39%) CCNA
8 87 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 84 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.10%) CISSP
11 56 (0.80%) CISM
12 51 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.61%) PMP
14 40 (0.57%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.53%) APMP
15 37 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 36 (0.51%) Azure Certification
17 31 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
17 31 (0.44%) MCSA
18 30 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (2.55%) QA
2 178 (2.53%) SLA
3 151 (2.15%) NIST
4 112 (1.59%) PMO
5 91 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 77 (1.10%) NCSC
8 66 (0.94%) GDPR
9 62 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.81%) NIST 800
11 47 (0.67%) JSP 440
12 43 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
13 33 (0.47%) RMADS
14 30 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
15 22 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.21%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.20%) Def Stans
18 13 (0.19%) WCAG
19 12 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 460 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 292 (4.16%) Docker
3 282 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 105 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 83 (1.18%) vSphere
6 75 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 71 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 69 (0.98%) Firmware
9 61 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
10 24 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.071%) iptables
11 5 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.057%) XenApp
12 4 (0.057%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.043%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) UAG
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 413 (5.88%) Terraform
2 394 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.02%) Ansible
4 171 (2.43%) SCCM
5 87 (1.24%) Grafana
6 82 (1.17%) WSUS
7 77 (1.10%) SCOM
7 77 (1.10%) vCenter Server
8 69 (0.98%) Prometheus
9 51 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 51 (0.73%) Puppet
10 47 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 44 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 40 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 33 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 33 (0.47%) VxRail
14 31 (0.44%) Kibana
15 30 (0.43%) Packer
16 28 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (0.40%) Endace
Vendors
1 972 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 475 (6.76%) VMware
3 398 (5.66%) Cisco
4 305 (4.34%) Juniper
5 288 (4.10%) SAP
6 260 (3.70%) Oracle
7 145 (2.06%) Dell
8 122 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 121 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 111 (1.58%) HP
11 104 (1.48%) Palo Alto
12 100 (1.42%) IBM
13 95 (1.35%) Atlassian
14 82 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 70 (1.00%) F5
16 63 (0.90%) Splunk
17 57 (0.81%) Veeam
18 55 (0.78%) Google
19 54 (0.77%) SolarWinds
20 53 (0.75%) Citrix