Security Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 45 80 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.20% 31.37% 23.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.23% 68.97% 66.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 51
10th Percentile £200 £443 £395
25th Percentile £252 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -4.35% +45.57%
75th Percentile £492 £645 £715
90th Percentile £633 £661 £800
North West median daily rate £475 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -11.63% +1.42% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 0
10th Percentile - £45.88 -
25th Percentile £37.00 - -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 -
75th Percentile £51.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £55.14 £51.50 -
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
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 65 116 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 33.51% 45.49% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 64 72
10th Percentile £200 £360 £238
25th Percentile £259 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +10.91% +13.52%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £704
90th Percentile £630 £720 £800
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 37 7
10th Percentile £37.00 £44.03 £31.20
25th Percentile £37.55 - £38.01
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £46.38
Median % change year-on-year - -0.43% +131.90%
75th Percentile £49.80 - £61.03
90th Percentile £51.61 £50.10 £89.11
North West median hourly rate £38.66 £46.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% +15.45% +95.60%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -2 16 £325 -35.00% 13
Blackpool -2 12 £409 -34.30% 1
Lytham St Annes -1 1 £150 -25.00%
Lancaster - 1 £200 -
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (2.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) LAN
1 2 (4.44%) Link 16
1 2 (4.44%) WAN
2 1 (2.22%) 802.11
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.22%) DHCP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) TACACS
2 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Mercurial
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Avionics
5 2 (4.44%) Military
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Service Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Network Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Network Services Manager
3 5 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 5 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Release Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) CentOS
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Agile
1 11 (24.44%) DevOps
2 8 (17.78%) Change Management
2 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
3 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
3 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 6 (13.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.33%) IT Strategy
4 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Product Management
4 6 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 6 (13.33%) Scorecard
4 6 (13.33%) Service Design
4 6 (13.33%) Service Management
4 6 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (13.33%) Supplier Management
4 6 (13.33%) Transition Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) C++
3 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (77.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Argo
3 1 (2.22%) Istio
3 1 (2.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) TOWER Software
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Aruba
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk