Security Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 19 97 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.37% 40.42% 21.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.68% 81.51% 65.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 45 36
10th Percentile £380 £400 £253
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £617 £800
North West median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 5
10th Percentile £38.90 £25.75 £33.75
25th Percentile £45.88 £29.30 £38.68
Median hourly rate £46.18 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +2.77% +87.98%
75th Percentile £48.00 £48.76 £58.75
90th Percentile £51.18 £56.40 £81.24
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.88% -22.73% +37.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 77 119 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 33.92% 49.58% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 57 53
10th Percentile £313 £330 £215
25th Percentile £381 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.67% +19.88%
75th Percentile £628 £595 £650
90th Percentile £656 £645 £765
North West median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 38 14
10th Percentile £12.74 £25.75 £32.50
25th Percentile £15.80 £31.04 £38.36
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £47.16
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% -9.88% +62.62%
75th Percentile £42.93 £49.14 £87.68
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.27 £96.23
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.59 £40.01
% change year-on-year -60.43% +1.45% +11.14%

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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 May 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 May 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 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
Preston -10 8 £600 +31.87% 15
Blackpool -3 1 - - 1
Security Cleared
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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Power View
1 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.53%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Mercurial
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
1 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Avionics
2 1 (5.26%) Military
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Speaking
2 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Engagement Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) JDBC
1 3 (15.79%) JPA
1 3 (15.79%) JWT
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) WebSockets
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
4 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) GitOps
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) SDLC
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) VMware