Security Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Security Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 5 6 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 146 217 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 12.55% 13.27% 12.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.48% 52.93% 60.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 158 226
10th Percentile £294 £225 £356
25th Percentile £299 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £637
90th Percentile £699 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -11.63% +1.42% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £32.03 £26.63 £18.65
25th Percentile £33.94 £36.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -25.00% +152.66%
75th Percentile £39.63 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile £44.35 £65.00 £81.00
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
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 273 410 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.47% 25.08% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 290 360
10th Percentile £294 £225 £315
25th Percentile £400 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £625
90th Percentile £684 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 20
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.74 £14.29
25th Percentile £30.75 £16.02 £17.33
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £60.76
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -50.63% +235.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £95.80 £63.75 £81.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford +8 19 £294 -48.81% 2
Bolton -4 2 - - 6
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 1 £173 - 1
Security Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.74%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.37%) nginx
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Camunda
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.68%) Camtasia
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.64%) AWS
1 17 (11.64%) Azure
2 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (3.42%) Serverless
4 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (2.74%) GCP
4 4 (2.74%) OCI
4 4 (2.74%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.05%) Slack
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (1.37%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.37%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) Firewall
2 3 (2.05%) Internet
2 3 (2.05%) Network Security
3 2 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.37%) SSL
3 2 (1.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) BGP
4 1 (0.68%) DHCP
4 1 (0.68%) DWDM
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) MPLS
4 1 (0.68%) OSPF
4 1 (0.68%) SDH
4 1 (0.68%) Softphone
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) VoIP
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.11%) Power BI
2 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.05%) MySQL
3 3 (2.05%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.37%) Adabas
4 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.37%) GIS
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.37%) Tableau
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Flink
5 1 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.16%) GitLab
2 4 (2.74%) Git
2 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.05%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (28.08%) Public Sector
2 34 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
4 22 (15.07%) Military
5 17 (11.64%) Police
6 9 (6.16%) Finance
7 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.37%) Electronics
8 2 (1.37%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (14.38%) Consultant
2 14 (9.59%) Analyst
2 14 (9.59%) Architect
3 11 (7.53%) Senior
4 10 (6.85%) Lead
5 9 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.79%) Operations Analyst
6 7 (4.79%) Oracle Consultant
7 6 (4.11%) Developer
8 5 (3.42%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.42%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.74%) Cloud Consultant
9 4 (2.74%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.74%) Database Consultant
9 4 (2.74%) Network Engineer
9 4 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (2.74%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.74%) Technical Leader
10 3 (2.05%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.79%) Middleware
2 4 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.74%) PySpark
3 3 (2.05%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.37%) .NET
4 2 (1.37%) Kafka
4 2 (1.37%) Node.js
4 2 (1.37%) REST
4 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.37%) SOAP
4 2 (1.37%) Spring
5 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.68%) LAMP
5 1 (0.68%) NumPy
5 1 (0.68%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.68%) Pandas
5 1 (0.68%) React
5 1 (0.68%) RESTful
5 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.68%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.75%) Digital Media
2 5 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.68%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (0.68%) CSOC
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.37%) Unix
4 2 (1.37%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.37%) zOS
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.86%) Mentoring
2 24 (16.44%) Digital Forensics
3 20 (13.70%) DevOps
4 15 (10.27%) Agile
5 14 (9.59%) Migration
6 11 (7.53%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (6.85%) Service Management
8 9 (6.16%) Data Analysis
8 9 (6.16%) ITIL
8 9 (6.16%) Problem Management
8 9 (6.16%) Project Management
8 9 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (6.16%) Visualisation
9 7 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (4.79%) Data Governance
9 7 (4.79%) Data Migration
9 7 (4.79%) ERP
9 7 (4.79%) Roadmaps
9 7 (4.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.33%) Python
2 14 (9.59%) SQL
3 8 (5.48%) Java
4 5 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.74%) Bash
5 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.37%) Natural
7 1 (0.68%) C
7 1 (0.68%) R
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (84.93%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.74%) Degree
5 3 (2.05%) CCIE
5 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.37%) CCNA
6 2 (1.37%) CCNP
6 2 (1.37%) CCSA
6 2 (1.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) CCAB
7 1 (0.68%) CIMA
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) HNC
7 1 (0.68%) HND
7 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.05%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
2 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (9.59%) Terraform
2 8 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.11%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
5 2 (1.37%) Podman
5 2 (1.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (10.27%) Oracle
2 10 (6.85%) Splunk
3 7 (4.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.11%) VMware
5 4 (2.74%) Cisco
5 4 (2.74%) Informatica
6 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.05%) ESRI
6 3 (2.05%) F5
6 3 (2.05%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.05%) SAP
6 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.37%) AlgoSec
7 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.37%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.37%) Software AG
7 2 (1.37%) Sparx
8 1 (0.68%) Juniper