Security Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 5 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 356 182 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 30.09% 17.45% 7.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.33% 56.00% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 113 91
10th Percentile £213 £412 £425
25th Percentile £525 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +9.77% +7.50%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £735 £721 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 12 0
10th Percentile £51.52 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £56.58 £64.53 -
Median hourly rate £71.17 £72.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 £77.54 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.80 £65.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.66% +211.90% -0.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 521 325 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.04% 31.16% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 191 219
10th Percentile £209 £363 £315
25th Percentile £458 £475 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +15.15% +4.21%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £590
90th Percentile £721 £721 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 15 1
10th Percentile £49.45 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £64.07 £9.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £74.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +640.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £87.53 £78.09 £10.25
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -6.67% +213.91% -0.12%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 20 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) JBoss
3 1 (0.28%) Moodle
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 33 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.12%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.28%) Blender
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (7.02%) SAP QM
2 21 (5.90%) SAP EWM
3 13 (3.65%) Primavera
4 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 86 (24.16%) Azure
2 29 (8.15%) AWS
3 27 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (5.62%) Azure Storage
5 20 (5.62%) Entra ID
6 14 (3.93%) OCI
7 10 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.84%) Serverless
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.28%) GCP
10 1 (0.28%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.28%) PaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (19.38%) Firewall
2 34 (9.55%) DHCP
2 34 (9.55%) DNS
3 22 (6.18%) Intrusion Detection
3 22 (6.18%) LAN
4 14 (3.93%) SAN
5 10 (2.81%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.28%) BGP
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) GGSN
7 1 (0.28%) HTTP
7 1 (0.28%) IPsec
7 1 (0.28%) PBX
7 1 (0.28%) RNC
7 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.28%) SGSN
7 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.34%) Oracle Database
1 19 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.37%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (1.40%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.84%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) GIS
6 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.15%) Selenium
3 25 (7.02%) Cucumber
4 24 (6.74%) REST Assured
4 24 (6.74%) SonarQube
5 15 (4.21%) GitLab
6 13 (3.65%) JIRA
7 12 (3.37%) Git
8 7 (1.97%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.84%) JMeter
9 3 (0.84%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.28%) Appium
10 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.28%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) MSI
10 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.54%) Public Sector
3 40 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (5.62%) Law
6 13 (3.65%) Police
7 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.12%) Aviation
8 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.84%) Finance
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Electronics
10 1 (0.28%) Environmental Health
10 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (14.61%) Consultant
2 50 (14.04%) SAP Consultant
2 50 (14.04%) Senior
3 39 (10.96%) Architect
4 35 (9.83%) Active Directory Support
5 29 (8.15%) Developer
6 28 (7.87%) Security Architect
7 26 (7.30%) Support Engineer
8 25 (7.02%) Support Specialist
9 24 (6.74%) Active Directory Specialist
9 24 (6.74%) Azure Specialist
9 24 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (6.74%) SAP QM Consultant
10 20 (5.62%) Administrator
10 20 (5.62%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 20 (5.62%) Systems Administrator
11 17 (4.78%) Build Engineer
11 17 (4.78%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.78%) Project Manager
11 17 (4.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.27%) ARM Templates
2 28 (7.87%) REST
3 25 (7.02%) Java EE
4 9 (2.53%) Itk
5 8 (2.25%) .NET
6 7 (1.97%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.40%) SAP Basis
7 5 (1.40%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.84%) Node.js
8 3 (0.84%) Spring
8 3 (0.84%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.84%) Web Services
9 2 (0.56%) ATL
9 2 (0.56%) Kafka
9 2 (0.56%) Mustache
9 2 (0.56%) React
10 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.28%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.30%) Driving Licence
2 21 (5.90%) PKI
3 20 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.25%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.84%) iPad
8 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.56%) CSOC
9 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.56%) Robotics
10 1 (0.28%) Animation
10 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.28%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (25.84%) Windows
2 63 (17.70%) Windows Server
3 58 (16.29%) Windows 10
4 56 (15.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 56 (15.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (13.76%) Linux
6 32 (8.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 27 (7.58%) Windows 7
8 17 (4.78%) Windows NT
9 14 (3.93%) Windows XP
10 12 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.84%) Unix
12 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.37%) DevOps
2 86 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (23.03%) ITIL
4 44 (12.36%) Customer Service
5 42 (11.80%) Agile
6 41 (11.52%) Release Management
7 38 (10.67%) Software Engineering
8 37 (10.39%) Service Management
9 36 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 35 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (9.55%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (8.99%) Decision-Making
13 30 (8.43%) Test Automation
14 27 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (7.30%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (7.02%) Project Management
16 25 (7.02%) Software Architecture
16 25 (7.02%) Software Testing
17 24 (6.74%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.45%) PowerShell
2 34 (9.55%) C#
3 29 (8.15%) Java
4 28 (7.87%) VBScript
5 20 (5.62%) Bicep
5 20 (5.62%) VB
6 15 (4.21%) SQL
7 12 (3.37%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.09%) Python
9 6 (1.69%) C
10 5 (1.40%) Bash
11 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 244 (68.54%) DV Cleared
2 167 (46.91%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.48%) Degree
4 20 (5.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (3.93%) CCNA
5 14 (3.93%) CCNP
5 14 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.06%) QA
2 2 (0.56%) PMO
3 1 (0.28%) NCSC
3 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (18.54%) Active Directory
2 30 (8.43%) Firmware
3 25 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (6.18%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (4.49%) Docker
7 14 (3.93%) Hyper-V
7 14 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (21.91%) SCCM
2 51 (14.33%) WSUS
3 40 (11.24%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.11%) Ansible
5 35 (9.83%) SCOM
6 20 (5.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (4.78%) Sysprep
7 17 (4.78%) Terraform
8 14 (3.93%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (3.93%) NetBackup
8 14 (3.93%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.37%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (3.37%) Podman
10 2 (0.56%) Packer
10 2 (0.56%) vRealize
11 1 (0.28%) Grafana
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 57 (16.01%) SAP
3 40 (11.24%) HP
4 35 (9.83%) Oracle
5 26 (7.30%) VMware
6 25 (7.02%) Cisco
7 23 (6.46%) Juniper
8 14 (3.93%) 3PAR
8 14 (3.93%) Dell
8 14 (3.93%) EMC
8 14 (3.93%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (3.93%) Palo Alto
8 14 (3.93%) Symantec
8 14 (3.93%) Veeam
9 5 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.12%) Siemens
11 2 (0.56%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.56%) NEC
11 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.28%) F5