Security Cleared Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 726 659 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 23.25% 13.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.08% 68.43% 45.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 460 379
10th Percentile £213 £322 £360
25th Percentile £428 £411 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £718 £675 £661
South East median daily rate £591 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +12.55% -3.23% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 32 19
10th Percentile £36.21 £23.15 £16.50
25th Percentile £52.55 £48.48 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +207.24% -
75th Percentile £75.68 £73.89 £50.88
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.50
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% +32.63% +20.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,051 963 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.28% 33.98% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 638 707
10th Percentile £226 £318 £271
25th Percentile £415 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +5.67% +4.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 44 27
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.80 £16.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.77 £17.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.73 £74.84 £50.88
90th Percentile £87.05 £80.25 £80.94
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -3.54% +32.12% +5.88%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +2 568 £585 +2.63% 169
Buckinghamshire 0 149 £510 +10.41% 50
Oxfordshire -6 9 £650 +44.44% 24
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 27 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.14%) JBoss
4 1 (0.14%) Moodle
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 69 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.69%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.14%) Blender
Business Applications
1 29 (3.99%) Primavera
2 27 (3.72%) SAP QM
3 22 (3.03%) SAP EWM
4 10 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 107 (14.74%) Azure
2 46 (6.34%) AWS
3 36 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 19 (2.62%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (2.34%) Azure Storage
8 14 (1.93%) OCI
9 10 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.55%) PaaS
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.41%) Serverless
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (0.28%) GCP
12 2 (0.28%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.28%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.28%) SaaS
12 2 (0.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 93 (12.81%) Firewall
2 59 (8.13%) DNS
3 52 (7.16%) DHCP
4 51 (7.02%) LAN
5 48 (6.61%) WAN
6 28 (3.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 28 (3.86%) SAN
7 23 (3.17%) TCP/IP
8 16 (2.20%) Network Security
9 12 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (1.52%) VPN
11 10 (1.38%) SSL
12 8 (1.10%) BGP
12 8 (1.10%) MPLS
13 7 (0.96%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
15 4 (0.55%) Internet
15 4 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.44%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
5 9 (1.24%) SAP HANA
5 9 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.41%) MySQL
8 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) Power BI
9 1 (0.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (5.23%) Jenkins
2 29 (3.99%) Selenium
3 25 (3.44%) Cucumber
4 24 (3.31%) REST Assured
4 24 (3.31%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.20%) GitLab
6 14 (1.93%) Git
6 14 (1.93%) JIRA
7 7 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) MSI
11 1 (0.14%) MSTest
11 1 (0.14%) NUnit
11 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 176 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 149 (20.52%) Public Sector
3 59 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (2.89%) Finance
6 20 (2.75%) Law
7 15 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.79%) Military
8 13 (1.79%) Police
9 12 (1.65%) Aviation
10 10 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.55%) Electronics
12 4 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
14 2 (0.28%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.28%) Legal
15 1 (0.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 121 (16.67%) Architect
2 111 (15.29%) Senior
3 69 (9.50%) Consultant
4 58 (7.99%) SAP Consultant
5 57 (7.85%) Developer
6 53 (7.30%) Analyst
7 51 (7.02%) Security Architect
8 40 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (4.41%) Support Specialist
10 29 (3.99%) Active Directory Support
11 27 (3.72%) Support Engineer
12 26 (3.58%) Active Directory Specialist
12 26 (3.58%) Administrator
12 26 (3.58%) Azure Specialist
12 26 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 26 (3.58%) SAP QM Consultant
12 26 (3.58%) Systems Administrator
13 25 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (3.31%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.17%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.13%) ARM Templates
2 28 (3.86%) REST
3 25 (3.44%) Java EE
4 13 (1.79%) Itk
4 13 (1.79%) Kafka
5 12 (1.65%) Web Services
6 10 (1.38%) .NET
7 9 (1.24%) SAP Basis
8 8 (1.10%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.55%) YAML
11 3 (0.41%) Node.js
11 3 (0.41%) React
11 3 (0.41%) Spring
11 3 (0.41%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.28%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.28%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.28%) Loki
12 2 (0.28%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.37%) PKI
2 30 (4.13%) Driving Licence
3 26 (3.58%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 7 (0.96%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.83%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.55%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.41%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.41%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.41%) PMI
12 3 (0.41%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.41%) Robotics
12 3 (0.41%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 137 (18.87%) Windows
2 87 (11.98%) Linux
3 76 (10.47%) Windows Server
4 73 (10.06%) Windows 10
5 62 (8.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (8.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 38 (5.23%) Windows 7
8 33 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (2.62%) Windows NT
10 14 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.93%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.79%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.52%) Debian
13 5 (0.69%) Unix
14 2 (0.28%) VMS
15 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (18.04%) DevOps
1 131 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (17.77%) ITIL
3 96 (13.22%) Agile
4 70 (9.64%) Customer Service
5 61 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (7.99%) Project Management
7 55 (7.58%) Software Engineering
8 54 (7.44%) Release Management
9 49 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 49 (6.75%) Performance Tuning
9 49 (6.75%) Service Management
10 48 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (6.61%) Decision-Making
11 42 (5.79%) Change Management
11 42 (5.79%) Configuration Management
12 41 (5.65%) User Acceptance Testing
13 38 (5.23%) Security Architecture
14 35 (4.82%) Service Delivery
14 35 (4.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (8.82%) PowerShell
2 35 (4.82%) Python
3 32 (4.41%) C#
4 31 (4.27%) Java
5 24 (3.31%) VBScript
6 22 (3.03%) SQL
7 17 (2.34%) Bicep
7 17 (2.34%) VB
8 13 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.38%) C
10 8 (1.10%) Bash
11 6 (0.83%) C++
12 5 (0.69%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 390 (53.72%) DV Cleared
2 350 (48.21%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.71%) Degree
4 34 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (4.27%) CCNP
6 18 (2.48%) CCNA
6 18 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (1.38%) ISEB
8 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.10%) APMP
10 7 (0.96%) CISM
11 6 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.55%) VCAP
13 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.41%) MCSE
14 3 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.17%) QA
2 22 (3.03%) SLA
3 8 (1.10%) PMO
4 7 (0.96%) NCSC
5 6 (0.83%) NIST
6 5 (0.69%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 101 (13.91%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (4.96%) Firmware
4 23 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 22 (3.03%) Docker
6 19 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.83%) vSphere
9 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) NFS
10 1 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
10 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (12.95%) SCCM
2 56 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 54 (7.44%) WSUS
4 46 (6.34%) Ansible
5 39 (5.37%) SCOM
6 21 (2.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (2.89%) Terraform
7 20 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.62%) Sysprep
9 17 (2.34%) Grafana
9 17 (2.34%) vCenter Server
10 16 (2.20%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (2.07%) Istio
12 14 (1.93%) Nessus
12 14 (1.93%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.79%) Argo
13 13 (1.79%) Prometheus
14 12 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (1.65%) Podman
15 11 (1.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 201 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 79 (10.88%) VMware
3 68 (9.37%) SAP
4 58 (7.99%) Cisco
5 52 (7.16%) HP
6 50 (6.89%) Juniper
7 47 (6.47%) Oracle
8 26 (3.58%) Palo Alto
9 24 (3.31%) Red Hat
10 22 (3.03%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.62%) Veeam
12 17 (2.34%) Dell
13 16 (2.20%) EMC
14 15 (2.07%) 3PAR
15 14 (1.93%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (1.93%) Symantec
16 12 (1.65%) ScienceLogic
17 5 (0.69%) Citrix
17 5 (0.69%) NEC
17 5 (0.69%) Siemens