Security Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5,104 5,392 4,481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.66% 22.52% 14.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.63% 67.79% 55.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,185 3,755 2,908
10th Percentile £350 £350 £357
25th Percentile £463 £456 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +13.15%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 438 279
10th Percentile £13.89 £18.13 £18.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.78 £21.05
Median hourly rate £58.00 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.94 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £57.32 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.47% +14.29% +24.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,660 7,954 8,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.00% 33.23% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,409 5,340 5,270
10th Percentile £269 £280 £250
25th Percentile £425 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 667 537
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.96 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +54.46% -11.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +8.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East 0 1,853 £586 +6.59% 535
South West 0 1,572 £550 -7.56% 449
North of England -2 621 £525 -4.55% 256
Midlands +4 518 £500 -7.41% 191
North West -1 447 £525 -0.94% 193
West Midlands +4 386 £450 -16.67% 117
Scotland +16 282 £575 +27.78% 104
East of England -1 252 £506 -7.95% 134
East Midlands -1 132 £550 -1.79% 73
Yorkshire +4 131 £525 -9.09% 37
Wales -6 60 £600 +14.29% 17
North East -3 45 £538 -4.87% 26
Northern Ireland +18 13 £506 +68.75% 14
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 188 (3.68%) Confluence
2 163 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 91 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.22%) Apache
7 10 (0.20%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) CICS
9 8 (0.16%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2000
11 4 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2003
11 4 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.078%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.059%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 211 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 108 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.41%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.29%) Simulink
8 13 (0.25%) MS Visio
9 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.098%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Blender
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (0.84%) Primavera
2 28 (0.55%) Teamcenter
3 26 (0.51%) SAP QM
4 25 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 22 (0.43%) SAP EWM
6 17 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 17 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.078%) CA PPM
11 4 (0.078%) SAP BRIM
11 4 (0.078%) SAP Hybris
12 3 (0.059%) Infor M3
12 3 (0.059%) Maximo
12 3 (0.059%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.059%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 3 (0.059%) SAP PLM
12 3 (0.059%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 459 (8.99%) Azure
2 331 (6.49%) AWS
3 128 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (1.78%) Power Platform
5 76 (1.49%) PaaS
6 70 (1.37%) SaaS
7 69 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (1.29%) IaaS
9 53 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 42 (0.82%) GitHub
11 38 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (0.69%) Azure Stack
12 35 (0.69%) OpenShift
12 35 (0.69%) Power Automate
13 31 (0.61%) Amazon S3
14 29 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (0.55%) GCP
16 27 (0.53%) Serverless
17 24 (0.47%) Azure Storage
17 24 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 375 (7.35%) Firewall
2 293 (5.74%) WAN
3 194 (3.80%) LAN
4 186 (3.64%) BGP
5 174 (3.41%) VPN
6 167 (3.27%) DNS
7 150 (2.94%) Network Security
8 124 (2.43%) MPLS
9 107 (2.10%) DHCP
9 107 (2.10%) IPsec
10 95 (1.86%) SAN
11 84 (1.65%) SSL
12 71 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
13 61 (1.20%) OSPF
13 61 (1.20%) TCP/IP
14 58 (1.14%) Junos
15 54 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
15 54 (1.06%) Wireless
16 51 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
17 49 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 88 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (1.00%) Power BI
3 51 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 46 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 35 (0.69%) MySQL
6 32 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 30 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (0.51%) Metadata
9 20 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
11 17 (0.33%) Big Data
11 17 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (0.25%) SAP BW
12 13 (0.25%) Tableau
13 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 11 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 288 (5.64%) JIRA
2 135 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 124 (2.43%) Git
4 86 (1.68%) GitLab
5 63 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 56 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
7 50 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 46 (0.90%) Selenium
9 45 (0.88%) PVCS
10 39 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 24 (0.47%) Robot Framework
13 24 (0.47%) TestRail
14 21 (0.41%) JUnit
15 19 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 19 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (0.33%) JMeter
17 14 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 986 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 936 (18.34%) Public Sector
3 392 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.51%) Finance
5 199 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 186 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 127 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 124 (2.43%) Military
9 122 (2.39%) Electronics
10 116 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 94 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (1.37%) Marketing
13 69 (1.35%) Legal
14 52 (1.02%) Law
15 46 (0.90%) Police
16 29 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.45%) Aviation
18 22 (0.43%) Retail
19 21 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 14 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 990 (19.40%) Architect
2 462 (9.05%) Analyst
3 356 (6.97%) Senior
4 331 (6.49%) Developer
5 281 (5.51%) Lead
6 274 (5.37%) Consultant
7 256 (5.02%) Network Engineer
8 222 (4.35%) Network Architect
9 202 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
10 198 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 163 (3.19%) Project Manager
12 118 (2.31%) Administrator
13 114 (2.23%) Support Engineer
14 108 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 108 (2.12%) Security Architect
15 105 (2.06%) Lead Architect
16 103 (2.02%) Service Analyst
16 103 (2.02%) SOC Analyst
17 99 (1.94%) Software Engineer
18 96 (1.88%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.00%) Web Services
2 93 (1.82%) REST
3 84 (1.65%) .NET
4 64 (1.25%) Node.js
5 60 (1.18%) Spring
6 55 (1.08%) React
7 45 (0.88%) Spring Boot
8 41 (0.80%) HTML
9 36 (0.71%) .NET Core
10 33 (0.65%) CSS
10 33 (0.65%) XML
11 32 (0.63%) ARM Templates
12 30 (0.59%) RESTful
13 29 (0.57%) AngularJS
14 25 (0.49%) Java EE
15 24 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
16 23 (0.45%) JPA
17 21 (0.41%) Hibernate
18 18 (0.35%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 326 (6.39%) PKI
2 166 (3.25%) Management Information System
3 151 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 110 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
5 108 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
6 98 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 82 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 80 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 74 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 65 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 59 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 54 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 46 (0.90%) Onboarding
14 41 (0.80%) CMDB
14 41 (0.80%) Public Cloud
15 40 (0.78%) CSOC
16 39 (0.76%) Clustering
17 38 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
18 37 (0.72%) Analogue Electronics
19 33 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 765 (14.99%) Windows
2 518 (10.15%) Linux
3 260 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 167 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 96 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 95 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 82 (1.61%) Windows 7
8 76 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 74 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 61 (1.20%) Unix
11 53 (1.04%) Apple iOS
12 45 (0.88%) Android
13 35 (0.69%) Ubuntu
14 21 (0.41%) AIX
14 21 (0.41%) Debian
14 21 (0.41%) Solaris
14 21 (0.41%) Windows NT
15 19 (0.37%) Windows Vista
16 17 (0.33%) Mac OS X
17 15 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (15.63%) Agile
2 593 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
3 515 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
4 482 (9.44%) ITIL
5 438 (8.58%) DevOps
6 398 (7.80%) Project Management
7 344 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 332 (6.50%) Service Management
9 304 (5.96%) SIEM
10 263 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 248 (4.86%) Software Engineering
12 232 (4.55%) Customer Service
13 210 (4.11%) CI/CD
14 197 (3.86%) Project Delivery
15 194 (3.80%) Mentoring
16 193 (3.78%) Network Management
17 189 (3.70%) Configuration Management
18 188 (3.68%) Risk Management
19 185 (3.62%) Decision-Making
20 178 (3.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 309 (6.05%) Python
2 302 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 217 (4.25%) Java
4 188 (3.68%) SQL
5 151 (2.96%) C
6 112 (2.19%) C#
7 102 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 87 (1.70%) C++
9 76 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 64 (1.25%) Bash
11 34 (0.67%) VBScript
12 33 (0.65%) MATLAB
13 28 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 24 (0.47%) Go
16 22 (0.43%) Bicep
17 19 (0.37%) Embedded C
18 17 (0.33%) VB
19 16 (0.31%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2,922 (57.25%) SC Cleared
2 1,898 (37.19%) DV Cleared
3 386 (7.56%) Degree
4 160 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 102 (2.00%) CCNP
7 87 (1.70%) CCNA
8 77 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 75 (1.47%) CISSP
10 56 (1.10%) CISM
11 46 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 42 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 42 (0.82%) SANS
13 34 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 32 (0.63%) APMP
15 30 (0.59%) MCSA
15 30 (0.59%) PMP
16 27 (0.53%) HND
16 27 (0.53%) PMI Certification
17 26 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (2.96%) SLA
2 142 (2.78%) NIST
3 119 (2.33%) QA
4 102 (2.00%) PMO
5 101 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 86 (1.68%) NCSC
7 79 (1.55%) GDPR
8 53 (1.04%) NIST 800
9 47 (0.92%) JSP 440
10 44 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
11 36 (0.71%) RMADS
12 34 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
13 32 (0.63%) Data Quality
14 27 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 23 (0.45%) Accessibility
16 22 (0.43%) HIPAA
17 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
18 14 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.27%) Def Stans
19 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 407 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 246 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (2.43%) Docker
4 84 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 81 (1.59%) VMware NSX
6 77 (1.51%) vSphere
7 75 (1.47%) Hyper-V
8 68 (1.33%) Firmware
9 41 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
10 21 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) KVM
11 7 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 6 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.098%) iptables
14 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.078%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.078%) XenApp
14 4 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 228 (4.47%) Ansible
2 185 (3.62%) Terraform
3 180 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 164 (3.21%) SCCM
5 82 (1.61%) vCenter Server
6 80 (1.57%) WSUS
7 75 (1.47%) SCOM
8 52 (1.02%) Grafana
9 42 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 36 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 34 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 31 (0.61%) vRealize
13 29 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
14 28 (0.55%) FortiGate
15 27 (0.53%) Endace
16 26 (0.51%) NetBackup
17 25 (0.49%) PowerCLI
18 23 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
18 23 (0.45%) VxRail
19 21 (0.41%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 842 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 422 (8.27%) VMware
3 361 (7.07%) Cisco
4 298 (5.84%) Juniper
5 211 (4.13%) SAP
6 134 (2.63%) Oracle
7 127 (2.49%) Atlassian
8 118 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 116 (2.27%) Dell
10 110 (2.16%) HP
11 91 (1.78%) ServiceNow
12 82 (1.61%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.51%) IBM
14 71 (1.39%) Fortinet
15 58 (1.14%) Citrix
16 49 (0.96%) F5
17 46 (0.90%) SolarWinds
18 41 (0.80%) EMC
19 37 (0.72%) Google
19 37 (0.72%) Veeam