Security Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,247 3,785 4,486
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.94% 15.12% 10.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.95% 59.78% 51.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,576 2,545 3,201
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £708 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 194 150
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.33 £25.45
25th Percentile £37.19 £49.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% +16.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £81.13 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.19% +14.29% +25.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,089 6,332 8,710
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 25.29% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 4,260 6,124
10th Percentile £331 £380 £369
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 272 223
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.03 £19.68
25th Percentile £25.50 £42.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.56 £65.77
90th Percentile £83.55 £81.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Security Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Security Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 97 (4.32%) Confluence
2 95 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 57 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.80%) nginx
4 18 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
5 13 (0.58%) Apache
6 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (0.36%) SAS
7 8 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.27%) CICS
9 6 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.36%) Trello
7 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.22%) Sketch
9 4 (0.18%) Revit
10 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.045%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.045%) Blender
11 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.85%) Teamcenter
2 15 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.62%) Primavera
4 13 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.36%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.22%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.13%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.13%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.13%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.13%) SAP PSCD
10 2 (0.089%) SAP BRIM
10 2 (0.089%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.089%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 395 (17.58%) AWS
2 339 (15.09%) Azure
3 105 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 61 (2.71%) GitHub
6 53 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (1.87%) SaaS
8 39 (1.74%) GCP
9 37 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 36 (1.60%) PaaS
11 33 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (1.47%) Serverless
12 30 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (0.98%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.96%) Firewall
2 59 (2.63%) Network Security
3 38 (1.69%) VPN
4 37 (1.65%) SSL
5 35 (1.56%) DNS
6 30 (1.34%) BGP
6 30 (1.34%) DHCP
6 30 (1.34%) WAN
7 28 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 23 (1.02%) SAN
9 22 (0.98%) 4G
10 20 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (0.62%) 5G
12 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.58%) OSPF
13 13 (0.58%) VoIP
14 12 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.49%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.87%) Power BI
4 31 (1.38%) Oracle Database
5 30 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
11 15 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 14 (0.62%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 13 (0.58%) DB2
13 13 (0.58%) Metadata
14 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.53%) MySQL
15 11 (0.49%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 156 (6.94%) JIRA
2 77 (3.43%) Git
3 75 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.09%) GitLab
4 47 (2.09%) Selenium
5 34 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.38%) PVCS
7 27 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.89%) JMeter
10 18 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.80%) JUnit
11 15 (0.67%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.53%) Maven
13 11 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
13 11 (0.49%) TestNG
14 10 (0.45%) Postman
14 10 (0.45%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 536 (23.85%) Public Sector
2 416 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 176 (7.83%) Finance
4 147 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 46 (2.05%) Manufacturing
7 41 (1.82%) Electronics
7 41 (1.82%) Military
8 40 (1.78%) Police
9 39 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.60%) Marketing
10 36 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.29%) Law
12 28 (1.25%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.16%) Banking
14 19 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.80%) Legal
16 14 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (0.49%) Publishing
18 9 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 384 (17.09%) Architect
2 242 (10.77%) Developer
3 204 (9.08%) Senior
4 153 (6.81%) Consultant
5 138 (6.14%) Lead
6 133 (5.92%) Analyst
7 112 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 107 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 94 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
10 60 (2.67%) Technical Architect
11 53 (2.36%) Security Architect
12 48 (2.14%) Java Developer
13 46 (2.05%) Senior Manager
14 45 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (1.96%) AWS Engineer
16 40 (1.78%) Business Analyst
17 39 (1.74%) Data Engineer
17 39 (1.74%) Designer
17 39 (1.74%) Lead Architect
18 38 (1.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.94%) Web Services
2 61 (2.71%) REST
3 51 (2.27%) .NET
4 44 (1.96%) HTML
5 43 (1.91%) CSS
5 43 (1.91%) Spring Boot
6 40 (1.78%) ARM Templates
7 38 (1.69%) Spring
8 36 (1.60%) RESTful
9 35 (1.56%) Node.js
10 32 (1.42%) React
11 22 (0.98%) XML
12 21 (0.93%) Kafka
13 15 (0.67%) JSON
13 15 (0.67%) Sass
14 14 (0.62%) Laravel
14 14 (0.62%) WebSockets
15 13 (0.58%) OpenID
16 12 (0.53%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 71 (3.16%) PKI
2 65 (2.89%) Management Information System
3 55 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 34 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (1.11%) CMDB
9 25 (1.11%) Private Cloud
10 22 (0.98%) Product Ownership
11 21 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 20 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (0.85%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (0.67%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.58%) Replication
17 10 (0.45%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 179 (7.97%) Linux
2 174 (7.74%) Windows
3 47 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.16%) Unix
5 21 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.62%) Debian
9 12 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.53%) Windows 7
9 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.31%) Android
11 7 (0.31%) Solaris
11 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.31%) zOS
12 6 (0.27%) VMS
13 3 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (17.71%) Agile
2 279 (12.42%) DevOps
3 200 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (8.50%) ITIL
5 171 (7.61%) Service Management
6 163 (7.25%) Project Management
7 158 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
8 157 (6.99%) CI/CD
9 140 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 126 (5.61%) Migration
11 123 (5.47%) Analytics
12 108 (4.81%) Test Automation
13 105 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
14 103 (4.58%) Change Management
15 101 (4.49%) Configuration Management
15 101 (4.49%) Software Engineering
16 96 (4.27%) Decision-Making
17 94 (4.18%) ITSM
18 89 (3.96%) Roadmaps
19 83 (3.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 195 (8.68%) Python
2 156 (6.94%) SQL
3 146 (6.50%) Java
4 99 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.27%) PowerShell
6 79 (3.52%) C#
7 64 (2.85%) PL/SQL
8 54 (2.40%) C
9 46 (2.05%) Bash
10 30 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 26 (1.16%) C++
12 20 (0.89%) Bicep
13 18 (0.80%) VB
14 16 (0.71%) VBScript
15 14 (0.62%) PHP
16 12 (0.53%) Go
17 11 (0.49%) ABAP
17 11 (0.49%) COBOL
18 9 (0.40%) Perl
18 9 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,750 (77.88%) SC Cleared
2 446 (19.85%) DV Cleared
3 201 (8.95%) Degree
4 130 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (1.65%) CISSP
7 31 (1.38%) PMP
8 30 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.29%) CISM
10 26 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.11%) CCNP
12 21 (0.93%) CCNA
13 19 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
16 15 (0.67%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.62%) ISEB
18 12 (0.53%) CISA
18 12 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (2.71%) QA
2 50 (2.23%) NCSC
3 46 (2.05%) SLA
4 43 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (1.91%) NIST
5 37 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 34 (1.51%) PMO
7 31 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 21 (0.93%) GDPR
10 7 (0.31%) COBIT
11 6 (0.27%) RMADS
12 5 (0.22%) GRC
12 5 (0.22%) WCAG
13 4 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.13%) DO-178B
14 3 (0.13%) IEC 61508
14 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 144 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 113 (5.03%) Docker
3 30 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.58%) Firmware
7 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.27%) vSphere
10 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.089%) KVM
12 2 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.045%) ACF2
13 1 (0.045%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.045%) RACF
13 1 (0.045%) UAG
Systems Management
1 159 (7.08%) Terraform
2 139 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 96 (4.27%) Ansible
4 36 (1.60%) SCOM
5 32 (1.42%) SCCM
6 30 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 24 (1.07%) Grafana
9 22 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.76%) WSUS
11 14 (0.62%) Puppet
12 13 (0.58%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.45%) Packer
15 8 (0.36%) Podman
16 7 (0.31%) Kibana
17 6 (0.27%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 6 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 311 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 110 (4.90%) SAP
3 99 (4.41%) Oracle
4 61 (2.71%) Cisco
5 59 (2.63%) VMware
6 55 (2.45%) Atlassian
7 45 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.91%) Splunk
9 33 (1.47%) Dell
10 31 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 29 (1.29%) Juniper
12 26 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.02%) IBM
14 18 (0.80%) NetApp
15 17 (0.76%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.71%) Google
17 15 (0.67%) Citrix
17 15 (0.67%) Remedy
17 15 (0.67%) Sparx
18 14 (0.62%) CyberArk