Security Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Security Clearance
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 271 221 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 12.64% 8.20% 6.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.83% 38.37% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 140 123
10th Percentile £206 £300 £206
25th Percentile £325 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% +1.88%
75th Percentile £594 £553 £600
90th Percentile £725 £634 £671
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 18
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.30 £21.00
25th Percentile £15.92 £19.13 £25.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.47 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year +109.64% -57.40% +22.15%
75th Percentile £71.25 £31.01 £55.96
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.82 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £56.49 £60.00 £52.57
% change year-on-year -5.85% +14.14% +33.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 555 576 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.89% 21.36% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 378 353
10th Percentile £181 £166 £209
25th Percentile £313 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £560
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 21
10th Percentile £12.42 £12.62 £20.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -60.25% +111.11%
75th Percentile £40.94 £31.01 £55.84
90th Percentile £63.20 £60.82 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Glasgow +2 90 £550 +16.40% 33
Edinburgh +74 78 £340 -19.05% 38
South Lanarkshire 0 69 £600 +33.33%
Renfrewshire 0 19 £350 -33.33%
Dundee +6 6 - -
Highlands - 3 - -
Morayshire - 2 - -
Moray - 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Security Cleared
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 61 (22.51%) Confluence
2 17 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.80%) Azure
2 10 (3.69%) AWS
2 10 (3.69%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.32%) Power Automate
3 9 (3.32%) PowerApps
4 8 (2.95%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.11%) OCI
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.37%) IaaS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.37%) PaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.49%) VPN
2 22 (8.12%) DHCP
2 22 (8.12%) DNS
3 11 (4.06%) VoIP
4 5 (1.85%) Firewall
5 3 (1.11%) SMTP
6 2 (0.74%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.69%) Power BI
2 8 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.48%) Metadata
5 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.11%) Big Data
5 3 (1.11%) MySQL
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.74%) GIS
6 2 (0.74%) Impala
6 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.74%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.37%) DTS
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (28.78%) JIRA
2 5 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.11%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.37%) Gatling
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) JMeter
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 104 (38.38%) Public Sector
2 49 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.27%) Finance
4 6 (2.21%) Aerospace
4 6 (2.21%) Electronics
4 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
4 6 (2.21%) Marketing
4 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.11%) Banking
5 3 (1.11%) Military
5 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.11%) Police
5 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.74%) Legal
7 1 (0.37%) Avionics
7 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (14.02%) Support Engineer
2 26 (9.59%) Senior
3 23 (8.49%) Infrastructure Support
4 19 (7.01%) Desktop Engineer
5 18 (6.64%) Analyst
5 18 (6.64%) Desktop Support
5 18 (6.64%) Product Manager
6 17 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 13 (4.80%) Exchange Engineer
9 12 (4.43%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (4.43%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) Consultant
10 11 (4.06%) JIRA Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) Linux Support
10 11 (4.06%) Linux Support Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 10 (3.69%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.69%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.69%) REST
2 7 (2.58%) Web Services
2 7 (2.58%) WebRTC
3 3 (1.11%) LDAP
4 2 (0.74%) PostGIS
4 2 (0.74%) React
4 2 (0.74%) RESTful
5 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.37%) CSS
5 1 (0.37%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) OAuth
5 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.37%) Spring
5 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.37%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.80%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.69%) Clustering
3 9 (3.32%) iPhone
4 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.48%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.11%) PKI
8 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) CMDB
9 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.37%) iPad
10 1 (0.37%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.40%) Windows
2 33 (12.18%) Linux
3 32 (11.81%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.54%) Windows 7
5 14 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.17%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.95%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.21%) Solaris
8 4 (1.48%) Android
9 3 (1.11%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.11%) Unix
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (18.82%) Agile
2 31 (11.44%) Break/Fix
3 27 (9.96%) Customer Service
4 26 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (9.59%) ITIL
5 25 (9.23%) Service Delivery
6 24 (8.86%) Project Management
7 20 (7.38%) Analytics
8 19 (7.01%) Roadmaps
8 19 (7.01%) Service Management
9 18 (6.64%) Epics
9 18 (6.64%) User Research
10 17 (6.27%) High Availability
10 17 (6.27%) Risk Management
10 17 (6.27%) User Stories
11 16 (5.90%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (5.54%) Problem Management
13 13 (4.80%) DevOps
14 12 (4.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.49%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.54%) SQL
3 8 (2.95%) Python
4 7 (2.58%) T-SQL
5 6 (2.21%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.48%) Java
7 3 (1.11%) Ada
7 3 (1.11%) Bash
7 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 225 (83.03%) SC Cleared
2 28 (10.33%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.01%) Degree
4 15 (5.54%) A+ Certification
5 6 (2.21%) MCP
5 6 (2.21%) MCSE
5 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.21%) RHCE
6 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.11%) CGEIT
7 3 (1.11%) CISA
7 3 (1.11%) CISM
7 3 (1.11%) CISSP
7 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.11%) CRISC
7 3 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.54%) SLA
2 7 (2.58%) PMO
3 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.85%) NIST
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 51 (18.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.58%) KVM
3 6 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.37%) Docker
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (10.33%) SCCM
2 9 (3.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (3.32%) WSUS
3 6 (2.21%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.85%) Terraform
4 5 (1.85%) vMotion
5 4 (1.48%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.11%) Grafana
6 3 (1.11%) vRealize
7 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.37%) Ansible
8 1 (0.37%) Nagios
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.76%) Atlassian
3 19 (7.01%) Cisco
4 17 (6.27%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.80%) Oracle
6 11 (4.06%) VMware
7 10 (3.69%) HP
8 9 (3.32%) Citrix
9 7 (2.58%) Apple
9 7 (2.58%) Samsung
10 6 (2.21%) SAP
11 4 (1.48%) McAfee
11 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.11%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.74%) Adobe
13 2 (0.74%) Google
14 1 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
14 1 (0.37%) Splunk