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 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 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5,062 5,054 4,498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.28% 22.05% 14.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.59% 67.59% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,157 3,439 2,963
10th Percentile £340 £358 £357
25th Percentile £460 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 387 283
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.92 £22.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +45.62%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £70.00
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
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 7,489 7,477 8,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.92% 32.63% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,361 4,959 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 573 526
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.51 £13.33
25th Percentile £17.66 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.13
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 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 June 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 June 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 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
South East 0 1,906 £600 +14.29% 508
South West 0 1,546 £550 -8.33% 488
North of England -2 586 £515 -6.36% 254
Midlands +4 526 £525 -5.83% 223
North West -1 416 £514 -2.14% 190
West Midlands +5 392 £515 -6.79% 178
Scotland +18 271 £480 +6.67% 103
East of England -1 262 £550 +4.76% 139
East Midlands -1 133 £540 -10.00% 44
Yorkshire 0 125 £525 -12.50% 41
Wales -5 52 £600 +9.09% 31
North East -2 47 £500 -11.50% 23
Northern Ireland +22 23 £575 +15.00% 47
South Coast - 1 - -
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
1 176 (3.48%) Confluence
2 152 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 106 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
5 22 (0.43%) CMS
6 19 (0.38%) Apache
7 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 11 (0.22%) SAS
9 9 (0.18%) CICS
10 7 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.099%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.079%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.059%) nginx
13 3 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 209 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.43%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.30%) Simulink
8 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.099%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.040%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.020%) Stata
Business Applications
1 34 (0.67%) Primavera
2 27 (0.53%) SAP QM
2 27 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 25 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 23 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 23 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.079%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
9 3 (0.059%) SAP PS
10 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.040%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.040%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Cash Management
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 461 (9.11%) Azure
2 310 (6.12%) AWS
3 145 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 72 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.24%) PaaS
7 61 (1.21%) Entra ID
8 57 (1.13%) SaaS
9 56 (1.11%) OpenShift
10 50 (0.99%) IaaS
11 47 (0.93%) GitHub
12 36 (0.71%) Power Automate
13 35 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (0.61%) Amazon S3
15 30 (0.59%) GCP
16 29 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (0.57%) Azure Stack
16 29 (0.57%) OCI
17 28 (0.55%) PowerApps
18 27 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 355 (7.01%) Firewall
2 271 (5.35%) WAN
3 176 (3.48%) LAN
4 170 (3.36%) VPN
5 168 (3.32%) BGP
6 159 (3.14%) DNS
7 133 (2.63%) Network Security
8 116 (2.29%) DHCP
9 115 (2.27%) MPLS
10 100 (1.98%) IPsec
11 88 (1.74%) SAN
12 84 (1.66%) SSL
13 72 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
14 56 (1.11%) Junos
15 55 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
16 54 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
17 53 (1.05%) OSPF
17 53 (1.05%) TCP/IP
18 50 (0.99%) Wireless
19 48 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 81 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (1.03%) Power BI
4 47 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 46 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 38 (0.75%) MySQL
8 27 (0.53%) Big Data
8 27 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (0.45%) Metadata
10 21 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
13 18 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 14 (0.28%) Tableau
16 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
17 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 12 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
18 11 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 273 (5.39%) JIRA
2 138 (2.73%) Git
3 137 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.74%) GitLab
5 64 (1.26%) Visual Studio
6 54 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 51 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
8 48 (0.95%) Selenium
9 44 (0.87%) PVCS
10 39 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 25 (0.49%) Robot Framework
13 22 (0.43%) TestRail
14 20 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 20 (0.40%) MSI
15 19 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (0.36%) JMeter
16 18 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 924 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 913 (18.04%) Public Sector
3 387 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (5.57%) Finance
5 202 (3.99%) Telecoms
6 185 (3.65%) Aerospace
7 135 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 122 (2.41%) Military
9 121 (2.39%) Electronics
10 90 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 86 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (1.50%) Marketing
13 66 (1.30%) Legal
14 33 (0.65%) Police
15 32 (0.63%) Law
16 25 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.41%) Retail
18 19 (0.38%) Aviation
19 18 (0.36%) Local Government
20 17 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1,001 (19.77%) Architect
2 443 (8.75%) Analyst
3 340 (6.72%) Senior
4 309 (6.10%) Developer
5 267 (5.27%) Lead
6 256 (5.06%) Consultant
7 244 (4.82%) Network Engineer
8 229 (4.52%) Network Architect
9 214 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 195 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
11 166 (3.28%) Project Manager
12 139 (2.75%) Support Engineer
13 125 (2.47%) Administrator
13 125 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
14 109 (2.15%) Software Engineer
15 106 (2.09%) Security Architect
16 105 (2.07%) Service Analyst
17 102 (2.02%) Lead Architect
18 98 (1.94%) Service Desk Analyst
19 96 (1.90%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.15%) REST
2 89 (1.76%) Web Services
3 82 (1.62%) .NET
4 62 (1.22%) Spring
5 58 (1.15%) Node.js
5 58 (1.15%) React
6 52 (1.03%) Spring Boot
7 43 (0.85%) HTML
8 38 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
9 37 (0.73%) ARM Templates
9 37 (0.73%) CSS
10 36 (0.71%) .NET Core
11 32 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
12 29 (0.57%) XML
13 26 (0.51%) Kafka
14 25 (0.49%) Java EE
14 25 (0.49%) YAML
15 23 (0.45%) JPA
16 21 (0.41%) .NET Framework
16 21 (0.41%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 321 (6.34%) PKI
2 160 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 155 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 113 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
5 109 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
6 87 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 86 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 76 (1.50%) Product Ownership
9 70 (1.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 70 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 51 (1.01%) Driving Licence
11 49 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 46 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 44 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 40 (0.79%) CSOC
15 38 (0.75%) Onboarding
16 37 (0.73%) Analogue Electronics
16 37 (0.73%) Cloud Native
17 35 (0.69%) Clustering
17 35 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 824 (16.28%) Windows
2 579 (11.44%) Linux
3 283 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 175 (3.46%) Windows 10
5 133 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 104 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 82 (1.62%) Windows 7
8 73 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 72 (1.42%) Unix
10 71 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 58 (1.15%) Apple iOS
12 51 (1.01%) Android
13 28 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 25 (0.49%) Solaris
15 22 (0.43%) AIX
16 20 (0.40%) Windows Vista
17 17 (0.34%) Mac OS X
17 17 (0.34%) Windows NT
18 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (15.41%) Agile
2 561 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
3 473 (9.34%) DevOps
4 461 (9.11%) ITIL
5 438 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
6 374 (7.39%) Project Management
7 318 (6.28%) Service Management
8 314 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 298 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 275 (5.43%) SIEM
11 260 (5.14%) Software Engineering
12 222 (4.39%) CI/CD
13 218 (4.31%) Customer Service
14 197 (3.89%) Configuration Management
15 188 (3.71%) Project Delivery
16 187 (3.69%) Network Management
17 183 (3.62%) Change Management
17 183 (3.62%) Mentoring
18 179 (3.54%) Migration
19 169 (3.34%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 342 (6.76%) PowerShell
2 317 (6.26%) Python
3 230 (4.54%) Java
4 185 (3.65%) SQL
5 150 (2.96%) C
6 108 (2.13%) C#
7 101 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 91 (1.80%) C++
9 69 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 67 (1.32%) Bash
11 42 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 41 (0.81%) VBScript
13 27 (0.53%) Bicep
13 27 (0.53%) Go
13 27 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.45%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.45%) VB
15 22 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.38%) Embedded C
17 16 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,880 (56.89%) SC Cleared
2 1,913 (37.79%) DV Cleared
3 358 (7.07%) Degree
4 148 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 117 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 83 (1.64%) CCNP
7 76 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 72 (1.42%) CCNA
9 55 (1.09%) CISSP
10 42 (0.83%) CISM
11 41 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 36 (0.71%) APMP
13 35 (0.69%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.65%) MCSA
14 33 (0.65%) MCSE
15 32 (0.63%) A+ Certification
16 27 (0.53%) PMP
17 26 (0.51%) HND
17 26 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (3.16%) SLA
2 142 (2.81%) NIST
3 105 (2.07%) QA
4 89 (1.76%) PMO
5 74 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.22%) NIST 800
7 51 (1.01%) GDPR
8 48 (0.95%) NCSC
9 40 (0.79%) JSP 440
10 33 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
11 30 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.53%) Data Quality
13 24 (0.47%) RMADS
14 21 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 18 (0.36%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.28%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 11 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 421 (8.32%) Active Directory
2 299 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (2.79%) Docker
4 110 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 92 (1.82%) vSphere
6 87 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 85 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
8 64 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 59 (1.17%) Firmware
10 30 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
11 10 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.16%) VMFS
13 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.099%) iptables
14 5 (0.099%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.059%) XenApp
15 3 (0.059%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.040%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 256 (5.06%) Ansible
2 212 (4.19%) Kubernetes
3 202 (3.99%) Terraform
4 163 (3.22%) SCCM
5 92 (1.82%) WSUS
6 72 (1.42%) SCOM
7 69 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.19%) Grafana
9 47 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 43 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 38 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 35 (0.69%) Kibana
13 29 (0.57%) Endace
14 28 (0.55%) Puppet
15 27 (0.53%) FortiGate
15 27 (0.53%) PowerCLI
16 26 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
17 25 (0.49%) NetBackup
17 25 (0.49%) Progress Chef
18 24 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 852 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 489 (9.66%) VMware
3 352 (6.95%) Cisco
4 277 (5.47%) Juniper
5 203 (4.01%) SAP
6 148 (2.92%) Red Hat
7 130 (2.57%) Oracle
8 118 (2.33%) Atlassian
9 106 (2.09%) Dell
10 101 (2.00%) HP
11 86 (1.70%) IBM
12 80 (1.58%) ServiceNow
13 79 (1.56%) Palo Alto
14 65 (1.28%) F5
15 59 (1.17%) Fortinet
16 49 (0.97%) Citrix
17 45 (0.89%) SolarWinds
18 43 (0.85%) Google
19 36 (0.71%) EMC
20 35 (0.69%) Remedy