Security Cleared Contracts in the East Midlands

Security Clearance
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 133 178 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.38% 17.87% 10.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.20% 62.90% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 127 76
10th Percentile £154 £343 £237
25th Percentile £368 £490 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £405
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +48.15% +14.89%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £500
90th Percentile £683 £743 £550
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 14
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.28 £15.61
25th Percentile £14.72 £11.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -25.42% -37.89%
75th Percentile £29.31 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 - £37.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% +20.00% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 250 283 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.79% 28.41% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 211 175
10th Percentile £172 £313 £183
25th Percentile £254 £405 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +25.00% +13.13%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £500
90th Percentile £670 £715 £623
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £9.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.29 £11.80 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.67 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +0.79% +11.69%
75th Percentile £38.31 £47.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £36.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leicestershire +30 48 £525 - 11
Derbyshire -2 40 £500 -6.54% 18
Lincolnshire 0 21 £663 +10.42% 4
Nottinghamshire -7 11 - - 4
Northamptonshire -1 9 £396 -14.99% 6
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.52%) Azure
2 7 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (3.01%) AWS
3 4 (3.01%) OCI
4 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.75%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) SAN
2 8 (6.02%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (6.02%) Firewall
3 5 (3.76%) VPN
4 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.50%) DNS
6 2 (1.50%) LAN
6 2 (1.50%) NAS
6 2 (1.50%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.50%) WAN
6 2 (1.50%) Wireless
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.75%) DHCP
7 1 (0.75%) Network Security
7 1 (0.75%) PBX
7 1 (0.75%) PSTN
7 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Big Data
3 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.75%) Metadata
3 1 (0.75%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.75%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (6.02%) JMeter
2 6 (4.51%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) Selenium
4 2 (1.50%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.50%) TestRail
4 2 (1.50%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.75%) Git
General
1 29 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.28%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.01%) Electronics
6 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.01%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (12.03%) Analyst
2 14 (10.53%) Architect
3 11 (8.27%) Administrator
3 11 (8.27%) Network Engineer
4 9 (6.77%) Consultant
4 9 (6.77%) Developer
4 9 (6.77%) IT Engineer
4 9 (6.77%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.02%) Senior
5 8 (6.02%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (5.26%) IT Technician
7 6 (4.51%) IT Administrator
7 6 (4.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (3.76%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) HR Consultant
8 5 (3.76%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Test Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Windows Support Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) IMAC Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) Web Services
2 3 (2.26%) LDAP
2 3 (2.26%) SOAP
2 3 (2.26%) XML
3 1 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) Anaconda
3 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.75%) HTML
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.51%) HP Storage
2 4 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.75%) BYOD
4 1 (0.75%) Clustering
4 1 (0.75%) iPad
4 1 (0.75%) iPhone
4 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.75%) PDA
4 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.75%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.09%) Windows
2 25 (18.80%) Linux
2 25 (18.80%) Windows 7
3 20 (15.04%) Windows Vista
4 8 (6.02%) AIX
4 8 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (6.02%) Solaris
5 6 (4.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.01%) Debian
6 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.75%) SUSE
8 1 (0.75%) VMS
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.03%) Customer Service
2 13 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (8.27%) ITIL
4 10 (7.52%) Agile
5 8 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (5.26%) Configuration Management
6 7 (5.26%) Migration
6 7 (5.26%) Network Architecture
6 7 (5.26%) Test Automation
7 6 (4.51%) Data Modelling
7 6 (4.51%) DevOps
7 6 (4.51%) Performance Testing
7 6 (4.51%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (4.51%) Project Delivery
7 6 (4.51%) Service Management
7 6 (4.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (3.76%) ITSM
8 5 (3.76%) Software Testing
8 5 (3.76%) Statistics
8 5 (3.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.27%) SQL
2 8 (6.02%) Python
3 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.76%) Bash
4 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.50%) Java
5 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) ABAP
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) R
6 1 (0.75%) Scala
6 1 (0.75%) X++
Qualifications
1 103 (77.44%) SC Cleared
2 26 (19.55%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.76%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.26%) ISEB
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.50%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.50%) Degree
7 2 (1.50%) RHCE
8 1 (0.75%) ACCA
8 1 (0.75%) CCDP
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CIMA
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) MCSE
8 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) SLA
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.75%) IFRS
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.26%) Docker
4 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.50%) XenApp
4 2 (1.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.75%) KVM
5 1 (0.75%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (6.02%) Ansible
1 8 (6.02%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (4.51%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (4.51%) NetBackup
3 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.50%) SCOM
4 2 (1.50%) VxRail
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.75%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.02%) Cisco
2 12 (9.02%) Oracle
3 11 (8.27%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.77%) VMware
5 8 (6.02%) Brocade
5 8 (6.02%) EMC
5 8 (6.02%) HP
5 8 (6.02%) SolarWinds
6 6 (4.51%) F5
6 6 (4.51%) SAP
6 6 (4.51%) Symantec
7 4 (3.01%) Computacenter
8 3 (2.26%) Dell
8 3 (2.26%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.26%) Juniper
9 2 (1.50%) Aruba
9 2 (1.50%) Citrix
10 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.75%) Intel