Security Cleared Contracts in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,047 7,890 7,771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.95% 16.76% 11.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.95% 61.33% 50.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,588 5,350 5,277
10th Percentile £353 £381 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 421 341
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.40 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £37.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +26.58%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.59 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.45 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £56.49 £60.00 £52.63
% change year-on-year -5.85% +14.00% +45.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,375 12,864 15,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 27.33% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 8,605 10,322
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 655 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.43
25th Percentile £18.72 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%
75th Percentile £63.88 £69.38 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 2,078 £538 -2.27% 368
South East 0 1,915 £596 +13.52% 488
South West 0 1,539 £553 -7.92% 485
North of England -3 584 £514 -6.59% 251
Midlands +4 550 £525 -5.83% 212
West Midlands +5 419 £519 -6.06% 163
North West -2 406 £514 -2.14% 171
East of England -1 271 £550 +3.53% 150
Yorkshire +2 132 £525 -12.50% 59
East Midlands -1 130 £540 -10.00% 49
North East -2 49 £500 -11.50% 22
South Coast - 1 - -
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UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 224 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 185 (2.63%) Confluence
3 127 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 64 (0.91%) Apache
5 31 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
6 28 (0.40%) CMS
7 24 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 22 (0.31%) nginx
9 21 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
10 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.23%) SAS
11 15 (0.21%) IIS
12 13 (0.18%) Skype for Business
13 12 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 11 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
15 10 (0.14%) CICS
15 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
16 7 (0.099%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.085%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 227 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 22 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.20%) Simulink
9 7 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
9 7 (0.099%) Revit
10 5 (0.071%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.057%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.043%) Windchill
13 2 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.028%) Sketch
13 2 (0.028%) SPSS
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
14 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 41 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 34 (0.48%) Teamcenter
3 33 (0.47%) Primavera
4 31 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 26 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 25 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
10 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.099%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.071%) Maximo
12 5 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.071%) SAP MM
13 4 (0.057%) SAP BPC
13 4 (0.057%) SAP ERP
13 4 (0.057%) SAP PS
13 4 (0.057%) SAP SD
14 3 (0.043%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 826 (11.72%) AWS
2 757 (10.74%) Azure
3 241 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (2.16%) Power Platform
5 116 (1.65%) Serverless
6 105 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (1.45%) Amazon S3
8 99 (1.40%) PaaS
9 93 (1.32%) SaaS
10 90 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (1.23%) GitHub
12 81 (1.15%) Entra ID
12 81 (1.15%) GCP
13 78 (1.11%) OpenShift
14 69 (0.98%) IaaS
14 69 (0.98%) OCI
15 68 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
17 50 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
18 49 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 453 (6.43%) Firewall
2 293 (4.16%) WAN
3 194 (2.75%) LAN
4 174 (2.47%) BGP
5 162 (2.30%) DNS
5 162 (2.30%) VPN
6 154 (2.19%) Network Security
7 117 (1.66%) MPLS
8 104 (1.48%) IPsec
9 99 (1.40%) DHCP
10 97 (1.38%) SSL
11 87 (1.23%) SAN
12 77 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
13 69 (0.98%) TCP/IP
13 69 (0.98%) Wireless
14 64 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 63 (0.89%) OSPF
16 59 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
17 57 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
17 57 (0.81%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (2.43%) SQL Server
3 91 (1.29%) Power BI
4 88 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 84 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 69 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 68 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 66 (0.94%) Oracle Database
9 65 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 63 (0.89%) MySQL
11 62 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (0.79%) Metadata
13 49 (0.70%) Big Data
14 47 (0.67%) MongoDB
15 46 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 40 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 33 (0.47%) Data Vault
17 33 (0.47%) Flink
18 29 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
19 24 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 313 (4.44%) JIRA
2 254 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 252 (3.58%) Git
4 164 (2.33%) GitLab
5 82 (1.16%) Selenium
6 67 (0.95%) Visual Studio
7 58 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
8 57 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 55 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 50 (0.71%) JUnit
11 48 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 46 (0.65%) PVCS
13 38 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 30 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 29 (0.41%) JMeter
16 25 (0.35%) Robot Framework
17 24 (0.34%) Artifactory
17 24 (0.34%) MSI
17 24 (0.34%) TestRail
18 23 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,474 (20.92%) Public Sector
2 1,207 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 515 (7.31%) Finance
4 485 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 184 (2.61%) Aerospace
6 184 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 164 (2.33%) Electronics
8 153 (2.17%) Military
9 126 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 111 (1.58%) Marketing
11 103 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (1.08%) Legal
13 67 (0.95%) Law
14 61 (0.87%) Police
15 54 (0.77%) Banking
16 52 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (0.37%) Publishing
19 25 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,318 (18.70%) Architect
2 573 (8.13%) Analyst
3 561 (7.96%) Developer
4 512 (7.27%) Senior
5 385 (5.46%) Consultant
6 363 (5.15%) Lead
7 305 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 302 (4.29%) Network Engineer
9 265 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 246 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 236 (3.35%) Network Architect
12 228 (3.24%) Project Manager
13 154 (2.19%) Administrator
13 154 (2.19%) Support Engineer
14 153 (2.17%) Software Engineer
15 148 (2.10%) Security Architect
16 147 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 128 (1.82%) Technical Architect
18 124 (1.76%) Java Developer
19 122 (1.73%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (2.16%) REST
2 139 (1.97%) React
3 129 (1.83%) .NET
4 128 (1.82%) Spring
5 114 (1.62%) Spring Boot
6 107 (1.52%) Kafka
7 101 (1.43%) Node.js
8 100 (1.42%) Web Services
9 99 (1.40%) HTML
10 89 (1.26%) CSS
11 59 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (0.78%) JSON
13 52 (0.74%) RESTful
14 48 (0.68%) XML
15 47 (0.67%) ARM Templates
16 43 (0.61%) JPA
17 41 (0.58%) Hibernate
18 40 (0.57%) .NET Core
18 40 (0.57%) YAML
19 39 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 324 (4.60%) PKI
2 210 (2.98%) Data Centre
3 183 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 128 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 124 (1.76%) Cyber Defence
6 110 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 101 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 99 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 92 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 81 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 74 (1.05%) Private Cloud
12 72 (1.02%) Cloud Native
13 57 (0.81%) Driving Licence
14 56 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
15 55 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 55 (0.78%) Replication
16 53 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
17 50 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.58%) CSOC
18 41 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 936 (13.28%) Windows
2 731 (10.37%) Linux
3 325 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 167 (2.37%) Windows 10
5 147 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 121 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 105 (1.49%) Unix
8 94 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 89 (1.26%) Windows 7
10 88 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 82 (1.16%) Android
12 63 (0.89%) Apple iOS
13 28 (0.40%) Mac OS X
14 26 (0.37%) Ubuntu
14 26 (0.37%) zOS
15 24 (0.34%) Solaris
15 24 (0.34%) VMS
16 22 (0.31%) AIX
17 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
18 18 (0.26%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,154 (16.38%) Agile
2 762 (10.81%) DevOps
3 731 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
4 546 (7.75%) ITIL
5 543 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
6 454 (6.44%) CI/CD
7 450 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 440 (6.24%) Project Management
9 388 (5.51%) Service Management
10 339 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 337 (4.78%) Software Engineering
12 329 (4.67%) Migration
13 319 (4.53%) SIEM
14 265 (3.76%) Project Delivery
15 264 (3.75%) Change Management
16 254 (3.60%) Configuration Management
17 249 (3.53%) Scrum
18 247 (3.51%) Mentoring
19 239 (3.39%) Roadmaps
20 234 (3.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 581 (8.24%) Python
2 438 (6.22%) Java
3 403 (5.72%) PowerShell
4 366 (5.19%) SQL
5 237 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 167 (2.37%) C#
7 164 (2.33%) C
8 123 (1.75%) Bash
9 103 (1.46%) C++
10 83 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 82 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 57 (0.81%) Go
12 57 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 41 (0.58%) VBScript
14 31 (0.44%) PHP
15 30 (0.43%) Bicep
16 26 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 24 (0.34%) Perl
18 23 (0.33%) MATLAB
18 23 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,380 (62.15%) SC Cleared
2 2,350 (33.35%) DV Cleared
3 446 (6.33%) Degree
4 211 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 98 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 94 (1.33%) CCNP
8 87 (1.23%) CCNA
9 79 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.02%) CISSP
11 50 (0.71%) CISM
12 45 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 43 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 41 (0.58%) PMP
15 39 (0.55%) ISTQB
16 38 (0.54%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.53%) APMP
18 36 (0.51%) Master's Degree
19 35 (0.50%) MCSA
20 33 (0.47%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (2.54%) SLA
2 161 (2.28%) NIST
3 155 (2.20%) QA
4 102 (1.45%) PMO
5 78 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 68 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 64 (0.91%) NCSC
9 59 (0.84%) GDPR
10 45 (0.64%) Accessibility
11 36 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 33 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
13 27 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 24 (0.34%) RMADS
15 21 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 14 (0.20%) PCI DSS
18 11 (0.16%) COBIT
18 11 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 466 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 344 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 308 (4.37%) Docker
4 134 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 111 (1.58%) vSphere
6 92 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 92 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 88 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 62 (0.88%) Firmware
9 30 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.13%) VMFS
11 7 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.071%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.071%) iptables
12 5 (0.071%) XenApp
12 5 (0.071%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.043%) KVM
15 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 441 (6.26%) Terraform
2 421 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 383 (5.43%) Ansible
4 162 (2.30%) SCCM
5 95 (1.35%) Grafana
6 90 (1.28%) WSUS
7 71 (1.01%) SCOM
8 69 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 69 (0.98%) vCenter Server
9 57 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 56 (0.79%) Puppet
11 46 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 45 (0.64%) Kibana
13 42 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 36 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 34 (0.48%) FortiGate
16 33 (0.47%) VxRail
17 29 (0.41%) Endace
17 29 (0.41%) logstash
18 27 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 993 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 555 (7.88%) VMware
3 386 (5.48%) Cisco
4 288 (4.09%) Juniper
5 284 (4.03%) SAP
6 276 (3.92%) Oracle
7 151 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 131 (1.86%) Dell
9 126 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 108 (1.53%) IBM
11 102 (1.45%) Palo Alto
12 92 (1.31%) Atlassian
13 90 (1.28%) HP
14 80 (1.14%) F5
15 69 (0.98%) Fortinet
16 59 (0.84%) Google
17 53 (0.75%) Citrix
18 52 (0.74%) SolarWinds
18 52 (0.74%) Splunk
19 49 (0.70%) Veeam