Security Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 550 469 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.02% 14.56% 10.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.95% 53.85% 49.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 306 333
10th Percentile £300 £343 £300
25th Percentile £363 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +12.63% +17.86%
75th Percentile £600 £671 £550
90th Percentile £679 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 26 14
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £15.61
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.75 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% -16.10% +86.00%
75th Percentile £34.38 £63.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £56.89 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.19% +20.00% +26.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 933 871 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.27% 27.03% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 564 709
10th Percentile £254 £313 £206
25th Percentile £336 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 49 33
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.77 £11.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +21.62%
75th Percentile £42.50 £40.25 £25.25
90th Percentile £58.25 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +5 419 £519 -6.06% 168
East Midlands -1 130 £540 -10.00% 50
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 15 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.45%) CMS
3 7 (1.27%) CICS
3 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.27%) SAS
4 5 (0.91%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) Apache
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Revit
4 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.18%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.09%) Azure
2 9 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.27%) AWS
3 7 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (1.09%) OCI
5 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.55%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.55%) IaaS
5 3 (0.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.18%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.18%) PaaS
7 1 (0.18%) SaaS
7 1 (0.18%) Serverless
7 1 (0.18%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 82 (14.91%) WAN
2 78 (14.18%) MPLS
3 72 (13.09%) IPsec
4 63 (11.45%) BGP
5 49 (8.91%) VPN
6 47 (8.55%) Junos
7 37 (6.73%) Firewall
8 26 (4.73%) Network Security
9 20 (3.64%) Intrusion Detection
10 17 (3.09%) SD-WAN
11 15 (2.73%) LAN
11 15 (2.73%) SAN
12 13 (2.36%) DNS
13 11 (2.00%) TCP/IP
14 9 (1.64%) NX-OS
15 8 (1.45%) DHCP
15 8 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (0.91%) Internet
17 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.00%) MySQL
2 21 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (3.27%) Big Data
4 11 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.64%) DB2
5 9 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.27%) IDMS
7 4 (0.73%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.36%) Adabas
9 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.36%) Metadata
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.18%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (7.64%) PVCS
1 42 (7.64%) Visual Studio
2 38 (6.91%) Git
3 8 (1.45%) JMeter
4 6 (1.09%) GitLab
4 6 (1.09%) JIRA
5 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.36%) TestRail
7 2 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 97 (17.64%) Public Sector
2 56 (10.18%) Social Skills
3 43 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.18%) Finance
5 15 (2.73%) Legal
5 15 (2.73%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.09%) Electronics
8 6 (1.09%) Marketing
9 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Games
10 3 (0.55%) Military
10 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.36%) Publishing
12 1 (0.18%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (12.18%) Analyst
2 65 (11.82%) Architect
3 49 (8.91%) Programmer
4 46 (8.36%) C Programmer
5 44 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 34 (6.18%) SOC Analyst
7 31 (5.64%) WAN Engineer
8 29 (5.27%) Consultant
9 28 (5.09%) Network Support
10 24 (4.36%) 3rd Line Support
10 24 (4.36%) Network Architect
11 22 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 22 (4.00%) Developer
12 21 (3.82%) Senior
12 21 (3.82%) Support Engineer
13 17 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) Administrator
14 16 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.73%) Lead
16 14 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (1.82%) YAML
3 8 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.45%) LDAP
4 4 (0.73%) Web Services
5 3 (0.55%) FastAPI
5 3 (0.55%) Flask
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.55%) REST
5 3 (0.55%) SOAP
5 3 (0.55%) XML
6 2 (0.36%) Django
6 2 (0.36%) React
7 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.18%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.18%) Next.js
7 1 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.18%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.27%) PKI
2 33 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
3 22 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.82%) Distributed Applications
5 19 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 14 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.82%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 8 (1.45%) IBM Mainframe
11 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.27%) SCADA
12 6 (1.09%) HP Storage
13 5 (0.91%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.91%) Replication
14 4 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.73%) Taxonomies
15 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 114 (20.73%) Windows
2 93 (16.91%) Linux
3 32 (5.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (4.36%) Android
4 24 (4.36%) Apple iOS
5 23 (4.18%) Windows 7
6 22 (4.00%) Unix
7 18 (3.27%) Windows Vista
8 11 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 11 (2.00%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.82%) Mac OS X
10 9 (1.64%) zOS
11 8 (1.45%) AIX
11 8 (1.45%) Solaris
12 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.55%) Debian
13 3 (0.55%) VMS
13 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.18%) SUSE
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (11.45%) SIEM
3 44 (8.00%) Agile
4 42 (7.64%) Analytics
5 40 (7.27%) Load Balancing
5 40 (7.27%) Software Engineering
6 38 (6.91%) Configuration Management
6 38 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (6.91%) Security Operations
7 34 (6.18%) Requirements Gathering
8 33 (6.00%) DevOps
9 30 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (5.27%) Scrum
11 28 (5.09%) Information Security
12 26 (4.73%) Data Analytics
13 25 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (4.36%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (4.36%) Incident Management
14 24 (4.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (4.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.09%) C
2 43 (7.82%) PL/SQL
3 23 (4.18%) PowerShell
3 23 (4.18%) SQL
4 13 (2.36%) C++
5 12 (2.18%) Python
6 9 (1.64%) COBOL
6 9 (1.64%) Java
7 8 (1.45%) C#
8 7 (1.27%) CLIST
8 7 (1.27%) REXX
8 7 (1.27%) SELCOPY
9 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.91%) Bash
10 5 (0.91%) R
11 3 (0.55%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.36%) ABAP
12 2 (0.36%) Groovy
12 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.36%) Natural
Qualifications
1 377 (68.55%) SC Cleared
2 98 (17.82%) DV Cleared
3 25 (4.55%) Degree
4 22 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.82%) CCNP
8 9 (1.64%) CCNA
8 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.27%) CISSP
10 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.91%) BC Cleared
11 5 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.91%) JNCIS
11 5 (0.91%) OSCP
12 3 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.55%) ISEB
13 2 (0.36%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.36%) PMP
13 2 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.64%) NIST
2 17 (3.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 14 (2.55%) SLA
4 13 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.36%) QA
5 10 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (1.82%) GDPR
5 10 (1.82%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.91%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.91%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.18%) GPG13
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.91%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.00%) vSphere
6 9 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.27%) Docker
7 7 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.91%) iptables
9 4 (0.73%) VMFS
10 2 (0.36%) Firmware
10 2 (0.36%) XenApp
10 2 (0.36%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (4.55%) Ansible
2 22 (4.00%) SCCM
3 21 (3.82%) Grafana
4 17 (3.09%) Terraform
5 11 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.82%) Puppet
6 10 (1.82%) Salt
7 9 (1.64%) CSIRT
7 9 (1.64%) Kibana
8 8 (1.45%) AirWatch
8 8 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (1.45%) logstash
9 7 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.09%) HP Data Protector
10 6 (1.09%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.91%) VxRail
12 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 81 (14.73%) Juniper
2 68 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 50 (9.09%) VMware
4 45 (8.18%) Red Hat
5 44 (8.00%) Cisco
6 24 (4.36%) Denodo
7 22 (4.00%) Oracle
7 22 (4.00%) Talend
8 14 (2.55%) SAP
9 10 (1.82%) Apple
9 10 (1.82%) CA
9 10 (1.82%) IBM
10 8 (1.45%) Brocade
10 8 (1.45%) EMC
10 8 (1.45%) F5
10 8 (1.45%) HP
10 8 (1.45%) SaltStack
10 8 (1.45%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.27%) LogRhythm
11 7 (1.27%) Syncsort