Security Cleared Contracts in the East of England

Security Clearance
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of 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 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 271 414 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 13.93% 21.17% 13.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.01% 60.26% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 226 164
10th Percentile £203 £286 £302
25th Percentile £319 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £676 £625
90th Percentile £701 £707 £680
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 95 97
10th Percentile £21.37 £19.06 £18.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £20.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +15.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
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
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 589 687 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.28% 35.12% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 350 389
10th Percentile £219 £257 £213
25th Percentile £345 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £716 £675
England median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 160 215
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.65 £14.25 £13.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% +6.01% -14.65%
75th Percentile £59.38 £61.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.60 £65.38 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of 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
Hertfordshire -1 191 £550 +10.00% 96
Cambridgeshire -9 46 £700 +40.00% 22
Bedfordshire +3 21 £488 -18.75% 19
Essex -20 8 - - 8
Suffolk +4 5 £220 -68.57% 8
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 18 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.69%) CMS
3 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2000
4 4 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.48%) IIS
4 4 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.74%) Simulink
5 1 (0.37%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Primavera
2 2 (0.74%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.37%) Lorenzo
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (1.85%) Azure
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.75%) SMTP
2 16 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.21%) DNS
3 6 (2.21%) Firewall
3 6 (2.21%) SSL
3 6 (2.21%) VPN
4 5 (1.85%) FTP
4 5 (1.85%) HTTP
5 3 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.74%) SAN
6 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) Network Security
7 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) Big Data
2 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (2.95%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.85%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.11%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.74%) CppUnit
4 2 (0.74%) JIRA
4 2 (0.74%) PVCS
5 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.66%) Aerospace
3 40 (14.76%) Electronics
4 35 (12.92%) Manufacturing
5 24 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.38%) Retail
7 9 (3.32%) Finance
8 8 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Aviation
9 5 (1.85%) Military
10 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (23.99%) Analyst
2 40 (14.76%) Architect
3 36 (13.28%) Service Analyst
3 36 (13.28%) Service Desk Analyst
4 31 (11.44%) Test Architect
5 17 (6.27%) Messaging Engineer
6 15 (5.54%) Principal Engineer
6 15 (5.54%) Storage Engineer
7 14 (5.17%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (4.80%) Senior
8 13 (4.80%) SOC Analyst
8 13 (4.80%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.80%) Support Analyst
8 13 (4.80%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (4.80%) Technical Support
8 13 (4.80%) Technical Support Analyst
9 12 (4.43%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 11 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.06%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.58%) Web Services
2 5 (1.85%) LDAP
3 2 (0.74%) HTML
3 2 (0.74%) Node.js
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.37%) React
4 1 (0.37%) SGML
4 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.92%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (3.69%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (3.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.85%) iPad
5 5 (1.85%) iPhone
5 5 (1.85%) PKI
6 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.74%) Verilog
7 2 (0.74%) VHDL
8 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.37%) CMDB
8 1 (0.37%) CSOC
8 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.37%) FPGA
8 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (23.62%) Windows
2 53 (19.56%) Linux
3 20 (7.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.95%) Solaris
4 8 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.48%) Unix
7 4 (1.48%) Windows 2000
7 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.37%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (16.61%) Project Management
2 36 (13.28%) Customer Service
2 36 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (12.92%) Test Strategy
4 33 (12.18%) ITIL
5 21 (7.75%) Incident Management
5 21 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (7.75%) Software Engineering
6 19 (7.01%) Change Management
7 18 (6.64%) Agile
8 17 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (6.27%) Service Management
9 15 (5.54%) Incident Response
10 14 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (4.80%) Migration
12 11 (4.06%) Configuration Management
12 11 (4.06%) Security Operations
13 10 (3.69%) PRINCE2
13 10 (3.69%) Validation
14 9 (3.32%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.80%) C++
2 9 (3.32%) SQL
3 6 (2.21%) C#
4 5 (1.85%) MATLAB
5 4 (1.48%) C
6 3 (1.11%) Ada
7 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.74%) Python
8 1 (0.37%) Bash
8 1 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.37%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 176 (64.94%) SC Cleared
2 78 (28.78%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.90%) A+ Certification
3 16 (5.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (5.90%) MCSA
3 16 (5.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.69%) MCP
5 8 (2.95%) Degree
6 6 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CCENT
8 2 (0.74%) HNC
8 2 (0.74%) HND
9 1 (0.37%) CCNP
9 1 (0.37%) CCSA
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.21%) SLA
3 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.11%) PMO
4 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.37%) DO-254
4 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.37%) NCSC
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (5.90%) MAILsweeper
2 5 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.85%) Rancher
2 5 (1.85%) SCOM
3 4 (1.48%) Ansible
3 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (1.48%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) logstash
5 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.18%) VMware
3 17 (6.27%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.90%) Citrix
4 16 (5.90%) Sophos
4 16 (5.90%) Trend Micro
5 15 (5.54%) NetApp
6 14 (5.17%) Darktrace
7 13 (4.80%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.06%) FireEye
8 11 (4.06%) Splunk
8 11 (4.06%) Sun
9 10 (3.69%) Cisco
9 10 (3.69%) LogRhythm
10 8 (2.95%) IronPort
11 7 (2.58%) IBM
12 5 (1.85%) Dell
12 5 (1.85%) HP
12 5 (1.85%) Symantec
12 5 (1.85%) Twitter