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 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 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7,000 8,042 7,762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.97% 16.94% 11.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.07% 61.49% 50.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,580 5,483 5,278
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 515 420 332
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £36.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £72.77 £63.94
90th Percentile £84.45 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £56.15 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +12.15% +35.44%

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 11,277 13,078 15,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.55% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,989 8,780 10,304
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 652 674
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.39 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%

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 1 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 1 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 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
London +3 2,067 £538 -4.02% 386
South East 0 1,904 £600 +14.29% 487
South West 0 1,546 £550 -8.33% 482
North of England -2 587 £515 -6.36% 240
Midlands +4 525 £525 -5.41% 207
North West -1 418 £515 -1.90% 179
West Midlands +5 391 £515 -6.79% 163
East of England -1 260 £550 +4.76% 134
East Midlands -1 133 £540 -10.00% 43
Yorkshire 0 125 £525 -12.50% 40
North East -2 46 £500 -11.50% 21
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
1 228 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 185 (2.64%) Confluence
3 127 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 64 (0.91%) Apache
5 33 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
6 27 (0.39%) CMS
7 25 (0.36%) nginx
8 24 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
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 (0.19%) 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 (0.10%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.086%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 221 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 135 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 22 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 15 (0.21%) Simulink
9 7 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
9 7 (0.10%) Revit
10 5 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.071%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.043%) Windchill
12 2 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.029%) Sketch
12 2 (0.029%) SPSS
12 2 (0.029%) Trello
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.014%) InVision
Business Applications
1 41 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 36 (0.51%) Primavera
3 35 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 31 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 28 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 25 (0.36%) SAP EWM
7 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.10%) SAP HR
10 5 (0.071%) Maximo
10 5 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.071%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.057%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.057%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.057%) SAP PS
11 4 (0.057%) SAP SD
12 3 (0.043%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 831 (11.87%) AWS
2 759 (10.84%) Azure
3 238 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (2.14%) Power Platform
5 118 (1.69%) Serverless
6 106 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 98 (1.40%) PaaS
9 95 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (1.29%) SaaS
11 87 (1.24%) GitHub
12 83 (1.19%) GCP
13 79 (1.13%) Entra ID
13 79 (1.13%) OpenShift
14 71 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (0.96%) IaaS
15 67 (0.96%) OCI
16 51 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
17 49 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 469 (6.70%) Firewall
2 303 (4.33%) WAN
3 202 (2.89%) LAN
4 183 (2.61%) BGP
5 169 (2.41%) VPN
6 164 (2.34%) DNS
7 156 (2.23%) Network Security
8 120 (1.71%) MPLS
9 111 (1.59%) IPsec
10 101 (1.44%) DHCP
11 95 (1.36%) SSL
12 88 (1.26%) SAN
13 77 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
14 73 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 73 (1.04%) Wireless
15 67 (0.96%) OSPF
16 64 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
17 58 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
17 58 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
17 58 (0.83%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 89 (1.27%) Power BI
4 87 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 85 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 71 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 67 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 66 (0.94%) Oracle Database
9 61 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 58 (0.83%) Metadata
10 58 (0.83%) MySQL
11 57 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (0.70%) Big Data
13 46 (0.66%) MongoDB
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 33 (0.47%) Data Vault
15 33 (0.47%) Flink
16 29 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
17 23 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 313 (4.47%) JIRA
2 252 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 249 (3.56%) Git
4 158 (2.26%) GitLab
5 83 (1.19%) Selenium
6 68 (0.97%) Visual Studio
7 59 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 57 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 54 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
10 50 (0.71%) JUnit
11 48 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 46 (0.66%) PVCS
13 38 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 31 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 29 (0.41%) JMeter
16 25 (0.36%) Robot Framework
17 24 (0.34%) TestRail
18 22 (0.31%) Artifactory
18 22 (0.31%) MSI
18 22 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,478 (21.11%) Public Sector
2 1,229 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 517 (7.39%) Finance
4 490 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (3.69%) Telecoms
6 187 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 182 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 161 (2.30%) Electronics
9 154 (2.20%) Military
10 125 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 108 (1.54%) Marketing
12 107 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 76 (1.09%) Legal
14 68 (0.97%) Law
15 62 (0.89%) Police
16 54 (0.77%) Banking
17 52 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.39%) Retail
19 26 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 26 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,307 (18.67%) Architect
2 577 (8.24%) Analyst
3 565 (8.07%) Developer
4 501 (7.16%) Senior
5 375 (5.36%) Consultant
6 362 (5.17%) Lead
7 301 (4.30%) Network Engineer
8 293 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 264 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
10 242 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 234 (3.34%) Network Architect
12 233 (3.33%) Project Manager
13 154 (2.20%) Support Engineer
14 149 (2.13%) Administrator
15 148 (2.11%) Security Architect
15 148 (2.11%) Software Engineer
16 146 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 126 (1.80%) Java Developer
18 123 (1.76%) Service Analyst
19 113 (1.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.16%) REST
2 145 (2.07%) React
3 133 (1.90%) Spring
4 129 (1.84%) .NET
5 115 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 108 (1.54%) Kafka
7 101 (1.44%) HTML
8 100 (1.43%) Node.js
9 99 (1.41%) Web Services
10 90 (1.29%) CSS
11 59 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
12 54 (0.77%) JSON
13 52 (0.74%) RESTful
14 47 (0.67%) XML
15 45 (0.64%) ARM Templates
16 43 (0.61%) .NET Core
16 43 (0.61%) JPA
17 41 (0.59%) Hibernate
18 40 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
18 40 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 334 (4.77%) PKI
2 210 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 186 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 127 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
5 124 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
6 112 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 99 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 92 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 80 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 78 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 70 (1.00%) Cloud Native
13 57 (0.81%) Driving Licence
14 56 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 56 (0.80%) Replication
15 54 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
16 52 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
17 50 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.57%) CSOC
18 40 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 942 (13.46%) Windows
2 730 (10.43%) Linux
3 327 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 175 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 143 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 121 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (1.47%) Unix
8 93 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 92 (1.31%) Windows 7
10 89 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.99%) Android
12 56 (0.80%) Apple iOS
13 29 (0.41%) Mac OS X
13 29 (0.41%) Ubuntu
14 22 (0.31%) AIX
14 22 (0.31%) VMS
14 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
15 20 (0.29%) Solaris
15 20 (0.29%) Windows Vista
16 17 (0.24%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (16.53%) Agile
2 757 (10.81%) DevOps
3 732 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
4 550 (7.86%) ITIL
5 542 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
6 459 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 452 (6.46%) Project Management
8 449 (6.41%) CI/CD
9 395 (5.64%) Service Management
10 337 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 331 (4.73%) Migration
12 327 (4.67%) Software Engineering
13 323 (4.61%) SIEM
14 270 (3.86%) Change Management
15 260 (3.71%) Project Delivery
16 252 (3.60%) Configuration Management
17 247 (3.53%) Mentoring
18 239 (3.41%) Scrum
19 235 (3.36%) Decision-Making
20 234 (3.34%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 579 (8.27%) Python
2 443 (6.33%) Java
3 405 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 363 (5.19%) SQL
5 242 (3.46%) JavaScript
6 169 (2.41%) C#
7 164 (2.34%) C
8 124 (1.77%) Bash
9 103 (1.47%) C++
10 83 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 80 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 59 (0.84%) Go
13 52 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.59%) VBScript
15 31 (0.44%) PHP
16 30 (0.43%) Bicep
17 27 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.36%) Perl
19 23 (0.33%) MATLAB
19 23 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,351 (62.16%) SC Cleared
2 2,341 (33.44%) DV Cleared
3 444 (6.34%) Degree
4 205 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 140 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 95 (1.36%) CCNP
7 89 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 85 (1.21%) CCNA
9 82 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.01%) CISSP
11 51 (0.73%) CISM
12 43 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 42 (0.60%) Azure Certification
14 40 (0.57%) PMP
15 37 (0.53%) APMP
15 37 (0.53%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.50%) MCSA
17 32 (0.46%) Master's Degree
18 29 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (2.57%) SLA
2 166 (2.37%) NIST
3 161 (2.30%) QA
4 108 (1.54%) PMO
5 82 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 68 (0.97%) NCSC
8 67 (0.96%) NIST 800
9 60 (0.86%) GDPR
10 47 (0.67%) Accessibility
11 40 (0.57%) JSP 440
12 35 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
13 28 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
14 25 (0.36%) RMADS
15 22 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 14 (0.20%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 12 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 471 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 343 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 299 (4.27%) Docker
4 129 (1.84%) VMware NSX
5 104 (1.49%) vSphere
6 91 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 88 (1.26%) Hyper-V
8 84 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 64 (0.91%) Firmware
10 31 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.13%) VMFS
12 7 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.071%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.071%) iptables
14 4 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.043%) KVM
15 3 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.043%) XenApp
15 3 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 429 (6.13%) Terraform
2 413 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 375 (5.36%) Ansible
4 158 (2.26%) SCCM
5 92 (1.31%) Grafana
6 88 (1.26%) WSUS
7 74 (1.06%) SCOM
8 71 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 71 (1.01%) vCenter Server
9 58 (0.83%) Puppet
10 55 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 46 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 45 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 43 (0.61%) Kibana
14 38 (0.54%) FortiGate
15 37 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
16 33 (0.47%) VxRail
17 29 (0.41%) Endace
18 27 (0.39%) Packer
18 27 (0.39%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 989 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 548 (7.83%) VMware
3 393 (5.61%) Cisco
4 298 (4.26%) Juniper
5 285 (4.07%) SAP
6 272 (3.89%) Oracle
7 146 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 134 (1.91%) Dell
9 124 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 105 (1.50%) Palo Alto
11 103 (1.47%) IBM
12 94 (1.34%) HP
13 90 (1.29%) Atlassian
14 77 (1.10%) F5
15 71 (1.01%) Fortinet
16 59 (0.84%) Google
17 55 (0.79%) Splunk
18 54 (0.77%) SolarWinds
19 52 (0.74%) Citrix
20 51 (0.73%) Veeam