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 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 2 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 525 477 505
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.81% 14.68% 10.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.66% 54.02% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 307 323
10th Percentile £298 £352 £282
25th Percentile £363 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +12.12% +19.83%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £648
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 15
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.41 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.84 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -9.02% +51.32%
75th Percentile £28.13 £59.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £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
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 895 883 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.07% 27.18% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 565 699
10th Percentile £254 £313 £204
25th Percentile £325 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £640
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 51 35
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £37.66 £24.63
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

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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 1 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 1 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 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
West Midlands +5 391 £515 -6.79% 163
East Midlands -1 133 £540 -10.00% 43
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 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.52%) CMS
3 7 (1.33%) CICS
3 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.33%) SAS
4 5 (0.95%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Revit
5 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.19%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.19%) Primavera
1 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (4.95%) Azure
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (0.95%) AWS
4 5 (0.95%) OCI
5 3 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.57%) IaaS
5 3 (0.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.19%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.19%) PaaS
6 1 (0.19%) SaaS
6 1 (0.19%) Serverless
6 1 (0.19%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 85 (16.19%) WAN
2 81 (15.43%) MPLS
3 75 (14.29%) IPsec
4 66 (12.57%) BGP
5 50 (9.52%) VPN
6 48 (9.14%) Junos
7 39 (7.43%) Firewall
8 27 (5.14%) Network Security
9 20 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (3.05%) SAN
11 15 (2.86%) LAN
11 15 (2.86%) SD-WAN
12 14 (2.67%) DNS
13 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
14 8 (1.52%) DHCP
14 8 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
15 7 (1.33%) NX-OS
16 6 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (0.95%) Internet
17 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.43%) Big Data
2 17 (3.24%) MySQL
3 16 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.71%) DB2
5 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.33%) IDMS
7 4 (0.76%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.38%) Metadata
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.19%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.19%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (8.00%) PVCS
1 42 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 33 (6.29%) Git
3 8 (1.52%) JMeter
4 6 (1.14%) JIRA
5 5 (0.95%) GitLab
6 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.38%) TestRail
7 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 98 (18.67%) Public Sector
2 55 (10.48%) Social Skills
3 42 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.10%) Finance
5 15 (2.86%) Legal
6 13 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.76%) Electronics
9 4 (0.76%) Marketing
10 3 (0.57%) Games
10 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.57%) Military
10 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.38%) Publishing
12 1 (0.19%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.19%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (12.76%) Analyst
2 52 (9.90%) Architect
3 49 (9.33%) Programmer
4 46 (8.76%) C Programmer
5 45 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 35 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
7 34 (6.48%) WAN Engineer
8 29 (5.52%) Network Support
9 24 (4.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 24 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
10 23 (4.38%) Consultant
11 22 (4.19%) Network Architect
11 22 (4.19%) Support Engineer
12 21 (4.00%) Developer
13 19 (3.62%) Senior
14 16 (3.05%) Administrator
15 14 (2.67%) 2nd Line Support
15 14 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (2.48%) Lead
17 12 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.62%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (1.90%) YAML
3 8 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.52%) LDAP
4 4 (0.76%) Web Services
5 3 (0.57%) REST
5 3 (0.57%) SOAP
5 3 (0.57%) XML
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.38%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.19%) .NET
7 1 (0.19%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.19%) CSS
7 1 (0.19%) HTML
7 1 (0.19%) JSON
7 1 (0.19%) React
7 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.19%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.19%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.29%) PKI
2 33 (6.29%) Cyber Defence
3 22 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
5 19 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 14 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.90%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (1.52%) IBM Mainframe
12 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.33%) SCADA
13 6 (1.14%) HP Storage
14 5 (0.95%) Cyberattack
14 5 (0.95%) Replication
14 5 (0.95%) Taxonomies
15 4 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 114 (21.71%) Windows
2 92 (17.52%) Linux
3 31 (5.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (4.76%) Windows 7
5 22 (4.19%) Unix
6 20 (3.81%) Windows Vista
7 17 (3.24%) Apple iOS
8 15 (2.86%) Android
9 12 (2.29%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.10%) Mac OS X
10 11 (2.10%) Windows Server
11 8 (1.52%) AIX
11 8 (1.52%) Solaris
12 7 (1.33%) zOS
13 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.76%) Debian
15 3 (0.57%) VMS
15 3 (0.57%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (12.38%) SIEM
3 42 (8.00%) Agile
4 41 (7.81%) Load Balancing
5 38 (7.24%) Security Operations
6 36 (6.86%) Analytics
7 35 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (6.48%) Configuration Management
8 34 (6.48%) Software Engineering
9 29 (5.52%) Requirements Gathering
9 29 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (5.33%) Information Security
11 26 (4.95%) DevOps
11 26 (4.95%) Incident Management
12 25 (4.76%) Validation
13 24 (4.57%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (4.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (4.57%) Scrum
14 22 (4.19%) Data Management
14 22 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.52%) C
2 43 (8.19%) PL/SQL
3 23 (4.38%) PowerShell
4 22 (4.19%) SQL
5 13 (2.48%) C++
6 11 (2.10%) Python
7 9 (1.71%) COBOL
7 9 (1.71%) Java
8 8 (1.52%) C#
9 7 (1.33%) CLIST
9 7 (1.33%) REXX
9 7 (1.33%) SELCOPY
10 5 (0.95%) Bash
10 5 (0.95%) R
10 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.57%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.19%) ABAP
13 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 359 (68.38%) SC Cleared
2 93 (17.71%) DV Cleared
3 21 (4.00%) Degree
4 15 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.90%) CCNP
7 9 (1.71%) CCNA
7 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.33%) CISSP
9 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.14%) BC Cleared
10 5 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.95%) JNCIS
10 5 (0.95%) OSCP
11 4 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.57%) ISEB
13 2 (0.38%) CCIE
13 2 (0.38%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.00%) NIST
2 17 (3.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 15 (2.86%) SLA
4 14 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.48%) QA
6 11 (2.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (2.10%) GDPR
6 11 (2.10%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.95%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.95%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.57%) ISO17020
9 2 (0.38%) PMO
10 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) GPG13
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
System Software
1 34 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (2.67%) VMware NSX
4 9 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (1.71%) vSphere
5 6 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.95%) iptables
7 4 (0.76%) Docker
7 4 (0.76%) VMFS
8 2 (0.38%) Firmware
8 2 (0.38%) XenApp
8 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (4.19%) Ansible
2 16 (3.05%) Grafana
3 15 (2.86%) Terraform
4 13 (2.48%) SCCM
5 11 (2.10%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.90%) Puppet
6 10 (1.90%) Salt
7 9 (1.71%) Kibana
8 8 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (1.52%) logstash
9 7 (1.33%) CSIRT
9 7 (1.33%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.14%) HP Data Protector
10 6 (1.14%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.95%) VxRail
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.57%) Kubernetes
14 2 (0.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (16.00%) Juniper
2 61 (11.62%) Microsoft
3 48 (9.14%) VMware
4 45 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 43 (8.19%) Cisco
6 21 (4.00%) Oracle
7 19 (3.62%) Denodo
8 17 (3.24%) Talend
9 11 (2.10%) SAP
10 10 (1.90%) IBM
11 8 (1.52%) Brocade
11 8 (1.52%) EMC
11 8 (1.52%) F5
11 8 (1.52%) HP
11 8 (1.52%) LogRhythm
11 8 (1.52%) SaltStack
11 8 (1.52%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.33%) CA
12 7 (1.33%) Syncsort
13 6 (1.14%) Symantec