Government Security Classifications Contracts in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Government Security Classifications over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 429 -
Rank change year-on-year +59 - -
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 31 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.004% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 30 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £525 £538 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
UK median daily rate £495 £569 £730
% change year-on-year -12.97% -22.09% +66.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Government Security Classifications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Government Security Classifications within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West - 31 £495 - 1
Government Security Classifications
UK

Government Security Classifications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (100.00%) Confluence
2 27 (87.10%) SharePoint
2 27 (87.10%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (83.87%) Azure Stack
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (87.10%) BGP
1 27 (87.10%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 31 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 27 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (45.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Service Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Service Management Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) IT Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 27 (87.10%) Private Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Service Management
2 27 (87.10%) ITIL
3 26 (83.87%) Capacity Management
3 26 (83.87%) Network Management
3 26 (83.87%) Security Monitoring
4 24 (77.42%) ITSM
5 14 (45.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (35.48%) Backlog Management
6 11 (35.48%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (12.90%) ArchiMate
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (3.23%) Agile
9 1 (3.23%) Business Case
9 1 (3.23%) DevOps
9 1 (3.23%) Product Management
9 1 (3.23%) Programme Management
9 1 (3.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (3.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (3.23%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (87.10%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Atlassian
1 27 (87.10%) Microsoft