Security Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5,051 4,978 4,496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.21% 22.05% 14.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.42% 67.55% 55.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,139 3,385 2,958
10th Percentile £340 £357 £358
25th Percentile £460 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 383 291
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.92 £21.78
Median hourly rate £57.44 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +9.52% +47.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.84 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.00% +14.29% +34.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,492 7,369 8,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.90% 32.65% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,343 4,883 5,291
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £600
90th Percentile £716 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 569 538
10th Percentile £13.67 £13.56 £13.36
25th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.12 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.98
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
% change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +29.03%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
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 Security Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 East 0 1,897 £597 +13.67% 514
South West 0 1,541 £553 -7.92% 473
North of England -3 579 £515 -6.36% 241
Midlands +4 526 £525 -6.25% 210
North West -1 410 £514 -2.14% 170
West Midlands +5 392 £525 -5.41% 163
Scotland +17 275 £480 +6.67% 99
East of England -1 266 £550 +4.76% 131
East Midlands -1 133 £539 -10.21% 46
Yorkshire -2 124 £525 -12.50% 49
North East -2 48 £500 -11.50% 22
Wales -6 47 £600 +11.63% 31
Northern Ireland +21 28 £563 +12.50% 40
South Coast - 1 - -
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
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
1 173 (3.43%) Confluence
2 152 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 107 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
5 22 (0.44%) CMS
6 18 (0.36%) Apache
7 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 11 (0.22%) SAS
9 9 (0.18%) CICS
10 8 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.099%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.079%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.059%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.040%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 212 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.44%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.28%) Simulink
8 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
9 7 (0.14%) Revit
10 5 (0.099%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.040%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Blender
12 1 (0.020%) CATIA
12 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.020%) Stata
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Primavera
2 27 (0.53%) SAP QM
2 27 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 25 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 23 (0.46%) SAP EWM
4 23 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.079%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
9 3 (0.059%) SAP PS
10 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.040%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.040%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 463 (9.17%) Azure
2 311 (6.16%) AWS
3 148 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (1.82%) Power Platform
5 72 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.25%) PaaS
7 62 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 57 (1.13%) OpenShift
8 57 (1.13%) SaaS
9 50 (0.99%) IaaS
10 46 (0.91%) GitHub
11 37 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
11 37 (0.73%) Power Automate
12 31 (0.61%) Amazon S3
13 30 (0.59%) GCP
14 29 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (0.57%) OCI
15 28 (0.55%) Azure Stack
15 28 (0.55%) PowerApps
16 27 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 347 (6.87%) Firewall
2 268 (5.31%) WAN
3 175 (3.46%) LAN
4 169 (3.35%) VPN
5 165 (3.27%) BGP
6 158 (3.13%) DNS
7 129 (2.55%) Network Security
8 116 (2.30%) DHCP
9 113 (2.24%) MPLS
10 98 (1.94%) IPsec
11 87 (1.72%) SAN
12 85 (1.68%) SSL
13 72 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
14 56 (1.11%) Junos
15 55 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
16 54 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
17 53 (1.05%) OSPF
18 52 (1.03%) TCP/IP
19 50 (0.99%) Wireless
20 48 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.06%) SQL Server
2 80 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (1.07%) Power BI
4 47 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 45 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 38 (0.75%) MySQL
8 29 (0.57%) Big Data
9 27 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (0.46%) Metadata
11 21 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 20 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 14 (0.28%) Tableau
16 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
17 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 11 (0.22%) DB2
18 11 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 271 (5.37%) JIRA
2 137 (2.71%) Git
2 137 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 92 (1.82%) GitLab
4 64 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 52 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 52 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
6 48 (0.95%) Selenium
7 44 (0.87%) PVCS
8 39 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 33 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.48%) Robot Framework
12 22 (0.44%) TestRail
13 20 (0.40%) Artifactory
13 20 (0.40%) MSI
14 19 (0.38%) JUnit
14 19 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (0.36%) JMeter
General
1 921 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 909 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 385 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (5.64%) Finance
5 202 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 180 (3.56%) Aerospace
7 136 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 123 (2.44%) Electronics
9 120 (2.38%) Military
10 93 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 84 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (1.52%) Marketing
13 68 (1.35%) Legal
14 33 (0.65%) Police
15 31 (0.61%) Law
16 25 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.42%) Retail
18 19 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (0.36%) Local Government
20 16 (0.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,000 (19.80%) Architect
2 441 (8.73%) Analyst
3 340 (6.73%) Senior
4 303 (6.00%) Developer
5 267 (5.29%) Lead
6 250 (4.95%) Consultant
7 242 (4.79%) Network Engineer
8 229 (4.53%) Network Architect
9 214 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 193 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 165 (3.27%) Project Manager
12 137 (2.71%) Support Engineer
13 129 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 126 (2.49%) Administrator
15 110 (2.18%) Software Engineer
16 106 (2.10%) Security Architect
17 104 (2.06%) Service Analyst
18 101 (2.00%) Lead Architect
19 97 (1.92%) Service Desk Analyst
20 95 (1.88%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.16%) REST
2 89 (1.76%) Web Services
3 81 (1.60%) .NET
4 60 (1.19%) Spring
5 58 (1.15%) Node.js
6 57 (1.13%) React
7 51 (1.01%) Spring Boot
8 40 (0.79%) HTML
9 38 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (0.73%) ARM Templates
11 35 (0.69%) .NET Core
12 34 (0.67%) CSS
13 31 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
14 30 (0.59%) XML
15 26 (0.51%) Java EE
15 26 (0.51%) Kafka
16 25 (0.49%) YAML
17 23 (0.46%) JPA
18 21 (0.42%) .NET Framework
18 21 (0.42%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 319 (6.32%) PKI
2 156 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 155 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 113 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
5 109 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
6 86 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 86 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 76 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 69 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 68 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 51 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 51 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 46 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 40 (0.79%) CSOC
14 38 (0.75%) Analogue Electronics
15 37 (0.73%) Onboarding
16 36 (0.71%) Cloud Native
16 36 (0.71%) Virtual Team
17 33 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 824 (16.31%) Windows
2 576 (11.40%) Linux
3 281 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 173 (3.43%) Windows 10
5 132 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 103 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 83 (1.64%) Windows 7
8 72 (1.43%) Unix
8 72 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 59 (1.17%) Apple iOS
11 53 (1.05%) Android
12 26 (0.51%) Solaris
12 26 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.44%) AIX
14 20 (0.40%) Windows Vista
15 16 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 16 (0.32%) Windows NT
15 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (15.32%) Agile
2 559 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
3 472 (9.34%) DevOps
4 457 (9.05%) ITIL
5 435 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
6 368 (7.29%) Project Management
7 310 (6.14%) Service Management
8 307 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 298 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 271 (5.37%) SIEM
11 257 (5.09%) Software Engineering
12 224 (4.43%) CI/CD
13 218 (4.32%) Customer Service
14 197 (3.90%) Configuration Management
15 189 (3.74%) Project Delivery
16 186 (3.68%) Network Management
17 183 (3.62%) Mentoring
18 181 (3.58%) Change Management
19 178 (3.52%) Migration
20 169 (3.35%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 338 (6.69%) PowerShell
2 319 (6.32%) Python
3 232 (4.59%) Java
4 186 (3.68%) SQL
5 151 (2.99%) C
6 112 (2.22%) C#
7 99 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 90 (1.78%) C++
9 69 (1.37%) Bash
10 68 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 45 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 41 (0.81%) VBScript
13 27 (0.53%) Bicep
13 27 (0.53%) Go
13 27 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.46%) VB
15 21 (0.42%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.38%) Embedded C
17 16 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,857 (56.56%) SC Cleared
2 1,914 (37.89%) DV Cleared
3 360 (7.13%) Degree
4 146 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 112 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 79 (1.56%) CCNP
7 73 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 71 (1.41%) CCNA
9 54 (1.07%) CISSP
10 47 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (0.81%) CISM
12 40 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 36 (0.71%) APMP
14 33 (0.65%) MCSA
15 32 (0.63%) A+ Certification
15 32 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 30 (0.59%) MCSE
17 28 (0.55%) PMP
18 26 (0.51%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (3.23%) SLA
2 137 (2.71%) NIST
3 104 (2.06%) QA
4 87 (1.72%) PMO
5 71 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.23%) NIST 800
7 50 (0.99%) GDPR
8 45 (0.89%) NCSC
9 38 (0.75%) JSP 440
10 32 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
11 29 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.53%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.46%) RMADS
14 20 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 18 (0.36%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 11 (0.22%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
19 10 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 417 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 296 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (2.93%) Docker
4 110 (2.18%) VMware NSX
5 93 (1.84%) vSphere
6 90 (1.78%) Hyper-V
7 86 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
8 64 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 60 (1.19%) Firmware
10 31 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
11 10 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.16%) VMFS
13 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.099%) iptables
14 5 (0.099%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.059%) XenApp
15 3 (0.059%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 260 (5.15%) Ansible
2 217 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 205 (4.06%) Terraform
4 162 (3.21%) SCCM
5 92 (1.82%) WSUS
6 72 (1.43%) SCOM
7 67 (1.33%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.19%) Grafana
9 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 43 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 38 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 35 (0.69%) Kibana
13 29 (0.57%) Endace
14 27 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 27 (0.53%) Puppet
15 26 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
15 26 (0.51%) PowerCLI
16 25 (0.49%) NetBackup
16 25 (0.49%) Progress Chef
17 24 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 852 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 485 (9.60%) VMware
3 348 (6.89%) Cisco
4 273 (5.40%) Juniper
5 203 (4.02%) SAP
6 151 (2.99%) Red Hat
7 130 (2.57%) Oracle
8 119 (2.36%) Atlassian
9 110 (2.18%) Dell
10 101 (2.00%) HP
11 88 (1.74%) IBM
12 80 (1.58%) ServiceNow
13 78 (1.54%) Palo Alto
14 66 (1.31%) F5
15 58 (1.15%) Fortinet
16 48 (0.95%) Citrix
17 45 (0.89%) SolarWinds
18 42 (0.83%) Google
19 36 (0.71%) EMC
20 35 (0.69%) Remedy