Government Security Classifications Contracts in England

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 513 633 779
Rank change year-on-year +120 +146 -124
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 37 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 0.047% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 2 8
10th Percentile - £522 £607
25th Percentile £463 £536 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £569 £730
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -22.09% +66.86%
75th Percentile £525 £598 £745
90th Percentile £575 £611 £758
UK median daily rate £495 £569 £730
% change year-on-year -12.97% -22.09% +66.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,067 6,357 9,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,193 4,313 6,338
10th Percentile £300 £300 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.17 £12.56
25th Percentile £12.88 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.40
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 England

Job postings citing Government Security Classifications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Government Security Classifications in England

Government Security Classifications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Government Security Classifications in England.

Daily rate trend for Government Security Classifications in England

Government Security Classifications
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 Government Security Classifications within the England 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
London +86 6 £475 -22.45% 1
Government Security Classifications
UK

Government Security Classifications
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 31 (83.78%) Confluence
2 27 (72.97%) SharePoint
2 27 (72.97%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) Azure
2 26 (70.27%) Azure Stack
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 27 (72.97%) BGP
1 27 (72.97%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 31 (83.78%) JIRA
General
1 28 (75.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Project Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Service Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Service Management Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) IT Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) ICT Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Lead
7 1 (2.70%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 27 (72.97%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) ITIL
2 28 (75.68%) Service Management
3 26 (70.27%) Capacity Management
3 26 (70.27%) Network Management
3 26 (70.27%) Security Monitoring
4 24 (64.86%) ITSM
5 14 (37.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (29.73%) Backlog Management
6 11 (29.73%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (16.22%) Business Case
8 4 (10.81%) ArchiMate
8 4 (10.81%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (8.11%) Agile
9 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (8.11%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (8.11%) DRM
9 3 (8.11%) Use Case
10 2 (5.41%) Agile Project Management
10 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2
10 2 (5.41%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 33 (89.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (72.97%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (83.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (72.97%) Atlassian