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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 504 482 500
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.48% 14.89% 9.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.86% 54.52% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 314 321
10th Percentile £293 £354 £281
25th Percentile £363 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +11.11% +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 29 15
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.54 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.67 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -9.71% +51.32%
75th Percentile £24.59 £57.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £55.53 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.46% +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 871 884 1,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.94% 27.30% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 565 694
10th Percentile £248 £313 £209
25th Percentile £325 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £646
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 52 36
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.54 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £42.50 £36.37 £24.31
90th Percentile £58.25 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.58% +13.30%

Security Cleared
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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +5 371 £492 -10.64% 141
East Midlands -1 132 £540 -8.62% 60
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 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.59%) CMS
3 7 (1.39%) CICS
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.39%) SAS
4 3 (0.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Revit
5 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (5.16%) Azure
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (0.79%) AWS
4 4 (0.79%) OCI
4 4 (0.79%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.60%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.60%) IaaS
6 1 (0.20%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.20%) PaaS
6 1 (0.20%) SaaS
6 1 (0.20%) Serverless
6 1 (0.20%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 87 (17.26%) WAN
2 81 (16.07%) MPLS
3 75 (14.88%) IPsec
4 65 (12.90%) BGP
5 51 (10.12%) VPN
6 48 (9.52%) Junos
7 38 (7.54%) Firewall
8 21 (4.17%) Network Security
9 17 (3.37%) LAN
10 16 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (3.17%) SAN
11 14 (2.78%) DNS
12 13 (2.58%) SD-WAN
13 11 (2.18%) TCP/IP
14 8 (1.59%) DHCP
14 8 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
15 7 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
16 5 (0.99%) Internet
16 5 (0.99%) NX-OS
16 5 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.37%) MySQL
2 16 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (2.78%) Big Data
4 11 (2.18%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.79%) DB2
5 9 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.39%) IDMS
7 4 (0.79%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) Metadata
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.40%) Power BI
10 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (8.33%) PVCS
1 42 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 27 (5.36%) Git
3 8 (1.59%) JMeter
4 6 (1.19%) JIRA
5 4 (0.79%) GitLab
5 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.40%) TestRail
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 101 (20.04%) Public Sector
2 60 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.15%) Finance
5 14 (2.78%) Legal
6 13 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.19%) Electronics
8 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.79%) Marketing
10 3 (0.60%) Games
10 3 (0.60%) Military
10 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Publishing
12 1 (0.20%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (13.29%) Analyst
2 49 (9.72%) Architect
2 49 (9.72%) Programmer
3 46 (9.13%) C Programmer
4 43 (8.53%) Network Engineer
5 35 (6.94%) SOC Analyst
6 34 (6.75%) WAN Engineer
7 29 (5.75%) Network Support
8 24 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 24 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
9 22 (4.37%) Developer
9 22 (4.37%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.97%) Network Architect
11 19 (3.77%) Senior
12 18 (3.57%) Consultant
13 16 (3.17%) Administrator
14 14 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (2.18%) Lead
15 11 (2.18%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.98%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.79%) Web Services
3 4 (0.79%) YAML
4 3 (0.60%) LDAP
4 3 (0.60%) REST
4 3 (0.60%) SOAP
4 3 (0.60%) XML
5 2 (0.40%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.20%) .NET
6 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.20%) CSS
6 1 (0.20%) HTML
6 1 (0.20%) JSON
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.20%) React
6 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.20%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.72%) PKI
2 28 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 19 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
4 18 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.37%) Distributed Applications
6 13 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.98%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.79%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 9 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
11 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.39%) SCADA
12 6 (1.19%) HP Storage
13 5 (0.99%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.99%) Digital Media
13 5 (0.99%) Taxonomies
14 4 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (19.44%) Windows
2 80 (15.87%) Linux
3 25 (4.96%) Windows 7
4 23 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.97%) Windows Vista
6 18 (3.57%) Unix
7 13 (2.58%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.38%) Ubuntu
9 11 (2.18%) Android
9 11 (2.18%) Mac OS X
9 11 (2.18%) Windows Server
10 8 (1.59%) AIX
10 8 (1.59%) Solaris
11 7 (1.39%) zOS
12 4 (0.79%) Debian
12 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.60%) VMS
13 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (11.90%) SIEM
3 42 (8.33%) Agile
4 41 (8.13%) Load Balancing
5 37 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (6.75%) Security Operations
6 34 (6.75%) Software Engineering
7 31 (6.15%) Analytics
8 30 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (5.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 27 (5.36%) Configuration Management
11 26 (5.16%) Incident Management
12 25 (4.96%) Information Security
13 24 (4.76%) Scrum
14 22 (4.37%) Network Design
15 21 (4.17%) Data Analytics
16 20 (3.97%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (3.97%) DevOps
16 20 (3.97%) ITIL
17 19 (3.77%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.92%) C
2 43 (8.53%) PL/SQL
3 22 (4.37%) SQL
4 16 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.98%) C++
6 14 (2.78%) Python
7 10 (1.98%) Java
8 9 (1.79%) COBOL
9 8 (1.59%) C#
10 7 (1.39%) CLIST
10 7 (1.39%) REXX
10 7 (1.39%) SELCOPY
11 5 (0.99%) Bash
11 5 (0.99%) R
12 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 345 (68.45%) SC Cleared
2 83 (16.47%) DV Cleared
3 23 (4.56%) Degree
4 15 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.18%) CCNP
7 9 (1.79%) CCNA
7 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.19%) BC Cleared
8 6 (1.19%) CISSP
9 5 (0.99%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.99%) JNCIS
10 4 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.60%) GIAC
11 3 (0.60%) ISEB
12 2 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.40%) GSEC
12 2 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.17%) NIST
2 16 (3.17%) SLA
3 14 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (2.58%) QA
5 11 (2.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (2.18%) GDPR
5 11 (2.18%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.99%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.99%) ISO17020
6 5 (0.99%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) GPG13
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.39%) vSphere
6 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.99%) iptables
7 3 (0.60%) Docker
7 3 (0.60%) VMFS
8 2 (0.40%) Firmware
8 2 (0.40%) XenApp
8 2 (0.40%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 16 (3.17%) Grafana
2 15 (2.98%) Ansible
3 13 (2.58%) SCCM
4 9 (1.79%) Kibana
4 9 (1.79%) Terraform
5 8 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (1.59%) logstash
6 7 (1.39%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.19%) HP Data Protector
7 6 (1.19%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.99%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.79%) Puppet
9 4 (0.79%) Salt
9 4 (0.79%) VxRail
10 3 (0.60%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 86 (17.06%) Juniper
2 55 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.13%) Cisco
4 36 (7.14%) VMware
5 33 (6.55%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.97%) Oracle
7 19 (3.77%) Denodo
8 17 (3.37%) Talend
9 11 (2.18%) SAP
10 10 (1.98%) IBM
11 9 (1.79%) LogRhythm
12 8 (1.59%) Brocade
12 8 (1.59%) EMC
12 8 (1.59%) HP
13 7 (1.39%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.39%) Syncsort
14 6 (1.19%) F5
14 6 (1.19%) Symantec
15 5 (0.99%) Splunk
15 5 (0.99%) Veeam