Security Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 116 367 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 19.73% 30.76% 19.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.03% 69.77% 62.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 228 149
10th Percentile £455 £206 £423
25th Percentile £576 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +2.98% +6.82%
75th Percentile £700 £687 £685
90th Percentile £715 £719 £722
Berkshire median daily rate £580 £575 £587
% change year-on-year +0.87% -2.00% +9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 41 12
10th Percentile £63.30 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £65.62 £56.50 £63.14
Median hourly rate £69.48 £63.29 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -3.37% -
75th Percentile £73.33 £87.46 £75.89
90th Percentile £75.65 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +1.99% -3.36% +207.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 187 526 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.80% 44.09% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 270 207
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £589 £570
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% +3.29% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £662 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £729
Berkshire median daily rate £548 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.45% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 43 15
10th Percentile £65.06 £43.40 £56.76
25th Percentile - £54.58 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% +560.00%
75th Percentile - £86.55 £76.99
90th Percentile £74.31 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -5.23% +208.79%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.59%) Primavera
3 2 (1.72%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.55%) Azure
2 24 (20.69%) AWS
3 7 (6.03%) SaaS
4 4 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.86%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.86%) GCP
7 1 (0.86%) IaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Network Security
1 2 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) Junos
2 1 (0.86%) LAN
2 1 (0.86%) PBX
2 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.86%) VoIP
2 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.17%) GIS
2 6 (5.17%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.17%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 3 (2.59%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.86%) MS Access
5 1 (0.86%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Jenkins
1 11 (9.48%) JIRA
2 10 (8.62%) Cucumber
2 10 (8.62%) GitLab
2 10 (8.62%) REST Assured
2 10 (8.62%) Selenium
3 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.86%) DbUnit
5 1 (0.86%) Git
5 1 (0.86%) jMock
5 1 (0.86%) JUnit
5 1 (0.86%) Maven
5 1 (0.86%) Mockito
General
1 42 (36.21%) Public Sector
2 34 (29.31%) Telecoms
3 32 (27.59%) Finance
4 30 (25.86%) Manufacturing
5 28 (24.14%) Electronics
5 28 (24.14%) Marketing
6 24 (20.69%) Social Skills
7 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Law
9 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.45%) Police
10 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Legal
11 1 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Architect
2 24 (20.69%) Senior
3 21 (18.10%) Active Directory Architect
4 13 (11.21%) Software Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Security Specialist
5 10 (8.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 10 (8.62%) Senior Security Specialist
6 9 (7.76%) Information Security Specialist
6 9 (7.76%) Information Specialist
6 9 (7.76%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 7 (6.03%) Consultant
7 7 (6.03%) SAP Architect
8 5 (4.31%) Analyst
8 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Developer
8 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Solutions Consultant
9 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.48%) REST
2 10 (8.62%) Java EE
3 6 (5.17%) ARM Templates
3 6 (5.17%) SOAP
4 4 (3.45%) PySpark
5 3 (2.59%) .NET
5 3 (2.59%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.72%) Middleware
6 2 (1.72%) YAML
7 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.86%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.86%) PowerMock
7 1 (0.86%) RESTful
7 1 (0.86%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.86%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.86%) Spring Batch
7 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.86%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) Operational Technology
1 5 (4.31%) SCADA
2 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.86%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.86%) CMDB
5 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.41%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.86%) AIX
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.76%) Test Automation
2 32 (27.59%) Agile
3 31 (26.72%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 28 (24.14%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (19.83%) DevOps
6 23 (19.83%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (12.07%) Software Engineering
8 13 (11.21%) Configuration Management
8 13 (11.21%) Decision-Making
9 12 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (9.48%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (9.48%) Information Security
10 11 (9.48%) Migration
11 10 (8.62%) Software Architecture
11 10 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (8.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 9 (7.76%) Risk Management
13 8 (6.90%) Data Migration
13 8 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
1 22 (18.97%) SQL
2 13 (11.21%) PL/SQL
3 12 (10.34%) Java
4 5 (4.31%) Perl
5 4 (3.45%) ABAP
5 4 (3.45%) Python
6 2 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (0.86%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.86%) VB
7 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (56.90%) SC Cleared
2 54 (46.55%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) CISM
4 4 (3.45%) CISSP
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CCNP
6 1 (0.86%) CEH
6 1 (0.86%) CISA
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) ISEB
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.86%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.45%) NIST
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) PMO
4 2 (1.72%) COBIT
4 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 21 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.90%) Docker
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.90%) Ansible
3 6 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (5.17%) Podman
3 6 (5.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.86%) Grafana
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) Puppet
4 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (33.62%) SAP
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle
3 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.45%) Cisco
4 4 (3.45%) Databricks
5 3 (2.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) F5
6 2 (1.72%) Juniper
6 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.86%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.86%) Citrix
7 1 (0.86%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.86%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.86%) Infor
7 1 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.86%) NEC
7 1 (0.86%) Nokia
7 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.86%) Ribbon