Security Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 403 103 381
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 38.27% 19.11% 31.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 85.56% 64.78% 69.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 67 233
10th Percentile £284 £377 £213
25th Percentile £430 £538 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +2.76%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 - £737
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.43% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 2 57
10th Percentile £70.51 £31.79 £48.67
25th Percentile £80.75 £39.36 £56.50
Median hourly rate £84.00 £52.85 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.96% -15.45% -16.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.46 £87.50
90th Percentile £105.55 £72.50 £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £81.10 £61.70
% change year-on-year +3.58% +31.44% -5.57%

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 471 159 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.73% 29.50% 45.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 96 269
10th Percentile £300 £352 £213
25th Percentile £450 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £605
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.89% +7.08%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 - £736
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.00% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 5 59
10th Percentile £35.20 £44.05 £46.94
25th Percentile £80.69 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -17.20%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £87.48
90th Percentile £104.60 £74.31 £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.25 £72.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.63% +16.88% -6.67%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared

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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 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared

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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 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.24%) Confluence
1 5 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Lectora
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) CATIA
5 1 (0.25%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (8.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.99%) iTrent
3 7 (1.74%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.99%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.74%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.50%) Primavera
7 1 (0.25%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 60 (14.89%) Azure
2 22 (5.46%) AWS
3 20 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 17 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 12 (2.98%) GCP
7 9 (2.23%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.24%) SaaS
9 4 (0.99%) IaaS
9 4 (0.99%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.99%) Viva Engage
10 3 (0.74%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.74%) PaaS
11 2 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.50%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.45%) Firewall
2 20 (4.96%) LAN
3 15 (3.72%) BGP
3 15 (3.72%) Cisco ISE
3 15 (3.72%) OSPF
3 15 (3.72%) VXLAN
3 15 (3.72%) WAN
4 14 (3.47%) BIG-IP
5 13 (3.23%) DHCP
5 13 (3.23%) DNS
6 12 (2.98%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (2.98%) Junos
7 6 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (1.49%) Network Security
7 6 (1.49%) Wireless
8 4 (0.99%) WLAN
9 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.74%) MPLS
9 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.96%) Oracle Database
2 16 (3.97%) Power BI
3 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
3 6 (1.49%) Tableau
4 4 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.50%) Big Data
6 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (9.18%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.24%) JIRA
3 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.50%) Android Studio
4 2 (0.50%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.50%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.50%) Subversion
5 1 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.25%) Mockito
5 1 (0.25%) TestDirector
General
1 120 (29.78%) Aerospace
2 84 (20.84%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (7.69%) Finance
4 17 (4.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (2.48%) Military
7 7 (1.74%) Advertising
7 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.99%) Legal
9 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.50%) Billing
10 2 (0.50%) Local Government
10 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Avionics
11 1 (0.25%) Banking
11 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (21.59%) Lead
2 42 (10.42%) Product Manager
2 42 (10.42%) Senior
3 39 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
4 38 (9.43%) Product Delivery Manager
5 36 (8.93%) Analyst
6 34 (8.44%) Architect
7 30 (7.44%) Consultant
8 27 (6.70%) Network Engineer
9 22 (5.46%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 22 (5.46%) Systems Manager
10 20 (4.96%) Data Migration Lead
11 16 (3.97%) Administrator
11 16 (3.97%) DBA
11 16 (3.97%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.47%) Data Analyst
13 14 (3.47%) Oracle DBA
13 14 (3.47%) Product Owner
13 14 (3.47%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.23%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.74%) OAuth
2 7 (1.74%) OpenID
2 7 (1.74%) SAML
3 6 (1.49%) LDAP
4 4 (0.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (0.99%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.50%) .NET
6 2 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.50%) Middleware
6 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.25%) CSS
7 1 (0.25%) HTML
7 1 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.25%) LAMP
7 1 (0.25%) React
7 1 (0.25%) Web Services
7 1 (0.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 13 (3.23%) PKI
6 12 (2.98%) Clustering
7 11 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.99%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.74%) CMDB
13 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.74%) PMI
13 3 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.21%) Windows
2 15 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (1.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.74%) Android
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 76 (18.86%) Agile
3 70 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 59 (14.64%) Roadmaps
6 52 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 46 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (11.41%) Systems Engineering
8 44 (10.92%) Migration
9 41 (10.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 38 (9.43%) Change Control
10 38 (9.43%) PRINCE2
10 38 (9.43%) Programme Management
11 37 (9.18%) Configuration Management
12 34 (8.44%) DevOps
12 34 (8.44%) ITIL
13 33 (8.19%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 32 (7.94%) Data Migration
15 30 (7.44%) ITSM
15 30 (7.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.45%) Python
2 17 (4.22%) SQL
3 15 (3.72%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.49%) Bicep
6 4 (0.99%) Java
6 4 (0.99%) Korn
6 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.74%) C++
7 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) C#
8 1 (0.25%) Go
8 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.25%) Perl
8 1 (0.25%) PHP
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 265 (65.76%) SC Cleared
2 77 (19.11%) DV Cleared
3 60 (14.89%) Degree
4 19 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.73%) CISSP
7 9 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.23%) PMP
8 8 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.99%) CSPO
10 4 (0.99%) JNCIA
10 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
10 4 (0.99%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.74%) APMP
11 3 (0.74%) MAPM
12 2 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.71%) NIST
3 12 (2.98%) NCSC
3 12 (2.98%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.73%) PMO
5 10 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.48%) GDPR
6 9 (2.23%) GRC
7 5 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.24%) QA
8 3 (0.74%) DO-254
8 3 (0.74%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.74%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.74%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
System Software
1 7 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.99%) Docker
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (3.23%) FortiGate
2 12 (2.98%) Terraform
3 9 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.24%) Ansible
5 5 (1.24%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.74%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.50%) Nessus
8 2 (0.50%) Nmap
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 63 (15.63%) SAP
2 41 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 30 (7.44%) Oracle
4 28 (6.95%) Cisco
4 28 (6.95%) IBM
5 25 (6.20%) Juniper
6 18 (4.47%) F5
7 15 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 14 (3.47%) Splunk
9 12 (2.98%) SolarWinds
10 8 (1.99%) Workday
11 5 (1.24%) Google
11 5 (1.24%) Okta
11 5 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.24%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.99%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.99%) Siemens
13 3 (0.74%) LogRhythm
13 3 (0.74%) Tanium