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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 381 104 351
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 37.43% 19.19% 29.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 84.67% 63.03% 68.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 71 216
10th Percentile £283 £408 £213
25th Percentile £401 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +3.31% +3.11%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £688
90th Percentile £733 - £735
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 1 48
10th Percentile £65.92 - £51.44
25th Percentile £80.75 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £84.00 £77.19 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +24.40% -11.36%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £87.46
90th Percentile £108.00 - £97.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.79 £74.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +12.47% +20.94% -5.23%

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 450 165 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.20% 30.44% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 102 253
10th Percentile £300 £371 £208
25th Percentile £401 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% -2.64% +8.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £663
90th Percentile £733 - £723
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 4 50
10th Percentile £37.63 - £48.30
25th Percentile £80.75 - £56.31
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -14.44%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.80 £87.46
90th Percentile £107.00 £75.03 £97.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.57% +13.64% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 4 (1.05%) Confluence
1 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Lectora
4 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) CATIA
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (8.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.10%) iTrent
3 5 (1.31%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.05%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.79%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.52%) Primavera
7 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.39%) Azure
2 20 (5.25%) AWS
3 18 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.89%) GCP
7 9 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.05%) IaaS
9 4 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.05%) SaaS
9 4 (1.05%) Viva Engage
10 3 (0.79%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.79%) PaaS
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.52%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.56%) Firewall
2 21 (5.51%) LAN
3 15 (3.94%) BGP
3 15 (3.94%) Cisco ISE
3 15 (3.94%) OSPF
3 15 (3.94%) VXLAN
3 15 (3.94%) WAN
4 14 (3.67%) BIG-IP
5 13 (3.41%) DHCP
5 13 (3.41%) DNS
6 12 (3.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (3.15%) Junos
7 7 (1.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (1.84%) Wireless
8 6 (1.57%) Network Security
9 5 (1.31%) WLAN
10 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.79%) MPLS
10 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.72%) Oracle Database
2 16 (4.20%) Power BI
3 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.57%) Oracle Database 12c
3 6 (1.57%) Tableau
4 4 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.52%) Big Data
6 2 (0.52%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (9.71%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.79%) JIRA
3 2 (0.52%) Android Studio
3 2 (0.52%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.52%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.52%) Subversion
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.26%) Mockito
4 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
General
1 101 (26.51%) Aerospace
2 69 (18.11%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.61%) Finance
4 20 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.20%) Military
7 8 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.84%) Advertising
8 7 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.05%) Legal
9 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.52%) Local Government
10 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Aviation
11 1 (0.26%) Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Billing
11 1 (0.26%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (17.06%) Lead
2 42 (11.02%) Product Manager
3 40 (10.50%) Senior
4 39 (10.24%) Delivery Manager
5 38 (9.97%) Product Delivery Manager
6 30 (7.87%) Architect
6 30 (7.87%) Consultant
7 29 (7.61%) Analyst
8 28 (7.35%) Network Engineer
9 22 (5.77%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 22 (5.77%) Systems Manager
10 20 (5.25%) Data Migration Lead
11 16 (4.20%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.67%) Administrator
13 14 (3.67%) Data Analyst
13 14 (3.67%) DBA
13 14 (3.67%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (3.15%) Oracle DBA
15 11 (2.89%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.41%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (0.79%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.79%) OAuth
3 3 (0.79%) OpenID
3 3 (0.79%) SAML
4 2 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.52%) LDAP
4 2 (0.52%) Middleware
4 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.26%) CSS
5 1 (0.26%) HTML
5 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.26%) iOS SDK
5 1 (0.26%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.26%) React
5 1 (0.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.04%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.99%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.94%) PKI
5 12 (3.15%) Clustering
6 11 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.05%) PMI
9 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.79%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (0.79%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.52%) CMDB
11 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.61%) Windows
2 22 (5.77%) Linux
3 7 (1.84%) Unix
4 6 (1.57%) Android
5 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 64 (16.80%) Agile
3 58 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 49 (12.86%) Computer Science
6 47 (12.34%) Roadmaps
7 46 (12.07%) Systems Engineering
8 44 (11.55%) Migration
9 42 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
10 41 (10.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 38 (9.97%) Programme Management
12 37 (9.71%) Configuration Management
12 37 (9.71%) PRINCE2
13 36 (9.45%) Change Control
13 36 (9.45%) ITIL
14 34 (8.92%) CI/CD
15 33 (8.66%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 32 (8.40%) Data Migration
17 30 (7.87%) ITSM
17 30 (7.87%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.04%) Python
2 16 (4.20%) PowerShell
3 14 (3.67%) SQL
4 10 (2.62%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.57%) Bicep
6 4 (1.05%) Korn
6 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.79%) C++
7 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.52%) Java
9 1 (0.26%) Bash
9 1 (0.26%) C#
9 1 (0.26%) Go
9 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.26%) Perl
9 1 (0.26%) PHP
9 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 245 (64.30%) SC Cleared
2 87 (22.83%) DV Cleared
3 57 (14.96%) Degree
4 13 (3.41%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.36%) CISSP
5 9 (2.36%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.36%) PMP
6 7 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.05%) APMP
8 4 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.05%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.05%) JNCIP
8 4 (1.05%) JNCIS
8 4 (1.05%) MAPM
8 4 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (0.52%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.04%) NIST
2 22 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.41%) NCSC
4 12 (3.15%) NIST 800
5 10 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.36%) GDPR
7 6 (1.57%) PMO
8 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.31%) QA
9 3 (0.79%) DO-254
9 3 (0.79%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.79%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.79%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.79%) SLA
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
System Software
1 7 (1.84%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.84%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (1.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (3.41%) FortiGate
2 12 (3.15%) Terraform
3 9 (2.36%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (0.79%) Ansible
6 3 (0.79%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.52%) Nessus
7 2 (0.52%) Nmap
7 2 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
8 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 63 (16.54%) SAP
2 33 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.61%) Cisco
4 28 (7.35%) IBM
4 28 (7.35%) Oracle
5 25 (6.56%) Juniper
6 18 (4.72%) F5
7 15 (3.94%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (3.67%) Splunk
9 12 (3.15%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.15%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.10%) Workday
11 6 (1.57%) Google
12 5 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.05%) LogRhythm
13 4 (1.05%) Siemens
13 4 (1.05%) Tanium
14 3 (0.79%) Ariba
14 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 2 (0.52%) Citrix