Security Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,848 1,446 1,353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.42% 25.79% 17.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.15% 70.02% 56.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 954 888
10th Percentile £400 £323 £372
25th Percentile £475 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.71% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £650
90th Percentile £738 £696 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 84 44
10th Percentile £22.26 £20.47 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.80 £52.19 £20.26
Median hourly rate £61.60 £62.78 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +32.16% +18.75%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.53 £78.38
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,459 2,065 2,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.47% 36.83% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 1,344 1,552
10th Percentile £336 £293 £313
25th Percentile £450 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £735 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 131 84
10th Percentile £17.57 £19.50 £18.58
25th Percentile £26.61 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £67.01 £70.64 £56.62
90th Percentile £85.65 £76.99 £67.85
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 South East

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire 0 1,026 £600 +9.09% 202
Thames Valley +1 731 £560 +12.00% 243
Berkshire +2 573 £580 +1.75% 183
Buckinghamshire 0 149 £511 +8.82% 37
Surrey +10 56 £625 +4.17% 36
West Sussex -20 16 £575 - 18
Kent +3 9 £294 -2.00% 6
Oxfordshire -9 9 £650 +44.44% 23
M4 Corridor - 4 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 - 1
Sussex -3 1 £550 -8.33% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.19%) Confluence
3 20 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.16%) CICS
6 3 (0.16%) CMS
6 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.054%) JBoss
8 1 (0.054%) Moodle
8 1 (0.054%) nginx
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.054%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.60%) Simulink
4 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.27%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.054%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.054%) Blender
8 1 (0.054%) Stata
Business Applications
1 29 (1.57%) Primavera
2 27 (1.46%) SAP QM
3 22 (1.19%) SAP EWM
4 10 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.43%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.054%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.054%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 182 (9.85%) Azure
2 99 (5.36%) AWS
3 48 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (1.52%) OpenShift
5 25 (1.35%) Entra ID
6 19 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (0.97%) Azure Storage
8 16 (0.87%) GitHub
8 16 (0.87%) OCI
8 16 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.49%) IaaS
10 8 (0.43%) GCP
11 7 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.32%) PaaS
13 5 (0.27%) Boomi
13 5 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.27%) Serverless
14 4 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.16%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 168 (9.09%) Firewall
2 108 (5.84%) WAN
3 95 (5.14%) LAN
4 87 (4.71%) DNS
5 74 (4.00%) SSL
6 65 (3.52%) DHCP
7 56 (3.03%) BGP
8 52 (2.81%) SAN
9 44 (2.38%) VPN
10 38 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
10 38 (2.06%) Network Security
11 32 (1.73%) MPLS
12 29 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
13 26 (1.41%) OSPF
14 24 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (1.24%) EIGRP
15 23 (1.24%) TCP/IP
16 22 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (1.14%) SD-WAN
18 20 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (1.46%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 16 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (0.70%) MySQL
5 13 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
6 11 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.49%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.49%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) MariaDB
8 7 (0.38%) Metadata
9 6 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.16%) DB2
12 3 (0.16%) IDMS
13 2 (0.11%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.11%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 48 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 45 (2.44%) Git
3 41 (2.22%) GitLab
4 36 (1.95%) JIRA
5 32 (1.73%) Selenium
6 25 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.30%) REST Assured
7 24 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 20 (1.08%) TestRail
9 17 (0.92%) MSI
10 15 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.27%) ClearCase
15 5 (0.27%) ClearQuest
15 5 (0.27%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 289 (15.64%) Social Skills
2 277 (14.99%) Public Sector
3 120 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (3.73%) Finance
5 56 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 47 (2.54%) Military
7 42 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.24%) Law
10 20 (1.08%) Electronics
11 15 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.70%) Aviation
12 13 (0.70%) Police
13 12 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.43%) Marketing
15 7 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.16%) Advertising
17 3 (0.16%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 481 (26.03%) Architect
2 168 (9.09%) Senior
3 137 (7.41%) Network Architect
4 119 (6.44%) Consultant
5 107 (5.79%) Network Engineer
6 105 (5.68%) Developer
7 97 (5.25%) Analyst
8 86 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 83 (4.49%) Security Architect
10 75 (4.06%) Infrastructure Architect
11 66 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
13 53 (2.87%) Project Manager
14 47 (2.54%) Lead
15 45 (2.44%) Administrator
16 41 (2.22%) Support Specialist
17 39 (2.11%) Security Engineer
17 39 (2.11%) Systems Administrator
18 37 (2.00%) Service Architect
18 37 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.49%) Web Services
2 33 (1.79%) REST
3 31 (1.68%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.35%) Java EE
5 23 (1.24%) .NET
6 22 (1.19%) HTML
7 14 (0.76%) ASP.NET
7 14 (0.76%) Kafka
8 13 (0.70%) Flash
8 13 (0.70%) Itk
9 12 (0.65%) CSS
10 10 (0.54%) Node.js
11 9 (0.49%) SAP Basis
12 8 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (0.43%) YAML
13 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.32%) React
13 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (0.27%) Keycloak
14 5 (0.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.33%) PKI
2 44 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 40 (2.16%) Driving Licence
4 39 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 33 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 23 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
10 22 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (0.92%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.60%) Clustering
13 11 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.54%) FPGA
15 9 (0.49%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.43%) Replication
17 7 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
18 6 (0.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 307 (16.61%) Windows
2 223 (12.07%) Linux
3 159 (8.60%) Windows Server
4 86 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 85 (4.60%) Windows 10
6 66 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 62 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 58 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 36 (1.95%) Windows 7
10 24 (1.30%) Unix
11 18 (0.97%) Windows NT
12 14 (0.76%) AIX
12 14 (0.76%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.76%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.60%) Debian
14 8 (0.43%) VMS
15 3 (0.16%) Solaris
15 3 (0.16%) zOS
16 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (16.88%) Agile
2 213 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (10.23%) DevOps
4 160 (8.66%) ITIL
5 120 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 114 (6.17%) Project Management
7 109 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
8 103 (5.57%) Customer Requirements
8 103 (5.57%) Service Management
9 94 (5.09%) Test Automation
10 93 (5.03%) Software Engineering
11 80 (4.33%) SIEM
12 79 (4.27%) Network Design
12 79 (4.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 73 (3.95%) Prototyping
14 72 (3.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 71 (3.84%) Customer Service
15 71 (3.84%) Performance Tuning
16 69 (3.73%) Technical Leadership
17 67 (3.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 184 (9.96%) PowerShell
2 127 (6.87%) Python
3 80 (4.33%) Java
4 59 (3.19%) SQL
5 49 (2.65%) C#
6 40 (2.16%) C++
7 39 (2.11%) VBScript
8 31 (1.68%) C
9 23 (1.24%) Bash
9 23 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.08%) VB
12 18 (0.97%) Bicep
13 14 (0.76%) PHP
13 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.38%) Go
16 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.27%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 876 (47.40%) DV Cleared
2 844 (45.67%) SC Cleared
3 145 (7.85%) Degree
4 55 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 45 (2.44%) CCNP
6 33 (1.79%) CCNA
7 27 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 19 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.60%) CISM
13 11 (0.60%) MCSE
14 10 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.49%) JNCIA
16 8 (0.43%) APMP
16 8 (0.43%) ISEB
16 8 (0.43%) JNCIS
16 8 (0.43%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.65%) SLA
2 33 (1.79%) QA
3 31 (1.68%) NIST
4 21 (1.14%) NIST 800
5 17 (0.92%) PMO
6 12 (0.65%) RMADS
7 9 (0.49%) NCSC
8 8 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.32%) GDPR
10 5 (0.27%) ISO 9000
10 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.054%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 1 (0.054%) WCAG
System Software
1 215 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 146 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 40 (2.16%) Firmware
5 37 (2.00%) VMware NSX
6 32 (1.73%) vSphere
7 28 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (1.46%) Docker
9 22 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.054%) NFS
13 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.054%) UAG
13 1 (0.054%) vCloud
13 1 (0.054%) VMFS
13 1 (0.054%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 127 (6.87%) Ansible
2 99 (5.36%) SCCM
3 91 (4.92%) Terraform
4 79 (4.27%) Kubernetes
5 77 (4.17%) WSUS
6 44 (2.38%) SCOM
7 29 (1.57%) Endace
8 26 (1.41%) FortiGate
9 25 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (1.08%) vCenter Server
12 18 (0.97%) Grafana
12 18 (0.97%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.87%) Istio
13 16 (0.87%) WMI
14 15 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (0.81%) Nessus
14 15 (0.81%) vRealize
15 14 (0.76%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 339 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 226 (12.23%) VMware
3 186 (10.06%) Cisco
4 165 (8.93%) Juniper
5 87 (4.71%) SAP
6 65 (3.52%) Oracle
7 61 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 55 (2.98%) HP
9 54 (2.92%) F5
10 53 (2.87%) Fortinet
11 41 (2.22%) Palo Alto
12 39 (2.11%) Dell
13 32 (1.73%) IBM
14 24 (1.30%) ServiceNow
15 20 (1.08%) EMC
16 19 (1.03%) SolarWinds
16 19 (1.03%) Veeam
17 17 (0.92%) ArcSight
18 15 (0.81%) Brocade
18 15 (0.81%) Symantec