Security Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 4,913 5,067 4,438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.12% 22.12% 14.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.81% 67.57% 55.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,476 2,904
10th Percentile £340 £356 £356
25th Percentile £459 £455 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 391 282
10th Percentile £13.84 £18.50 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.00 £21.41
Median hourly rate £57.33 £57.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +7.48% +42.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £79.19 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £55.04 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -8.27% +11.11% +35.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,354 7,499 8,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.11% 32.73% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,296 4,992 5,213
10th Percentile £271 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £723 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 584 531
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.76 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.75 £35.20
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +44.18% +6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.99 £78.00 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East 0 1,822 £592 +12.71% 679
South West 0 1,512 £550 -8.33% 471
North of England -3 571 £519 -5.64% 283
Midlands +4 488 £500 -9.09% 203
North West -1 410 £515 -1.90% 208
West Midlands +5 354 £485 -11.82% 142
Scotland +16 260 £500 +11.11% 117
East of England -1 253 £550 +4.76% 166
East Midlands -1 133 £545 -7.77% 59
Yorkshire 0 123 £525 -12.50% 49
Wales -5 50 £600 +9.09% 30
North East -3 40 £500 -11.46% 26
Northern Ireland +19 22 £575 +15.00% 36
South Coast - 1 - -
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 173 (3.52%) Confluence
2 149 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 102 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
5 22 (0.45%) CMS
6 18 (0.37%) Apache
7 11 (0.22%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) CICS
9 8 (0.16%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.081%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.061%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.041%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 209 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.45%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.31%) Simulink
8 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 11 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.14%) Revit
10 5 (0.10%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.041%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Blender
12 1 (0.020%) CATIA
12 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.020%) Stata
Business Applications
1 36 (0.73%) Primavera
2 28 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 27 (0.55%) SAP QM
4 26 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 23 (0.47%) SAP EWM
6 20 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.081%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.061%) Maximo
11 2 (0.041%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.041%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.041%) SAP BRIM
11 2 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
11 2 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.041%) SAP PS
11 2 (0.041%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 454 (9.24%) Azure
2 303 (6.17%) AWS
3 139 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (1.91%) Power Platform
5 73 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (1.22%) PaaS
7 58 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 56 (1.14%) SaaS
9 50 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 47 (0.96%) GitHub
11 46 (0.94%) IaaS
12 37 (0.75%) Power Automate
13 35 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (0.63%) Azure Stack
15 30 (0.61%) Amazon S3
16 28 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (0.57%) GCP
16 28 (0.57%) PowerApps
17 27 (0.55%) OCI
18 25 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 349 (7.10%) Firewall
2 270 (5.50%) WAN
3 179 (3.64%) LAN
4 166 (3.38%) VPN
5 164 (3.34%) BGP
6 159 (3.24%) DNS
7 126 (2.56%) Network Security
8 113 (2.30%) MPLS
9 112 (2.28%) DHCP
10 97 (1.97%) IPsec
11 87 (1.77%) SAN
12 84 (1.71%) SSL
13 72 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
14 54 (1.10%) Junos
14 54 (1.10%) OSPF
14 54 (1.10%) TCP/IP
15 53 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
16 52 (1.06%) Wireless
17 50 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
18 49 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 82 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (1.08%) Power BI
4 45 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
4 45 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 44 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 37 (0.75%) MySQL
7 27 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (0.49%) Metadata
9 21 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 19 (0.39%) Big Data
12 18 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (0.28%) Tableau
15 13 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
15 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 11 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 271 (5.52%) JIRA
2 137 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 121 (2.46%) Git
4 85 (1.73%) GitLab
5 63 (1.28%) Visual Studio
6 50 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
7 49 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.98%) Selenium
9 44 (0.90%) PVCS
10 39 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.51%) REST Assured
13 24 (0.49%) Robot Framework
13 24 (0.49%) TestRail
14 20 (0.41%) Artifactory
15 19 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (0.37%) JUnit
17 17 (0.35%) JMeter
18 15 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 924 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 896 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 378 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (5.50%) Finance
5 192 (3.91%) Telecoms
6 184 (3.75%) Aerospace
7 125 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 115 (2.34%) Military
9 114 (2.32%) Electronics
10 90 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.36%) Marketing
13 65 (1.32%) Legal
14 33 (0.67%) Police
15 31 (0.63%) Law
16 26 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (0.45%) Aviation
18 21 (0.43%) Retail
19 17 (0.35%) Local Government
20 16 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 963 (19.60%) Architect
2 448 (9.12%) Analyst
3 350 (7.12%) Senior
4 312 (6.35%) Developer
5 264 (5.37%) Lead
6 250 (5.09%) Consultant
7 236 (4.80%) Network Engineer
8 217 (4.42%) Network Architect
9 203 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 198 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
11 164 (3.34%) Project Manager
12 125 (2.54%) Support Engineer
13 120 (2.44%) Administrator
14 115 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 104 (2.12%) Security Architect
15 104 (2.12%) Service Analyst
15 104 (2.12%) Software Engineer
16 103 (2.10%) Lead Architect
17 102 (2.08%) SOC Analyst
18 97 (1.97%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (2.20%) REST
2 89 (1.81%) Web Services
3 80 (1.63%) .NET
4 62 (1.26%) Spring
5 55 (1.12%) Node.js
6 54 (1.10%) React
7 52 (1.06%) Spring Boot
8 44 (0.90%) HTML
9 38 (0.77%) CSS
10 37 (0.75%) .NET Core
11 35 (0.71%) ARM Templates
12 30 (0.61%) XML
13 28 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
14 26 (0.53%) Kafka
15 25 (0.51%) Java EE
16 24 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
17 23 (0.47%) JPA
18 21 (0.43%) Hibernate
19 20 (0.41%) AngularJS
19 20 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 310 (6.31%) PKI
2 154 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 143 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 104 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
5 92 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
6 89 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 82 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 74 (1.51%) Private Cloud
8 74 (1.51%) Product Ownership
9 59 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 52 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 44 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 41 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 40 (0.81%) CSOC
15 38 (0.77%) Onboarding
16 37 (0.75%) Analogue Electronics
17 36 (0.73%) Clustering
18 33 (0.67%) CMDB
18 33 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 778 (15.84%) Windows
2 533 (10.85%) Linux
3 273 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 169 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 103 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 93 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 81 (1.65%) Windows 7
8 70 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 64 (1.30%) Unix
11 53 (1.08%) Apple iOS
12 46 (0.94%) Android
13 29 (0.59%) Ubuntu
14 25 (0.51%) Solaris
15 22 (0.45%) AIX
16 20 (0.41%) Windows Vista
17 18 (0.37%) Windows NT
18 17 (0.35%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.33%) Debian
19 16 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (15.51%) Agile
2 560 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
3 458 (9.32%) ITIL
4 448 (9.12%) DevOps
5 431 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
6 378 (7.69%) Project Management
7 319 (6.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 316 (6.43%) Service Management
9 276 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 268 (5.45%) SIEM
11 254 (5.17%) Software Engineering
12 220 (4.48%) Customer Service
13 208 (4.23%) CI/CD
14 189 (3.85%) Project Delivery
15 187 (3.81%) Network Management
16 180 (3.66%) Configuration Management
17 178 (3.62%) Change Management
18 174 (3.54%) Mentoring
19 173 (3.52%) Migration
20 172 (3.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 315 (6.41%) Python
2 306 (6.23%) PowerShell
3 231 (4.70%) Java
4 186 (3.79%) SQL
5 149 (3.03%) C
6 109 (2.22%) C#
7 101 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 90 (1.83%) C++
9 72 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 63 (1.28%) Bash
11 39 (0.79%) VBScript
12 36 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.51%) Bicep
13 25 (0.51%) Go
13 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 24 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.43%) VB
16 18 (0.37%) Embedded C
17 16 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,791 (56.81%) SC Cleared
2 1,868 (38.02%) DV Cleared
3 363 (7.39%) Degree
4 142 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 122 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
6 87 (1.77%) CCNP
7 74 (1.51%) CCNA
8 71 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (1.14%) CISSP
10 44 (0.90%) CISM
11 39 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 38 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 38 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 36 (0.73%) APMP
14 31 (0.63%) MCSA
15 30 (0.61%) A+ Certification
15 30 (0.61%) MCSE
16 27 (0.55%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.55%) PMP
17 26 (0.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (3.22%) SLA
2 133 (2.71%) NIST
3 107 (2.18%) QA
4 91 (1.85%) PMO
5 76 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.06%) GDPR
7 51 (1.04%) NIST 800
8 45 (0.92%) NCSC
9 41 (0.83%) JSP 440
10 34 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
11 30 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.55%) Data Quality
13 22 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 22 (0.45%) HIPAA
13 22 (0.45%) RMADS
14 13 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.26%) Def Stans
15 11 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 406 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 251 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (2.69%) Docker
4 92 (1.87%) VMware NSX
5 83 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 79 (1.61%) vSphere
7 77 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
8 61 (1.24%) Firmware
9 45 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
10 27 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
12 7 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.10%) iptables
15 4 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.061%) XenApp
16 3 (0.061%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.041%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 234 (4.76%) Ansible
2 202 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 178 (3.62%) Terraform
4 161 (3.28%) SCCM
5 89 (1.81%) WSUS
6 73 (1.49%) SCOM
7 70 (1.42%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.22%) Grafana
9 45 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 42 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 37 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (0.57%) Endace
12 28 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 27 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
14 25 (0.51%) NetBackup
14 25 (0.51%) PowerCLI
15 23 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
15 23 (0.47%) Kibana
15 23 (0.47%) VxRail
16 22 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 821 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 430 (8.75%) VMware
3 336 (6.84%) Cisco
4 280 (5.70%) Juniper
5 194 (3.95%) SAP
6 128 (2.61%) Oracle
7 115 (2.34%) Atlassian
7 115 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 106 (2.16%) Dell
9 98 (1.99%) HP
10 81 (1.65%) IBM
11 78 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 77 (1.57%) ServiceNow
13 60 (1.22%) F5
14 59 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 51 (1.04%) Citrix
16 43 (0.88%) SolarWinds
17 40 (0.81%) Google
18 37 (0.75%) EMC
19 35 (0.71%) Remedy