Government Security Classifications Contracts with Work from Home Options

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Government Security Classifications over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 - 617
Rank change year-on-year - - -108
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 19 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% - 0.014%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.93% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile - - £658
25th Percentile £475 - £715
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £730
Median % change year-on-year - - +131.75%
75th Percentile £525 - £745
90th Percentile £588 - £766
UK median daily rate £495 £569 £730
% change year-on-year -12.97% -22.09% +66.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Government Security Classifications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Government Security Classifications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Government Security Classifications trend for jobs with a WFH option

Government Security Classifications
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Government Security Classifications.

Government Security Classifications daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Government Security Classifications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (89.47%) Confluence
2 13 (68.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (68.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) Azure Stack
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) BGP
1 13 (68.42%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) JIRA
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) IT Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Private Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) ITIL
2 14 (73.68%) Service Management
3 13 (68.42%) Capacity Management
3 13 (68.42%) ITSM
3 13 (68.42%) Network Management
3 13 (68.42%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (21.05%) ArchiMate
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Business Case
6 2 (10.53%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Contract Management
6 2 (10.53%) Document Management
6 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
6 2 (10.53%) Product Breakdown Structure
6 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
7 1 (5.26%) Product Management
7 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Atlassian
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft