Security Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 6 6 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2,139 3,683 4,515
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.59% 15.07% 10.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.23% 59.34% 51.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 2,499 3,215
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £701 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 185 153
10th Percentile £13.77 £19.70 £25.50
25th Percentile £34.94 £49.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.30 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +18.18% +40.34%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.83 £70.00
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,873 6,207 8,771
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.43% 25.41% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 4,208 6,176
10th Percentile £335 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 252 227
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.03 £20.61
25th Percentile £24.00 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +26.26% +32.00%
75th Percentile £67.73 £70.00 £65.77
90th Percentile £84.57 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Security Cleared.

Security Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Security Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Security Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 95 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 89 (4.16%) Confluence
3 64 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.75%) nginx
4 16 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
5 14 (0.65%) Apache
6 9 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (0.37%) SAS
7 8 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.28%) CICS
9 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.23%) CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Trello
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.19%) Revit
9 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.047%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.047%) Blender
10 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 20 (0.94%) Teamcenter
2 14 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.56%) Primavera
3 12 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.37%) SAP EWM
6 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.14%) SAP PS
10 2 (0.094%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.094%) SAP BRIM
10 2 (0.094%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.094%) SAP PSCD
10 2 (0.094%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 374 (17.48%) AWS
2 326 (15.24%) Azure
3 112 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (3.37%) Power Platform
5 64 (2.99%) GitHub
6 52 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 39 (1.82%) GCP
7 39 (1.82%) SaaS
8 33 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (1.50%) Serverless
10 31 (1.45%) PaaS
11 28 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 135 (6.31%) Firewall
2 52 (2.43%) Network Security
3 37 (1.73%) DNS
4 35 (1.64%) SSL
5 34 (1.59%) BGP
6 32 (1.50%) DHCP
6 32 (1.50%) VPN
7 28 (1.31%) WAN
8 26 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 25 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
10 21 (0.98%) SAN
11 20 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (0.84%) OSPF
13 17 (0.79%) 4G
14 16 (0.75%) IPsec
15 15 (0.70%) EIGRP
15 15 (0.70%) NetScaler
16 14 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
17 13 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.92%) Power BI
4 31 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 25 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 18 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
10 14 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
11 13 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.61%) MySQL
11 13 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.56%) DB2
12 12 (0.56%) Metadata
12 12 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.51%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 147 (6.87%) JIRA
2 75 (3.51%) Git
3 70 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.06%) GitLab
5 43 (2.01%) Selenium
6 34 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.45%) PVCS
8 25 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.94%) JMeter
11 17 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.79%) JUnit
12 16 (0.75%) Maven
13 15 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.61%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.47%) SoapUI
16 9 (0.42%) TestNG
16 9 (0.42%) TestRail
17 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
18 7 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 510 (23.84%) Public Sector
2 400 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 170 (7.95%) Finance
4 140 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.02%) Telecoms
6 42 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 37 (1.73%) Military
8 36 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.54%) Electronics
11 32 (1.50%) Marketing
12 30 (1.40%) Police
13 27 (1.26%) Law
14 26 (1.22%) Aerospace
15 23 (1.08%) Banking
16 17 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.79%) Legal
17 13 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (0.51%) Local Government
18 11 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 365 (17.06%) Architect
2 235 (10.99%) Developer
3 198 (9.26%) Senior
4 140 (6.55%) Consultant
5 125 (5.84%) Lead
6 123 (5.75%) Analyst
7 112 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 99 (4.63%) Project Manager
9 91 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 61 (2.85%) Technical Architect
11 48 (2.24%) Security Architect
12 47 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.20%) Java Developer
12 47 (2.20%) Senior Manager
13 45 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
14 42 (1.96%) Network Engineer
15 38 (1.78%) Service Manager
15 38 (1.78%) Test Engineer
16 37 (1.73%) AWS DevOps
16 37 (1.73%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.09%) Web Services
2 63 (2.95%) REST
3 53 (2.48%) .NET
4 45 (2.10%) Spring Boot
5 44 (2.06%) CSS
5 44 (2.06%) HTML
6 40 (1.87%) ARM Templates
7 35 (1.64%) RESTful
7 35 (1.64%) Spring
8 32 (1.50%) Node.js
9 30 (1.40%) React
10 22 (1.03%) XML
11 20 (0.94%) Kafka
12 15 (0.70%) JSON
12 15 (0.70%) Sass
13 14 (0.65%) Laravel
13 14 (0.65%) OpenID
13 14 (0.65%) WebSockets
14 13 (0.61%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.23%) PKI
2 63 (2.95%) Management Information System
3 57 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 35 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 34 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 29 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 22 (1.03%) Product Ownership
11 21 (0.98%) CMDB
12 20 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 20 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 19 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (0.61%) Replication
17 12 (0.56%) Security Posture
18 10 (0.47%) Low-Code
18 10 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 177 (8.27%) Linux
2 170 (7.95%) Windows
3 47 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (1.03%) Unix
5 22 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.56%) Debian
8 12 (0.56%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.33%) Android
11 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.33%) zOS
12 4 (0.19%) Solaris
13 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (17.72%) Agile
2 281 (13.14%) DevOps
3 188 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (8.46%) ITIL
5 165 (7.71%) Service Management
6 157 (7.34%) Project Management
7 141 (6.59%) CI/CD
7 141 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
8 134 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (5.75%) Migration
10 117 (5.47%) Analytics
11 106 (4.96%) Test Automation
12 101 (4.72%) Software Engineering
13 100 (4.68%) Configuration Management
14 99 (4.63%) Business Intelligence
15 96 (4.49%) Change Management
16 94 (4.39%) ITSM
17 86 (4.02%) Decision-Making
18 82 (3.83%) Roadmaps
19 80 (3.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 191 (8.93%) Python
2 151 (7.06%) SQL
3 150 (7.01%) Java
4 101 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 94 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 80 (3.74%) C#
7 64 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 55 (2.57%) C
9 43 (2.01%) Bash
10 29 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.12%) C++
12 22 (1.03%) Bicep
13 21 (0.98%) VB
14 19 (0.89%) VBScript
15 14 (0.65%) Go
15 14 (0.65%) PHP
16 11 (0.51%) ABAP
16 11 (0.51%) COBOL
17 9 (0.42%) Perl
18 8 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,654 (77.33%) SC Cleared
2 445 (20.80%) DV Cleared
3 190 (8.88%) Degree
4 121 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (1.50%) CISSP
7 30 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (1.36%) PMP
9 26 (1.22%) CISM
10 25 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.12%) CCNP
12 21 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (0.94%) CCNA
14 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
16 13 (0.61%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 11 (0.51%) CISA
18 11 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (2.71%) QA
2 46 (2.15%) NCSC
3 45 (2.10%) SLA
4 42 (1.96%) NIST
5 37 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 32 (1.50%) PMO
8 27 (1.26%) Accessibility
9 20 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
10 13 (0.61%) GDPR
11 7 (0.33%) COBIT
12 6 (0.28%) RMADS
13 5 (0.23%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.19%) WCAG
15 3 (0.14%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 141 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 107 (5.00%) Docker
3 32 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.47%) Firmware
6 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 5 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.094%) KVM
10 2 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.094%) XenApp
10 2 (0.094%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.047%) ACF2
11 1 (0.047%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.047%) Lustre
11 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.047%) RACF
11 1 (0.047%) UAG
Systems Management
1 154 (7.20%) Terraform
2 139 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 92 (4.30%) Ansible
4 36 (1.68%) SCOM
5 33 (1.54%) SCCM
6 32 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 27 (1.26%) Grafana
8 25 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 19 (0.89%) WSUS
11 14 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.56%) Puppet
13 11 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.37%) Packer
14 8 (0.37%) Podman
15 7 (0.33%) Argo
15 7 (0.33%) Kibana
16 6 (0.28%) FortiGate
17 5 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 309 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 104 (4.86%) SAP
3 94 (4.39%) Oracle
4 62 (2.90%) Cisco
5 51 (2.38%) VMware
6 48 (2.24%) Atlassian
7 42 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.87%) Splunk
9 34 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 29 (1.36%) Dell
11 24 (1.12%) Juniper
12 23 (1.08%) IBM
13 20 (0.94%) Citrix
13 20 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 19 (0.89%) NetApp
15 17 (0.79%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.75%) Google
16 16 (0.75%) SolarWinds
17 15 (0.70%) CyberArk
18 14 (0.65%) Remedy