Security Cleared Contracts in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6,899 8,151 7,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.96% 16.92% 10.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.45% 61.47% 50.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,548 5,596 5,132
10th Percentile £353 £375 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year - +0.14% +9.85%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £729 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 428 321
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.30 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +20.00% +20.74%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +13.21% +27.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,227 13,261 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.86% 27.52% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,936 8,905 10,075
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 968 682 681
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.31 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.56 £43.95
% change year-on-year -26.69% +24.14% +16.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +3 2,082 £538 -5.87% 353
South East 0 1,807 £590 +12.38% 539
South West 0 1,532 £550 -8.33% 483
North of England -2 587 £525 -4.55% 273
Midlands +4 498 £501 -8.95% 196
North West -1 421 £522 -0.57% 205
West Midlands +5 366 £485 -11.82% 143
East of England -1 244 £550 +3.53% 126
East Midlands -1 131 £550 -6.38% 52
Yorkshire +2 127 £525 -12.50% 41
North East -4 41 £525 -7.04% 27
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UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 223 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 192 (2.78%) Confluence
3 120 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 67 (0.97%) Apache
5 37 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 32 (0.46%) nginx
7 26 (0.38%) CMS
8 24 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
9 22 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
10 15 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.22%) SAS
10 15 (0.22%) Skype for Business
11 12 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
12 11 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
13 10 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 10 (0.14%) CICS
13 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 7 (0.10%) IIS
14 7 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 232 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 135 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 70 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 22 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.26%) Simulink
9 7 (0.10%) Revit
10 5 (0.072%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.072%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.043%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.029%) Sketch
12 2 (0.029%) Trello
12 2 (0.029%) Windchill
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.014%) InVision
Business Applications
1 43 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (0.55%) Primavera
3 36 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 29 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 28 (0.41%) SAP QM
6 25 (0.36%) SAP EWM
6 25 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
8 9 (0.13%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.072%) Maximo
9 5 (0.072%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.058%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.058%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.058%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.058%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.058%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 869 (12.60%) AWS
2 741 (10.74%) Azure
3 219 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 149 (2.16%) Power Platform
5 117 (1.70%) Serverless
6 104 (1.51%) Amazon S3
7 98 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (1.41%) PaaS
9 95 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
10 86 (1.25%) SaaS
11 82 (1.19%) GCP
12 79 (1.15%) GitHub
13 75 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
14 68 (0.99%) OpenShift
15 65 (0.94%) IaaS
16 64 (0.93%) Entra ID
17 62 (0.90%) OCI
18 53 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
19 52 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 51 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 465 (6.74%) Firewall
2 308 (4.46%) WAN
3 208 (3.01%) LAN
4 178 (2.58%) BGP
5 174 (2.52%) VPN
6 164 (2.38%) DNS
7 152 (2.20%) Network Security
8 118 (1.71%) MPLS
9 104 (1.51%) IPsec
10 98 (1.42%) DHCP
11 97 (1.41%) SSL
12 86 (1.25%) SAN
13 76 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
14 75 (1.09%) Wireless
15 72 (1.04%) TCP/IP
16 65 (0.94%) OSPF
17 59 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
18 56 (0.81%) Junos
19 55 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
20 54 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 168 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (1.32%) Power BI
4 84 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 82 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 71 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 64 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 58 (0.84%) Metadata
10 57 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 57 (0.83%) MySQL
10 57 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 54 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 46 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (0.61%) Big Data
14 40 (0.58%) Flink
15 38 (0.55%) Data Lake
16 34 (0.49%) Data Vault
17 30 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
18 23 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 330 (4.78%) JIRA
2 262 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 236 (3.42%) Git
4 156 (2.26%) GitLab
5 93 (1.35%) Selenium
6 69 (1.00%) Cucumber
7 67 (0.97%) Visual Studio
8 57 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 56 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
10 55 (0.80%) JUnit
11 49 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 46 (0.67%) PVCS
13 41 (0.59%) REST Assured
14 34 (0.49%) JMeter
15 31 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 27 (0.39%) TestRail
17 24 (0.35%) Robot Framework
18 22 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
19 21 (0.30%) Artifactory
20 20 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 1,470 (21.31%) Public Sector
2 1,248 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 514 (7.45%) Finance
4 486 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 257 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 188 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 175 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 159 (2.30%) Military
9 157 (2.28%) Electronics
10 122 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 116 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 102 (1.48%) Marketing
13 79 (1.15%) Legal
14 74 (1.07%) Police
15 69 (1.00%) Law
16 55 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 54 (0.78%) Banking
18 28 (0.41%) Publishing
19 27 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,303 (18.89%) Architect
2 584 (8.46%) Analyst
3 575 (8.33%) Developer
4 488 (7.07%) Senior
5 384 (5.57%) Lead
6 370 (5.36%) Consultant
7 294 (4.26%) Network Engineer
8 278 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 273 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
10 237 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 230 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 224 (3.25%) Network Architect
13 151 (2.19%) Data Engineer
13 151 (2.19%) Security Architect
14 142 (2.06%) Administrator
15 137 (1.99%) Support Engineer
16 134 (1.94%) Software Engineer
17 127 (1.84%) Java Developer
18 122 (1.77%) Service Analyst
19 121 (1.75%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (2.22%) REST
2 147 (2.13%) React
3 136 (1.97%) Spring
4 123 (1.78%) .NET
5 116 (1.68%) Kafka
5 116 (1.68%) Spring Boot
6 108 (1.57%) Node.js
7 105 (1.52%) HTML
8 101 (1.46%) Web Services
9 94 (1.36%) CSS
10 57 (0.83%) JSON
11 53 (0.77%) RESTful
12 49 (0.71%) XML
13 46 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (0.65%) JPA
15 43 (0.62%) .NET Core
15 43 (0.62%) Hibernate
16 38 (0.55%) ARM Templates
17 35 (0.51%) AngularJS
17 35 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 331 (4.80%) PKI
2 199 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 193 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 123 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
5 114 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
6 109 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 94 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
8 90 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 85 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 70 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 58 (0.84%) Driving Licence
13 57 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 53 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 52 (0.75%) Cloud Native
15 52 (0.75%) Replication
16 50 (0.72%) Virtual Team
17 44 (0.64%) CMDB
18 43 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
19 40 (0.58%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 900 (13.05%) Windows
2 682 (9.89%) Linux
3 313 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 177 (2.57%) Windows 10
5 112 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 103 (1.49%) Unix
7 101 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 95 (1.38%) Windows 7
9 93 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 88 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 67 (0.97%) Android
12 54 (0.78%) Apple iOS
13 30 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 29 (0.42%) Mac OS X
15 23 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.30%) AIX
17 20 (0.29%) VMS
18 19 (0.28%) Solaris
18 19 (0.28%) Windows NT
19 17 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (16.35%) Agile
2 727 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
3 713 (10.33%) DevOps
4 563 (8.16%) ITIL
5 558 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
6 460 (6.67%) Project Management
7 459 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 451 (6.54%) CI/CD
9 405 (5.87%) Service Management
10 326 (4.73%) SIEM
11 315 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 312 (4.52%) Software Engineering
13 308 (4.46%) Migration
14 265 (3.84%) Project Delivery
15 258 (3.74%) Change Management
16 252 (3.65%) Decision-Making
17 247 (3.58%) Scrum
18 244 (3.54%) Customer Service
19 239 (3.46%) Mentoring
20 237 (3.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 575 (8.33%) Python
2 462 (6.70%) Java
3 382 (5.54%) SQL
4 336 (4.87%) PowerShell
5 244 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 173 (2.51%) C#
7 160 (2.32%) C
8 117 (1.70%) Bash
9 103 (1.49%) C++
10 86 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 81 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.78%) Go
13 37 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 36 (0.52%) VBScript
15 35 (0.51%) PHP
16 28 (0.41%) MATLAB
17 27 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 26 (0.38%) Bicep
19 24 (0.35%) Perl
20 20 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,296 (62.27%) SC Cleared
2 2,305 (33.41%) DV Cleared
3 457 (6.62%) Degree
4 210 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 151 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
6 105 (1.52%) CCNP
7 92 (1.33%) CCNA
8 83 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 73 (1.06%) CISSP
10 55 (0.80%) CISM
11 49 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.58%) PMP
13 39 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 39 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 37 (0.54%) APMP
15 34 (0.49%) Azure Certification
16 32 (0.46%) MCSA
17 31 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
17 31 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (2.54%) SLA
2 172 (2.49%) QA
3 152 (2.20%) NIST
4 112 (1.62%) PMO
5 87 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 70 (1.01%) NCSC
8 65 (0.94%) GDPR
9 60 (0.87%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.83%) NIST 800
11 47 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 43 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
13 28 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
14 27 (0.39%) RMADS
15 22 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.20%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 12 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 449 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 289 (4.19%) Docker
3 278 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 103 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 84 (1.22%) vSphere
6 72 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 70 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 65 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
9 62 (0.90%) Firmware
10 25 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.072%) iptables
11 5 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.058%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) UAG
13 3 (0.043%) XenApp
13 3 (0.043%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 407 (5.90%) Terraform
2 394 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.06%) Ansible
4 167 (2.42%) SCCM
5 88 (1.28%) Grafana
6 84 (1.22%) WSUS
7 78 (1.13%) SCOM
8 70 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 70 (1.01%) vCenter Server
9 52 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 47 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (0.68%) Puppet
11 43 (0.62%) FortiGate
12 39 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 32 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 32 (0.46%) VxRail
14 31 (0.45%) Kibana
15 29 (0.42%) Packer
16 28 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (0.41%) Endace
Vendors
1 958 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 469 (6.80%) VMware
3 384 (5.57%) Cisco
4 301 (4.36%) Juniper
5 279 (4.04%) SAP
6 263 (3.81%) Oracle
7 137 (1.99%) Dell
8 121 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 113 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 101 (1.46%) HP
10 101 (1.46%) IBM
11 100 (1.45%) Palo Alto
12 94 (1.36%) Atlassian
13 75 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 73 (1.06%) F5
15 59 (0.86%) Splunk
16 56 (0.81%) Veeam
17 55 (0.80%) Google
18 53 (0.77%) SolarWinds
19 52 (0.75%) Citrix