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 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 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 1,807 1,428 1,362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 33.22% 25.55% 17.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.89% 70.00% 56.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 962 882
10th Percentile £388 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £549
% change year-on-year - +0.14% +9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 83 46
10th Percentile £21.55 £23.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.53 £20.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +36.22% +17.95%
75th Percentile £80.00 £72.44 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.50 £75.25
England median hourly rate £55.80 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +20.00% +20.74%

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 2,413 2,040 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.36% 36.51% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,345 1,553
10th Percentile £334 £300 £313
25th Percentile £449 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 132 85
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.62 £18.60
25th Percentile £25.70 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +9.88%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.68 £66.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%

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 16 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 16 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 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
Hampshire 0 988 £600 +9.09% 186
Thames Valley +1 725 £569 +13.80% 224
Berkshire +2 569 £595 +4.39% 155
Buckinghamshire 0 148 £511 +10.98% 43
Surrey +9 59 £625 +5.26% 51
West Sussex -18 17 £563 -2.17% 17
Kent +5 9 £294 -0.34% 5
Oxfordshire -8 8 £650 +44.44% 26
M4 Corridor - 4 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
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England

Security Cleared
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 36 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.22%) Confluence
3 19 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
5 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.055%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) Moodle
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.61%) Simulink
4 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.28%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.055%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.055%) Blender
8 1 (0.055%) Stata
Business Applications
1 29 (1.60%) Primavera
2 27 (1.49%) SAP QM
3 22 (1.22%) SAP EWM
4 10 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.50%) SAP HR
6 8 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.055%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.055%) SAP FI-CA
10 1 (0.055%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 181 (10.02%) Azure
2 105 (5.81%) AWS
3 40 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (1.38%) OpenShift
6 24 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 18 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (0.94%) Azure Storage
9 16 (0.89%) GitHub
9 16 (0.89%) OCI
9 16 (0.89%) Power Platform
10 9 (0.50%) IaaS
11 8 (0.44%) GCP
11 8 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.33%) Boomi
12 6 (0.33%) PaaS
13 5 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.28%) Serverless
14 4 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 167 (9.24%) Firewall
2 111 (6.14%) WAN
3 99 (5.48%) LAN
4 87 (4.81%) DNS
5 77 (4.26%) SSL
6 65 (3.60%) DHCP
7 57 (3.15%) BGP
8 51 (2.82%) SAN
9 45 (2.49%) VPN
10 38 (2.10%) Network Security
11 37 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
12 32 (1.77%) MPLS
13 29 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
14 27 (1.49%) OSPF
15 26 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.33%) TCP/IP
17 23 (1.27%) EIGRP
18 21 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
18 21 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
19 20 (1.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.44%) Oracle Database
4 14 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (0.72%) MySQL
5 13 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.50%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) MariaDB
8 7 (0.39%) Metadata
9 6 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) DB2
12 3 (0.17%) IDMS
13 2 (0.11%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (2.66%) Jenkins
2 40 (2.21%) Git
3 39 (2.16%) GitLab
3 39 (2.16%) JIRA
4 32 (1.77%) Selenium
5 25 (1.38%) Cucumber
5 25 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 24 (1.33%) REST Assured
7 23 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 21 (1.16%) TestRail
9 14 (0.77%) MSI
9 14 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.33%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.28%) ClearCase
13 5 (0.28%) ClearQuest
14 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 295 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 262 (14.50%) Public Sector
3 119 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.65%) Finance
5 56 (3.10%) Aerospace
6 47 (2.60%) Military
7 44 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.27%) Law
10 18 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (0.83%) Electronics
12 14 (0.77%) Aviation
13 13 (0.72%) Police
14 7 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.22%) Aeronautics
15 4 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.17%) Advertising
16 3 (0.17%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 479 (26.51%) Architect
2 163 (9.02%) Senior
3 134 (7.42%) Network Architect
4 119 (6.59%) Consultant
5 107 (5.92%) Developer
6 103 (5.70%) Network Engineer
7 98 (5.42%) Analyst
8 84 (4.65%) Security Architect
9 80 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 74 (4.10%) Infrastructure Architect
11 67 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (3.54%) SAP Consultant
13 50 (2.77%) Lead
13 50 (2.77%) Project Manager
14 41 (2.27%) Administrator
15 40 (2.21%) Support Specialist
16 37 (2.05%) Security Engineer
17 36 (1.99%) Service Architect
17 36 (1.99%) Systems Administrator
18 34 (1.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.82%) Web Services
2 33 (1.83%) REST
3 30 (1.66%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.38%) Java EE
5 23 (1.27%) .NET
6 22 (1.22%) HTML
7 14 (0.77%) ASP.NET
8 13 (0.72%) Flash
8 13 (0.72%) Itk
9 12 (0.66%) CSS
10 11 (0.61%) Kafka
11 10 (0.55%) Node.js
12 9 (0.50%) SAP Basis
13 7 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.33%) React
14 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
15 5 (0.28%) Keycloak
15 5 (0.28%) LDAP
16 4 (0.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.41%) PKI
2 43 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 41 (2.27%) Driving Licence
3 41 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 31 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 26 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
8 23 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 22 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.11%) Client/Server
11 18 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (0.66%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.61%) Clustering
13 11 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.55%) FPGA
14 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.44%) Replication
16 7 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
17 6 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 291 (16.10%) Windows
2 205 (11.34%) Linux
3 149 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 88 (4.87%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 60 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 56 (3.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (2.10%) Windows 7
10 22 (1.22%) Unix
11 19 (1.05%) Windows NT
12 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.77%) Windows XP
13 13 (0.72%) AIX
14 11 (0.61%) Debian
15 8 (0.44%) VMS
16 3 (0.17%) zOS
17 2 (0.11%) Solaris
18 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (16.66%) Agile
2 216 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
3 182 (10.07%) DevOps
4 158 (8.74%) ITIL
5 113 (6.25%) Project Management
6 112 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 110 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
8 102 (5.64%) Service Management
9 99 (5.48%) Customer Requirements
10 95 (5.26%) Test Automation
11 92 (5.09%) Software Engineering
12 82 (4.54%) SIEM
13 79 (4.37%) Network Design
14 75 (4.15%) Customer Service
15 72 (3.98%) Prototyping
16 70 (3.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (3.82%) Project Delivery
17 69 (3.82%) Technical Leadership
18 67 (3.71%) Scrum
19 66 (3.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 165 (9.13%) PowerShell
2 122 (6.75%) Python
3 80 (4.43%) Java
4 63 (3.49%) SQL
5 48 (2.66%) C#
6 39 (2.16%) C++
7 36 (1.99%) VBScript
8 31 (1.72%) C
9 23 (1.27%) Bash
9 23 (1.27%) JavaScript
10 19 (1.05%) VB
11 17 (0.94%) Bicep
11 17 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.77%) PHP
14 11 (0.61%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.39%) Go
16 5 (0.28%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.28%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 861 (47.65%) DV Cleared
2 817 (45.21%) SC Cleared
3 151 (8.36%) Degree
4 58 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (2.66%) CCNP
6 34 (1.88%) CCNA
7 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 18 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (0.66%) CISM
13 11 (0.61%) MCSE
14 10 (0.55%) ISEB
14 10 (0.55%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.50%) JNCIA
15 9 (0.50%) JNCIS
16 8 (0.44%) APMP
16 8 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.71%) SLA
2 34 (1.88%) QA
3 30 (1.66%) NIST
4 20 (1.11%) NIST 800
5 16 (0.89%) PMO
6 15 (0.83%) RMADS
7 13 (0.72%) NCSC
8 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.28%) GDPR
9 5 (0.28%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.17%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.11%) DO-178B
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.055%) WCAG
System Software
1 213 (11.79%) Active Directory
2 125 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.21%) Hyper-V
4 39 (2.16%) Firmware
5 31 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 29 (1.60%) Docker
6 29 (1.60%) vSphere
7 22 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.055%) LXC
12 1 (0.055%) NFS
12 1 (0.055%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.055%) UAG
12 1 (0.055%) vCloud
12 1 (0.055%) XenApp
12 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 119 (6.59%) Ansible
2 103 (5.70%) SCCM
3 84 (4.65%) Terraform
4 75 (4.15%) Kubernetes
5 74 (4.10%) WSUS
6 43 (2.38%) SCOM
7 28 (1.55%) Endace
8 26 (1.44%) FortiGate
9 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 19 (1.05%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.89%) Nessus
14 15 (0.83%) Grafana
14 15 (0.83%) WMI
15 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.77%) vRealize
16 13 (0.72%) Istio
17 12 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 330 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 200 (11.07%) VMware
3 186 (10.29%) Cisco
4 163 (9.02%) Juniper
5 85 (4.70%) SAP
6 69 (3.82%) Oracle
7 59 (3.27%) HP
8 54 (2.99%) Fortinet
9 52 (2.88%) F5
10 49 (2.71%) Red Hat
11 42 (2.32%) Palo Alto
12 41 (2.27%) Dell
13 30 (1.66%) IBM
14 25 (1.38%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.16%) EMC
16 20 (1.11%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.11%) Veeam
17 16 (0.89%) ArcSight
18 15 (0.83%) 3PAR
18 15 (0.83%) Symantec