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 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 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 4,941 5,092 4,404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.35% 22.13% 14.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.55% 67.55% 55.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,110 3,527 2,874
10th Percentile £340 £352 £357
25th Percentile £460 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £731 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 402 276
10th Percentile £13.40 £18.16 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.00 £22.14
Median hourly rate £57.44 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +9.52% +32.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.92 £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
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 7,425 7,538 7,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.59% 32.77% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,302 5,049 5,188
10th Percentile £269 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £420 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £703 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 607 530
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.30 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.86% +1.33%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.02
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 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 16 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 16 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 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
South East 0 1,807 £590 +12.38% 526
South West 0 1,532 £550 -8.33% 484
North of England -2 587 £525 -4.55% 288
Midlands +4 498 £501 -8.95% 195
North West -1 421 £522 -0.57% 213
West Midlands +5 366 £485 -11.82% 143
Scotland +15 271 £550 +22.22% 119
East of England -1 244 £550 +3.53% 120
East Midlands -1 131 £550 -6.38% 51
Yorkshire +2 127 £525 -12.50% 48
Wales -6 51 £600 +9.09% 34
North East -4 41 £525 -7.04% 27
Northern Ireland +18 18 £550 +71.88% 40
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
1 181 (3.66%) Confluence
2 151 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.43%) CMS
6 17 (0.34%) Apache
7 11 (0.22%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) CICS
9 6 (0.12%) IIS
10 4 (0.081%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.081%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2000
10 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2003
10 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.061%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.061%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 215 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.45%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.30%) Simulink
8 14 (0.28%) MS Visio
9 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.10%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.020%) Blender
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) Stata
13 1 (0.020%) Windchill
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 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 17 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.18%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.081%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.061%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.061%) Maximo
11 3 (0.061%) SAP BRIM
11 3 (0.061%) SAP Hybris
11 3 (0.061%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 3 (0.061%) SAP PSCD
12 2 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
12 2 (0.040%) Oracle Financials
12 2 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
12 2 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 450 (9.11%) Azure
2 311 (6.29%) AWS
3 129 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 69 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.28%) PaaS
7 57 (1.15%) SaaS
8 52 (1.05%) Entra ID
9 49 (0.99%) IaaS
10 45 (0.91%) OpenShift
11 44 (0.89%) GitHub
12 35 (0.71%) Azure Stack
12 35 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
13 34 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 30 (0.61%) Amazon S3
15 29 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (0.57%) GCP
17 25 (0.51%) OCI
18 24 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 353 (7.14%) Firewall
2 276 (5.59%) WAN
3 184 (3.72%) LAN
4 169 (3.42%) BGP
5 167 (3.38%) VPN
6 157 (3.18%) DNS
7 132 (2.67%) Network Security
8 113 (2.29%) MPLS
9 110 (2.23%) DHCP
10 97 (1.96%) IPsec
11 86 (1.74%) SAN
11 86 (1.74%) SSL
12 71 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
13 55 (1.11%) OSPF
14 54 (1.09%) Junos
14 54 (1.09%) TCP/IP
15 53 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
15 53 (1.07%) Wireless
16 51 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
17 49 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.23%) SQL Server
2 80 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (1.01%) Power BI
4 45 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 44 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 42 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (0.75%) MySQL
8 29 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 27 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (0.49%) Metadata
11 21 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.36%) Big Data
15 16 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 14 (0.28%) Tableau
17 13 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
17 13 (0.26%) SAP BW
18 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 11 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 283 (5.73%) JIRA
2 137 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 118 (2.39%) Git
4 86 (1.74%) GitLab
5 63 (1.28%) Visual Studio
6 53 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
7 49 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.97%) Selenium
9 44 (0.89%) PVCS
10 39 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 25 (0.51%) TestRail
13 24 (0.49%) Robot Framework
14 19 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 19 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (0.36%) JMeter
15 18 (0.36%) JUnit
16 15 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 939 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 901 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 381 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.55%) Finance
5 198 (4.01%) Telecoms
6 184 (3.72%) Aerospace
7 125 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 123 (2.49%) Military
9 114 (2.31%) Electronics
10 94 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 87 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.36%) Marketing
13 66 (1.34%) Legal
14 41 (0.83%) Police
15 33 (0.67%) Law
16 26 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.47%) Aviation
18 22 (0.45%) Retail
19 17 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 15 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 978 (19.79%) Architect
2 459 (9.29%) Analyst
3 351 (7.10%) Senior
4 318 (6.44%) Developer
5 274 (5.55%) Lead
6 257 (5.20%) Consultant
7 236 (4.78%) Network Engineer
8 219 (4.43%) Network Architect
9 200 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 198 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 161 (3.26%) Project Manager
12 120 (2.43%) Administrator
13 116 (2.35%) Support Engineer
14 115 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
15 107 (2.17%) Security Architect
16 105 (2.13%) Lead Architect
17 104 (2.10%) Service Analyst
18 103 (2.08%) SOC Analyst
19 102 (2.06%) Software Engineer
20 97 (1.96%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.08%) REST
2 90 (1.82%) Web Services
3 79 (1.60%) .NET
4 61 (1.23%) Node.js
5 59 (1.19%) Spring
6 54 (1.09%) React
7 47 (0.95%) Spring Boot
8 44 (0.89%) HTML
9 37 (0.75%) CSS
10 35 (0.71%) .NET Core
11 34 (0.69%) ARM Templates
12 31 (0.63%) XML
13 28 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
14 25 (0.51%) Java EE
14 25 (0.51%) RESTful
15 23 (0.47%) JPA
16 22 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
17 21 (0.43%) AngularJS
17 21 (0.43%) Hibernate
17 21 (0.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 317 (6.42%) PKI
2 165 (3.34%) Management Information System
3 144 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 111 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
5 99 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
6 90 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 79 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 79 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 71 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 61 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 53 (1.07%) Driving Licence
11 48 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 40 (0.81%) CSOC
13 40 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 39 (0.79%) Onboarding
15 37 (0.75%) Analogue Electronics
16 35 (0.71%) CMDB
17 34 (0.69%) Clustering
17 34 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 765 (15.48%) Windows
2 519 (10.50%) Linux
3 262 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 170 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 95 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 92 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 79 (1.60%) Windows 7
8 69 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 68 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 63 (1.28%) Unix
11 54 (1.09%) Apple iOS
12 47 (0.95%) Android
13 29 (0.59%) Ubuntu
14 23 (0.47%) Solaris
15 21 (0.43%) AIX
16 19 (0.38%) Windows NT
17 17 (0.34%) Windows Vista
18 16 (0.32%) Debian
18 16 (0.32%) Mac OS X
18 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (15.42%) Agile
2 565 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
3 467 (9.45%) ITIL
4 463 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
5 439 (8.88%) DevOps
6 380 (7.69%) Project Management
7 326 (6.60%) Service Management
8 312 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 281 (5.69%) SIEM
10 268 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 253 (5.12%) Software Engineering
12 224 (4.53%) Customer Service
13 208 (4.21%) CI/CD
14 193 (3.91%) Network Management
15 190 (3.85%) Project Delivery
16 181 (3.66%) Configuration Management
17 179 (3.62%) Mentoring
17 179 (3.62%) Risk Management
18 173 (3.50%) Decision-Making
19 172 (3.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 304 (6.15%) Python
2 296 (5.99%) PowerShell
3 225 (4.55%) Java
4 187 (3.78%) SQL
5 148 (3.00%) C
6 108 (2.19%) C#
7 99 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 89 (1.80%) C++
9 73 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 62 (1.25%) Bash
11 36 (0.73%) VBScript
12 31 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.51%) Go
14 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 24 (0.49%) Bicep
16 20 (0.40%) VB
17 18 (0.36%) Embedded C
18 15 (0.30%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2,801 (56.69%) SC Cleared
2 1,885 (38.15%) DV Cleared
3 371 (7.51%) Degree
4 148 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 129 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 94 (1.90%) CCNP
7 80 (1.62%) CCNA
8 78 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 64 (1.30%) CISSP
10 51 (1.03%) CISM
11 40 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 37 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 36 (0.73%) APMP
14 32 (0.65%) MCSA
15 31 (0.63%) MCSE
16 28 (0.57%) A+ Certification
17 27 (0.55%) HND
17 27 (0.55%) PMI Certification
17 27 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (3.14%) SLA
2 139 (2.81%) NIST
3 108 (2.19%) QA
4 94 (1.90%) PMO
5 84 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.13%) GDPR
7 53 (1.07%) NCSC
7 53 (1.07%) NIST 800
8 47 (0.95%) JSP 440
9 41 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
10 30 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
11 26 (0.53%) Data Quality
11 26 (0.53%) RMADS
12 22 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 21 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.26%) Def Stans
16 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 399 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 239 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (2.57%) Docker
4 88 (1.78%) VMware NSX
5 76 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 75 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 73 (1.48%) vSphere
8 57 (1.15%) Firmware
9 41 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
10 21 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.18%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.061%) XenApp
16 3 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 229 (4.63%) Ansible
2 191 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 181 (3.66%) Terraform
4 164 (3.32%) SCCM
5 86 (1.74%) WSUS
6 76 (1.54%) SCOM
7 72 (1.46%) vCenter Server
8 57 (1.15%) Grafana
9 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 39 (0.79%) Prometheus
11 36 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 28 (0.57%) Endace
12 28 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 25 (0.51%) NetBackup
13 25 (0.51%) PowerCLI
14 24 (0.49%) vRealize
15 23 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
15 23 (0.47%) VxRail
16 20 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 829 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 416 (8.42%) VMware
3 343 (6.94%) Cisco
4 281 (5.69%) Juniper
5 197 (3.99%) SAP
6 130 (2.63%) Oracle
7 124 (2.51%) Atlassian
8 109 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 108 (2.19%) Dell
10 102 (2.06%) HP
11 81 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 80 (1.62%) IBM
13 78 (1.58%) Palo Alto
14 62 (1.25%) Fortinet
15 59 (1.19%) F5
16 51 (1.03%) Citrix
17 46 (0.93%) SolarWinds
18 40 (0.81%) Google
19 38 (0.77%) EMC
20 37 (0.75%) Veeam