SC Cleared Contracts

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 8 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 5,064 7,238 7,784
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 12.84% 8.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.32% 47.21% 40.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,462 5,044 5,486
10th Percentile £338 £379 £397
25th Percentile £438 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 380 337
10th Percentile £13.30 £19.06 £19.75
25th Percentile £21.37 £36.63 £38.68
Median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +35.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £80.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.33 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% +6.17% +39.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

SC 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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,878 15,332 19,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.19% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 10,240 12,718
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 747 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.57
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +1 4,356 £525 -4.55% 1,169
UK excluding London 0 2,880 £533 -3.09% 990
Work from Home -1 1,661 £540 -1.82% 554
London +1 1,582 £525 -4.55% 247
South East 0 871 £575 +12.75% 276
South West 0 788 £538 -8.43% 239
North of England -1 473 £515 -4.80% 166
Midlands +11 360 £513 -9.29% 146
North West -1 354 £515 -1.72% 123
West Midlands +15 256 £500 -14.89% 116
Scotland +20 225 £445 -1.11% 64
East of England -4 169 £345 -31.00% 76
East Midlands +3 103 £525 -8.70% 30
Yorkshire -2 89 £501 -16.58% 32
Wales -7 43 £600 +9.09% 23
North East -9 32 £435 -23.01% 11
Northern Ireland +10 8 £525 +5.00% 31

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 200 (3.95%) Confluence
2 184 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 117 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 49 (0.97%) Apache
5 26 (0.51%) nginx
6 16 (0.32%) SAS
7 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 13 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 13 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.22%) CICS
10 10 (0.20%) CMS
11 8 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.12%) WordPress
14 5 (0.099%) Drupal
Applications
1 142 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.26%) Simulink
7 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.16%) Trello
9 7 (0.14%) Revit
10 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.099%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.079%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.079%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.079%) Sketch
13 2 (0.039%) SPSS
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.020%) CATIA
14 1 (0.020%) Stata
14 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 34 (0.67%) Teamcenter
3 26 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 22 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 21 (0.41%) SAP QM
6 15 (0.30%) Primavera
7 11 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.099%) Magento
10 5 (0.099%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.099%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.099%) Siebel CRM
11 4 (0.079%) Maximo
11 4 (0.079%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.079%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 768 (15.17%) AWS
2 651 (12.86%) Azure
3 216 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 149 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 107 (2.11%) GitHub
6 105 (2.07%) Serverless
7 95 (1.88%) Entra ID
8 92 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 92 (1.82%) GCP
9 85 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (1.36%) PaaS
12 67 (1.32%) OCI
13 64 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
13 64 (1.26%) SaaS
14 56 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 52 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 48 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
17 44 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.96%) Firewall
2 124 (2.45%) WAN
3 119 (2.35%) DNS
3 119 (2.35%) VPN
4 93 (1.84%) DHCP
5 83 (1.64%) Network Security
6 66 (1.30%) BGP
7 63 (1.24%) LAN
8 62 (1.22%) Wireless
9 61 (1.20%) SAN
10 60 (1.18%) IPsec
11 53 (1.05%) MPLS
12 50 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (0.95%) OSPF
14 44 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
14 44 (0.87%) SSL
15 42 (0.83%) TCP/IP
16 39 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
16 39 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
17 33 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 84 (1.66%) Power BI
4 77 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 72 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 67 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 57 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (1.01%) Metadata
8 51 (1.01%) MySQL
9 50 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 40 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (0.77%) Data Lake
13 34 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.65%) Data Vault
15 32 (0.63%) Flink
16 29 (0.57%) Big Data
17 23 (0.45%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.43%) DB2
Development Applications
1 313 (6.18%) JIRA
2 238 (4.70%) Git
3 207 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 141 (2.78%) GitLab
5 81 (1.60%) Selenium
6 77 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 57 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 57 (1.13%) PVCS
8 51 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 51 (1.01%) JUnit
9 48 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 46 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
11 38 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 30 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 28 (0.55%) JMeter
14 20 (0.39%) Maven
15 19 (0.38%) SoapUI
16 17 (0.34%) TestNG
16 17 (0.34%) WebDriver
17 16 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 1,103 (21.78%) Public Sector
2 904 (17.85%) Social Skills
3 385 (7.60%) Finance
4 347 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (3.50%) Aerospace
6 174 (3.44%) Telecoms
7 128 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 123 (2.43%) Electronics
9 114 (2.25%) Military
10 88 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 84 (1.66%) Marketing
12 67 (1.32%) Law
13 64 (1.26%) Legal
14 59 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 55 (1.09%) Police
16 47 (0.93%) Banking
16 47 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (0.55%) Retail
18 23 (0.45%) Publishing
19 20 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 791 (15.62%) Architect
2 570 (11.26%) Developer
3 384 (7.58%) Analyst
4 376 (7.42%) Senior
5 312 (6.16%) Consultant
6 307 (6.06%) Lead
7 237 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 195 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 178 (3.52%) Network Engineer
10 168 (3.32%) Project Manager
11 153 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 137 (2.71%) Java Developer
12 137 (2.71%) Support Engineer
13 127 (2.51%) Data Engineer
14 104 (2.05%) Technical Architect
15 102 (2.01%) Software Engineer
16 101 (1.99%) Service Analyst
17 98 (1.94%) Lead Architect
18 97 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
19 92 (1.82%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (2.73%) REST
2 124 (2.45%) Spring
3 119 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 118 (2.33%) .NET
5 115 (2.27%) React
6 102 (2.01%) Kafka
7 100 (1.97%) HTML
8 89 (1.76%) CSS
9 85 (1.68%) Node.js
10 80 (1.58%) Web Services
11 56 (1.11%) RESTful
12 55 (1.09%) ARM Templates
13 46 (0.91%) JSON
14 44 (0.87%) Hibernate
15 43 (0.85%) JPA
16 40 (0.79%) OpenID
17 35 (0.69%) SAML
18 32 (0.63%) .NET Core
19 31 (0.61%) .NET Framework
20 30 (0.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 137 (2.71%) PKI
2 121 (2.39%) Management Information System
3 118 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 105 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 88 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (1.36%) Cloud Native
7 68 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 60 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 42 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (0.79%) CMDB
10 40 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 37 (0.73%) Clustering
12 36 (0.71%) Analogue Electronics
12 36 (0.71%) Private Cloud
13 35 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (0.69%) Replication
14 34 (0.67%) Mainframe
15 32 (0.63%) Security Posture
15 32 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 30 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 527 (10.41%) Windows
2 495 (9.77%) Linux
3 164 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 131 (2.59%) Windows 10
5 111 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 76 (1.50%) Unix
7 63 (1.24%) Windows 7
8 51 (1.01%) Android
8 51 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 47 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 43 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 27 (0.53%) Mac OS X
13 23 (0.45%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.36%) AIX
14 18 (0.36%) VMS
15 16 (0.32%) Windows Vista
15 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.28%) Debian
17 13 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (17.65%) Agile
2 598 (11.81%) DevOps
3 563 (11.12%) Problem-Solving
4 406 (8.02%) ITIL
5 367 (7.25%) CI/CD
5 367 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 350 (6.91%) Project Management
7 301 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
8 294 (5.81%) Service Management
9 272 (5.37%) Migration
10 265 (5.23%) Software Engineering
11 237 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 232 (4.58%) Configuration Management
13 205 (4.05%) Analytics
14 203 (4.01%) Scrum
15 194 (3.83%) Decision-Making
15 194 (3.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 193 (3.81%) Change Management
17 182 (3.59%) Mentoring
17 182 (3.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 449 (8.87%) Python
2 381 (7.52%) Java
3 326 (6.44%) SQL
4 270 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 201 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 142 (2.80%) C#
7 124 (2.45%) C
8 98 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 92 (1.82%) Bash
10 83 (1.64%) C++
11 73 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 44 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 41 (0.81%) Go
14 30 (0.59%) PHP
15 28 (0.55%) Bicep
16 24 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.45%) Perl
18 22 (0.43%) VB
19 21 (0.41%) MATLAB
19 21 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5,064 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 557 (11.00%) DV Cleared
3 366 (7.23%) Degree
4 202 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 102 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 82 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 80 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 70 (1.38%) CISSP
9 69 (1.36%) CCNP
10 63 (1.24%) CCNA
11 53 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 52 (1.03%) PMP
13 47 (0.93%) CISM
14 38 (0.75%) Azure Certification
15 35 (0.69%) MCSA
16 33 (0.65%) A+ Certification
16 33 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 31 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 30 (0.59%) MCSE
19 28 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (2.63%) SLA
2 120 (2.37%) QA
3 97 (1.92%) NIST
4 83 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 82 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (1.24%) NCSC
7 60 (1.18%) PMO
8 46 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 38 (0.75%) GDPR
10 30 (0.59%) JSP 440
11 27 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.28%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.26%) GRC
14 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.22%) RMADS
16 10 (0.20%) COBIT
17 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 7 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 345 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 236 (4.66%) Docker
3 183 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (1.32%) vSphere
6 61 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 53 (1.05%) Hyper-V
8 46 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (0.69%) Firmware
10 26 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
12 9 (0.18%) VMFS
13 5 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.079%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.059%) iptables
15 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.059%) XenApp
15 3 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 352 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 323 (6.38%) Terraform
3 274 (5.41%) Ansible
4 111 (2.19%) SCCM
5 66 (1.30%) Grafana
6 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 56 (1.11%) vCenter Server
7 52 (1.03%) WSUS
8 46 (0.91%) SCOM
9 44 (0.87%) Prometheus
10 40 (0.79%) Puppet
11 37 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
12 35 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 31 (0.61%) Kibana
14 29 (0.57%) Packer
15 27 (0.53%) PowerCLI
15 27 (0.53%) VxRail
16 23 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
16 23 (0.45%) Progress Chef
17 22 (0.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 691 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 303 (5.98%) VMware
3 272 (5.37%) Oracle
4 237 (4.68%) Cisco
5 219 (4.32%) SAP
6 120 (2.37%) Red Hat
7 119 (2.35%) Juniper
8 108 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 97 (1.92%) IBM
10 86 (1.70%) Atlassian
11 82 (1.62%) Palo Alto
12 63 (1.24%) HP
13 61 (1.20%) Google
14 57 (1.13%) Citrix
15 56 (1.11%) Dell
16 52 (1.03%) SolarWinds
16 52 (1.03%) Sparx
17 47 (0.93%) Splunk
18 39 (0.77%) EMC
18 39 (0.77%) F5