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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 8 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 5,036 7,235 7,726
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 12.88% 8.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.22% 47.30% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,055 5,439
10th Percentile £340 £381 £390
25th Percentile £438 £461 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £716 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 381 337
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.06 £19.96
25th Percentile £21.37 £36.75 £39.29
Median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +35.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £80.00 £68.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.33 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% +6.17% +36.71%

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 12,842 15,296 19,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.93% 27.24% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,004 10,201 12,637
10th Percentile £310 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 756 774
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.91 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +22.71%
75th Percentile £62.13 £68.75 £57.94
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.47 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.02% +50.00% +7.69%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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
England +1 4,330 £525 -4.55% 1,120
UK excluding London 0 2,867 £535 -2.73% 942
Work from Home -1 1,657 £550 - 517
London +1 1,567 £525 -5.41% 232
South East 0 866 £575 +12.75% 261
South West 0 793 £540 -8.04% 232
North of England -1 473 £515 -5.94% 169
Midlands +8 357 £506 -8.87% 125
North West -1 357 £515 -1.34% 125
West Midlands +15 255 £500 -14.89% 87
Scotland +18 220 £465 +2.20% 77
East of England -4 164 £345 -31.00% 69
East Midlands +2 101 £533 -3.18% 38
Yorkshire -3 88 £501 -16.58% 30
Wales -6 43 £600 +9.09% 20
North East -9 30 £435 -23.01% 14
Northern Ireland +12 8 £525 +5.00% 17

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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 186 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 115 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 52 (1.03%) Apache
5 30 (0.60%) nginx
6 15 (0.30%) SAS
7 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 13 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 12 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 11 (0.22%) CICS
11 10 (0.20%) CMS
12 8 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
13 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
14 6 (0.12%) WordPress
15 5 (0.099%) Drupal
Applications
1 141 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.62%) 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 1 (0.020%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.020%) CATIA
13 1 (0.020%) SPSS
13 1 (0.020%) Stata
13 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 34 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 26 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 22 (0.44%) SAP EWM
5 21 (0.42%) SAP QM
6 20 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (0.30%) Primavera
8 11 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
8 11 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.099%) Magento
11 5 (0.099%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.099%) Siebel CRM
12 4 (0.079%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 4 (0.079%) SAP BPC
12 4 (0.079%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.079%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 769 (15.27%) AWS
2 642 (12.75%) Azure
3 217 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (3.02%) Power Platform
5 105 (2.08%) Serverless
6 104 (2.07%) GitHub
7 93 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 91 (1.81%) Amazon S3
9 90 (1.79%) GCP
10 85 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (1.35%) PaaS
13 67 (1.33%) OCI
14 64 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
15 62 (1.23%) SaaS
16 56 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 56 (1.11%) OpenShift
17 52 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 45 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
19 44 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 249 (4.94%) Firewall
2 125 (2.48%) WAN
3 117 (2.32%) DNS
4 116 (2.30%) VPN
5 89 (1.77%) DHCP
6 79 (1.57%) Network Security
7 66 (1.31%) BGP
8 63 (1.25%) LAN
8 63 (1.25%) Wireless
9 61 (1.21%) SAN
10 60 (1.19%) IPsec
11 53 (1.05%) MPLS
12 50 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (0.95%) OSPF
14 44 (0.87%) SSL
15 43 (0.85%) TCP/IP
16 41 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
17 40 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
17 40 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
18 33 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 84 (1.67%) Power BI
4 78 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 71 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 57 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 51 (1.01%) MySQL
10 50 (0.99%) Metadata
11 42 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 40 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 37 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 35 (0.69%) Flink
15 33 (0.66%) Data Vault
15 33 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (0.58%) Big Data
17 23 (0.46%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 312 (6.20%) JIRA
2 238 (4.73%) Git
3 205 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 139 (2.76%) GitLab
5 81 (1.61%) Selenium
6 77 (1.53%) 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 45 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
11 38 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 30 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 28 (0.56%) JMeter
14 20 (0.40%) Maven
15 19 (0.38%) SoapUI
16 17 (0.34%) TestNG
16 17 (0.34%) WebDriver
17 16 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 1,100 (21.84%) Public Sector
2 906 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 380 (7.55%) Finance
4 348 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (3.46%) Aerospace
6 173 (3.44%) Telecoms
7 126 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 122 (2.42%) Electronics
9 115 (2.28%) Military
10 87 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 83 (1.65%) Marketing
12 68 (1.35%) Law
13 63 (1.25%) Legal
14 60 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 55 (1.09%) Police
16 49 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 47 (0.93%) Banking
18 27 (0.54%) Retail
19 23 (0.46%) Publishing
20 20 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 799 (15.87%) Architect
2 568 (11.28%) Developer
3 384 (7.63%) Analyst
4 372 (7.39%) Senior
5 307 (6.10%) Lead
6 303 (6.02%) Consultant
7 230 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 196 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 176 (3.49%) Network Engineer
10 171 (3.40%) Project Manager
11 151 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 136 (2.70%) Java Developer
13 133 (2.64%) Support Engineer
14 130 (2.58%) Data Engineer
15 106 (2.10%) Technical Architect
16 101 (2.01%) Service Analyst
17 100 (1.99%) Lead Architect
18 99 (1.97%) Software Engineer
19 97 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
20 91 (1.81%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.76%) REST
2 123 (2.44%) Spring
3 119 (2.36%) Spring Boot
4 117 (2.32%) .NET
5 114 (2.26%) React
6 105 (2.08%) Kafka
7 102 (2.03%) HTML
8 91 (1.81%) CSS
9 84 (1.67%) Node.js
10 80 (1.59%) Web Services
11 56 (1.11%) RESTful
12 54 (1.07%) ARM Templates
13 48 (0.95%) JSON
14 44 (0.87%) Hibernate
15 43 (0.85%) JPA
16 41 (0.81%) OpenID
17 35 (0.69%) SAML
18 32 (0.64%) .NET Core
19 31 (0.62%) .NET Framework
20 30 (0.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 138 (2.74%) PKI
2 123 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 120 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 105 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 87 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 68 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 59 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 42 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 38 (0.75%) CMDB
12 37 (0.73%) Clustering
12 37 (0.73%) Private Cloud
13 36 (0.71%) Analogue Electronics
14 35 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (0.69%) Replication
15 34 (0.68%) Mainframe
16 32 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
17 31 (0.62%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 526 (10.44%) Windows
2 498 (9.89%) Linux
3 162 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 129 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 108 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 78 (1.55%) Unix
7 61 (1.21%) Windows 7
8 51 (1.01%) Android
8 51 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 48 (0.95%) Apple iOS
10 41 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 27 (0.54%) Mac OS X
13 23 (0.46%) 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 12 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (17.65%) Agile
2 590 (11.72%) DevOps
3 561 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (8.02%) ITIL
5 371 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 361 (7.17%) CI/CD
7 352 (6.99%) Project Management
8 303 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
9 295 (5.86%) Service Management
10 268 (5.32%) Migration
11 260 (5.16%) Software Engineering
12 232 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 227 (4.51%) Configuration Management
14 204 (4.05%) Analytics
14 204 (4.05%) Scrum
15 199 (3.95%) Decision-Making
16 196 (3.89%) Change Management
17 189 (3.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 189 (3.75%) Test Automation
18 181 (3.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 446 (8.86%) Python
2 382 (7.59%) Java
3 327 (6.49%) SQL
4 268 (5.32%) PowerShell
5 203 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 143 (2.84%) C#
7 123 (2.44%) C
8 98 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 88 (1.75%) Bash
10 81 (1.61%) C++
11 69 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 41 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 40 (0.79%) Go
14 34 (0.68%) PHP
15 27 (0.54%) Bicep
16 25 (0.50%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.46%) Perl
18 22 (0.44%) VB
19 21 (0.42%) MATLAB
19 21 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5,036 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 564 (11.20%) DV Cleared
3 368 (7.31%) Degree
4 200 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 100 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
6 82 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 76 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 68 (1.35%) CISSP
9 67 (1.33%) CCNP
10 61 (1.21%) CCNA
11 53 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 52 (1.03%) PMP
13 47 (0.93%) CISM
14 36 (0.71%) Azure Certification
15 33 (0.66%) MCSA
16 32 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.62%) A+ Certification
17 31 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 28 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
18 28 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (2.66%) SLA
2 123 (2.44%) QA
3 97 (1.93%) NIST
4 82 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 63 (1.25%) PMO
7 62 (1.23%) NCSC
8 49 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 37 (0.73%) GDPR
10 30 (0.60%) JSP 440
11 27 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.26%) Def Stans
13 13 (0.26%) GRC
13 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.20%) COBIT
16 9 (0.18%) RMADS
17 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 7 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 338 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 232 (4.61%) Docker
3 182 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (1.33%) vSphere
6 65 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 52 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 46 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (0.69%) Firmware
10 26 (0.52%) 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 (0.060%) iptables
15 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.060%) XenApp
15 3 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 347 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 315 (6.25%) Terraform
3 273 (5.42%) Ansible
4 109 (2.16%) SCCM
5 65 (1.29%) Grafana
6 56 (1.11%) vCenter Server
7 55 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 52 (1.03%) WSUS
9 47 (0.93%) SCOM
10 43 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 40 (0.79%) Puppet
12 36 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 35 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 31 (0.62%) Kibana
15 29 (0.58%) Packer
16 27 (0.54%) PowerCLI
16 27 (0.54%) VxRail
17 23 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
17 23 (0.46%) Progress Chef
18 22 (0.44%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 685 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 306 (6.08%) VMware
3 271 (5.38%) Oracle
4 236 (4.69%) Cisco
5 217 (4.31%) SAP
6 120 (2.38%) Juniper
7 116 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 105 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.87%) IBM
10 86 (1.71%) Atlassian
11 80 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 62 (1.23%) HP
13 59 (1.17%) Google
14 58 (1.15%) Citrix
15 56 (1.11%) Dell
16 53 (1.05%) SolarWinds
17 52 (1.03%) Sparx
18 47 (0.93%) Splunk
19 39 (0.77%) EMC
20 37 (0.73%) F5