SC Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 245 235 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.36% 12.97% 5.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.37% 40.24% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 159 107
10th Percentile £394 £396 £373
25th Percentile £513 £460 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +11.65% +11.35%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £625
90th Percentile £714 £721 £696
South East median daily rate £563 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 3
10th Percentile £27.95 £23.50 £54.90
25th Percentile £52.90 £42.63 £57.75
Median hourly rate £57.32 £64.68 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% -0.50% +205.88%
75th Percentile £63.29 £75.38 £75.13
90th Percentile £75.01 £79.19 £79.70
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.08% +13.73% +37.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 895 584 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.13% 32.23% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 344 387
10th Percentile £209 £349 £314
25th Percentile £413 £447 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +5.41%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 39 15
10th Percentile £41.33 £20.70 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £50.45 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -
75th Percentile £75.68 £75.38 £38.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.76 £44.73
% change year-on-year -0.71% +29.14% +11.81%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Reading -2 170 £613 +4.52% 49
Wokingham -1 23 £475 -20.83% 2
Newbury +5 13 £525 +40.00% 2
Bracknell -11 12 £375 +3.45% 5
Maidenhead - 2 £625 -
Slough +2 1 £345 -43.90%
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.45%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.35%) SAP EWM
2 12 (4.90%) SAP QM
3 6 (2.45%) Primavera
4 3 (1.22%) SAP PLM
4 3 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.71%) Azure
2 40 (16.33%) AWS
3 17 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (6.94%) Entra ID
4 16 (6.53%) Azure Storage
5 15 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.12%) OpenShift
6 13 (5.31%) OCI
7 7 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.45%) Serverless
9 3 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.22%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.41%) GCP
11 1 (0.41%) PaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.10%) DNS
2 35 (14.29%) Firewall
3 33 (13.47%) DHCP
4 18 (7.35%) SAN
5 9 (3.67%) WAN
6 7 (2.86%) BGP
6 7 (2.86%) MPLS
7 5 (2.04%) Internet
7 5 (2.04%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.63%) VPN
9 3 (1.22%) Ethernet
9 3 (1.22%) NAS
9 3 (1.22%) OSPF
10 2 (0.82%) DSL
10 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.82%) GGSN
10 2 (0.82%) IPsec
10 2 (0.82%) PPP
10 2 (0.82%) RIP
11 1 (0.41%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.51%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.39%) Oracle Database
3 18 (7.35%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.22%) MySQL
7 3 (1.22%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.41%) GIS
9 1 (0.41%) Power BI
9 1 (0.41%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.61%) Selenium
3 25 (10.20%) Cucumber
4 24 (9.80%) REST Assured
4 24 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 16 (6.53%) GitLab
6 15 (6.12%) Git
7 13 (5.31%) JIRA
8 7 (2.86%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.63%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.63%) JUnit
10 3 (1.22%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.41%) Axure RP
12 1 (0.41%) MSI
12 1 (0.41%) MSTest
12 1 (0.41%) NUnit
12 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.47%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.16%) Law
5 13 (5.31%) Police
6 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.04%) Finance
7 5 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Aviation
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (17.96%) Consultant
2 43 (17.55%) Developer
3 38 (15.51%) SAP Consultant
4 26 (10.61%) Active Directory Support
4 26 (10.61%) Azure Specialist
5 25 (10.20%) Active Directory Specialist
5 25 (10.20%) Support Specialist
6 19 (7.76%) Senior
7 18 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.35%) Java Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 12 (4.90%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.49%) SAP EWM Consultant
10 11 (4.49%) SAP QM Consultant
10 11 (4.49%) Site Engineer
10 11 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.27%) Analyst
11 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.65%) REST
2 28 (11.43%) ARM Templates
3 25 (10.20%) Java EE
4 10 (4.08%) .NET
5 8 (3.27%) ASP.NET
5 8 (3.27%) Kafka
6 7 (2.86%) Web Services
7 6 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.45%) Node.js
7 6 (2.45%) Spring
7 6 (2.45%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.63%) RESTful
8 4 (1.63%) SOAP
8 4 (1.63%) YAML
9 3 (1.22%) J2EE
9 3 (1.22%) React
9 3 (1.22%) SAP Basis
10 2 (0.82%) HTML
10 2 (0.82%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.16%) PKI
2 16 (6.53%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.22%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.22%) iPad
7 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.22%) Robotics
7 3 (1.22%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.82%) PMI
9 1 (0.41%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.41%) IoT
9 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.37%) Linux
1 45 (18.37%) Windows
2 34 (13.88%) Windows Server 2019
3 33 (13.47%) Windows Server
4 31 (12.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (6.53%) Windows 10
5 16 (6.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (5.31%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.45%) Unix
9 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.82%) VMS
10 2 (0.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.61%) DevOps
2 54 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (19.59%) Software Engineering
4 43 (17.55%) Performance Tuning
5 35 (14.29%) Agile
5 35 (14.29%) ITIL
6 29 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
7 28 (11.43%) Test Automation
8 27 (11.02%) Decision-Making
9 26 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (10.20%) Software Architecture
11 24 (9.80%) Migration
12 23 (9.39%) Containerisation
13 22 (8.98%) Data Migration
13 22 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (8.16%) ITSM
14 20 (8.16%) Release Management
15 19 (7.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.96%) PowerShell
2 34 (13.88%) Java
3 28 (11.43%) C#
4 26 (10.61%) SQL
5 19 (7.76%) PL/SQL
6 16 (6.53%) VB
6 16 (6.53%) VBScript
7 15 (6.12%) Bicep
8 8 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.04%) Bash
9 5 (2.04%) Python
9 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 70 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 30 (12.24%) Degree
4 16 (6.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (6.12%) CCNP
5 15 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.71%) CCNA
7 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.22%) APMP
9 2 (0.82%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.82%) CCDP
9 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CCIP
10 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) HND
10 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.41%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.22%) ISO 9000
1 3 (1.22%) QA
2 2 (0.82%) SLA
3 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.76%) Docker
3 18 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (6.53%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.82%) XenApp
6 2 (0.82%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 41 (16.73%) Ansible
3 33 (13.47%) WSUS
4 32 (13.06%) SCCM
5 30 (12.24%) SCOM
6 20 (8.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (7.76%) Terraform
8 16 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (6.53%) vCenter Server
9 15 (6.12%) NetBackup
10 13 (5.31%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (4.90%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (4.90%) Podman
12 10 (4.08%) Grafana
12 10 (4.08%) Istio
13 6 (2.45%) Argo
13 6 (2.45%) Kibana
13 6 (2.45%) Prometheus
14 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (18.37%) Oracle
2 44 (17.96%) Microsoft
3 43 (17.55%) SAP
4 23 (9.39%) Cisco
4 23 (9.39%) VMware
5 19 (7.76%) Juniper
6 18 (7.35%) HP
7 17 (6.94%) 3PAR
8 16 (6.53%) Veeam
9 15 (6.12%) Dell
9 15 (6.12%) Red Hat
10 13 (5.31%) EMC
10 13 (5.31%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (5.31%) Palo Alto
10 13 (5.31%) Symantec
11 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.63%) NetApp
12 4 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (0.82%) Nokia
13 2 (0.82%) Veritas