SC Cleared Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 120 278 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 24.79% 32.90% 22.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.17% 74.73% 61.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 236 170
10th Percentile £370 £316 £347
25th Percentile £416 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £465 £528
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -11.90% -4.09%
75th Percentile £569 £543 £600
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £563 £515 £529
% change year-on-year +9.22% -2.65% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.30
25th Percentile £18.00 - £18.31
Median hourly rate £20.25 - £25.00
75th Percentile £22.52 - £40.00
90th Percentile £22.55 - £49.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £54.96
% change year-on-year -4.08% +13.82% +29.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 187 372 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 38.64% 44.02% 35.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 306 255
10th Percentile £359 £275 £236
25th Percentile £418 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £470 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% -2.08% -4.95%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £575
90th Percentile £759 £630 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 £13.64
25th Percentile £17.46 £11.19 £17.70
Median hourly rate £20.25 £13.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -40.22% -37.41%
75th Percentile £23.81 £16.69 £34.00
90th Percentile £27.50 £17.93 £63.03
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -1.34% +30.63% +11.25%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Milton Keynes 0 107 £511 +11.09% 13
High Wycombe -2 1 £530 -9.13% 3
Buckingham - 1 £418 -
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.83%) Azure
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.83%) GCP
4 1 (0.83%) IaaS
4 1 (0.83%) PaaS
4 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) TCP/IP
2 14 (11.67%) SAN
3 7 (5.83%) DHCP
3 7 (5.83%) DNS
3 7 (5.83%) VPN
3 7 (5.83%) VSAN
4 4 (3.33%) Network Security
5 3 (2.50%) SNA
6 2 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.67%) Firewall
7 1 (0.83%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Git
General
1 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.50%) Finance
4 6 (5.00%) Military
4 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Analyst
2 23 (19.17%) Developer
3 22 (18.33%) Python Developer
4 19 (15.83%) Senior
5 12 (10.00%) Architect
6 11 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Security Analyst
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Change Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) PMO Lead
10 5 (4.17%) VMware Architect
11 4 (3.33%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) YAML
2 2 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) CSS3
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) HTML5
3 1 (0.83%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) PKI
2 4 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.83%) Clustering
4 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Linux
2 14 (11.67%) Debian
2 14 (11.67%) Ubuntu
3 12 (10.00%) Windows
4 7 (5.83%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.17%) Agile
2 34 (28.33%) ITIL
3 15 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 14 (11.67%) Customer Service
4 14 (11.67%) Data Modelling
4 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (10.83%) Project Management
5 13 (10.83%) Prototyping
6 12 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 12 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (9.17%) Matrix Organization
7 11 (9.17%) Release Management
8 9 (7.50%) Service Management
8 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (6.67%) Business Case
9 8 (6.67%) PRINCE2
10 7 (5.83%) Incident Management
10 7 (5.83%) Problem Management
10 7 (5.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.67%) Python
2 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.83%) C#
3 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (44.17%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) CCNP
4 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.17%) ISEB
5 4 (3.33%) VCAP
5 4 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.50%) MCSE
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.50%) PMP
7 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.67%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.83%) ACCA
8 1 (0.83%) CIMA
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) NCSC
1 6 (5.00%) NIST
1 6 (5.00%) PMO
2 4 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.83%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.33%) vSphere
5 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.83%) Docker
6 1 (0.83%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Ansible
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
2 3 (2.50%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.50%) vRealize
3 2 (1.67%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (32.50%) VMware
3 14 (11.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) Juniper
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
5 2 (1.67%) Veeam
6 1 (0.83%) Apple
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.83%) Dell
6 1 (0.83%) HP
6 1 (0.83%) NEC
6 1 (0.83%) Remedy
6 1 (0.83%) Snow
6 1 (0.83%) TippingPoint
6 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro