SC Cleared Contracts in the East Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 12 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 97 119 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.68% 11.54% 8.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.34% 37.90% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 79 59
10th Percentile £150 £353 £180
25th Percentile £361 £459 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £500
90th Percentile £656 £743 £550
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.16 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.72 £11.80 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.71 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.53% -57.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £40.25 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 - £37.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 253 314 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.07% 30.46% 18.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 221 155
10th Percentile £167 £225 £178
25th Percentile £245 £370 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% +25.00% +7.02%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £500
90th Percentile £659 £700 £623
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 45 22
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.72 £16.25 £17.69
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% +22.86%
75th Percentile £35.56 £28.50 £32.78
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Leicestershire +32 35 £510 - 9
Derbyshire -2 27 £185 -64.76% 8
Lincolnshire +3 14 £650 +22.22% 3
Nottinghamshire -7 11 £600 -14.29% 3
Northamptonshire -1 5 £365 -21.54% 2
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 6 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (5.15%) AWS
4 4 (4.12%) OCI
5 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.03%) IaaS
7 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) SAN
2 5 (5.15%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (5.15%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.12%) VPN
4 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.06%) LAN
4 2 (2.06%) NetScaler
4 2 (2.06%) WAN
5 1 (1.03%) DNS
5 1 (1.03%) PBX
5 1 (1.03%) PSTN
5 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) JIRA
1 5 (5.15%) JMeter
2 2 (2.06%) Selenium
2 2 (2.06%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.06%) TestRail
2 2 (2.06%) Zephyr
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Electronics
6 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (15.46%) Analyst
2 9 (9.28%) Architect
2 9 (9.28%) Consultant
3 8 (8.25%) Administrator
3 8 (8.25%) IT Engineer
4 7 (7.22%) Developer
4 7 (7.22%) IT Technician
4 7 (7.22%) Senior
5 6 (6.19%) IT Administrator
5 6 (6.19%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) HR Consultant
6 5 (5.15%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (3.09%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) LDAP
1 3 (3.09%) SOAP
1 3 (3.09%) XML
2 2 (2.06%) Web Services
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.03%) CSS
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) HP Storage
2 3 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.03%) BYOD
4 1 (1.03%) Clustering
4 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.03%) iPad
4 1 (1.03%) iPhone
4 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.03%) PDA
4 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (42.27%) Windows
2 21 (21.65%) Linux
3 19 (19.59%) Windows 7
4 14 (14.43%) Windows Vista
5 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.15%) AIX
6 5 (5.15%) Debian
6 5 (5.15%) Solaris
6 5 (5.15%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.03%) SUSE
9 1 (1.03%) VMS
9 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.03%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (16.49%) Customer Service
2 11 (11.34%) ITIL
3 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (7.22%) Agile
5 6 (6.19%) Configuration Management
5 6 (6.19%) Data Modelling
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineering
6 5 (5.15%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (5.15%) Migration
6 5 (5.15%) Network Architecture
6 5 (5.15%) Prototyping
6 5 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (5.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (4.12%) Business Strategy
7 4 (4.12%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (4.12%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.12%) Order to Cash
7 4 (4.12%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (4.12%) Project Delivery
7 4 (4.12%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 8 (8.25%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.09%) Bash
5 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.03%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) X++
Qualifications
1 97 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.49%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) ACCA
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) CIMA
5 1 (1.03%) MCSE
5 1 (1.03%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) SLA
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS
System Software
1 9 (9.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) XenApp
3 2 (2.06%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.03%) Docker
4 1 (1.03%) KVM
4 1 (1.03%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Ansible
2 5 (5.15%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (4.12%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (4.12%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (2.06%) SCOM
5 1 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Oracle
3 10 (10.31%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.25%) VMware
5 7 (7.22%) Cisco
6 6 (6.19%) SolarWinds
7 5 (5.15%) Brocade
7 5 (5.15%) EMC
7 5 (5.15%) HP
7 5 (5.15%) SAP
8 4 (4.12%) Computacenter
8 4 (4.12%) F5
8 4 (4.12%) Symantec
9 2 (2.06%) Citrix
9 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.06%) Juniper
10 1 (1.03%) Dell
10 1 (1.03%) Intel
10 1 (1.03%) Peregrine
10 1 (1.03%) Sun