SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in England

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 591 755
Rank change year-on-year +70 +164 -164
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 17 57 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.12% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 49 26
10th Percentile £433 £500 £456
25th Percentile £481 £515 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £634
90th Percentile £663 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £594 £590 £550
% change year-on-year +0.64% +7.27% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £56.64
25th Percentile - - £56.85
Median hourly rate - £73.71 £57.20
Median % change year-on-year - +28.87% -
75th Percentile - - £57.54
90th Percentile - - £57.75
UK median hourly rate - £73.71 £57.20
% change year-on-year - +28.87% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +15 9 £636 +13.21% 4
London +100 4 £488 -27.13%
SC Cleared Software Engineer
UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SC Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) Java
3 11 (64.71%) Docker
4 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
4 10 (58.82%) Azure
4 10 (58.82%) AWS
4 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
5 8 (47.06%) Selenium
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 7 (41.18%) Ansible
6 7 (41.18%) Terraform
6 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
6 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
6 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
7 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
7 6 (35.29%) REST
7 6 (35.29%) Java EE
7 6 (35.29%) JIRA
7 6 (35.29%) Spring
7 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
7 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
7 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (35.29%) GitLab

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (35.29%) GitLab
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 5 (29.41%) REST Assured
4 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (17.65%) Git
6 1 (5.88%) Appium
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
6 1 (5.88%) MSTest
6 1 (5.88%) NUnit
6 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Law
3 4 (23.53%) Police
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
1 6 (35.29%) Java EE
1 6 (35.29%) REST
1 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) React
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) Redux
5 1 (5.88%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
4 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) BDD
5 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (29.41%) Podman
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle