SC Cleared Contracts in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,437 6,500 6,120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 12.03% 13.01% 8.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.55% 46.99% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,027 4,595 4,177
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 343 273
10th Percentile £13.31 £19.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £29.30 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +15.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.71 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.31 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +21.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,511 13,832 15,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.69% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,094 9,256 10,129
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 739 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +3.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.41 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London 0 1,647 £525 -8.70% 235
South East 0 858 £564 +8.47% 289
South West -1 786 £538 -7.65% 250
North of England -1 492 £525 -4.55% 177
North West -1 375 £525 - 137
Midlands +10 345 £485 -10.19% 95
West Midlands +11 248 £450 -18.18% 66
East of England -6 159 £358 -31.58% 70
East Midlands +5 97 £545 +3.81% 28
Yorkshire -2 89 £525 -12.50% 25
North East -10 30 £500 -11.70% 16
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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:

Application Platforms
1 165 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 146 (3.29%) Confluence
3 84 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.13%) Apache
5 31 (0.70%) nginx
6 13 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.27%) SAS
8 11 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.20%) CICS
9 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (0.16%) IIS
11 6 (0.14%) CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.11%) Camunda
13 4 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 116 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.36%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 6 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.090%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.068%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.045%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) CATIA
12 1 (0.023%) SPSS
12 1 (0.023%) Stateflow
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 28 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 22 (0.50%) Primavera
3 22 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 21 (0.47%) SAP EWM
4 21 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.32%) SAP QM
6 11 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
7 10 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.14%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
11 4 (0.090%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.090%) SAP BRIM
11 4 (0.090%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.090%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 706 (15.91%) AWS
2 564 (12.71%) Azure
3 178 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (2.79%) Power Platform
5 105 (2.37%) Serverless
6 97 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 84 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (1.74%) GCP
9 68 (1.53%) GitHub
10 67 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
11 62 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (1.31%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (1.24%) OCI
14 53 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (1.06%) PaaS
16 39 (0.88%) OpenShift
17 37 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
18 36 (0.81%) Route 53
18 36 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 254 (5.72%) Firewall
2 148 (3.34%) WAN
3 111 (2.50%) VPN
4 106 (2.39%) DNS
5 73 (1.65%) LAN
6 71 (1.60%) DHCP
6 71 (1.60%) Network Security
7 70 (1.58%) BGP
8 68 (1.53%) Wireless
9 65 (1.46%) IPsec
9 65 (1.46%) SAN
10 59 (1.33%) MPLS
11 51 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (1.08%) OSPF
13 47 (1.06%) TCP/IP
14 44 (0.99%) SSL
15 41 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
16 33 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
17 32 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
18 29 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 68 (1.53%) Power BI
5 66 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 59 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 51 (1.15%) Metadata
10 44 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (0.99%) MySQL
11 42 (0.95%) MongoDB
12 39 (0.88%) Flink
13 35 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 35 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (0.77%) Data Vault
15 31 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 25 (0.56%) Big Data
16 25 (0.56%) Metadata Repository
17 22 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 240 (5.41%) JIRA
2 220 (4.96%) Jenkins
3 216 (4.87%) Git
4 126 (2.84%) GitLab
5 76 (1.71%) Selenium
6 67 (1.51%) Visual Studio
7 60 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 53 (1.19%) JUnit
9 49 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 49 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
10 47 (1.06%) PVCS
11 39 (0.88%) REST Assured
12 38 (0.86%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 24 (0.54%) JMeter
15 20 (0.45%) Maven
16 18 (0.41%) TestNG
17 17 (0.38%) Postman
18 16 (0.36%) Mockito
19 15 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 962 (21.68%) Public Sector
2 799 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 359 (8.09%) Finance
4 317 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 168 (3.79%) Aerospace
7 129 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 127 (2.86%) Electronics
9 120 (2.70%) Military
10 76 (1.71%) Marketing
11 68 (1.53%) Law
12 61 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.35%) Legal
13 60 (1.35%) Police
14 53 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (0.99%) Banking
17 28 (0.63%) Retail
18 25 (0.56%) Publishing
19 23 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 728 (16.41%) Architect
2 520 (11.72%) Developer
3 344 (7.75%) Analyst
4 311 (7.01%) Senior
5 296 (6.67%) Lead
6 268 (6.04%) Consultant
7 197 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 179 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
9 173 (3.90%) Network Engineer
10 159 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 144 (3.25%) Data Engineer
12 128 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 121 (2.73%) Java Developer
14 99 (2.23%) Lead Architect
15 94 (2.12%) Service Analyst
15 94 (2.12%) Technical Architect
16 88 (1.98%) Support Engineer
17 86 (1.94%) Software Engineer
18 85 (1.92%) Full Stack Developer
19 84 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.91%) REST
2 120 (2.70%) Spring
3 110 (2.48%) Spring Boot
4 105 (2.37%) React
5 99 (2.23%) Kafka
6 98 (2.21%) .NET
7 86 (1.94%) Node.js
8 79 (1.78%) HTML
9 74 (1.67%) Web Services
10 72 (1.62%) CSS
11 50 (1.13%) JPA
12 48 (1.08%) Hibernate
13 46 (1.04%) JSON
14 42 (0.95%) RESTful
15 38 (0.86%) ARM Templates
16 35 (0.79%) .NET Core
17 30 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (0.63%) AngularJS
19 27 (0.61%) Redux
20 25 (0.56%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 137 (3.09%) PKI
2 105 (2.37%) Management Information System
3 101 (2.28%) Data Centre
4 85 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 79 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 51 (1.15%) Product Ownership
8 47 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 43 (0.97%) CMDB
10 41 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
12 34 (0.77%) Security Posture
13 30 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
13 30 (0.68%) Mainframe
13 30 (0.68%) Private Cloud
13 30 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 28 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
14 28 (0.63%) Reference Data
15 27 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 441 (9.94%) Windows
2 426 (9.60%) Linux
3 142 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 69 (1.56%) Unix
6 51 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 47 (1.06%) Android
7 47 (1.06%) Windows 7
8 43 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 42 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 39 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 38 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 31 (0.70%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.61%) Mac OS X
14 20 (0.45%) Debian
15 17 (0.38%) AIX
16 16 (0.36%) VMS
17 15 (0.34%) Windows Vista
17 15 (0.34%) Windows XP
18 12 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (18.37%) Agile
2 519 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 501 (11.29%) DevOps
4 388 (8.74%) ITIL
5 356 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 353 (7.96%) CI/CD
7 303 (6.83%) Project Management
8 271 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
9 252 (5.68%) Service Management
10 239 (5.39%) Migration
11 225 (5.07%) Software Engineering
12 209 (4.71%) Decision-Making
13 200 (4.51%) Scrum
14 194 (4.37%) Configuration Management
15 191 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 184 (4.15%) Mentoring
17 179 (4.03%) Change Management
18 174 (3.92%) Analytics
19 166 (3.74%) Test Automation
20 165 (3.72%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 409 (9.22%) Python
2 346 (7.80%) Java
3 292 (6.58%) SQL
4 209 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 174 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 135 (3.04%) C#
7 107 (2.41%) C
8 86 (1.94%) Bash
9 81 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 79 (1.78%) C++
11 64 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.77%) PHP
13 32 (0.72%) MATLAB
14 31 (0.70%) Go
15 28 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.52%) Bicep
17 20 (0.45%) Perl
17 20 (0.45%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.38%) VB
18 17 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,437 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 530 (11.95%) DV Cleared
3 317 (7.14%) Degree
4 181 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 115 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
6 84 (1.89%) CCNP
7 76 (1.71%) CCNA
8 69 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 65 (1.46%) CISSP
11 43 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 42 (0.95%) CISM
13 41 (0.92%) PMP
14 31 (0.70%) Azure Certification
15 30 (0.68%) MCSA
16 29 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 24 (0.54%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.52%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.52%) Master's Degree
19 22 (0.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (2.68%) QA
2 111 (2.50%) SLA
3 85 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (1.74%) NIST
5 73 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 58 (1.31%) PMO
7 51 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 50 (1.13%) NCSC
9 39 (0.88%) GDPR
10 31 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 29 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
12 22 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.34%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 13 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.20%) COBIT
16 9 (0.20%) WCAG
17 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 264 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 206 (4.64%) Docker
3 152 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.33%) vSphere
5 55 (1.24%) VMware NSX
6 48 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 47 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
9 33 (0.74%) Firmware
10 25 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.090%) XenApp
12 4 (0.090%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.068%) iptables
13 3 (0.068%) KVM
13 3 (0.068%) UAG
14 1 (0.023%) LXC
14 1 (0.023%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.023%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 306 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 281 (6.33%) Terraform
3 256 (5.77%) Ansible
4 80 (1.80%) SCCM
5 57 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 56 (1.26%) Grafana
7 44 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 44 (0.99%) SCOM
8 39 (0.88%) WSUS
9 38 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 38 (0.86%) Puppet
10 35 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 29 (0.65%) Packer
11 29 (0.65%) VxRail
12 25 (0.56%) PowerCLI
13 23 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
14 22 (0.50%) Kibana
14 22 (0.50%) NetBackup
15 19 (0.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 545 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 268 (6.04%) VMware
3 219 (4.94%) Oracle
3 219 (4.94%) SAP
4 216 (4.87%) Cisco
5 134 (3.02%) Juniper
6 99 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 87 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 83 (1.87%) IBM
9 81 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 69 (1.56%) Dell
11 60 (1.35%) HP
12 53 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 53 (1.19%) Sparx
13 51 (1.15%) SolarWinds
14 50 (1.13%) Splunk
15 47 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 46 (1.04%) Citrix
17 44 (0.99%) Google
18 40 (0.90%) F5