SC Cleared Contracts in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 17 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,649 2,299 2,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.33% 8.75% 5.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.00% 40.39% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,597 1,636
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £746 £750 £713
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 45
10th Percentile £13.87 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £36.17 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +21.35% -25.83%
75th Percentile £22.88 £72.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.64 £87.50 £63.15
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
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,228 5,692 6,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.91% 21.67% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,871 3,849 4,521
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 80 147
10th Percentile £14.21 £19.94 £22.16
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £48.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +9.55% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.35 £84.13 £66.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -0.79%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -5 163 £525 -2.33% 22
South London +2 110 £513 -6.82% 13
West London +34 21 £500 +23.46% 17
East London - 7 £500 - 3
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 74 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.37%) Confluence
3 43 (2.61%) Apache
4 27 (1.64%) nginx
5 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.18%) Simulink
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) SPSS
9 1 (0.061%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 28 (1.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.061%) Changepoint
8 1 (0.061%) Magento
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 471 (28.56%) AWS
2 245 (14.86%) Azure
3 89 (5.40%) Serverless
4 77 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 73 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (2.97%) GCP
8 45 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (2.67%) Power Platform
10 37 (2.24%) GitHub
11 35 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (1.52%) Amazon MSK
16 25 (1.52%) OCI
17 24 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.27%) Firewall
2 24 (1.46%) VPN
3 21 (1.27%) WAN
4 20 (1.21%) Wireless
5 15 (0.91%) LAN
5 15 (0.91%) Network Security
6 14 (0.85%) VoIP
7 12 (0.73%) SNA
8 11 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (0.67%) OSPF
8 11 (0.67%) Skype
9 10 (0.61%) BGP
9 10 (0.61%) DNS
10 9 (0.55%) WLAN
11 8 (0.49%) IPsec
12 7 (0.42%) Internet
12 7 (0.42%) VSAN
13 6 (0.36%) MPLS
14 5 (0.30%) DHCP
14 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (3.46%) NoSQL
4 39 (2.37%) Flink
4 39 (2.37%) Metadata
4 39 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 38 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 35 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (2.06%) Data Vault
8 29 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 28 (1.70%) Power BI
10 22 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.27%) Big Data
11 21 (1.27%) Metadata Repository
12 20 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.09%) Parquet
14 17 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (0.79%) MySQL
15 13 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 116 (7.03%) JIRA
2 111 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 104 (6.31%) Git
4 60 (3.64%) GitLab
5 41 (2.49%) Selenium
6 36 (2.18%) JUnit
7 31 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.15%) TestNG
9 17 (1.03%) Postman
10 16 (0.97%) JMeter
11 15 (0.91%) Maven
11 15 (0.91%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.79%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.73%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.67%) Mockito
15 10 (0.61%) Appium
16 9 (0.55%) eggPlant
16 9 (0.55%) SOAtest
16 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 479 (29.05%) Public Sector
2 266 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 190 (11.52%) Finance
4 97 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.73%) Banking
6 37 (2.24%) Law
6 37 (2.24%) Telecoms
7 33 (2.00%) Military
8 31 (1.88%) Marketing
9 29 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.58%) Electronics
13 25 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (1.21%) Police
15 18 (1.09%) Legal
16 14 (0.85%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 5 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 288 (17.47%) Architect
2 240 (14.55%) Developer
3 138 (8.37%) Senior
4 127 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 113 (6.85%) Analyst
6 93 (5.64%) Lead
7 86 (5.22%) Data Engineer
8 84 (5.09%) Consultant
9 78 (4.73%) Java Developer
10 70 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (3.82%) Data Architect
12 62 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
13 59 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
13 59 (3.58%) Project Manager
14 56 (3.40%) Business Analyst
15 48 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
15 48 (2.91%) Technical Architect
16 42 (2.55%) Security Architect
17 40 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
18 39 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.22%) Kafka
2 75 (4.55%) Spring
2 75 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 68 (4.12%) React
4 61 (3.70%) REST
5 50 (3.03%) HTML
6 47 (2.85%) CSS
7 35 (2.12%) JSON
8 31 (1.88%) Node.js
9 29 (1.76%) .NET
10 28 (1.70%) Hibernate
10 28 (1.70%) JPA
10 28 (1.70%) RESTful
11 20 (1.21%) Laravel
12 18 (1.09%) Apache Avro
12 18 (1.09%) OpenID
13 17 (1.03%) Web Services
14 16 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (0.97%) SAML
14 16 (0.97%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.34%) Onboarding
2 40 (2.43%) Data Centre
3 28 (1.70%) Reference Data
4 26 (1.58%) Cloud Native
5 21 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 16 (0.97%) PKI
10 14 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.73%) Blockchain
11 12 (0.73%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.55%) Clustering
14 9 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.49%) CMDB
15 8 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 135 (8.19%) Linux
2 108 (6.55%) Windows
3 43 (2.61%) Unix
4 27 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.91%) Android
8 11 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 9 (0.55%) Mac OS X
9 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.36%) CentOS
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.30%) VMS
12 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (20.68%) Agile
2 235 (14.25%) DevOps
3 194 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 142 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 113 (6.85%) Migration
7 100 (6.06%) Microservices
8 93 (5.64%) Data Modelling
9 89 (5.40%) Test Automation
10 87 (5.28%) ITIL
11 86 (5.22%) Analytics
12 83 (5.03%) Change Management
13 82 (4.97%) Decision-Making
13 82 (4.97%) Project Management
14 81 (4.91%) Scrum
15 79 (4.79%) Roadmaps
16 76 (4.61%) Cybersecurity
17 74 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 73 (4.43%) Service Management
19 69 (4.18%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 217 (13.16%) Python
2 216 (13.10%) Java
3 155 (9.40%) SQL
4 95 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.34%) PowerShell
6 48 (2.91%) C#
7 44 (2.67%) Bash
8 41 (2.49%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.39%) Go
10 19 (1.15%) PHP
11 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.55%) C++
13 8 (0.49%) Ruby
14 7 (0.42%) ABAP
14 7 (0.42%) C
14 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.36%) Perl
16 4 (0.24%) COBOL
16 4 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 1,649 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 155 (9.40%) DV Cleared
3 82 (4.97%) Degree
4 44 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.39%) PMP
7 22 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 17 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
10 12 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.49%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.42%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 7 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.36%) CCNP
13 6 (0.36%) CISM
13 6 (0.36%) CISSP
13 6 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.27%) QA
2 43 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.27%) PMO
5 18 (1.09%) SLA
6 15 (0.91%) NCSC
7 14 (0.85%) NIST
8 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.55%) GDPR
10 5 (0.30%) WCAG
11 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.18%) COBIT
12 3 (0.18%) GRC
12 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.061%) IFRS
14 1 (0.061%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.061%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 134 (8.13%) Docker
2 49 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) UAG
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 185 (11.22%) Terraform
2 171 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 109 (6.61%) Ansible
4 25 (1.52%) Grafana
5 23 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.33%) Puppet
7 15 (0.91%) Packer
8 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.73%) VxRail
9 11 (0.67%) Consul
9 11 (0.67%) SCCM
10 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.55%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.42%) Nagios
12 7 (0.42%) vRealize
13 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 158 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 101 (6.12%) Oracle
3 53 (3.21%) VMware
4 46 (2.79%) SAP
5 42 (2.55%) Cisco
6 32 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.94%) Sparx
7 27 (1.64%) Splunk
8 20 (1.21%) Palo Alto
9 19 (1.15%) NetApp
10 18 (1.09%) IBM
11 15 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 14 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.85%) F5
12 14 (0.85%) Juniper
13 13 (0.79%) Apple
13 13 (0.79%) Google
13 13 (0.79%) Informatica
13 13 (0.79%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.73%) Siebel