SC Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 473 707 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.06% 12.74% 7.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.64% 51.64% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 501 376
10th Percentile £400 £388 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -0.45% +23.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 41 14
10th Percentile - £22.51 £23.08
25th Percentile £10.95 £28.70 £28.99
Median hourly rate £13.99 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -67.08% +2.77% +87.98%
75th Percentile £48.50 £52.13 £53.95
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £63.13
England median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year -15.55% +10.05% +22.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,136 1,369 1,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.15% 24.68% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 940 1,009
10th Percentile £310 £325 £204
25th Percentile £415 £436 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £664
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 73 75
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +24.87% +46.04%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £56.25
90th Percentile £63.50 £66.94 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £40.01
% change year-on-year -27.27% +37.47% +9.62%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West -1 357 £515 -1.34% 125
Yorkshire -3 88 £501 -16.58% 29
North East -9 30 £435 -23.01% 14
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.63%) IIS
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.21%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.21%) Camunda
3 1 (0.21%) nginx
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.21%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.21%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.27%) Revit
5 4 (0.85%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.63%) Maximo
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (16.28%) AWS
2 50 (10.57%) Azure
3 19 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (4.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (3.81%) Amazon S3
5 13 (2.75%) Route 53
6 11 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.69%) SaaS
9 7 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (1.27%) Serverless
11 5 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.06%) AWS KMS
11 5 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.06%) GCP
12 4 (0.85%) PaaS
12 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.46%) Firewall
2 34 (7.19%) VPN
3 25 (5.29%) OSPF
4 20 (4.23%) Wireless
5 16 (3.38%) Cisco ISE
5 16 (3.38%) NetScaler
6 15 (3.17%) BGP
7 14 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (2.96%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (2.96%) EIGRP
7 14 (2.96%) HSRP
7 14 (2.96%) IPsec
7 14 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (2.75%) WAN
9 12 (2.54%) SNMP
9 12 (2.54%) Spanning Tree
10 11 (2.33%) Wireless Security
11 10 (2.11%) Ethernet
11 10 (2.11%) LAN
12 6 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.75%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.48%) SAP BW
3 7 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.63%) Power BI
7 3 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.42%) Metadata
8 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.21%) GIS
9 1 (0.21%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (8.25%) Git
2 27 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.44%) GitLab
4 13 (2.75%) JIRA
4 13 (2.75%) JUnit
5 6 (1.27%) Selenium
5 6 (1.27%) webpack
6 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.85%) JMeter
7 4 (0.85%) Maven
8 3 (0.63%) LSMW
8 3 (0.63%) Mocha
8 3 (0.63%) Mockito
8 3 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.42%) Gatling
9 2 (0.42%) gulp
9 2 (0.42%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 98 (20.72%) Public Sector
2 82 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 31 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.50%) Finance
5 20 (4.23%) Legal
6 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
7 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.63%) Banking
8 3 (0.63%) Military
8 3 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.42%) Electronics
9 2 (0.42%) Marketing
9 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.42%) Publishing
10 1 (0.21%) Advertising
10 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.21%) Billing
10 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (15.22%) Developer
2 67 (14.16%) Architect
3 48 (10.15%) Lead
4 41 (8.67%) Consultant
5 38 (8.03%) Network Engineer
6 35 (7.40%) Senior
7 32 (6.77%) Analyst
8 30 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 27 (5.71%) Java Developer
10 20 (4.23%) Technical Architect
11 19 (4.02%) Technical Leader
12 15 (3.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 15 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.96%) Lead Architect
13 14 (2.96%) Problem Manager
14 13 (2.75%) Capacity Manager
14 13 (2.75%) Domain Architect
14 13 (2.75%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.75%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.61%) Node.js
2 31 (6.55%) Spring
3 28 (5.92%) Spring Boot
4 25 (5.29%) REST
5 23 (4.86%) JPA
6 22 (4.65%) React
6 22 (4.65%) Web Services
7 21 (4.44%) Hibernate
8 12 (2.54%) Jinja
9 10 (2.11%) .NET
9 10 (2.11%) Redux
10 8 (1.69%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.69%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.69%) Spring Security
10 8 (1.69%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.27%) CSS
11 6 (1.27%) Express.js
11 6 (1.27%) HTML
12 5 (1.06%) JSON
12 5 (1.06%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.86%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.90%) CMDB
6 7 (1.48%) PKI
7 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.27%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.63%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.63%) NHS
11 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.07%) Windows
2 32 (6.77%) Windows 10
3 28 (5.92%) Android
3 28 (5.92%) Apple iOS
3 28 (5.92%) Linux
4 25 (5.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.06%) CentOS
5 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.06%) Unix
6 4 (0.85%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.66%) DevOps
2 87 (18.39%) Agile
3 79 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 59 (12.47%) Service Management
6 54 (11.42%) Mentoring
7 52 (10.99%) Customer Service
7 52 (10.99%) ITIL
8 39 (8.25%) Service Delivery
9 38 (8.03%) Quality Management
9 38 (8.03%) Time Management
10 37 (7.82%) Risk Management
10 37 (7.82%) Statistics
11 34 (7.19%) ITSM
12 33 (6.98%) Decision-Making
12 33 (6.98%) Security Architecture
13 32 (6.77%) Microservices
13 32 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (6.55%) Problem Management
15 29 (6.13%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.21%) Python
2 52 (10.99%) Java
3 24 (5.07%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.59%) SQL
5 14 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.96%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.75%) C#
6 13 (2.75%) Perl
7 12 (2.54%) Tcl
8 10 (2.11%) Bash
9 7 (1.48%) C++
10 6 (1.27%) Scala
11 4 (0.85%) ABAP
12 3 (0.63%) Go
12 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.63%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.63%) VBA
13 2 (0.42%) Bicep
13 2 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 473 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (4.02%) CCNA
4 19 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.17%) Degree
6 13 (2.75%) CCNP
7 7 (1.48%) OSCP
8 6 (1.27%) CEH
8 6 (1.27%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.27%) GIAC
8 6 (1.27%) GPEN
9 5 (1.06%) CISSP
10 4 (0.85%) CISA
10 4 (0.85%) CISM
10 4 (0.85%) ISSAP
11 3 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.42%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.92%) SLA
2 27 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 17 (3.59%) NIST
3 17 (3.59%) QA
4 13 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) COBIT
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.63%) ISO17020
8 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.21%) GDPR
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (6.55%) Docker
2 20 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.75%) Firmware
4 10 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (11.84%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.71%) Terraform
3 21 (4.44%) Ansible
4 9 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.27%) Puppet
5 6 (1.27%) SCCM
6 5 (1.06%) Packer
6 5 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.85%) Grafana
7 4 (0.85%) Rancher
7 4 (0.85%) VxRail
8 2 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.21%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.65%) ServiceNow
3 20 (4.23%) SAP
4 19 (4.02%) Cisco
5 18 (3.81%) VMware
6 16 (3.38%) Palo Alto
7 15 (3.17%) SolarWinds
8 14 (2.96%) Citrix
9 11 (2.33%) Google
10 9 (1.90%) Oracle
11 5 (1.06%) Apple
11 5 (1.06%) CA
12 4 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.63%) Databricks
13 3 (0.63%) IBM
13 3 (0.63%) IFS
13 3 (0.63%) Meraki
13 3 (0.63%) Nintex
13 3 (0.63%) Pega
14 2 (0.42%) CyberArk