SC Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 10 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 169 124 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 14.42% 12.23% 4.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.75% 38.51% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 89 54
10th Percentile £588 £400 £413
25th Percentile £603 £465 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £570 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +10.14% +3.50%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £625
90th Percentile £735 £721 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £570 £525
% change year-on-year +6.14% +8.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile - £57.82 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £64.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £74.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.21% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.19 -
90th Percentile £87.12 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.46 £65.34 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.88% +241.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 516 322 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.03% 31.76% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 202 222
10th Percentile £205 £363 £313
25th Percentile £455 £465 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +14.57% +5.29%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £603
90th Percentile £721 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £489
% change year-on-year - +12.53% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 1
10th Percentile £44.80 £56.76 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £63.14 £9.75
Median hourly rate £61.65 £66.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +560.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £85.65 £76.99 £10.25
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.37%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) JBoss
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (11.24%) SAP EWM
2 11 (6.51%) SAP QM
3 3 (1.78%) Primavera
3 3 (1.78%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.73%) Azure
2 36 (21.30%) AWS
3 17 (10.06%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (9.47%) Azure Storage
4 16 (9.47%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.28%) OCI
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.37%) Serverless
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.59%) GCP
9 1 (0.59%) GitHub
9 1 (0.59%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.59%) PaaS
9 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.93%) Firewall
2 30 (17.75%) DHCP
2 30 (17.75%) DNS
3 14 (8.28%) SAN
4 2 (1.18%) Internet
4 2 (1.18%) MPLS
5 1 (0.59%) BGP
5 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.59%) GGSN
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.59%) RNC
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) SGSN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.65%) Oracle Database
3 16 (9.47%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.59%) GIS
6 1 (0.59%) Power BI
6 1 (0.59%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (21.89%) Jenkins
2 26 (15.38%) Selenium
3 25 (14.79%) Cucumber
4 24 (14.20%) REST Assured
4 24 (14.20%) SonarQube
5 16 (9.47%) GitLab
6 13 (7.69%) Git
6 13 (7.69%) JIRA
7 7 (4.14%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.59%) Appium
9 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.59%) MSTest
9 1 (0.59%) NUnit
9 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.83%) Law
4 18 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.69%) Police
6 6 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.18%) Finance
7 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.59%) Advertising
8 1 (0.59%) Electronics
8 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.30%) Consultant
2 35 (20.71%) SAP Consultant
3 31 (18.34%) Developer
4 26 (15.38%) Active Directory Support
5 24 (14.20%) Active Directory Specialist
5 24 (14.20%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (14.20%) Support Specialist
6 18 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Java Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Senior
9 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) SAP EWM Consultant
11 10 (5.92%) SAP QM Consultant
12 9 (5.33%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Server Engineer
15 6 (3.55%) Architect
15 6 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.16%) ARM Templates
1 29 (17.16%) REST
2 25 (14.79%) Java EE
3 8 (4.73%) .NET
4 7 (4.14%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.37%) Node.js
5 4 (2.37%) Spring
5 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.37%) Web Services
6 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.18%) Kafka
6 2 (1.18%) Mustache
6 2 (1.18%) React
6 2 (1.18%) RESTful
6 2 (1.18%) SOAP
7 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.59%) J2EE
7 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) PKI
1 16 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (8.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.78%) iPad
6 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.18%) Robotics
7 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.30%) Linux
2 31 (18.34%) Windows
3 30 (17.75%) Windows Server
3 30 (17.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 30 (17.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (8.28%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.28%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (8.28%) Windows XP
5 4 (2.37%) Unix
6 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.09%) DevOps
2 47 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (23.67%) Software Engineering
4 33 (19.53%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (18.34%) ITIL
6 30 (17.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (15.98%) Decision-Making
7 27 (15.98%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (15.98%) Test Automation
8 26 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (14.79%) Software Architecture
10 22 (13.02%) Agile
11 20 (11.83%) Data Migration
11 20 (11.83%) Migration
12 19 (11.24%) CI/CD
13 18 (10.65%) Analytics
13 18 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (10.06%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (10.06%) Unit Testing
15 16 (9.47%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 30 (17.75%) Java
3 27 (15.98%) C#
4 19 (11.24%) SQL
5 17 (10.06%) PL/SQL
6 16 (9.47%) Bicep
6 16 (9.47%) VB
6 16 (9.47%) VBScript
7 5 (2.96%) Bash
8 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.78%) Python
9 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 63 (37.28%) DV Cleared
3 31 (18.34%) Degree
4 16 (9.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (8.28%) CCNA
5 14 (8.28%) CCNP
5 14 (8.28%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.59%) PMO
1 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (23.67%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.65%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (10.06%) Docker
4 16 (9.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (8.28%) Hyper-V
5 14 (8.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (21.30%) Ansible
2 34 (20.12%) Kubernetes
3 30 (17.75%) SCCM
3 30 (17.75%) SCOM
3 30 (17.75%) WSUS
4 18 (10.65%) Terraform
5 16 (9.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (8.28%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (8.28%) NetBackup
6 14 (8.28%) vCenter Server
7 12 (7.10%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (7.10%) Podman
8 2 (1.18%) Packer
8 2 (1.18%) vRealize
9 1 (0.59%) Grafana
9 1 (0.59%) Istio
9 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (23.67%) SAP
2 36 (21.30%) Microsoft
3 35 (20.71%) Oracle
4 17 (10.06%) VMware
5 16 (9.47%) Cisco
6 15 (8.88%) HP
7 14 (8.28%) 3PAR
7 14 (8.28%) Dell
7 14 (8.28%) EMC
7 14 (8.28%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (8.28%) Juniper
7 14 (8.28%) Palo Alto
7 14 (8.28%) Symantec
7 14 (8.28%) Veeam
8 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.18%) NEC
9 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.59%) F5
10 1 (0.59%) Google
10 1 (0.59%) OpenText