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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 170 132 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 14.31% 12.74% 4.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.44% 40.12% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 99 50
10th Percentile £588 £412 £406
25th Percentile £603 £465 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £586 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% +13.24% +8.95%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £625
90th Percentile £725 £721 £726
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £575 £515
% change year-on-year +5.22% +11.65% +11.35%
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 £57.32 £64.68 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.37% -0.50% +205.88%

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 524 329 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.11% 31.76% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 210 210
10th Percentile £205 £363 £309
25th Percentile £430 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +14.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £615
90th Percentile £716 £726 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £488
% change year-on-year - +12.82% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 1
10th Percentile £44.10 £56.76 -
25th Percentile £55.41 £63.14 £9.75
Median hourly rate £62.07 £66.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +560.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £86.10 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.53%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) JBoss
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (10.00%) SAP EWM
2 10 (5.88%) SAP QM
3 3 (1.76%) Primavera
3 3 (1.76%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 56 (32.94%) Azure
2 40 (23.53%) AWS
3 17 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (9.41%) Azure Storage
4 16 (9.41%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.65%) OCI
7 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.53%) Serverless
9 3 (1.76%) GitHub
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.59%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.59%) GCP
11 1 (0.59%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.59%) PaaS
11 1 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.24%) Firewall
2 29 (17.06%) DHCP
2 29 (17.06%) DNS
3 13 (7.65%) 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 29 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 18 (10.59%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (3.53%) 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 39 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 26 (15.29%) Selenium
3 25 (14.71%) Cucumber
4 24 (14.12%) REST Assured
4 24 (14.12%) SonarQube
5 16 (9.41%) GitLab
6 15 (8.82%) Git
7 13 (7.65%) JIRA
8 7 (4.12%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.35%) JUnit
10 3 (1.76%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.59%) Appium
11 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.59%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.59%) MSTest
11 1 (0.59%) NUnit
11 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.76%) Law
4 19 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.65%) Police
6 6 (3.53%) 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
8 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.59%) Developer
2 34 (20.00%) Consultant
3 33 (19.41%) SAP Consultant
4 25 (14.71%) Active Directory Support
4 25 (14.71%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (14.12%) Active Directory Specialist
5 24 (14.12%) Support Specialist
6 17 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (8.82%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (8.24%) Senior
10 12 (7.06%) Storage Engineer
11 11 (6.47%) Java Developer
12 10 (5.88%) SAP EWM Consultant
13 9 (5.29%) SAP QM Consultant
14 8 (4.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
15 6 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
16 5 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
16 5 (2.94%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.24%) REST
2 28 (16.47%) ARM Templates
3 25 (14.71%) Java EE
4 9 (5.29%) .NET
5 8 (4.71%) ASP.NET
6 6 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.53%) Node.js
6 6 (3.53%) Spring
6 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.53%) Web Services
7 4 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.35%) RESTful
7 4 (2.35%) SOAP
8 3 (1.76%) J2EE
9 2 (1.18%) Kafka
9 2 (1.18%) Mustache
9 2 (1.18%) React
10 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) PKI
1 16 (9.41%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (7.65%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.76%) 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 34 (20.00%) Linux
2 30 (17.65%) Windows
3 28 (16.47%) Windows Server
3 28 (16.47%) Windows Server 2016
3 28 (16.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (7.65%) Windows 10
4 13 (7.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (7.65%) Windows XP
5 6 (3.53%) Unix
6 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.65%) DevOps
2 46 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (24.71%) Software Engineering
4 34 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 30 (17.65%) ITIL
6 29 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (15.88%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (15.88%) Test Automation
8 26 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (15.29%) Decision-Making
9 25 (14.71%) Software Architecture
10 24 (14.12%) Agile
11 22 (12.94%) Data Migration
11 22 (12.94%) Migration
12 19 (11.18%) Unit Testing
13 18 (10.59%) Analytics
13 18 (10.59%) CI/CD
13 18 (10.59%) Secure Coding
14 17 (10.00%) Architectural Design
14 17 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.35%) PowerShell
2 32 (18.82%) Java
3 28 (16.47%) C#
4 21 (12.35%) SQL
5 19 (11.18%) PL/SQL
6 16 (9.41%) VB
6 16 (9.41%) VBScript
7 15 (8.82%) Bicep
8 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.94%) Bash
10 3 (1.76%) Python
10 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 29 (17.06%) Degree
4 16 (9.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (7.65%) CCNA
5 13 (7.65%) CCNP
5 13 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.59%) PMO
1 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (22.94%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.18%) Docker
3 18 (10.59%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (9.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (7.65%) Hyper-V
6 13 (7.65%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (22.35%) Ansible
2 36 (21.18%) Kubernetes
3 29 (17.06%) SCCM
3 29 (17.06%) SCOM
3 29 (17.06%) WSUS
4 18 (10.59%) Terraform
5 16 (9.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (9.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (7.65%) EMC NetWorker
6 13 (7.65%) NetBackup
6 13 (7.65%) vCenter Server
7 12 (7.06%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (7.06%) 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 38 (22.35%) Oracle
1 38 (22.35%) SAP
2 34 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.41%) VMware
4 15 (8.82%) Cisco
5 14 (8.24%) HP
6 13 (7.65%) 3PAR
6 13 (7.65%) Dell
6 13 (7.65%) EMC
6 13 (7.65%) Extreme Networks
6 13 (7.65%) Juniper
6 13 (7.65%) Palo Alto
6 13 (7.65%) Symantec
6 13 (7.65%) Veeam
7 5 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.18%) NEC
8 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.59%) F5
9 1 (0.59%) Google
9 1 (0.59%) OpenText