SC Cleared Contracts in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 796 1,156 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 25.13% 31.75% 24.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.35% 60.37% 60.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 884 612
10th Percentile £300 £370 £369
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £579 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +10.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £613
90th Percentile £711 £725 £668
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 84 67
10th Percentile £40.00 £40.50 £44.96
25th Percentile £57.33 £57.33 £54.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £83.42 £67.63
90th Percentile £82.39 £91.51 £75.00
England median hourly rate £49.00 £59.80 £52.00
% change year-on-year -18.06% +15.00% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,795 1,915 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.68% 52.60% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,408 1,075
10th Percentile £353 £382 £321
25th Percentile £465 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +11.01% +9.47%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £618
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 162 94
10th Percentile £21.00 £39.55 £35.18
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.27
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.58
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.56% +36.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.94 £68.23
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.61 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Wiltshire -1 292 £525 -8.70% 45
Bristol 0 256 £575 -4.17% 85
Devon +6 89 £475 -24.60% 29
Gloucestershire -4 72 £500 -9.09% 32
Dorset +2 35 £600 +14.29% 20
Somerset -5 23 £580 -12.09% 24
Cornwall -5 1 - -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 48 (6.03%) Confluence
2 35 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) CATIA
5 1 (0.13%) Simulink
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.26%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.25%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Primavera
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.30%) Azure
2 51 (6.41%) Power Platform
3 45 (5.65%) AWS
4 33 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.39%) Power Automate
6 10 (1.26%) GCP
6 10 (1.26%) PaaS
6 10 (1.26%) PowerApps
7 8 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (1.01%) Azure Storage
7 8 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.01%) SaaS
8 7 (0.88%) GitHub
9 6 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (0.75%) OneDrive
10 5 (0.63%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.03%) Firewall
2 34 (4.27%) WAN
3 25 (3.14%) DNS
4 17 (2.14%) Network Security
5 15 (1.88%) LAN
6 12 (1.51%) 4G
6 12 (1.51%) DHCP
6 12 (1.51%) VSAN
6 12 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (1.38%) SDH
8 10 (1.26%) Internet
8 10 (1.26%) VoIP
9 9 (1.13%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.88%) 3G
10 7 (0.88%) Skype
10 7 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.75%) Intranet
11 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.75%) VPN
12 5 (0.63%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.39%) Power BI
3 13 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.13%) SAP HANA
7 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (1.01%) Tableau
8 4 (0.50%) Biml
8 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.25%) MySQL
11 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 66 (8.29%) JIRA
2 31 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.52%) Bitbucket
3 28 (3.52%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (3.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.75%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) Git
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Snyk
9 1 (0.13%) Checkstyle
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 180 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 148 (18.59%) Public Sector
3 103 (12.94%) Telecoms
4 87 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.42%) Finance
6 49 (6.16%) Aerospace
6 49 (6.16%) Manufacturing
7 43 (5.40%) Military
8 39 (4.90%) Electronics
9 35 (4.40%) Marketing
10 13 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.26%) Police
13 8 (1.01%) Legal
13 8 (1.01%) Publishing
14 6 (0.75%) Law
15 5 (0.63%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.63%) Aviation
16 3 (0.38%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 193 (24.25%) Architect
2 95 (11.93%) Lead
3 63 (7.91%) Lead Architect
3 63 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
4 56 (7.04%) Developer
5 52 (6.53%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.78%) Analyst
7 42 (5.28%) Senior
8 40 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (4.77%) Network Architect
10 33 (4.15%) Systems Architect
11 31 (3.89%) Network Engineer
12 28 (3.52%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 28 (3.52%) Support Engineer
13 24 (3.02%) Data Engineer
13 24 (3.02%) Software Engineer
14 22 (2.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
15 21 (2.64%) Service Analyst
15 21 (2.64%) Service Desk Analyst
16 20 (2.51%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.77%) .NET
2 26 (3.27%) .NET Core
3 8 (1.01%) REST
3 8 (1.01%) SPFx
4 7 (0.88%) XML
5 6 (0.75%) CSS
5 6 (0.75%) Flash
5 6 (0.75%) React
6 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.63%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.63%) Spring
7 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.38%) RESTful
8 3 (0.38%) SOAP
9 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.25%) PySpark
10 1 (0.13%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.13%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.13%) Razor View Engine
10 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.02%) Data Centre
2 25 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.89%) PKI
5 19 (2.39%) Private Cloud
6 18 (2.26%) CMDB
6 18 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.51%) ARM Cortex
8 12 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.26%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.13%) Blog
11 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.13%) Replication
12 8 (1.01%) CESG
12 8 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.88%) Clustering
14 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.05%) Windows
2 70 (8.79%) Linux
3 23 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.51%) FreeRTOS
6 9 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.88%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (17.96%) Agile
2 121 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (14.57%) ITIL
4 101 (12.69%) Project Management
5 79 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (7.66%) Service Management
8 60 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
9 52 (6.53%) ArchiMate
9 52 (6.53%) Configuration Management
10 50 (6.28%) DevOps
10 50 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (5.65%) Migration
12 44 (5.53%) Change Management
12 44 (5.53%) Programme Management
13 42 (5.28%) Strategic Thinking
14 39 (4.90%) Systems Engineering
15 38 (4.77%) Project Delivery
16 37 (4.65%) Roadmaps
17 36 (4.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.66%) PowerShell
2 47 (5.90%) Python
3 42 (5.28%) SQL
4 24 (3.02%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.76%) C
6 16 (2.01%) C#
7 14 (1.76%) Java
8 12 (1.51%) Embedded C
9 9 (1.13%) C++
10 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.75%) Ada
12 5 (0.63%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Bicep
13 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.38%) R
15 2 (0.25%) Scala
16 1 (0.13%) Fortran
16 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 796 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.33%) DV Cleared
3 80 (10.05%) Degree
4 37 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (3.64%) CISSP
7 25 (3.14%) CCNA
8 24 (3.02%) CISM
9 22 (2.76%) CCNP
10 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.26%) CEH
13 10 (1.26%) HND
14 9 (1.13%) CISA
14 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.13%) ISTQB
14 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.02%) SLA
2 30 (3.77%) QA
3 29 (3.64%) JSP 440
4 28 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (3.14%) NIST
6 24 (3.02%) PMO
7 17 (2.14%) NCSC
8 13 (1.63%) GDPR
9 11 (1.38%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.13%) Def Stans
10 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.63%) RMADS
13 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.25%) COBIT
15 2 (0.25%) GRC
16 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (6.66%) Active Directory
2 52 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.51%) VMware NSX
3 20 (2.51%) vSphere
4 12 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.26%) Docker
6 6 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.38%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (4.52%) Ansible
2 24 (3.02%) PowerCLI
2 24 (3.02%) vCenter Server
3 15 (1.88%) SCCM
3 15 (1.88%) Terraform
4 9 (1.13%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.63%) OPNET
5 5 (0.63%) Puppet
5 5 (0.63%) SCOM
6 4 (0.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 4 (0.50%) VxRail
7 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.25%) Argo
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.25%) WSUS
9 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.67%) VMware
3 61 (7.66%) SAP
4 49 (6.16%) Cisco
5 38 (4.77%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.52%) IBM
7 24 (3.02%) Dell
8 22 (2.76%) HP
8 22 (2.76%) Remedy
9 20 (2.51%) Juniper
10 19 (2.39%) Oracle
11 17 (2.14%) Sparx
12 16 (2.01%) Nokia
13 12 (1.51%) Lauterbach
13 12 (1.51%) Micro Focus
13 12 (1.51%) Splunk
14 11 (1.38%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.38%) Google
15 10 (1.26%) BT
16 8 (1.01%) Palo Alto