SC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 5 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,869 3,795 3,346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.98% 16.15% 10.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.95% 48.89% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 2,717 2,282
10th Percentile £315 £350 £359
25th Percentile £449 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 323 223
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.06 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £25.64 £24.90
Median hourly rate £56.69 £57.50 £54.84
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +4.85% +37.10%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.20 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +21.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East 0 846 £563 +9.22% 259
South West -1 777 £538 -8.47% 238
North of England 0 489 £525 -4.55% 164
North West -1 372 £525 - 125
Midlands +9 343 £485 -10.19% 90
West Midlands +10 244 £450 -18.18% 66
Scotland +23 227 £550 +22.22% 70
East of England -6 156 £350 -32.20% 65
East Midlands +5 98 £545 +3.81% 24
Yorkshire +2 89 £525 -12.50% 22
Wales -7 44 £600 +9.09% 9
North East -10 30 £450 -20.70% 17
Northern Ireland +14 8 £525 +5.00% 12
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 130 (4.53%) Confluence
2 98 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 75 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.31%) CICS
4 9 (0.31%) SAS
5 6 (0.21%) IIS
6 5 (0.17%) Apache
7 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.10%) CMS
8 3 (0.10%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.070%) nginx
9 2 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.035%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.035%) Appian
10 1 (0.035%) Camunda
10 1 (0.035%) Traefik
Applications
1 104 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.45%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) CATIA
10 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.70%) SAP EWM
3 18 (0.63%) Primavera
4 16 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 14 (0.49%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.45%) SAP QM
7 12 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.10%) CA PPM
12 3 (0.10%) Maximo
12 3 (0.10%) SAP BRIM
12 3 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
12 3 (0.10%) SAP PLM
13 2 (0.070%) Oracle Financials
13 2 (0.070%) SAP MM
13 2 (0.070%) SAP PM
13 2 (0.070%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 288 (10.04%) Azure
2 211 (7.35%) AWS
3 101 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (2.82%) Power Platform
5 46 (1.60%) Entra ID
6 30 (1.05%) Power Automate
7 29 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.01%) GitHub
8 27 (0.94%) OpenShift
9 25 (0.87%) OCI
10 23 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (0.80%) Azure Storage
10 23 (0.80%) GCP
10 23 (0.80%) PaaS
11 22 (0.77%) PowerApps
12 21 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (0.73%) Amazon S3
12 21 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (0.70%) SaaS
14 18 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (6.69%) Firewall
2 110 (3.83%) WAN
3 106 (3.69%) DNS
4 88 (3.07%) VPN
5 75 (2.61%) DHCP
6 64 (2.23%) SAN
7 52 (1.81%) BGP
8 51 (1.78%) MPLS
9 50 (1.74%) LAN
9 50 (1.74%) Network Security
10 48 (1.67%) IPsec
11 45 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (1.53%) SSL
13 41 (1.43%) Wireless
14 40 (1.39%) TCP/IP
15 32 (1.12%) OSPF
16 27 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
17 26 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.50%) Power BI
4 40 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.19%) Relational Database
6 30 (1.05%) MySQL
7 25 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 20 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.49%) Metadata
13 13 (0.45%) SAP BW
14 11 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.38%) DB2
15 10 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.31%) IDMS
16 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 194 (6.76%) JIRA
2 106 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 104 (3.62%) Git
4 64 (2.23%) Visual Studio
5 63 (2.20%) GitLab
6 46 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
7 45 (1.57%) PVCS
8 42 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.32%) Selenium
10 30 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.98%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (0.84%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.59%) JUnit
15 11 (0.38%) JMeter
16 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
17 7 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
18 6 (0.21%) webpack
19 5 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 557 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 510 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 228 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (5.86%) Aerospace
5 166 (5.79%) Finance
6 144 (5.02%) Telecoms
7 102 (3.56%) Electronics
8 96 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 88 (3.07%) Military
10 56 (1.95%) Marketing
11 46 (1.60%) Legal
12 34 (1.19%) Law
13 32 (1.12%) Police
14 28 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (0.77%) Retail
16 19 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.52%) Local Government
18 13 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 440 (15.34%) Architect
2 261 (9.10%) Developer
3 242 (8.43%) Analyst
4 208 (7.25%) Senior
5 188 (6.55%) Lead
6 186 (6.48%) Consultant
7 143 (4.98%) Network Engineer
8 118 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 114 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (3.10%) Project Manager
11 85 (2.96%) Lead Architect
12 81 (2.82%) Service Analyst
13 80 (2.79%) Service Desk Analyst
14 72 (2.51%) Network Architect
15 70 (2.44%) Support Engineer
16 67 (2.34%) Software Engineer
17 61 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
18 57 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
18 57 (1.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
19 52 (1.81%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.41%) REST
2 63 (2.20%) .NET
2 63 (2.20%) Web Services
3 49 (1.71%) Node.js
4 40 (1.39%) Spring
5 34 (1.19%) React
6 33 (1.15%) ARM Templates
7 31 (1.08%) HTML
7 31 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 29 (1.01%) .NET Core
9 25 (0.87%) Java EE
10 24 (0.84%) CSS
11 23 (0.80%) JPA
12 21 (0.73%) Hibernate
13 17 (0.59%) Flash
14 15 (0.52%) AngularJS
15 14 (0.49%) ASP.NET
15 14 (0.49%) Kafka
15 14 (0.49%) RESTful
15 14 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (3.90%) PKI
2 85 (2.96%) Management Information System
3 70 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 41 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 41 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 36 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
7 33 (1.15%) CMDB
8 31 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 28 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
11 27 (0.94%) Clustering
12 25 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 23 (0.80%) Mainframe
13 23 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
14 21 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 21 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
14 21 (0.73%) Security Posture
15 20 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 358 (12.48%) Windows
2 311 (10.84%) Linux
3 120 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (1.53%) Windows 7
7 41 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 35 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 34 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.08%) Android
12 30 (1.05%) Unix
13 28 (0.98%) Ubuntu
14 19 (0.66%) Debian
15 17 (0.59%) AIX
16 16 (0.56%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.52%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.49%) Windows Vista
19 12 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
20 11 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (16.84%) Agile
2 380 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
3 305 (10.63%) ITIL
4 257 (8.96%) DevOps
5 242 (8.43%) Project Management
6 230 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 207 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
8 186 (6.48%) Service Management
9 183 (6.38%) Software Engineering
10 159 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 149 (5.19%) Customer Service
12 140 (4.88%) CI/CD
13 139 (4.84%) Configuration Management
14 127 (4.43%) Risk Management
15 124 (4.32%) Decision-Making
15 124 (4.32%) Mentoring
16 120 (4.18%) Migration
17 119 (4.15%) Scrum
18 114 (3.97%) ITSM
19 100 (3.49%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 178 (6.20%) Python
2 170 (5.93%) PowerShell
3 132 (4.60%) SQL
4 126 (4.39%) Java
5 94 (3.28%) C
6 75 (2.61%) C#
7 73 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 73 (2.54%) PL/SQL
8 66 (2.30%) C++
9 41 (1.43%) Bash
10 27 (0.94%) MATLAB
11 22 (0.77%) Bicep
12 20 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 20 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.59%) VB
14 16 (0.56%) VBScript
15 15 (0.52%) Ada
15 15 (0.52%) Embedded C
16 13 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,869 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 388 (13.52%) DV Cleared
3 245 (8.54%) Degree
4 131 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 75 (2.61%) CCNP
7 68 (2.37%) CCNA
8 56 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (1.85%) CISSP
10 37 (1.29%) CISM
11 30 (1.05%) MCSA
12 27 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.87%) A+ Certification
14 25 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (0.80%) PMP
16 22 (0.77%) MCSE
17 18 (0.63%) CEH
17 18 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.52%) SLA
2 79 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (2.47%) NIST
4 64 (2.23%) QA
5 46 (1.60%) PMO
6 34 (1.19%) NCSC
7 31 (1.08%) JSP 440
8 29 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
9 28 (0.98%) GDPR
10 27 (0.94%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.49%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.49%) Def Stans
13 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.21%) COBIT
18 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 5 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 252 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 117 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.30%) Docker
4 45 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 45 (1.57%) vSphere
5 39 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 34 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 29 (1.01%) Firmware
9 19 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.24%) KVM
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.14%) XenApp
13 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.10%) iptables
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.035%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (4.81%) Ansible
2 131 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 86 (3.00%) Terraform
4 81 (2.82%) SCCM
5 52 (1.81%) vCenter Server
6 43 (1.50%) WSUS
7 41 (1.43%) SCOM
8 36 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 31 (1.08%) Grafana
11 25 (0.87%) PowerCLI
12 24 (0.84%) NetBackup
13 23 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
14 17 (0.59%) VxRail
15 15 (0.52%) Kibana
15 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
16 14 (0.49%) Packer
17 13 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
17 13 (0.45%) Istio
17 13 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 428 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 220 (7.67%) VMware
3 172 (6.00%) Cisco
4 158 (5.51%) SAP
5 112 (3.90%) Oracle
6 109 (3.80%) Juniper
7 80 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 77 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 66 (2.30%) IBM
10 63 (2.20%) ServiceNow
11 61 (2.13%) Dell
12 59 (2.06%) HP
13 51 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 46 (1.60%) Citrix
15 44 (1.53%) SolarWinds
16 30 (1.05%) Google
17 29 (1.01%) EMC
18 28 (0.98%) Remedy
19 27 (0.94%) Fortinet
20 25 (0.87%) F5