SC Cleared Test Analyst Contracts

Security Check Clearance Test Analyst
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 709 816
Rank change year-on-year +147 +107 -123
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Test Analyst 20 9 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.015% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.016% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 21
10th Percentile £285 £396 £355
25th Percentile £296 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% -0.56% +21.43%
75th Percentile £441 £558 £525
90th Percentile £475 £613 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £420 £400
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile - - £50.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £51.88
75th Percentile - - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £51.88

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

SC Cleared Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Test Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Test Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Test Analyst over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Test Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Test Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Test Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +119 16 £398 -5.36%
London +111 11 £375 -10.71%
Work from Home +136 9 £325 -23.10%
UK excluding London +62 5 £420 -
Midlands +36 3 £420 -
West Midlands +30 3 £420 -
North of England +34 1 - -
North West +19 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

SC Cleared Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, SC Cleared Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SC Cleared Test Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 20 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) Oracle
3 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 8 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 7 (35.00%) Test Scripting
4 7 (35.00%) Finance
5 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) HP ALM
7 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (20.00%) JIRA
8 3 (15.00%) Selenium
8 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (15.00%) Postman
8 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (15.00%) BDD
9 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Test Management
9 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
9 2 (10.00%) Gatling
9 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing

SC Cleared Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SNMP
1 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Postman
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) Gatling
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.00%) GoogleTest
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (5.00%) XBRL
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 7 (35.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (15.00%) BDD
5 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Kanban
6 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Test Management
6 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Denodo
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) VMware