SC Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 7 8 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,758 3,238 3,838
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.65% 12.89% 8.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.82% 50.66% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 2,291 2,771
10th Percentile £363 £400 £408
25th Percentile £460 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 173 137
10th Percentile £14.00 £27.10 £25.58
25th Percentile £29.31 £54.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +20.10% +5.68%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.13 £84.80 £66.60
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,106 6,392 8,786
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.44% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 4,298 6,173
10th Percentile £325 £380 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 280 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.25 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +33.22% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.81 £65.44
90th Percentile £82.84 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

SC Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SC Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SC Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 67 (3.81%) Confluence
3 54 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) nginx
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2003
6 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.40%) SAS
8 6 (0.34%) CICS
8 6 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Trello
7 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.23%) Revit
8 4 (0.23%) Sketch
9 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 16 (0.91%) Teamcenter
2 13 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.68%) Primavera
3 12 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.34%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP PS
9 2 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 334 (19.00%) AWS
2 272 (15.47%) Azure
3 98 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 48 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (2.73%) GitHub
6 36 (2.05%) Entra ID
6 36 (2.05%) PaaS
6 36 (2.05%) SaaS
7 34 (1.93%) GCP
8 31 (1.76%) Serverless
9 28 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 26 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.14%) IaaS
15 19 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.01%) Firewall
2 34 (1.93%) Network Security
3 29 (1.65%) DNS
4 28 (1.59%) WAN
5 24 (1.37%) DHCP
5 24 (1.37%) SAN
5 24 (1.37%) VPN
6 23 (1.31%) SSL
6 23 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.80%) 4G
7 14 (0.80%) BGP
7 14 (0.80%) OSPF
8 13 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
8 13 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.68%) SNMP
10 11 (0.63%) EIGRP
10 11 (0.63%) IPsec
10 11 (0.63%) VoIP
11 10 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 41 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 35 (1.99%) Power BI
3 29 (1.65%) Oracle Database
4 23 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 17 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
9 13 (0.74%) DB2
10 12 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (0.63%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.57%) MySQL
12 10 (0.57%) Siebel EIM
13 9 (0.51%) Metadata
14 8 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
14 8 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 122 (6.94%) JIRA
2 74 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.58%) Git
4 41 (2.33%) GitLab
4 41 (2.33%) Selenium
5 36 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.76%) PVCS
7 23 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.25%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.91%) JMeter
9 16 (0.91%) JUnit
10 14 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.57%) Maven
12 10 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
12 10 (0.57%) TestNG
13 9 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.51%) SoapUI
14 8 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 412 (23.44%) Public Sector
2 299 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 141 (8.02%) Finance
4 122 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (4.49%) Telecoms
6 38 (2.16%) Military
7 32 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (1.71%) Law
9 29 (1.65%) Electronics
10 28 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.54%) Aerospace
11 27 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 26 (1.48%) Banking
13 25 (1.42%) Police
14 23 (1.31%) Marketing
15 16 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.91%) Legal
16 12 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.57%) Publishing
18 8 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 308 (17.52%) Architect
2 213 (12.12%) Developer
3 160 (9.10%) Senior
4 125 (7.11%) Consultant
5 124 (7.05%) Lead
6 103 (5.86%) Analyst
7 92 (5.23%) Project Manager
8 91 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 79 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (2.96%) Technical Architect
11 46 (2.62%) Java Developer
12 41 (2.33%) Security Architect
13 40 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (2.16%) AWS Engineer
14 38 (2.16%) SC Cleared Project Manager
15 37 (2.10%) Lead Architect
15 37 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 34 (1.93%) Business Analyst
16 34 (1.93%) Network Architect
17 33 (1.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.84%) REST
1 50 (2.84%) Web Services
2 41 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 39 (2.22%) .NET
4 36 (2.05%) Spring Boot
5 34 (1.93%) CSS
5 34 (1.93%) HTML
6 32 (1.82%) Spring
7 29 (1.65%) RESTful
8 25 (1.42%) Node.js
9 20 (1.14%) React
10 15 (0.85%) Sass
11 14 (0.80%) Laravel
11 14 (0.80%) WebSockets
12 13 (0.74%) Kafka
13 12 (0.68%) Hibernate
13 12 (0.68%) JPA
13 12 (0.68%) JSON
13 12 (0.68%) OpenID
13 12 (0.68%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 57 (3.24%) Management Information System
2 53 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
3 52 (2.96%) PKI
4 40 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 29 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 27 (1.54%) CMDB
6 27 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 19 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 17 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 14 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.63%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.57%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.51%) Replication
14 9 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
15 8 (0.46%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.17%) Windows
2 124 (7.05%) Linux
3 40 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.31%) Unix
5 18 (1.02%) Ubuntu
5 18 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (0.91%) Debian
7 14 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.68%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.40%) Solaris
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.34%) Android
13 6 (0.34%) zOS
14 5 (0.28%) VMS
15 3 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (19.11%) Agile
2 226 (12.86%) DevOps
3 163 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
4 156 (8.87%) ITIL
5 141 (8.02%) Service Management
6 134 (7.62%) CI/CD
6 134 (7.62%) Project Management
7 128 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 118 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
9 112 (6.37%) Analytics
10 108 (6.14%) Migration
11 92 (5.23%) Configuration Management
12 91 (5.18%) Test Automation
13 89 (5.06%) Change Management
14 83 (4.72%) Software Engineering
15 82 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (4.66%) Decision-Making
16 70 (3.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (3.81%) Risk Management
18 66 (3.75%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 165 (9.39%) Python
2 128 (7.28%) SQL
3 120 (6.83%) Java
4 87 (4.95%) PowerShell
5 68 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 61 (3.47%) PL/SQL
7 57 (3.24%) C#
8 41 (2.33%) C
9 33 (1.88%) Bash
10 23 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.25%) C++
12 20 (1.14%) Bicep
13 17 (0.97%) VB
14 16 (0.91%) VBScript
15 14 (0.80%) PHP
16 12 (0.68%) Go
17 11 (0.63%) ABAP
17 11 (0.63%) COBOL
18 9 (0.51%) T-SQL
19 8 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,758 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 177 (10.07%) DV Cleared
3 167 (9.50%) Degree
4 117 (6.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.93%) CISSP
6 28 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 28 (1.59%) PMP
7 26 (1.48%) CISM
8 23 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.19%) CCNP
10 19 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.80%) CCNA
13 13 (0.74%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.68%) CISA
14 12 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
15 11 (0.63%) ISEB
16 10 (0.57%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.90%) QA
2 49 (2.79%) NCSC
3 45 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.39%) SLA
5 37 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 36 (2.05%) NIST
7 31 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 24 (1.37%) PMO
9 11 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
10 9 (0.51%) GDPR
11 7 (0.40%) COBIT
12 5 (0.28%) GRC
12 5 (0.28%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) DO-178B
13 4 (0.23%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.23%) RMADS
14 3 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 118 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 85 (4.84%) Docker
3 26 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.74%) Firmware
6 10 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.17%) XenApp
8 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.057%) Snort
10 1 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.057%) UAG
Systems Management
1 129 (7.34%) Terraform
2 117 (6.66%) Kubernetes
3 85 (4.84%) Ansible
4 30 (1.71%) SCCM
5 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (1.08%) Grafana
8 17 (0.97%) SCOM
9 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.91%) WSUS
10 12 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.68%) Puppet
11 11 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.46%) Packer
12 8 (0.46%) Podman
13 7 (0.40%) VxRail
14 6 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 240 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.06%) SAP
3 88 (5.01%) Oracle
4 55 (3.13%) VMware
5 42 (2.39%) Splunk
6 41 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.22%) Cisco
8 32 (1.82%) Atlassian
9 28 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 22 (1.25%) IBM
12 17 (0.97%) NetApp
13 15 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.85%) Google
13 15 (0.85%) Juniper
14 14 (0.80%) Citrix
14 14 (0.80%) Remedy
14 14 (0.80%) Siebel
14 14 (0.80%) Sparx
15 12 (0.68%) SolarWinds