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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,655 3,007 3,949
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.25% 12.51% 8.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.05% 49.62% 44.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 2,131 2,861
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 160 140
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.00 £25.37
25th Percentile £27.19 £50.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% +23.51%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £75.75 £78.79 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +35.00%

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 3,844 6,060 8,925
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.13% 25.21% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,491 4,117 6,332
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £527 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.18% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 246 226
10th Percentile £14.71 £18.75 £19.35
25th Percentile £23.69 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +38.81%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £83.84 £80.25 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
% change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +29.03%

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 6 June 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

SC Cleared
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 6 June 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 76 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (3.75%) Confluence
4 11 (0.66%) Apache
5 10 (0.60%) nginx
6 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2003
6 8 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) CICS
8 6 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 40 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.48%) Trello
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.24%) Revit
7 4 (0.24%) Sketch
8 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.060%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.060%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 19 (1.15%) Teamcenter
2 10 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.48%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.18%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 305 (18.43%) AWS
2 259 (15.65%) Azure
3 109 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.08%) GitHub
6 44 (2.66%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (2.18%) SaaS
9 33 (1.99%) GCP
10 31 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (1.81%) PaaS
12 28 (1.69%) Serverless
13 26 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (1.51%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.21%) Azure Storage
17 19 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.75%) Firewall
2 35 (2.11%) DNS
3 34 (2.05%) Network Security
4 31 (1.87%) DHCP
5 23 (1.39%) SSL
6 22 (1.33%) VPN
6 22 (1.33%) WAN
7 21 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
8 18 (1.09%) SAN
9 17 (1.03%) BGP
9 17 (1.03%) OSPF
10 16 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
10 16 (0.97%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.91%) IPsec
12 14 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 14 (0.85%) EIGRP
12 14 (0.85%) NetScaler
13 12 (0.73%) 4G
13 12 (0.73%) HSRP
13 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.75%) Power BI
4 27 (1.63%) Oracle Database
5 20 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
10 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.73%) DB2
11 12 (0.73%) MySQL
11 12 (0.73%) Oracle Database 11g
12 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.60%) Siebel EIM
14 9 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
15 8 (0.48%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.42%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 116 (7.01%) JIRA
2 59 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.32%) Git
4 37 (2.24%) GitLab
5 34 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 33 (1.99%) Selenium
7 31 (1.87%) PVCS
8 21 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.91%) JMeter
11 14 (0.85%) JUnit
12 12 (0.73%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.48%) Maven
14 8 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
14 8 (0.48%) SoapUI
15 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.42%) TestNG
16 6 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 374 (22.60%) Public Sector
2 288 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 128 (7.73%) Finance
4 105 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 30 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (1.75%) Military
8 26 (1.57%) Law
9 25 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 25 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.45%) Police
11 22 (1.33%) Banking
11 22 (1.33%) Electronics
11 22 (1.33%) Marketing
12 20 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.91%) Legal
14 14 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.48%) Local Government
16 8 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 295 (17.82%) Architect
2 188 (11.36%) Developer
3 149 (9.00%) Senior
4 113 (6.83%) Lead
5 109 (6.59%) Consultant
6 98 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 94 (5.68%) Analyst
8 79 (4.77%) Project Manager
9 72 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 57 (3.44%) Technical Architect
11 47 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (2.48%) AWS DevOps
12 41 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 41 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 40 (2.42%) Java Developer
13 40 (2.42%) Support Engineer
14 38 (2.30%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.18%) Service Manager
16 35 (2.11%) Network Architect
17 33 (1.99%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.90%) Web Services
2 47 (2.84%) REST
3 43 (2.60%) ARM Templates
4 39 (2.36%) .NET
5 33 (1.99%) CSS
5 33 (1.99%) HTML
6 30 (1.81%) Spring Boot
7 27 (1.63%) RESTful
7 27 (1.63%) Spring
8 21 (1.27%) Node.js
9 18 (1.09%) React
10 15 (0.91%) Kafka
11 12 (0.73%) FastAPI
11 12 (0.73%) GraphQL
11 12 (0.73%) OpenID
11 12 (0.73%) SAML
11 12 (0.73%) WebSockets
12 11 (0.66%) Sass
13 10 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
13 10 (0.60%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
2 55 (3.32%) PKI
3 51 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 26 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.15%) CMDB
8 19 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.15%) Mainframe
8 19 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (0.97%) Product Ownership
11 13 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.60%) Replication
12 10 (0.60%) Security Posture
12 10 (0.60%) Taxonomies
13 8 (0.48%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.42%) Clustering
14 7 (0.42%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 131 (7.92%) Windows
2 120 (7.25%) Linux
3 47 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.91%) Unix
9 13 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.73%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.66%) Android
12 10 (0.60%) Debian
12 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.42%) zOS
15 5 (0.30%) Solaris
16 3 (0.18%) AIX
16 3 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (18.49%) Agile
2 228 (13.78%) DevOps
3 147 (8.88%) ITIL
4 139 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (8.28%) Service Management
6 125 (7.55%) Project Management
7 110 (6.65%) CI/CD
8 108 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 103 (6.22%) Migration
10 101 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
11 100 (6.04%) Analytics
12 87 (5.26%) Configuration Management
13 84 (5.08%) Change Management
14 80 (4.83%) Test Automation
15 78 (4.71%) Software Engineering
16 72 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (4.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 65 (3.93%) Mentoring
19 64 (3.87%) Decision-Making
19 64 (3.87%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 148 (8.94%) Python
2 117 (7.07%) SQL
3 113 (6.83%) Java
4 90 (5.44%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 59 (3.56%) C#
7 58 (3.50%) PL/SQL
8 37 (2.24%) C
9 25 (1.51%) Bash
9 25 (1.51%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.45%) Bicep
11 22 (1.33%) VB
12 21 (1.27%) VBScript
13 19 (1.15%) C++
14 16 (0.97%) Go
15 12 (0.73%) ABAP
16 11 (0.66%) COBOL
17 10 (0.60%) PHP
18 9 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,655 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 177 (10.69%) DV Cleared
3 153 (9.24%) Degree
4 104 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (1.63%) CISSP
7 25 (1.51%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.51%) PMP
8 23 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 22 (1.33%) CCNP
10 21 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.03%) CISM
13 16 (0.97%) CCNA
14 11 (0.66%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.60%) CISA
16 9 (0.54%) BC Cleared
16 9 (0.54%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
17 8 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.48%) SLA
2 39 (2.36%) NCSC
3 38 (2.30%) QA
4 36 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.87%) NIST
6 30 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.27%) PMO
8 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.48%) GDPR
10 7 (0.42%) COBIT
11 5 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) RMADS
12 4 (0.24%) WCAG
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.060%) IFRS
14 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 124 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 78 (4.71%) Docker
3 31 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.60%) Firmware
7 6 (0.36%) vSphere
8 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) VMFS
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) XenApp
10 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.060%) Snort
11 1 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.060%) UAG
Systems Management
1 131 (7.92%) Terraform
2 121 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 80 (4.83%) Ansible
4 35 (2.11%) SCCM
5 31 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (1.27%) SCOM
7 21 (1.27%) WSUS
8 19 (1.15%) Grafana
9 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.73%) Puppet
12 11 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.48%) Podman
14 7 (0.42%) VxRail
15 6 (0.36%) Packer
16 5 (0.30%) Argo
16 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
17 4 (0.24%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 250 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.95%) Oracle
3 79 (4.77%) SAP
4 58 (3.50%) VMware
5 47 (2.84%) Cisco
6 40 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.11%) Splunk
8 34 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.69%) Atlassian
10 24 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.09%) Citrix
11 18 (1.09%) IBM
11 18 (1.09%) NetApp
12 17 (1.03%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) Siebel
13 14 (0.85%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.79%) Google
15 12 (0.73%) Juniper
15 12 (0.73%) Sparx
16 11 (0.66%) Remedy