SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Abingdon

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Abingdon with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Abingdon 31.82% 12.50% -
As % of the Qualifications category 77.78% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £453 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £506 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £468 £588 -
% change year-on-year -20.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.41 - -
25th Percentile £28.05 - -
Median hourly rate £36.41 - -
75th Percentile £45.39 - -
90th Percentile £50.41 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £22.00 £37.03 -
% change year-on-year -40.59% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Abingdon

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Abingdon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon 40.91% 25.00% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £453 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £506 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £433 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -13.50% +17.65% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.41 - -
25th Percentile £28.05 - -
Median hourly rate £36.41 - -
75th Percentile £45.39 - -
90th Percentile £50.41 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £24.46 £37.03 £48.75
% change year-on-year -33.95% -24.04% +73.12%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Abingdon

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Daily Rate Trend in Abingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Abingdon

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Abingdon over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Abingdon

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Runbook
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle