SC Cleared Contracts in Blandford Forum

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blandford Forum with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 13 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 92.86% 50.00% 62.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £503 £463 £483
25th Percentile £514 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £544 £611
90th Percentile £576 £548 £613
Dorset median daily rate £550 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% +26.47%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Blandford Forum

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 Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 92.86% 50.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £503 £463 £493
25th Percentile £514 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £544 £610
90th Percentile £576 £548 £613
Dorset median daily rate £544 £620 £538
% change year-on-year -12.30% +15.35% +26.47%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Blandford Forum

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Blandford Forum.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Blandford Forum

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Skype
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Assurance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
1 5 (38.46%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows 10
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Critical Thinking
1 8 (61.54%) NsoIT
1 8 (61.54%) Service Management
1 8 (61.54%) System Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (30.77%) Power Management
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
4 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
5 3 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (23.08%) Service Design
6 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) CCNA
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
4 4 (30.77%) MCSE
4 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.69%) CCNP
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Atlassian