SC Cleared Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 56 116 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 23.73% 24.37% 33.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.57% 64.44% 75.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 105 251
10th Percentile £401 £376 £275
25th Percentile £446 £435 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +11.79% -8.81%
75th Percentile £604 £590 £550
90th Percentile £661 £659 £650
South East median daily rate £540 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £20.25 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.08% +13.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 94 180 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 39.83% 37.82% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 144 325
10th Percentile £321 £357 £269
25th Percentile £416 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £470
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +9.95% -1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £550
90th Percentile £630 £773 £625
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £9.50
Median hourly rate £35.75 £22.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.89% +125.00% -56.00%
75th Percentile £64.06 £27.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -1 47 £545 +5.47% 19
High Wycombe +5 6 £550 +3.77% 13
Bletchley - 2 £450 - 3
SC Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (3.57%) Camunda
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) PaaS
3 9 (16.07%) SaaS
4 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (12.50%) IaaS
6 4 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) VSAN
2 4 (7.14%) BGP
2 4 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (7.14%) MPLS
2 4 (7.14%) NGFW
2 4 (7.14%) OSPF
2 4 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.14%) VPN
2 4 (7.14%) WAN
3 3 (5.36%) DNS
3 3 (5.36%) VLAN
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.57%) Firewall
5 1 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.36%) MariaDB
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
1 2 (3.57%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Architect
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 13 (23.21%) Technical Architect
4 9 (16.07%) Senior Architect
4 9 (16.07%) Senior Technical Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Principal Architect
6 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Service Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Administrator
8 3 (5.36%) Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) DBA
8 3 (5.36%) Relationships Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Service Relationship Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (3.57%) CSS
1 2 (3.57%) HTML
1 2 (3.57%) Kafka
1 2 (3.57%) Keycloak
1 2 (3.57%) OpenJDK
1 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) jQuery
2 1 (1.79%) React
2 1 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (16.07%) Public Cloud
2 8 (14.29%) PKI
3 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.57%) CSOC
5 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Replication
5 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) CESG
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) ITIL
2 17 (30.36%) TOGAF
3 16 (28.57%) Agile
4 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
5 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (23.21%) DevSecOps
6 13 (23.21%) Microservices
7 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (19.64%) IT Strategy
7 11 (19.64%) Technology Strategy
7 11 (19.64%) Zachman Framework
8 8 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
9 7 (12.50%) Use Case
10 6 (10.71%) DevOps
10 6 (10.71%) PRINCE2
10 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.71%) User Experience
11 5 (8.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) Java
2 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) DV Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) MCSE
3 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (8.93%) ACCA
6 5 (8.93%) CCNP
6 5 (8.93%) CIMA
7 4 (7.14%) Degree
8 3 (5.36%) APMP
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) ISEB
8 3 (5.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (3.57%) APMG
9 2 (3.57%) BC Cleared
9 2 (3.57%) CISSP
9 2 (3.57%) CRISC
10 1 (1.79%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) NCSC
2 15 (26.79%) NIST
3 11 (19.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (7.14%) SLA
5 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (19.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) VMware
2 11 (19.64%) Cisco
2 11 (19.64%) Palo Alto
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) HP
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Remedy
5 1 (1.79%) Snow