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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SC Cleared 60 75 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 18.52% 19.58% 31.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.22% 50.34% 74.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 65 218
10th Percentile £200 £317 £346
25th Percentile £415 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +8.51%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £600
90th Percentile £580 £578 £677
South East median daily rate £514 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -10.61% +10.58% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £15.67 - £13.25
25th Percentile - - £13.37
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.58 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% +66.40% -45.72%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year -58.08% -2.64% -1.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 98 149 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 30.25% 38.90% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 120 284
10th Percentile £308 £325 £320
25th Percentile £409 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -5.69% +7.37%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £601
90th Percentile £621 £590 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 4
10th Percentile £15.21 - £13.29
25th Percentile £19.69 £22.50 £13.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +84.23% -45.72%
75th Percentile - £29.38 £14.87
90th Percentile £57.88 £34.00 £17.20
South East median hourly rate £25.30 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.88% -4.42% +33.33%

SC Cleared
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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -3 44 £500 - 15
High Wycombe - 11 £550 - 2
Aylesbury - 1 - -
Bletchley - 1 £550 - 2
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
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 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Camunda
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.33%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.67%) GitHub
4 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.67%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) SAN
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) Firewall
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Metadata
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Analyst
2 8 (13.33%) Senior
3 6 (10.00%) Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Lead
4 5 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Service Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Transition Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Information Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Knowledge Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.67%) CSS
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
1 1 (1.67%) jQuery
1 1 (1.67%) Kafka
1 1 (1.67%) Keycloak
1 1 (1.67%) OpenJDK
1 1 (1.67%) RESTful
1 1 (1.67%) SOAP
1 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.67%) Web Services
1 1 (1.67%) XML
1 1 (1.67%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (6.67%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (3.33%) CSOC
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) CESG
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.00%) Debian
3 3 (5.00%) Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.67%) VMS
5 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Migration
2 12 (20.00%) ITIL
3 10 (16.67%) Workflow
3 10 (16.67%) Workflow Management
4 9 (15.00%) Agile
4 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.33%) ITSM
5 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (11.67%) Service Management
7 6 (10.00%) Project Management
8 5 (8.33%) Coaching
8 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 5 (8.33%) SIEM
8 5 (8.33%) Validation
9 4 (6.67%) Data Privacy
9 4 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 4 (6.67%) Risk Management
9 4 (6.67%) Security Operations
9 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (8.33%) ACCA
4 5 (8.33%) CIMA
5 4 (6.67%) ISEB
6 3 (5.00%) APMP
6 3 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (3.33%) CISSP
7 2 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.67%) CEH
8 1 (1.67%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.67%) GCIH
8 1 (1.67%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (1.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) BMC
6 1 (1.67%) Compaq
6 1 (1.67%) JDA
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) Snow
6 1 (1.67%) Terracotta
6 1 (1.67%) webMethods