SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 13 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 6.99% - 3.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.89% - 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £550
75th Percentile £619 - £555
90th Percentile £661 - £563
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £180 £550
% change year-on-year +177.78% -67.27% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 45 41 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 24.19% 21.69% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 16
10th Percentile £379 £225 £226
25th Percentile £400 £323 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £503 £550
90th Percentile £625 £595 £566
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.28 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £36.90 £57.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.17% -4.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £16.50 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cambridge

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Hudson
General
1 7 (53.85%) Manufacturing
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (23.08%) General Ledger
4 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Environmental Health
5 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Consultant
1 7 (53.85%) IFS Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) IFS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Supply Chain Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ERP
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (23.08%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (23.08%) Accounts Receivable
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Business Transformation
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Data Repair
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Logistics
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Def Stans
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) IFS
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Sybase
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) Vertica