SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 33 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -21 +12
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 27 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.69% 2.76% 8.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.75% 16.00% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £216 - £318
25th Percentile £442 £170 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £180 £550
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -67.27% -
75th Percentile £606 £190 -
90th Percentile £625 - £559
East of England median daily rate £500 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +53.85% -40.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 31
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £15.14 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +7.87% -
75th Percentile £22.58 - £20.56
90th Percentile £25.15 - £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -58.08% +34.83% -11.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 80 75 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 22.79% 17.28% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 37
10th Percentile £206 £225 £226
25th Percentile £384 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £586 £575
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 77
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.12% +95.45% +4.76%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Cambridge - 13 £513 - 5
Peterborough +3 9 £200 +11.11% 13
Huntingdon - 5 - - 1
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Hudson
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Manufacturing
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 3 (11.11%) General Ledger
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Environmental Health
5 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Consultant
2 7 (25.93%) IFS Consultant
3 6 (22.22%) Service Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 4 (14.81%) IFS Developer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Supply Chain Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Web Services
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Migration
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 6 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 5 (18.52%) ERP
4 5 (18.52%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
5 4 (14.81%) Workflow
5 4 (14.81%) Workflow Management
6 3 (11.11%) Accounts Payable
6 3 (11.11%) Accounts Receivable
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 6 (22.22%) MCSA
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CEH
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Def Stans
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) IFS
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
4 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) Sybase
6 1 (3.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.70%) Tenable
6 1 (3.70%) Vertica
6 1 (3.70%) VMware