SC Cleared Contracts 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 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 15 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 32 42 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.59% 8.48% 10.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.44% 23.86% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 18
10th Percentile - £236 £286
25th Percentile £195 £335 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £583
90th Percentile - £740 £600
East of England median daily rate £350 £365 £516
% change year-on-year -4.11% -29.30% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 34 36
10th Percentile - - £17.28
25th Percentile £14.99 £21.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £15.14 £21.42 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.30% +1.98% +6.01%
75th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £24.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +158.33% -58.26% +4.55%

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 72 176 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.09% 35.56% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 53
10th Percentile £192 £350 £225
25th Percentile £195 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £530 £688 £569
90th Percentile £585 £793 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 100 101
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.87 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +5.16% +6.90%
75th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £22.00
90th Percentile - £31.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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 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
Peterborough +4 22 £200 +11.11% 11
Cambridge +18 8 £525 -30.00% 18
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:

Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) VSAN
4 1 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Hudson
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Analyst
1 17 (53.13%) Service Analyst
1 17 (53.13%) Service Desk Analyst
2 12 (37.50%) Technical Analyst
2 12 (37.50%) Technical Services Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) IFS Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) HR Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Lead
5 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
1 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) CMDB
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 16 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 16 (50.00%) ITIL
2 16 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 16 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 8 (25.00%) ITSM
3 8 (25.00%) Service Management
4 7 (21.88%) Inventory Management
5 6 (18.75%) Asset Management
5 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.75%) Data Entry
5 6 (18.75%) IT Asset Management
5 6 (18.75%) Time Management
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Agile
7 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
7 3 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (9.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 16 (50.00%) MCSA
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) VCAP
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) VxRail
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) PowerCLI
3 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.25%) vRealize
4 1 (3.13%) Avamar
4 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (56.25%) ServiceNow
3 16 (50.00%) Citrix
4 4 (12.50%) Dell
4 4 (12.50%) IFS
4 4 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) LogRhythm
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Sybase