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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 17 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 15 26 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.03% 7.01% 2.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.64% 27.96% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 1
10th Percentile £444 £456 -
25th Percentile £463 £466 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £180
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +177.78% -67.27%
75th Percentile £586 £613 £190
90th Percentile £707 £625 -
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £358
% change year-on-year +2.00% +39.86% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 7
Median hourly rate - £17.01 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year - -20.43% +7.87%
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £25.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year +162.43% -59.76% +40.45%

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 110 93 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.57% 25.07% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 32 13
10th Percentile £183 £379 £225
25th Percentile £415 £432 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £604 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £600
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 23
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £15.63 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.59 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +155.90% -17.71% +7.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £25.15 £24.28
90th Percentile - £32.11 £28.93
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +95.45%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend 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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 2026. 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 +2 9 £475 -5.00% 14
Peterborough +2 1 £574 - 7
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VSAN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Service Manager
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Validation
2 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (13.33%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) ETL
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) C
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
1 4 (26.67%) vRealize
1 4 (26.67%) VxRail
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) ESRI
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle