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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 31 31 42
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 7.79% 11.19% 8.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.18% 43.06% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 3
10th Percentile £84 - £236
25th Percentile £160 £195 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £487 £550 £650
90th Percentile £577 - £740
East of England median daily rate £475 £350 £365
% change year-on-year +35.71% -4.11% -29.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 34
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £14.99 £21.37
Median hourly rate £23.83 £15.14 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +57.36% -29.30% +1.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.46
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £62.25 £24.00
% change year-on-year -63.65% +159.38% -58.26%

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 72 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 27.64% 25.99% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 43
10th Percentile £168 £192 £350
25th Percentile £193 £195 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £612 £530 £675
90th Percentile £675 £585 £786
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 24 100
10th Percentile £16.94 - £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.83 £15.87 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +50.13% -2.64% +5.16%
75th Percentile £33.69 £21.46 £21.46
90th Percentile £48.00 £25.16 £31.13
East of England median hourly rate £23.66 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -58.85% +64.29% +66.67%

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 3 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 May 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 +3 19 £400 -23.81% 7
Huntingdon - 5 - -
Peterborough -3 1 - - 1
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 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
1 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Ethernet
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) NX-OS
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MSI
General
1 10 (32.26%) Manufacturing
2 9 (29.03%) Electronics
3 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Marketing
4 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
5 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) IT Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Security Assurance Manager
2 6 (19.35%) Security Manager
3 4 (12.90%) FPGA Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Migration Technician
4 3 (9.68%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) ERP Trainer
6 1 (3.23%) Lead
6 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Project Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Service Delivery Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Trainer
6 1 (3.23%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) FPGA
2 4 (12.90%) PCIe
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Migration
1 12 (38.71%) Workflow
2 9 (29.03%) Workflow Management
3 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (22.58%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (22.58%) Programme Management
4 4 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (12.90%) Logistics
4 4 (12.90%) Signal Processing
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Change Management
6 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.45%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (6.45%) ERP
6 2 (6.45%) Prototyping
6 2 (6.45%) Schematic Capture
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.45%) Validation
7 1 (3.23%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) C
1 2 (6.45%) C#
1 2 (6.45%) C++
1 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
1 2 (6.45%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Firmware
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.45%) VxRail
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) SAP
2 4 (12.90%) Altera
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Dell
3 2 (6.45%) IFS
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Juniper
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Thales
4 1 (3.23%) Veeam