SC Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 19 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 193 164 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.66% 6.70% 7.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.31% 32.67% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 108 177
10th Percentile £407 £416 £375
25th Percentile £463 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £589 £675
90th Percentile £716 £741 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.41 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -45.55% +95.16% -71.44%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £21.19
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.83 £22.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year +40.14% -57.69% +16.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 491 502 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.59% 20.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 315 451
10th Percentile £368 £366 £325
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £22.60 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -47.57% +13.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +10 170 £550 +7.84% 24
West End of London - 6 £578 - 4
City of Westminster - 5 £613 -
Camden - 1 £580 -
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (5.18%) Confluence
2 7 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.07%) Apache
3 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.55%) CMS
4 3 (1.55%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.52%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) Documentum
6 1 (0.52%) MTS
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) SPSS
3 1 (0.52%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.04%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.82%) AWS
2 25 (12.95%) Azure
3 16 (8.29%) Serverless
4 14 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (6.74%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.63%) OCI
9 6 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.59%) GCP
11 4 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.07%) GitHub
11 4 (2.07%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) Firewall
2 8 (4.15%) DNS
3 7 (3.63%) Network Security
3 7 (3.63%) VPN
4 4 (2.07%) WAN
5 3 (1.55%) BGP
5 3 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.55%) DHCP
5 3 (1.55%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.55%) OSPF
5 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.04%) HTTP
6 2 (1.04%) LAN
6 2 (1.04%) MPLS
6 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.04%) SSH
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.84%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.84%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.15%) Power BI
4 8 (4.15%) Redis
5 7 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.59%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) MySQL
7 4 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.55%) Tableau
9 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.04%) Metadata
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (10.36%) Git
2 14 (7.25%) JIRA
3 10 (5.18%) SonarQube
4 9 (4.66%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.07%) GitLab
6 3 (1.55%) JUnit
6 3 (1.55%) Selenium
7 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.04%) Postman
7 2 (1.04%) RStudio
7 2 (1.04%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.52%) ESLint
8 1 (0.52%) Gatling
8 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (43.52%) Public Sector
2 31 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.92%) Finance
4 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Military
6 6 (3.11%) Police
7 5 (2.59%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.07%) Banking
8 4 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Law
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (21.76%) Developer
2 31 (16.06%) Architect
3 19 (9.84%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 15 (7.77%) Senior
6 14 (7.25%) Analyst
7 13 (6.74%) Lead
8 11 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.11%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) JavaScript Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) Network Architect
12 5 (2.59%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 5 (2.59%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.07%) Senior Architect
13 4 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.54%) React
2 25 (12.95%) Kafka
3 21 (10.88%) Spring
4 20 (10.36%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.77%) HTML
6 12 (6.22%) CSS
7 11 (5.70%) Node.js
8 9 (4.66%) .NET
8 9 (4.66%) RESTful
9 7 (3.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (3.63%) Web Services
10 4 (2.07%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.07%) OAuth
10 4 (2.07%) pydantic
10 4 (2.07%) REST
10 4 (2.07%) XML
11 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.55%) SAML
11 3 (1.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.66%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.59%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.55%) CMDB
4 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.55%) PKI
4 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.04%) Clustering
5 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.04%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.33%) Linux
2 17 (8.81%) Windows
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.07%) Android
4 4 (2.07%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.55%) AIX
5 3 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) SUSE
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.91%) DevOps
2 49 (25.39%) Agile
3 33 (17.10%) Microservices
4 32 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.54%) CI/CD
6 22 (11.40%) Clean Code
6 22 (11.40%) SOLID
7 19 (9.84%) API Development
8 16 (8.29%) Project Management
8 16 (8.29%) Service Management
8 16 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (7.77%) Data Protection
9 15 (7.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (7.77%) ITIL
9 15 (7.77%) Migration
10 13 (6.74%) Containerisation
11 12 (6.22%) Analytics
11 12 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (5.70%) Mentoring
12 11 (5.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.76%) SQL
2 39 (20.21%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.62%) Java
4 29 (15.03%) Python
5 10 (5.18%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.66%) Bash
7 7 (3.63%) C#
8 5 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.55%) Ruby
9 3 (1.55%) Scala
9 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.04%) Groovy
10 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 193 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.81%) Degree
3 16 (8.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.11%) CISSP
5 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.07%) CISM
7 3 (1.55%) CCNP
7 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) OCP
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.04%) CCIE
8 2 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) VCAP
8 2 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) GDPR
2 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.63%) NIST
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.04%) QA
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (8.29%) Docker
2 12 (6.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.04%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.81%) Terraform
3 9 (4.66%) Ansible
4 5 (2.59%) SCCM
5 4 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.55%) Puppet
7 2 (1.04%) Grafana
7 2 (1.04%) Kibana
7 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) CASB
8 1 (0.52%) EnCase
8 1 (0.52%) FTK
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Podman
8 1 (0.52%) Rancher
8 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.52%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (9.33%) Oracle
2 16 (8.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.11%) Cisco
5 5 (2.59%) Google
6 4 (2.07%) Databricks
7 3 (1.55%) Apple
7 3 (1.55%) F5
7 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.55%) Juniper
7 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.55%) Remedy
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.55%) SAP
7 3 (1.55%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) Atempo
8 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.04%) Mellanox
8 2 (1.04%) Sage