SC Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 22 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 165 292 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.74% 7.56% 5.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.61% 38.17% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 179 177
10th Percentile £413 £375 £363
25th Percentile £455 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £593 £675 £656
90th Percentile £740 £775 £719
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £19.45 - -
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £21.19 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £52.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -57.69% +16.85% -16.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 506 765 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.66% 19.82% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 453 565
10th Percentile £367 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +6.54%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
London median daily rate £540 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% +4.32% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £19.96 £18.06 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% +13.19% +127.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £71.75 £68.15
London median hourly rate £26.00 £45.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.54% +1.69% +21.92%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

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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 28 April 2024. 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 -2 143 £505 -8.14% 25
Lambeth - 7 - -
Camden -4 1 £600 +21.21%
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 9 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.82%) nginx
3 2 (1.21%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.61%) Camunda
4 1 (0.61%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Moodle
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.27%) AWS
2 14 (8.48%) Amazon S3
2 14 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (8.48%) Serverless
3 12 (7.27%) Azure
4 8 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.03%) GitHub
6 5 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.21%) GCP
9 2 (1.21%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) WAN
2 2 (1.21%) CTI
2 2 (1.21%) DNS
2 2 (1.21%) Firewall
2 2 (1.21%) H.323
2 2 (1.21%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.21%) VLAN
2 2 (1.21%) VPN
2 2 (1.21%) Wireless
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.61%) IPv4
3 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.85%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.24%) Metadata
5 7 (4.24%) Parquet
6 5 (3.03%) Data Vault
6 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.82%) Tableau
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.21%) MySQL
9 2 (1.21%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Selenium
2 10 (6.06%) Cucumber
3 8 (4.85%) Git
3 8 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.24%) JUnit
5 5 (3.03%) GitLab
5 5 (3.03%) JIRA
5 5 (3.03%) Maven
5 5 (3.03%) Postman
5 5 (3.03%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.03%) TestNG
6 4 (2.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.42%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.82%) JMeter
7 3 (1.82%) Mockito
7 3 (1.82%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.21%) Appium
8 2 (1.21%) EasyMock
8 2 (1.21%) eggPlant
General
1 62 (37.58%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.94%) Finance
4 12 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.45%) Law
6 7 (4.24%) Police
7 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.03%) Publishing
8 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Legal
10 2 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (15.15%) Architect
2 23 (13.94%) Developer
3 14 (8.48%) Data Engineer
4 13 (7.88%) Consultant
5 11 (6.67%) Senior
6 10 (6.06%) Analyst
7 9 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Security Architect
9 7 (4.24%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.64%) ITIL Manager
11 5 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Designer
11 5 (3.03%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.03%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 4 (2.42%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (2.42%) IT Consultant
12 4 (2.42%) Test Engineer
13 3 (1.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.88%) Kafka
2 10 (6.06%) Spring
3 9 (5.45%) JSON
3 9 (5.45%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.85%) CSS
4 8 (4.85%) HTML
4 8 (4.85%) OpenID
4 8 (4.85%) SAML
5 7 (4.24%) Apache Avro
6 6 (3.64%) REST
6 6 (3.64%) XACML
7 5 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.03%) React
8 4 (2.42%) .NET
8 4 (2.42%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.42%) JAX-RS
8 4 (2.42%) Node.js
8 4 (2.42%) RESTful
9 3 (1.82%) jQuery
9 3 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.03%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.82%) Social Media
4 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.21%) CBDC
4 2 (1.21%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.21%) PKI
4 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.61%) CMDB
5 1 (0.61%) Digital Currency
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) IoT
5 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.45%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Windows
3 3 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (1.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.97%) Agile
2 18 (10.91%) DevOps
2 18 (10.91%) Test Automation
3 16 (9.70%) CI/CD
4 15 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 15 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (7.27%) Decision-Making
5 12 (7.27%) ETL
5 12 (7.27%) ITIL
5 12 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (6.06%) Data Ingestion
7 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (5.45%) Problem Management
7 9 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (5.45%) Security Architecture
7 9 (5.45%) SFIA
8 8 (4.85%) Data Lineage
8 8 (4.85%) Knowledge Management
8 8 (4.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.97%) Python
2 24 (14.55%) Java
3 19 (11.52%) SQL
4 10 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.42%) C#
6 3 (1.82%) Bash
7 2 (1.21%) C++
7 2 (1.21%) PHP
7 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.61%) C
8 1 (0.61%) Go
8 1 (0.61%) Perl
8 1 (0.61%) Rust
8 1 (0.61%) VC++
Qualifications
1 165 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.06%) Degree
3 8 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.42%) ACCA
4 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.21%) CCNA
5 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) MBA
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMP
6 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.67%) QA
2 6 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.42%) PMO
5 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.21%) GDPR
6 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.21%) WCAG
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (9.70%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) KVM
Systems Management
1 18 (10.91%) Kubernetes
1 18 (10.91%) Terraform
2 13 (7.88%) Ansible
3 8 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.82%) Puppet
5 2 (1.21%) Consul
5 2 (1.21%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.21%) Packer
6 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.61%) Grafana
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) logstash
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Salt
6 1 (0.61%) SCCM
6 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.27%) Oracle
3 7 (4.24%) IBM
4 6 (3.64%) Okta
5 5 (3.03%) Sparx
6 3 (1.82%) Avaya
6 3 (1.82%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.82%) Google
6 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.82%) SAP
7 2 (1.21%) Cisco
7 2 (1.21%) MKS
7 2 (1.21%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.21%) Siebel
7 2 (1.21%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.61%) BT
8 1 (0.61%) ESRI
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce