SC Cleared Contracts in Cheltenham

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 5 23 4
Rank change year-on-year +18 -19 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 19 11 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 30.65% 5.91% 33.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.19% 8.15% 46.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 42
10th Percentile £515 £390 £506
25th Percentile £545 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% -18.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £563 £719
90th Percentile £715 £630 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £545 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.00
Median hourly rate - - £68.00
75th Percentile - - £69.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £30.25 £68.00
% change year-on-year +124.79% -55.51% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 54 135 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.10% 72.58% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 62 79
10th Percentile £520 £507 £507
25th Percentile £547 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £743 £738 £740
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 - £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.19 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year +229.85% -75.58% -
75th Percentile £65.00 - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £71.50 £24.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +194.85% -68.91% +41.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) DNS
2 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 11 (57.89%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle9i Database
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (47.37%) Aerospace
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 10 (52.63%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) PKI
2 11 (57.89%) Data Centre
2 11 (57.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) RBAC
2 2 (10.53%) Business Development
2 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
3 1 (5.26%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) Coaching
3 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (5.26%) High Availability
3 1 (5.26%) Migration
3 1 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) VMware