SC Cleared Contracts in Cheshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 44 50 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.48% 9.31% 4.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.67% 32.05% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 10
10th Percentile £65 £200 £203
25th Percentile £288 £325 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £525
90th Percentile £575 £600 £631
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +27.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £42.50 £41.93
% change year-on-year -73.66% +1.37% -11.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 120 156 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.12% 29.05% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 100 61
10th Percentile £125 £255 £218
25th Percentile £325 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £575
90th Percentile £680 £653 £631
North West median daily rate £513 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile - - £14.38
25th Percentile £14.00 £36.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £20.33 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.18% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £26.66 £65.75 £31.00
90th Percentile £35.83 £66.50 £51.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.87
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.94% -4.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Warrington +4 23 £500 +25.00% 21
Daresbury 0 7 £65 -
Chester 0 1 £500 - 2
Northwich - 1 £475 -
SC Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) AutoCAD
2 2 (4.55%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Primavera
2 2 (4.55%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.82%) Route 53
4 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) PPP
1 7 (15.91%) WAAS
2 3 (6.82%) DMZ
2 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Billing
4 1 (2.27%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 5 (11.36%) PowerShell Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) SCCM Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Developer
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Forensic Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Project Planner
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Design Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Pega Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (4.55%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) XHTML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.27%) Sass
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Digital Media
2 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 10 (22.73%) Asset Management
4 9 (20.45%) Scrum
5 8 (18.18%) User Stories
6 7 (15.91%) Backlog Management
6 7 (15.91%) Decision-Making
6 7 (15.91%) Kanban
6 7 (15.91%) Sprint Planning
6 7 (15.91%) Sprint Retrospective
6 7 (15.91%) Sprint Review
6 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.36%) Change Control
7 5 (11.36%) DevOps
7 5 (11.36%) Information Security
8 4 (9.09%) RBAC
9 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.82%) Data Collection
9 3 (6.82%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) C#
2 3 (6.82%) Java
2 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Bicep
3 1 (2.27%) C
3 1 (2.27%) C++
3 1 (2.27%) Go
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 3 (6.82%) ISO17020
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) SCCM
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.82%) Grafana
3 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.55%) Terraform
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) IBM
3 2 (4.55%) Nintex
3 2 (4.55%) Pega
4 1 (2.27%) F5
4 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto