SC Cleared Contracts in the City of London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 143 259 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.49% 7.12% 5.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.64% 36.84% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 156 166
10th Percentile £413 £403 £378
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £617 £678 £657
90th Percentile £749 £781 £719
Central London median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £19.58 £20.22 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £21.19 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
% change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 452 703 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.53% 19.33% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 409 521
10th Percentile £382 £375 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £640
90th Percentile £775 £821 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 17
10th Percentile £19.45 £18.06 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +13.19% +82.00%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.05 £71.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £51.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -47.57% +13.19% +127.50%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the City of London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the City of London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.10%) nginx
3 2 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) Camunda
4 1 (0.70%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) Moodle
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.07%) AWS
2 14 (9.79%) Amazon S3
2 14 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (9.79%) Serverless
3 11 (7.69%) Azure
4 8 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.90%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.50%) GitHub
6 5 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.40%) GCP
9 2 (1.40%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) WAN
2 2 (1.40%) CTI
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) Firewall
2 2 (1.40%) H.323
2 2 (1.40%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.40%) VLAN
2 2 (1.40%) VPN
2 2 (1.40%) Wireless
3 1 (0.70%) DHCP
3 1 (0.70%) IPv4
3 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.59%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.90%) Metadata
5 7 (4.90%) Parquet
6 5 (3.50%) Data Vault
6 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.10%) Tableau
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.40%) MySQL
9 2 (1.40%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.70%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Selenium
2 10 (6.99%) Cucumber
3 8 (5.59%) Git
3 8 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.90%) JUnit
5 5 (3.50%) GitLab
5 5 (3.50%) JIRA
5 5 (3.50%) Maven
5 5 (3.50%) Postman
5 5 (3.50%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.50%) TestNG
6 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.80%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.10%) JMeter
7 3 (2.10%) Mockito
7 3 (2.10%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.40%) Appium
8 2 (1.40%) eggPlant
8 2 (1.40%) SOAtest
General
1 58 (40.56%) Public Sector
2 22 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.59%) Finance
4 5 (3.50%) Publishing
5 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Banking
6 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Legal
6 3 (2.10%) Police
7 2 (1.40%) Law
7 2 (1.40%) Military
7 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (16.78%) Architect
2 23 (16.08%) Developer
3 13 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.69%) Senior
5 9 (6.29%) Consultant
5 9 (6.29%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.59%) Security Architect
7 7 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Analyst
9 5 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Designer
9 5 (3.50%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (2.80%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.10%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.10%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) Kafka
2 10 (6.99%) Spring
3 9 (6.29%) JSON
3 9 (6.29%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.59%) CSS
4 8 (5.59%) HTML
4 8 (5.59%) OpenID
4 8 (5.59%) SAML
5 7 (4.90%) Apache Avro
6 6 (4.20%) REST
6 6 (4.20%) XACML
7 5 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.50%) React
8 4 (2.80%) .NET
8 4 (2.80%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.80%) JAX-RS
8 4 (2.80%) Node.js
8 4 (2.80%) RESTful
9 3 (2.10%) jQuery
9 3 (2.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.50%) Reference Data
2 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.10%) Social Media
3 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.40%) PKI
3 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.70%) CBDC
4 1 (0.70%) CMDB
4 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
4 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.70%) iPad
4 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Linux
2 6 (4.20%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.48%) Agile
2 18 (12.59%) Test Automation
3 16 (11.19%) DevOps
4 15 (10.49%) Data Modelling
5 14 (9.79%) CI/CD
6 12 (8.39%) ETL
7 10 (6.99%) Data Ingestion
7 10 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.29%) Security Architecture
8 9 (6.29%) SFIA
9 8 (5.59%) Data Lineage
9 8 (5.59%) Microservices
10 7 (4.90%) Analytics
10 7 (4.90%) Data Architecture
10 7 (4.90%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (4.90%) Migration
10 7 (4.90%) Project Delivery
11 6 (4.20%) TDD
11 6 (4.20%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.58%) Python
2 24 (16.78%) Java
3 19 (13.29%) SQL
4 10 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.80%) C#
6 3 (2.10%) Bash
7 2 (1.40%) C++
7 2 (1.40%) PHP
7 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.70%) C
8 1 (0.70%) Go
8 1 (0.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.70%) Rust
8 1 (0.70%) VC++
Qualifications
1 143 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.20%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.50%) Degree
4 4 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.40%) CCNA
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) MBA
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.40%) PMO
5 2 (1.40%) WCAG
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.19%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 18 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.89%) Terraform
3 13 (9.09%) Ansible
4 8 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.10%) Puppet
6 2 (1.40%) Consul
6 2 (1.40%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.40%) Packer
7 1 (0.70%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.70%) Grafana
7 1 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.70%) logstash
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.70%) Salt
7 1 (0.70%) SCCM
7 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) Oracle
3 7 (4.90%) IBM
4 6 (4.20%) Okta
5 5 (3.50%) Sparx
6 3 (2.10%) Avaya
6 3 (2.10%) Brandwatch
6 3 (2.10%) Google
6 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.10%) SAP
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco
7 2 (1.40%) MKS
7 2 (1.40%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.40%) Siebel
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Aruba
8 1 (0.70%) BT
8 1 (0.70%) ESRI
8 1 (0.70%) Informatica
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce