SC Cleared Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 18 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 170 143 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.68% 6.51% 7.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.53% 31.85% 36.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 102 157
10th Percentile £413 £418 £403
25th Percentile £474 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £607 £617 £675
90th Percentile £711 £749 £780
Central London median daily rate £550 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +7.84% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.82 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +0.53% -71.44%
75th Percentile - £21.41 £21.19
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.41 £20.71
% change year-on-year -45.55% +95.16% -71.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 449 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.49% 20.44% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 409
10th Percentile £404 £382 £375
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £763 £775 £821
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year +7.67% -47.57% +13.19%

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

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the City of London

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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 10 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.35%) Apache
4 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) Camunda
6 1 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) MTS
6 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.76%) AWS
2 22 (12.94%) Azure
3 15 (8.82%) Serverless
4 13 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.47%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.94%) GCP
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.35%) GitHub
9 4 (2.35%) OCI
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.76%) Slack
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.88%) Firewall
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
2 6 (3.53%) VPN
3 5 (2.94%) DNS
4 3 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.18%) HTTP
5 2 (1.18%) LAN
5 2 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.18%) SSH
5 2 (1.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.59%) BGP
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.59%) DHCP
6 1 (0.59%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.59%) IPsec
6 1 (0.59%) OSPF
6 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.24%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
2 19 (11.18%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.71%) Redis
5 7 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (4.12%) Power BI
6 5 (2.94%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.35%) MySQL
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.76%) Tableau
9 2 (1.18%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.18%) Metadata
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Git
2 14 (8.24%) JIRA
3 10 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.35%) GitLab
6 3 (1.76%) JUnit
6 3 (1.76%) Selenium
7 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.18%) Postman
7 2 (1.18%) RStudio
7 2 (1.18%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.59%) ESLint
8 1 (0.59%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.59%) Mocha
8 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.59%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.59%) Travis CI
General
1 81 (47.65%) Public Sector
2 29 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.41%) Finance
5 14 (8.24%) Military
6 6 (3.53%) Police
7 4 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Law
8 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Developer
2 25 (14.71%) Architect
3 19 (11.18%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 14 (8.24%) Analyst
5 14 (8.24%) Senior
6 13 (7.65%) Lead
7 11 (6.47%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.88%) Security Architect
9 9 (5.29%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Change Manager
12 5 (2.94%) JavaScript Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Network Architect
12 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 5 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.76%) Service Manager
14 3 (1.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.65%) React
2 25 (14.71%) Kafka
3 21 (12.35%) Spring
4 20 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.82%) HTML
6 12 (7.06%) CSS
7 11 (6.47%) Node.js
8 9 (5.29%) .NET
8 9 (5.29%) RESTful
9 7 (4.12%) Web Services
10 4 (2.35%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.35%) OAuth
10 4 (2.35%) REST
11 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.76%) JSON
11 3 (1.76%) OpenID
11 3 (1.76%) pydantic
11 3 (1.76%) SAML
11 3 (1.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.94%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.76%) CMDB
4 3 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.76%) PKI
4 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.18%) Clustering
5 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.24%) Linux
2 11 (6.47%) Windows
3 3 (1.76%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) SUSE
5 1 (0.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.41%) DevOps
2 49 (28.82%) Agile
3 33 (19.41%) Microservices
4 31 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (17.06%) CI/CD
6 22 (12.94%) Clean Code
6 22 (12.94%) SOLID
7 19 (11.18%) API Development
8 15 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (8.82%) ITIL
8 15 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (8.24%) Project Management
9 14 (8.24%) Service Management
10 13 (7.65%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.65%) Data Protection
11 12 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (6.47%) Migration
12 11 (6.47%) Test Automation
13 10 (5.88%) Cloud Security
13 10 (5.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.94%) JavaScript
2 38 (22.35%) SQL
3 34 (20.00%) Java
4 27 (15.88%) Python
5 8 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.12%) C#
7 6 (3.53%) Bash
8 3 (1.76%) Ruby
8 3 (1.76%) Scala
8 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.18%) Groovy
9 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 170 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.41%) AWS Certified Developer
3 14 (8.24%) Degree
4 5 (2.94%) CISSP
4 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.35%) CISM
6 3 (1.76%) CCNP
6 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.76%) OCP
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.18%) CCIE
7 2 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) VCAP
7 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.71%) GDPR
2 7 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.53%) NIST
4 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.18%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.59%) PMO
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (9.41%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.41%) Terraform
3 8 (4.71%) Ansible
4 3 (1.76%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.76%) SCCM
5 2 (1.18%) Grafana
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.18%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) CASB
6 1 (0.59%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.59%) EnCase
6 1 (0.59%) FTK
6 1 (0.59%) Istio
6 1 (0.59%) Podman
6 1 (0.59%) Rancher
6 1 (0.59%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.59%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.29%) Oracle
3 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.53%) Cisco
5 4 (2.35%) Databricks
6 3 (1.76%) F5
6 3 (1.76%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.76%) Google
6 3 (1.76%) Juniper
6 3 (1.76%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.76%) Remedy
6 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.76%) VMware
7 2 (1.18%) Atempo
7 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.18%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.18%) SAP
8 1 (0.59%) Okta
8 1 (0.59%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.59%) UiPath