SC Cleared Contracts in Croydon

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 48 103 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 52.75% 71.03% 52.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 94.12% 93.64% 73.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 64 73
10th Percentile £394 £363 £468
25th Percentile £463 £425 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -7.05% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £638
90th Percentile £646 £630 £676
South London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 51 110 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 56.04% 75.86% 71.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 70 103
10th Percentile £407 £360 £464
25th Percentile £463 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £583
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -12.45% +5.91%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £719 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.86 -
South London median hourly rate £78.40 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -4.97% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Croydon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 7 (14.58%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) Camunda
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Serverless
3 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.33%) Azure
5 4 (8.33%) IaaS
5 4 (8.33%) PaaS
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.25%) MySQL
3 3 (6.25%) Parquet
4 2 (4.17%) GIS
4 2 (4.17%) Power BI
4 2 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
1 10 (20.83%) JIRA
2 7 (14.58%) Git
3 5 (10.42%) GitLab
3 5 (10.42%) Gradle
3 5 (10.42%) JUnit
3 5 (10.42%) Liquibase
3 5 (10.42%) Mockito
4 4 (8.33%) Postman
5 3 (6.25%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.25%) Selenium
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (47.92%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Electronics
3 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.42%) Marketing
3 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.25%) Military
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Police
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Java Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Developer
3 5 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Architect
4 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Kafka
2 9 (18.75%) Spring
3 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.42%) OpenAPI
4 5 (10.42%) React
4 5 (10.42%) Swagger
5 3 (6.25%) Apache Avro
5 3 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (6.25%) JSON
5 3 (6.25%) Keycloak
5 3 (6.25%) REST
6 2 (4.17%) .NET
6 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.17%) HTML
6 2 (4.17%) XML
7 1 (2.08%) MIDP
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) PKI
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Microservices
2 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 16 (33.33%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 13 (27.08%) DevOps
4 13 (27.08%) TDD
5 8 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.42%) Code Quality
8 5 (10.42%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.42%) Migration
8 5 (10.42%) Product Management
8 5 (10.42%) Programme Management
8 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (10.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Java
2 10 (20.83%) SQL
3 8 (16.67%) Python
4 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.33%) Bash
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) Lua
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 2 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) GDPR
1 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.08%) NCSC
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Istio
5 1 (2.08%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) SAP
2 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco
3 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) Splunk
3 2 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle