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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 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 51 97 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 57.95% 71.85% 50.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 94.44% 93.27% 74.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 63
10th Percentile £449 £363 £469
25th Percentile £463 £449 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £673 £630 £650
South London median daily rate £520 £519 £540
% change year-on-year +0.24% -3.94% -1.82%

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 54 104 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 61.36% 77.04% 67.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 71 88
10th Percentile £450 £360 £468
25th Percentile £463 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -7.09% -
75th Percentile £627 £575 £650
90th Percentile £738 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% -3.18%
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 22 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 6 (11.76%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Camunda
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Serverless
3 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 6 (11.76%) Azure
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (7.84%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (5.88%) IaaS
6 3 (5.88%) PaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.92%) GCP
7 2 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Parquet
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.92%) GIS
5 2 (3.92%) Power BI
5 2 (3.92%) Redis
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 10 (19.61%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) JIRA
4 7 (13.73%) JUnit
4 7 (13.73%) Mockito
5 6 (11.76%) GitLab
6 5 (9.80%) Gradle
6 5 (9.80%) Liquibase
7 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.92%) Maven
7 2 (3.92%) Postman
7 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.92%) Selenium
7 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.96%) Storybook
8 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (49.02%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Electronics
4 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.80%) Marketing
4 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.84%) Military
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Java Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Product Manager
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) Kafka
2 12 (23.53%) Spring
3 9 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.76%) React
5 5 (9.80%) OpenAPI
5 5 (9.80%) REST
5 5 (9.80%) Swagger
6 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.88%) Apache Avro
7 3 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (5.88%) JSON
7 3 (5.88%) Keycloak
8 2 (3.92%) .NET
8 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.92%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.92%) HTML
8 2 (3.92%) JPA
8 2 (3.92%) SOAP
8 2 (3.92%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) CSOC
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Microservices
2 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (35.29%) DevOps
3 17 (33.33%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 15 (29.41%) TDD
5 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
8 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.80%) Code Quality
9 5 (9.80%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (9.80%) Migration
9 5 (9.80%) Product Management
9 5 (9.80%) Programme Management
9 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Java
2 10 (19.61%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Python
4 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) C#
7 2 (3.92%) Lua
7 2 (3.92%) Perl
7 2 (3.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Grafana
2 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 6 (11.76%) Terraform
3 5 (9.80%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Istio
5 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) SAP
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Confluent
5 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle