SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in East Kilbride

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South Lanarkshire > East Kilbride

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Kilbride with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 5 9 93
As % of all contract jobs in East Kilbride 62.50% 50.00% 64.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 75.00% 84.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 60
10th Percentile £530 £390 £250
25th Percentile £538 £431 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £691
90th Percentile £570 £670 £700
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +50.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Kilbride

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 East Kilbride.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5 12 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Kilbride 62.50% 66.67% 76.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 68
10th Percentile £530 £395 £250
25th Percentile £538 £427 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +62.50%
75th Percentile £563 £543 £700
90th Percentile £570 £670 -
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +62.50%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in East Kilbride

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Kilbride.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in East Kilbride

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in East Kilbride

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in East Kilbride

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) OAT Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle