SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 108 75 90
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.23% 9.72% 11.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.37% 38.86% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 27 44
10th Percentile £216 £182 £257
25th Percentile £409 £200 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% -12.34%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £606
90th Percentile £659 £560 £659
England median daily rate £538 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +2.38% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 22
10th Percentile £18.31 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £18.87 £22.89
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -17.54% +29.15%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £37.73
90th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +151.03% -58.08% +6.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 228 193 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.38% 25.00% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 104 101
10th Percentile £175 £176 £297
25th Percentile £313 £308 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £437 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £541 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £659
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 39 25
10th Percentile £16.46 - £12.75
25th Percentile £18.14 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.25 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -1.57% +20.31%
75th Percentile £26.34 £25.15 £42.25
90th Percentile £58.00 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -1.42%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -1 54 £513 +10.95% 18
Nottinghamshire -6 21 £425 - 49
Lincolnshire -11 18 £645 +224.94% 19
Leicestershire +2 13 £418 - 10
Northamptonshire +13 1 £410 -15.90% 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.93%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.85%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.93%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (12.04%) Entra ID
2 13 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.63%) IaaS
4 5 (4.63%) PaaS
4 5 (4.63%) SaaS
5 3 (2.78%) AWS
5 3 (2.78%) Azure AKS
5 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) GCP
6 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) VPN
2 7 (6.48%) Firewall
2 7 (6.48%) VLAN
3 6 (5.56%) DHCP
3 6 (5.56%) DNS
3 6 (5.56%) Network Security
4 5 (4.63%) IPv4
4 5 (4.63%) IPv6
5 4 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.78%) WAN
7 2 (1.85%) BGP
7 2 (1.85%) OSPF
7 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.93%) LAN
8 1 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.93%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) SSL
8 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.93%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) JIRA
1 2 (1.85%) JMeter
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (1.85%) Zephyr
2 1 (0.93%) Ant
2 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) Maven
2 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.26%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 5 (4.63%) Automotive
5 5 (4.63%) Finance
6 3 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Architect
2 13 (12.04%) IT Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Windows Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (9.26%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Tester
8 6 (5.56%) Performance Tester
8 6 (5.56%) Windows Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Server Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Developer
10 3 (2.78%) IT Support
10 3 (2.78%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.85%) SOAP
2 2 (1.85%) Software Packaging
2 2 (1.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) Web Services
2 2 (1.85%) XML
2 2 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.41%) CMDB
3 6 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.85%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.48%) Windows
2 13 (12.04%) Windows 10
3 12 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.70%) Linux
4 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.00%) Migration
2 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (9.26%) Decision-Making
4 9 (8.33%) DevOps
4 9 (8.33%) Validation
5 8 (7.41%) Agile
5 8 (7.41%) Customer Service
6 7 (6.48%) Architecture Governance
6 7 (6.48%) Biometrics
6 7 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (6.48%) Test Automation
7 6 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (4.63%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (3.70%) Data Migration
9 4 (3.70%) Data Modelling
9 4 (3.70%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 9 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.93%) Bicep
3 1 (0.93%) Java
3 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 108 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.85%) CCNA
4 2 (1.85%) CCNP
4 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.85%) Degree
4 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.85%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) CIPD
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) PMO
2 1 (0.93%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.11%) vSphere
4 4 (3.70%) Docker
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) SCCM
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.63%) WSUS
4 2 (1.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.85%) SCOM
4 2 (1.85%) VxRail
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.52%) VMware
3 5 (4.63%) Citrix
3 5 (4.63%) Databricks
3 5 (4.63%) SAP
4 4 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (1.85%) Cisco
5 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.85%) Google
5 2 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.85%) Workday
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.93%) HP
6 1 (0.93%) NetApp
6 1 (0.93%) Siemens
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds