SC Cleared Contracts 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 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 7 7 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 63 98 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.75% 12.68% 11.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.75% 38.89% 37.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 79
10th Percentile - £150 £353
25th Percentile £200 £347 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +23.53%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £700
90th Percentile £651 £653 £743
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 13
10th Percentile £18.83 £12.75 £11.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £14.72 £11.80
Median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -3.40% +3.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £45.18 £40.25
90th Percentile £29.14 £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £57.63
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.24% +10.83%

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 144 252 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.87% 32.60% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 145 223
10th Percentile £200 £167 £226
25th Percentile £225 £230 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £360 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -28.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £640 £669 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 49
10th Percentile £18.42 £12.75 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.23 £14.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £20.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +21.70% +18.84% -21.72%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.56 £26.48
90th Percentile £31.17 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +2 31 £200 -9.09% 16
Leicestershire -1 14 £650 +27.45% 3
Lincolnshire 0 9 £513 -21.15% 3
Nottinghamshire +2 6 £425 -26.09% 13
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.76%) AWS
1 3 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.59%) GCP
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Remote Desktop
2 10 (15.87%) Firewall
3 6 (9.52%) DNS
4 5 (7.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (7.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (7.94%) IPsec
5 4 (6.35%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (6.35%) HSRP
5 4 (6.35%) OSPF
5 4 (6.35%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) LAN
6 2 (3.17%) SAN
6 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.17%) WAN
7 1 (1.59%) 3G
7 1 (1.59%) 3GPP
7 1 (1.59%) 4G
7 1 (1.59%) DHCP
7 1 (1.59%) LTE
7 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.59%) Chocolatey
1 1 (1.59%) Git
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.59%) Maven
1 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Law
2 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.35%) Finance
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Architect
2 10 (15.87%) Network Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) VMware Architect
5 4 (6.35%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Break Fix Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Lead
8 1 (1.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) .NET
1 1 (1.59%) JWT
1 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.59%) OAuth
1 1 (1.59%) REST
1 1 (1.59%) SAML
1 1 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) FPGA
3 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.40%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Windows 10
3 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (6.35%) Linux
4 4 (6.35%) Windows 7
4 4 (6.35%) Windows Vista
5 2 (3.17%) Debian
5 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.81%) Break/Fix
2 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (12.70%) Configuration Management
4 5 (7.94%) Agile
4 5 (7.94%) Biometrics
4 5 (7.94%) ITIL
4 5 (7.94%) Migration
5 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (6.35%) Use Case
6 3 (4.76%) Project Delivery
6 3 (4.76%) Roadmaps
6 3 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.17%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.17%) Data Modelling
7 2 (3.17%) Network Architecture
7 2 (3.17%) Programme Management
7 2 (3.17%) Project Management
7 2 (3.17%) System Testing
7 2 (3.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.35%) Python
2 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.59%) Bash
3 1 (1.59%) C#
3 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) CCNP
2 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.17%) Docker
5 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) SCCM
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) SCOM
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.59%) Podman
3 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) VMware
2 10 (15.87%) Cisco
2 10 (15.87%) F5
2 10 (15.87%) SolarWinds
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.94%) Juniper
5 3 (4.76%) Dell
5 3 (4.76%) HP
6 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow