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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 76 110 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.11% 12.60% 11.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.70% 44.00% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 82
10th Percentile £194 £150 £313
25th Percentile £200 £309 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £568
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -8.37% +26.11%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £700
90th Percentile £588 £659 £772
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 6
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.72 £11.80
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.73 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% +27.55% -32.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.66 £21.55
90th Percentile - £51.91 £22.34
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £57.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -9.23% +10.58%

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 178 250 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.02% 28.64% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 142 216
10th Percentile £200 £181 £304
25th Percentile £258 £254 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £400 £519
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -22.97% +18.01%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £659 £720
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £12.75 £9.50
25th Percentile £17.96 £14.72 £11.80
Median hourly rate £22.15 £21.46 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% +1.29% -9.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% -24.55% +35.80%

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

SC Cleared
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

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 23 June 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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 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 38 £200 -37.50% 75
Lincolnshire 0 16 £513 -18.00% 33
Nottinghamshire +8 13 £425 - 45
Leicestershire -13 6 £540 +3.85% 28
Northamptonshire -10 1 £525 +43.84% 20
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
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 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.63%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) Azure
2 4 (5.26%) AWS
3 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.63%) GCP
4 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.63%) Serverless
5 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (5.26%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (3.95%) Firewall
3 3 (3.95%) IPsec
4 2 (2.63%) HSRP
4 2 (2.63%) LAN
4 2 (2.63%) OSPF
4 2 (2.63%) SAN
4 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.63%) VLAN
4 2 (2.63%) WAN
5 1 (1.32%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
1 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.32%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.32%) GitLab
2 1 (1.32%) Maven
2 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) Aviation
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Law
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (14.47%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) IT Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Consultant
4 7 (9.21%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.58%) Developer
7 4 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (5.26%) Break Fix Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Desktop Support
7 4 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Architect
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Windows Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) .NET
1 1 (1.32%) JWT
1 1 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.32%) OAuth
1 1 (1.32%) REST
1 1 (1.32%) SAML
1 1 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.32%) FPGA
4 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.32%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (5.26%) Linux
4 4 (5.26%) Windows 7
4 4 (5.26%) Windows Vista
5 2 (2.63%) Debian
5 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Break/Fix
2 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (10.53%) Coaching
4 7 (9.21%) Service Delivery
5 6 (7.89%) Configuration Management
5 6 (7.89%) Migration
5 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
5 6 (7.89%) Ticket Management
5 6 (7.89%) Time Management
6 5 (6.58%) Asset Management
6 5 (6.58%) ITIL
7 4 (5.26%) Agile
7 4 (5.26%) Analytics
7 4 (5.26%) Data Engineering
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (3.95%) Data Migration
8 3 (3.95%) Project Delivery
8 3 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (3.95%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.89%) Python
2 4 (5.26%) SQL
3 2 (2.63%) Java
3 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
3 2 (2.63%) X++
4 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.32%) Bash
4 1 (1.32%) C#
4 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.95%) CCNP
2 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.63%) Docker
5 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) SCCM
2 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) SCOM
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Ansible
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) VMware
2 8 (10.53%) Cisco
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) Dell
3 5 (6.58%) HP
4 3 (3.95%) F5
4 3 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) Juniper
4 3 (3.95%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Cognos
6 1 (1.32%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow