SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 262 149 161
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 12.04% 15.77% 8.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.41% 45.85% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 53 51
10th Percentile £193 £195 £175
25th Percentile £326 £200 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £365
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -4.11% -28.78%
75th Percentile £569 £560 £506
90th Percentile £675 £623 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 63 72
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.08 £21.37
25th Percentile £17.91 £31.45 £21.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £63.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -64.08% +108.26% -47.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.38 £62.94
90th Percentile £69.13 £81.95 £75.23
England median hourly rate £47.77 £55.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -13.15% +13.26% -17.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 590 325 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.11% 34.39% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 128 223
10th Percentile £191 £181 £209
25th Percentile £350 £244 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £580 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £723
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 101 216
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.44 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.83 £26.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £23.79 £62.00 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -61.63% +85.63% +59.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £47.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £47.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year -0.32% +19.13% -23.81%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the East of England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hertfordshire -1 135 £492 -10.55% 29
Bedfordshire +8 37 £575 +85.33% 9
Suffolk +2 36 £340 +51.11% 1
Cambridgeshire +6 30 £438 -10.26% 7
Essex -1 15 £488 -23.53% 11
Norfolk -17 9 £320 - 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.73%) Spreadsheet
3 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.91%) Simulink
5 1 (0.38%) CATIA
5 1 (0.38%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.38%) assyst
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (6.87%) Azure
2 13 (4.96%) AWS
3 7 (2.67%) GCP
4 6 (2.29%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.91%) SaaS
6 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.76%) Boomi
8 2 (0.76%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.76%) IaaS
8 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.38%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (4.96%) Network Security
2 13 (4.96%) VPN
3 12 (4.58%) Ethernet
4 10 (3.82%) DNS
4 10 (3.82%) Firewall
5 9 (3.44%) Structured Cabling
6 8 (3.05%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.29%) LAN
7 6 (2.29%) SSL
7 6 (2.29%) VoIP
7 6 (2.29%) WAN
8 5 (1.91%) FTP
8 5 (1.91%) HTTP
8 5 (1.91%) SMTP
9 3 (1.15%) SAN
9 3 (1.15%) SNMP
10 2 (0.76%) ADSL
10 2 (0.76%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.76%) Metadata
1 2 (0.76%) Power BI
1 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Big Data
2 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.38%) MaxDB
2 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.38%) MySQL
2 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (6.11%) Git
2 13 (4.96%) JIRA
3 8 (3.05%) GitLab
3 8 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (2.29%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.91%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.91%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.38%) Hudson
6 1 (0.38%) JMeter
6 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.38%) MSI
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) Serenity BDD
General
1 87 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.16%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.63%) Aerospace
3 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.87%) Electronics
5 17 (6.49%) Manufacturing
6 16 (6.11%) Legal
7 15 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (5.34%) Finance
9 13 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (4.58%) Marketing
10 12 (4.58%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.82%) Military
12 7 (2.67%) Law
13 5 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.53%) Games
15 3 (1.15%) Automotive
16 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.76%) Publishing
17 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (13.36%) Software Engineer
2 34 (12.98%) Analyst
3 27 (10.31%) Administrator
4 17 (6.49%) Architect
5 16 (6.11%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.73%) IT Engineer
7 14 (5.34%) Desktop Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Desktop Support
8 13 (4.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) IT Support
9 12 (4.58%) Embedded Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 12 (4.58%) Senior
10 11 (4.20%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.44%) Consultant
11 9 (3.44%) Developer
11 9 (3.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) IT Administrator
11 9 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.44%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.58%) LDAP
1 12 (4.58%) React
2 7 (2.67%) Middleware
3 6 (2.29%) Node.js
4 5 (1.91%) Web Services
5 4 (1.53%) .NET
6 3 (1.15%) eBPF
6 3 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.15%) REST
6 3 (1.15%) SOAP
7 2 (0.76%) Kafka
8 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.38%) Express.js
8 1 (0.38%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.38%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.38%) SGML
8 1 (0.38%) WinForms
8 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.87%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.82%) FPGA
4 9 (3.44%) Insider Threat
4 9 (3.44%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.05%) PCIe
5 8 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.67%) SCADA
6 7 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.29%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.91%) CSOC
8 5 (1.91%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.91%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.12%) Windows
2 24 (9.16%) Linux
3 11 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.67%) CentOS
5 7 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.29%) Android
6 6 (2.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (18.32%) Software Engineering
2 40 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (11.07%) Migration
4 27 (10.31%) Workflow
5 24 (9.16%) Change Management
6 23 (8.78%) Agile
7 22 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (8.02%) Workflow Management
9 20 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (7.63%) ITIL
10 17 (6.49%) Customer Service
11 16 (6.11%) Time Management
12 15 (5.73%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (5.73%) Information Security
12 15 (5.73%) ITSM
13 14 (5.34%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (5.34%) Service Management
14 13 (4.96%) CI/CD
14 13 (4.96%) SDLC
14 13 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.78%) C++
2 20 (7.63%) Python
3 16 (6.11%) C
4 14 (5.34%) C#
5 13 (4.96%) MATLAB
6 12 (4.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.20%) Ada
7 11 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.20%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.29%) SQL
10 5 (1.91%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.91%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (1.53%) Java
11 4 (1.53%) Tcl
12 3 (1.15%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 262 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.69%) DV Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) Degree
4 10 (3.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 9 (3.44%) CTC Cleared
5 9 (3.44%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.91%) HNC
7 5 (1.91%) HND
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.16%) SLA
2 11 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.44%) Def Stans
4 7 (2.67%) NIST
5 5 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.53%) DO-254
6 4 (1.53%) QA
7 3 (1.15%) GDPR
8 2 (0.76%) ISA99
8 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.76%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.76%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.29%) Firmware
4 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Docker
6 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.96%) Ansible
2 7 (2.67%) Check_MK
2 7 (2.67%) Podman
2 7 (2.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (1.53%) Grafana
3 4 (1.53%) Terraform
3 4 (1.53%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.15%) SCCM
5 2 (0.76%) Nessus
5 2 (0.76%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.76%) VxRail
5 2 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.31%) SAP
3 26 (9.92%) VMware
4 14 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.82%) Dell
6 9 (3.44%) HP
7 8 (3.05%) Altera
7 8 (3.05%) Cisco
8 7 (2.67%) Google
8 7 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.29%) Canon
10 5 (1.91%) Barracuda Networks
10 5 (1.91%) Intel
10 5 (1.91%) Microsemi
10 5 (1.91%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.91%) Xilinx
11 4 (1.53%) Actel
11 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.53%) Meraki
11 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft