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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 200 190 170
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.85% 15.47% 9.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.84% 46.23% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 67 56
10th Percentile £74 £153 £175
25th Percentile £369 £200 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £479 £339
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +41.33% -32.25%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £478
90th Percentile £725 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 89 87
10th Percentile £17.87 £15.82 £21.37
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +32.07% -28.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £86.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +151.03% -49.70% -12.79%

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 574 411 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.39% 33.47% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 171 210
10th Percentile £168 £179 £213
25th Percentile £400 £309 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 125 200
10th Percentile £17.18 £15.97 £15.08
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £57.25 £38.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.66% -11.63% +77.87%
75th Percentile £73.59 £72.50 £64.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -34.88% -21.82%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +1 100 £500 -6.98% 30
Bedfordshire +5 50 £74 -80.27% 25
Cambridgeshire -3 18 £450 -10.00% 11
Suffolk -6 16 £625 +177.78%
Essex -10 16 £450 +194.12% 8
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 6 (3.00%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.00%) Simulink
3 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.50%) CATIA
4 1 (0.50%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.00%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.50%) Azure
2 11 (5.50%) AWS
3 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.00%) SaaS
4 3 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (1.50%) IaaS
4 3 (1.50%) iPaaS
4 3 (1.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.00%) Boomi
5 2 (1.00%) Cohesity
5 2 (1.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.00%) PaaS
6 1 (0.50%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.50%) Ethernet
2 10 (5.00%) DNS
3 9 (4.50%) Firewall
4 7 (3.50%) SAN
4 7 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.00%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (3.00%) VLAN
6 4 (2.00%) SNMP
6 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.50%) LAN
7 3 (1.50%) Network Security
7 3 (1.50%) VPN
7 3 (1.50%) VSAN
7 3 (1.50%) WAN
8 2 (1.00%) ADSL
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.00%) DHCP
8 2 (1.00%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.00%) NAS
8 2 (1.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.00%) MaxDB
2 6 (3.00%) SAP HANA
2 6 (3.00%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (1.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.50%) Big Data
4 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.50%) Metadata
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Git
2 10 (5.00%) JIRA
3 7 (3.50%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (3.50%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.00%) GitLab
4 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.00%) Rational Rhapsody
5 5 (2.50%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) Hudson
6 1 (0.50%) JMeter
6 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.50%) MSI
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.50%) VectorCAST
General
1 43 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.00%) Legal
4 9 (4.50%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.50%) Military
6 6 (3.00%) Finance
6 6 (3.00%) Law
7 5 (2.50%) Electronics
7 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Automotive
9 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.00%) Games
10 2 (1.00%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (21.50%) Software Engineer
2 18 (9.00%) Consultant
2 18 (9.00%) Principal Engineer
3 15 (7.50%) Administrator
3 15 (7.50%) Analyst
3 15 (7.50%) Principal Software Engineer
4 13 (6.50%) Senior
5 12 (6.00%) SAP Support
6 10 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Ada Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.50%) Support Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Ada Software Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) FPGA Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
10 6 (3.00%) SAP Administrator
10 6 (3.00%) SAP Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) SAP Security Administrator
10 6 (3.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (3.00%) .NET
2 6 (3.00%) React
2 6 (3.00%) SAP Basis
2 6 (3.00%) SAPUI5
3 5 (2.50%) LDAP
3 5 (2.50%) Middleware
3 5 (2.50%) Node.js
3 5 (2.50%) Web Services
4 4 (2.00%) eBPF
4 4 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.00%) REST
4 4 (2.00%) SOAP
5 2 (1.00%) WinForms
5 2 (1.00%) WPF
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.50%) SGML
6 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Data Centre
1 14 (7.00%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.00%) FPGA
3 8 (4.00%) CMDB
4 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (3.00%) PCIe
5 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.50%) Replication
6 5 (2.50%) Verilog
7 4 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.50%) Insider Threat
8 3 (1.50%) Robotics
8 3 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.00%) Windows
2 25 (12.50%) Linux
3 11 (5.50%) CentOS
3 11 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.00%) Rocky
5 2 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.50%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.00%) Agile
4 22 (11.00%) Test Automation
5 20 (10.00%) ITSM
6 18 (9.00%) Change Management
7 16 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.00%) Migration
7 16 (8.00%) Software Testing
8 15 (7.50%) SDLC
9 14 (7.00%) Test Scripting
9 14 (7.00%) Validation
10 13 (6.50%) DevOps
10 13 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (6.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (5.50%) ITIL
12 11 (5.50%) Risk Management
13 10 (5.00%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.50%) C++
2 18 (9.00%) Python
3 14 (7.00%) C#
3 14 (7.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.50%) Ada
5 12 (6.00%) C
6 10 (5.00%) MATLAB
7 7 (3.50%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.00%) Bash
8 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.50%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.50%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.50%) SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Tcl
12 1 (0.50%) Java
12 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 200 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.50%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.50%) Degree
4 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) HNC
6 3 (1.50%) HND
6 3 (1.50%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CCSP
8 1 (0.50%) PhD
8 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) SLA
2 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.00%) GDPR
4 5 (2.50%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.50%) QA
6 2 (1.00%) DO-178B
6 2 (1.00%) DO-254
6 2 (1.00%) GRC
6 2 (1.00%) ISA99
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.50%) Firmware
4 6 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.00%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (10.50%) Ansible
2 7 (3.50%) Terraform
2 7 (3.50%) vCenter Server
3 6 (3.00%) Grafana
3 6 (3.00%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.50%) Check_MK
4 5 (2.50%) Podman
4 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.00%) VxRail
6 3 (1.50%) SCCM
6 3 (1.50%) vRealize
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.00%) Nessus
7 2 (1.00%) WSUS
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.50%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.00%) SAP
2 20 (10.00%) VMware
3 17 (8.50%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.00%) Remedy
5 8 (4.00%) Oracle
6 7 (3.50%) BMC
6 7 (3.50%) NetApp
6 7 (3.50%) Veeam
7 6 (3.00%) Altera
7 6 (3.00%) Dell
7 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.00%) Sybase
7 6 (3.00%) Xilinx
8 5 (2.50%) Intel
8 5 (2.50%) Microsemi
8 5 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.00%) Cisco
9 4 (2.00%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.00%) HP