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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 189 193 162
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.48% 15.61% 9.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.36% 46.96% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 67 56
10th Percentile £74 £153 £175
25th Percentile £400 £199 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £330
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +45.07% -34.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £475
90th Percentile £725 £610 £556
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 91 84
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.99 £21.37
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +27.23% -21.40%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.31 £85.75 £69.63
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £50.63
% change year-on-year +151.03% -50.32% -11.96%

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 550 411 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.67% 33.25% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 167 201
10th Percentile £168 £178 £205
25th Percentile £425 £319 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 127 191
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.48 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £62.00 £32.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.77% -24.42% +72.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £69.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.80 £43.00
% change year-on-year +109.30% -40.00% -23.61%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 0 97 £500 -9.09% 27
Bedfordshire +4 47 £74 -80.27% 9
Cambridgeshire -10 17 £475 -5.00% 6
Suffolk -5 14 £697 +209.78% 4
Essex -14 14 £450 +194.12% 6
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 (3.17%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.65%) Simulink
3 2 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) CATIA
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.06%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Primavera
4 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.99%) Azure
2 11 (5.82%) AWS
3 4 (2.12%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.12%) SaaS
4 3 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (1.59%) IaaS
4 3 (1.59%) iPaaS
4 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.06%) Boomi
5 2 (1.06%) Cohesity
5 2 (1.06%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.06%) PaaS
5 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.82%) DNS
2 9 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 9 (4.76%) Firewall
3 8 (4.23%) SAN
4 7 (3.70%) VLAN
4 7 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.17%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (2.12%) SNMP
6 4 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.12%) VSAN
7 3 (1.59%) Network Security
7 3 (1.59%) VPN
8 2 (1.06%) ADSL
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.06%) DHCP
8 2 (1.06%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.06%) LAN
8 2 (1.06%) NAS
8 2 (1.06%) Skype
8 2 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.17%) MaxDB
2 6 (3.17%) SAP HANA
2 6 (3.17%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (2.12%) Metadata
3 4 (2.12%) Power BI
4 3 (1.59%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
5 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Power Query
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Git
2 10 (5.29%) JIRA
3 6 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.65%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.65%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.65%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (2.12%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) Hudson
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.53%) MSI
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.53%) VectorCAST
General
1 37 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.82%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.23%) Legal
6 7 (3.70%) Military
7 6 (3.17%) Finance
7 6 (3.17%) Law
8 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Electronics
9 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Automotive
10 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (20.11%) Software Engineer
2 19 (10.05%) Principal Engineer
3 18 (9.52%) Consultant
4 15 (7.94%) Principal Software Engineer
4 15 (7.94%) Senior
5 13 (6.88%) Administrator
5 13 (6.88%) Analyst
6 12 (6.35%) SAP Support
7 10 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) Ada Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) Ada Software Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) VMware Consultant
11 6 (3.17%) Data Centre Manager
11 6 (3.17%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.17%) SAP Basis Support
11 6 (3.17%) SAP Engineer
11 6 (3.17%) Security Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.23%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (3.17%) React
2 6 (3.17%) SAP Basis
2 6 (3.17%) SAPUI5
3 5 (2.65%) Node.js
3 5 (2.65%) Web Services
4 4 (2.12%) eBPF
4 4 (2.12%) LDAP
4 4 (2.12%) Middleware
4 4 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.12%) REST
4 4 (2.12%) SOAP
5 3 (1.59%) .NET
6 1 (0.53%) Kafka
6 1 (0.53%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.53%) WinForms
6 1 (0.53%) WPF
6 1 (0.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (6.88%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.29%) FPGA
4 8 (4.23%) CMDB
4 8 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.17%) Replication
7 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.12%) PCIe
8 4 (2.12%) Verilog
9 3 (1.59%) PKI
9 3 (1.59%) Robotics
9 3 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.59%) VHDL
9 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.76%) Windows
2 24 (12.70%) Linux
3 12 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.82%) CentOS
4 11 (5.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.70%) Rocky
6 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.53%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.34%) Software Engineering
2 30 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.70%) Agile
4 21 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 20 (10.58%) ITSM
6 19 (10.05%) Change Management
7 16 (8.47%) Migration
7 16 (8.47%) Software Testing
8 15 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 14 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (7.41%) SDLC
9 14 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (7.41%) Test Scripting
9 14 (7.41%) Validation
10 11 (5.82%) DevOps
10 11 (5.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (5.82%) ITIL
10 11 (5.82%) Risk Management
10 11 (5.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (5.29%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.05%) C++
1 19 (10.05%) Python
2 15 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.35%) Ada
3 12 (6.35%) C
4 11 (5.82%) C#
5 8 (4.23%) MATLAB
6 7 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.70%) SQL
7 6 (3.17%) Bash
7 6 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.12%) SystemVerilog
9 3 (1.59%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.53%) Java
10 1 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 189 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.99%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) Degree
4 6 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) SLA
2 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.17%) GDPR
4 5 (2.65%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.59%) QA
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) DO-178B
6 2 (1.06%) GRC
6 2 (1.06%) ISA99
6 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) DO-254
7 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.53%) MISRA
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Active Directory
1 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (2.65%) Firmware
4 3 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.06%) vSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (11.11%) Ansible
2 8 (4.23%) vCenter Server
3 7 (3.70%) NetBackup
3 7 (3.70%) Terraform
4 6 (3.17%) Grafana
5 5 (2.65%) VxRail
6 4 (2.12%) Check_MK
6 4 (2.12%) Podman
6 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (2.12%) vRealize
7 3 (1.59%) SCCM
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.06%) Nessus
8 2 (1.06%) WSUS
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceCenter
9 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) SAP
2 20 (10.58%) VMware
3 17 (8.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.29%) Remedy
5 8 (4.23%) NetApp
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle
5 8 (4.23%) Veeam
6 7 (3.70%) BMC
7 6 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.17%) Sybase
8 5 (2.65%) Dell
8 5 (2.65%) Xilinx
9 4 (2.12%) Altera
9 4 (2.12%) Cisco
9 4 (2.12%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.12%) Intel
9 4 (2.12%) Microsemi
9 4 (2.12%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.12%) Splunk