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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 188 198 151
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.55% 15.85% 8.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.88% 48.18% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 67 51
10th Percentile £74 £153 £175
25th Percentile £400 £199 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £479 £330
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +45.07% -34.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £475
90th Percentile £725 £610 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 98 81
10th Percentile £17.87 £15.31 £21.37
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £67.86 £42.75 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% +3.60% -15.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.76 £86.43 £67.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £52.19
% change year-on-year +151.03% -51.81% -9.23%

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 539 411 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.50% 32.91% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 162 175
10th Percentile £168 £178 £202
25th Percentile £413 £308 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 136 177
10th Percentile £17.74 £15.71 £15.34
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £59.50 £33.37 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.32% -22.40% +86.25%
75th Percentile £74.25 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.50 £73.95
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 96 £500 -9.09% 24
Bedfordshire +5 47 £74 -80.27% 21
Cambridgeshire -11 17 £475 -5.00% 8
Suffolk -5 16 £661 +193.78% 3
Essex -17 12 £425 +177.78% 4
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 (3.19%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.13%) 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
4 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.66%) 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 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.79%) 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 (9.04%) Azure
2 12 (6.38%) AWS
3 4 (2.13%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.13%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.13%) SaaS
4 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (1.60%) IaaS
4 3 (1.60%) iPaaS
4 3 (1.60%) 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%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.53%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.38%) DNS
2 10 (5.32%) Firewall
2 10 (5.32%) SAN
3 8 (4.26%) Ethernet
3 8 (4.26%) VLAN
4 7 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.19%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (2.66%) VSAN
7 4 (2.13%) SNMP
7 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.60%) Network Security
8 3 (1.60%) Skype
8 3 (1.60%) VPN
9 2 (1.06%) ADSL
9 2 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.06%) DHCP
9 2 (1.06%) IPsec
9 2 (1.06%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.06%) NAS
9 2 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.19%) MaxDB
2 6 (3.19%) SAP HANA
2 6 (3.19%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (2.13%) Metadata
3 4 (2.13%) Power BI
4 3 (1.60%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.53%) MySQL
6 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Power Query
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Git
2 10 (5.32%) JIRA
3 6 (3.19%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.66%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.66%) GitLab
4 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.60%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) Hudson
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.53%) MSI
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.53%) VectorCAST
General
1 37 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.85%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.26%) Law
6 7 (3.72%) Military
7 6 (3.19%) Finance
7 6 (3.19%) Legal
8 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Electronics
9 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.68%) Software Engineer
2 19 (10.11%) Principal Engineer
3 18 (9.57%) Consultant
4 16 (8.51%) Senior
5 15 (7.98%) Principal Software Engineer
6 12 (6.38%) Administrator
6 12 (6.38%) Analyst
6 12 (6.38%) SAP Support
7 11 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Ada Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) VMware Consultant
10 7 (3.72%) Ada Software Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Architect
11 6 (3.19%) Data Centre Project Manager
11 6 (3.19%) SAP Basis Support
11 6 (3.19%) SAP Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) SAP Security Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (3.19%) React
2 6 (3.19%) SAP Basis
2 6 (3.19%) SAPUI5
3 5 (2.66%) Node.js
3 5 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.66%) Web Services
4 4 (2.13%) eBPF
4 4 (2.13%) LDAP
4 4 (2.13%) Middleware
4 4 (2.13%) REST
4 4 (2.13%) SOAP
5 3 (1.60%) .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 (7.45%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.79%) FPGA
3 9 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) CMDB
4 8 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.26%) Replication
5 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.13%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.13%) Verilog
9 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.60%) PCIe
9 3 (1.60%) PKI
9 3 (1.60%) Robotics
9 3 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.60%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.36%) Windows
2 26 (13.83%) Linux
3 14 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.91%) CentOS
4 13 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.79%) 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 44 (23.40%) Software Engineering
2 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.77%) Agile
4 20 (10.64%) ITSM
4 20 (10.64%) Test Automation
5 19 (10.11%) Change Management
6 17 (9.04%) Migration
7 16 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (8.51%) Software Testing
8 15 (7.98%) CI/CD
8 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (7.45%) SDLC
9 14 (7.45%) Test Scripting
9 14 (7.45%) Validation
10 12 (6.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (5.85%) DevOps
11 11 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (5.85%) Risk Management
11 11 (5.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (5.32%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.17%) Python
2 17 (9.04%) C++
2 17 (9.04%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.85%) C
3 11 (5.85%) C#
4 10 (5.32%) Ada
5 9 (4.79%) SQL
6 8 (4.26%) MATLAB
7 7 (3.72%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.19%) Bash
8 6 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.13%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.60%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.53%) Java
11 1 (0.53%) Korn
11 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 188 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.98%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) Degree
4 6 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) APMG
7 1 (0.53%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) SLA
2 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.19%) GDPR
4 4 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.13%) Def Stans
4 4 (2.13%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) DO-178B
5 2 (1.06%) GRC
5 2 (1.06%) ISA99
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) DO-254
6 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.53%) MISRA
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.66%) Firmware
5 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.06%) vSphere
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (12.23%) Ansible
2 9 (4.79%) NetBackup
2 9 (4.79%) vCenter Server
3 7 (3.72%) Grafana
3 7 (3.72%) Terraform
4 6 (3.19%) VxRail
5 5 (2.66%) vRealize
6 4 (2.13%) Check_MK
6 4 (2.13%) Podman
6 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.60%) 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 24 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.17%) VMware
3 20 (10.64%) SAP
4 15 (7.98%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.32%) NetApp
5 10 (5.32%) Remedy
5 10 (5.32%) Veeam
6 8 (4.26%) Oracle
7 7 (3.72%) BMC
7 7 (3.72%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.19%) Sybase
9 5 (2.66%) Cribl.io
9 5 (2.66%) Splunk
9 5 (2.66%) Xilinx
10 4 (2.13%) Cisco
10 4 (2.13%) Dell
10 4 (2.13%) Intel
10 4 (2.13%) Microsemi
10 4 (2.13%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.60%) Altera