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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 221 165 189
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.87% 15.74% 9.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.71% 45.58% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 53
10th Percentile £165 £153 £175
25th Percentile £394 £200 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% - -30.00%
75th Percentile £633 £550 £506
90th Percentile £725 £575 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 73 92
10th Percentile £16.87 £15.08 £21.37
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.87 £21.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +51.46% -28.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £87.55 £72.93
England median hourly rate £60.92 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +142.21% -52.10% -8.70%

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 586 362 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.18% 34.54% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 154 224
10th Percentile £168 £178 £222
25th Percentile £397 £225 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -
75th Percentile £656 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £619 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 106 225
10th Percentile £17.06 £15.44 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £48.17 £47.50 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +15.11% +96.50%
75th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.36 £85.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year +75.00% -28.14% -24.09%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +2 103 £496 -3.22% 29
Bedfordshire +4 57 £475 +442.86% 8
Suffolk +1 25 £650 +188.89%
Cambridgeshire -2 18 £450 -10.00% 7
Essex -6 17 £450 +194.12% 4
Norfolk -23 1 £295 -45.12% 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 6 (2.71%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.17%) Simulink
4 3 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) CATIA
5 1 (0.45%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.07%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.90%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.90%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.14%) Azure
2 10 (4.52%) AWS
3 4 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
3 4 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.81%) SaaS
4 3 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (1.36%) IaaS
4 3 (1.36%) iPaaS
4 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (0.90%) Boomi
5 2 (0.90%) Cohesity
5 2 (0.90%) GCP
5 2 (0.90%) Google Workspace
5 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
5 2 (0.90%) PaaS
6 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.98%) Ethernet
2 9 (4.07%) Firewall
2 9 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.62%) VPN
4 7 (3.17%) DNS
5 6 (2.71%) Network Security
5 6 (2.71%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.26%) LAN
6 5 (2.26%) WAN
7 3 (1.36%) SAN
7 3 (1.36%) SNMP
7 3 (1.36%) VLAN
7 3 (1.36%) VSAN
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.90%) DHCP
8 2 (0.90%) IPsec
8 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.90%) NAS
8 2 (0.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.71%) MaxDB
2 6 (2.71%) SAP HANA
2 6 (2.71%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (1.36%) Power BI
4 2 (0.90%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) Big Data
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.24%) Git
2 13 (5.88%) JIRA
3 10 (4.52%) GitLab
3 10 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (3.17%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.71%) Rational Rhapsody
6 5 (2.26%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) Hudson
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.45%) MSI
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.45%) VectorCAST
General
1 45 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.14%) Aerospace
3 15 (6.79%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.88%) Legal
5 7 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.71%) Finance
6 6 (2.71%) Law
6 6 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.26%) Electronics
7 5 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.81%) Military
9 3 (1.36%) Automotive
9 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.90%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (18.10%) Software Engineer
2 22 (9.95%) Analyst
3 21 (9.50%) Administrator
4 16 (7.24%) Consultant
5 15 (6.79%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (5.88%) Senior
7 12 (5.43%) Principal Software Engineer
7 12 (5.43%) SAP Support
8 10 (4.52%) Architect
8 10 (4.52%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Ada Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (4.07%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Ada Software Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) FPGA Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.17%) Developer
11 7 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.98%) React
2 9 (4.07%) LDAP
2 9 (4.07%) Middleware
3 8 (3.62%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (2.71%) .NET
4 6 (2.71%) SAP Basis
4 6 (2.71%) SAPUI5
5 5 (2.26%) Node.js
5 5 (2.26%) Web Services
6 4 (1.81%) REST
6 4 (1.81%) SOAP
7 3 (1.36%) eBPF
7 3 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.90%) WinForms
8 2 (0.90%) WPF
9 1 (0.45%) Kafka
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.45%) SGML
9 1 (0.45%) XML
9 1 (0.45%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.88%) FPGA
3 12 (5.43%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.52%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.62%) CMDB
7 6 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.71%) PCIe
8 5 (2.26%) Insider Threat
8 5 (2.26%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.26%) SCADA
8 5 (2.26%) Verilog
8 5 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.81%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.81%) VHDL
10 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.57%) Windows
2 27 (12.22%) Linux
3 10 (4.52%) CentOS
3 10 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) Unix
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Rocky
6 1 (0.45%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 35 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.22%) Agile
4 22 (9.95%) ITSM
4 22 (9.95%) Test Automation
5 20 (9.05%) Change Management
6 19 (8.60%) Migration
7 17 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (6.79%) CI/CD
8 15 (6.79%) ITIL
8 15 (6.79%) SDLC
9 14 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (6.33%) Validation
10 13 (5.88%) Mentoring
10 13 (5.88%) Service Management
10 13 (5.88%) Software Testing
11 12 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (5.43%) DevOps
11 12 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.05%) C++
2 17 (7.69%) C#
2 17 (7.69%) Python
3 15 (6.79%) MATLAB
4 12 (5.43%) Ada
4 12 (5.43%) C
5 11 (4.98%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.52%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.07%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.71%) SQL
8 6 (2.71%) SystemVerilog
9 5 (2.26%) Bash
10 3 (1.36%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.90%) Java
11 2 (0.90%) Tcl
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 221 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.50%) DV Cleared
3 14 (6.33%) Degree
4 6 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (2.26%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.36%) HNC
6 3 (1.36%) HND
6 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CCSP
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) SLA
2 7 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.71%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.81%) NIST
5 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.36%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) QA
6 2 (0.90%) DO-254
6 2 (0.90%) GRC
6 2 (0.90%) ISA99
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.90%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.71%) Firmware
3 6 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (8.60%) Ansible
2 9 (4.07%) Check_MK
2 9 (4.07%) Podman
2 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (3.17%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.71%) Terraform
5 5 (2.26%) Grafana
6 4 (1.81%) VxRail
7 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.36%) SCCM
7 3 (1.36%) vRealize
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.90%) Nessus
8 2 (0.90%) WSUS
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.45%) ServiceCenter
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.12%) VMware
3 21 (9.50%) SAP
4 20 (9.05%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.52%) Remedy
6 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.62%) Oracle
8 7 (3.17%) BMC
8 7 (3.17%) Cisco
8 7 (3.17%) Dell
8 7 (3.17%) Xilinx
9 6 (2.71%) Altera
9 6 (2.71%) Intel
9 6 (2.71%) Microsemi
9 6 (2.71%) Sybase
10 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.26%) HP
11 4 (1.81%) Canon
12 3 (1.36%) Barracuda Networks
12 3 (1.36%) Google