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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 213 205 124
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.44% 16.04% 8.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.43% 49.64% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 67 43
10th Percentile £171 £153 £181
25th Percentile £410 £280 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +53.85% -38.10%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £475
90th Percentile £725 £625 £530
England median daily rate £537 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +2.29% -0.43% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 105 59
10th Percentile £46.25 £16.26 £21.37
25th Percentile £61.50 £18.87 £36.70
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% -45.83% +36.44%
75th Percentile £80.86 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.10 £67.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +151.03% -58.08% +6.21%

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 569 413 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.21% 32.32% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 160 150
10th Percentile £183 £198 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +5.80% -6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £650 £589
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 139 134
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £38.50 £18.87 £23.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -30.23% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.15 £67.85
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% -

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 8 September 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 98 £500 -9.09% 57
Bedfordshire +4 60 £220 -41.33% 88
Suffolk -4 20 £625 +180.90% 1
Cambridgeshire -7 18 £475 -7.32% 16
Essex -18 17 £475 +210.46% 73
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 (2.35%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.88%) Confluence
3 3 (1.41%) IIS
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.82%) Windchill
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.35%) Simulink
4 3 (1.41%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.41%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.94%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.47%) Primavera
6 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.86%) Azure
2 17 (7.98%) AWS
3 8 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.88%) OCI
5 4 (1.88%) SaaS
6 3 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.41%) iPaaS
6 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.94%) Boomi
7 2 (0.94%) GitHub
7 2 (0.94%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.94%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.57%) Firewall
2 13 (6.10%) DNS
2 13 (6.10%) SAN
3 9 (4.23%) VLAN
4 7 (3.29%) Network Security
5 6 (2.82%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.82%) VPN
6 5 (2.35%) VSAN
7 4 (1.88%) SNMP
7 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.41%) DHCP
8 3 (1.41%) HTTP
8 3 (1.41%) NGFW
8 3 (1.41%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.94%) IPsec
9 2 (0.94%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.94%) NAS
9 2 (0.94%) Skype
9 2 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.82%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.35%) MaxDB
2 5 (2.35%) SAP HANA
2 5 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.35%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (1.41%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.41%) Metadata
3 3 (1.41%) Power BI
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.47%) GIS
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.47%) Power Query
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.57%) JIRA
2 13 (6.10%) Git
3 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.82%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (2.35%) GitLab
5 2 (0.94%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.47%) CppUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.47%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.47%) Hudson
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) MSI
6 1 (0.47%) PVCS
6 1 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.47%) VectorCAST
General
1 51 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.21%) Aerospace
3 18 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.10%) Electronics
6 12 (5.63%) Law
7 10 (4.69%) Finance
8 9 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.76%) Military
10 6 (2.82%) Legal
11 4 (1.88%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.41%) Back Office
12 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.94%) Aviation
14 1 (0.47%) Games
14 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (14.08%) Software Engineer
2 26 (12.21%) Consultant
3 19 (8.92%) Senior
4 17 (7.98%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (6.10%) Principal Software Engineer
6 12 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.63%) Lead
7 10 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.23%) Architect
8 9 (4.23%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.76%) Analyst
9 8 (3.76%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.76%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.76%) VMware Consultant
10 7 (3.29%) Ada Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Ada Software Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Hardware Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) SOC Analyst
11 6 (2.82%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.16%) LDAP
2 7 (3.29%) REST
2 7 (3.29%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (2.82%) React
3 6 (2.82%) Terraform
4 5 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.35%) SAP Basis
4 5 (2.35%) SAPUI5
5 4 (1.88%) eBPF
5 4 (1.88%) JSON
5 4 (1.88%) Middleware
5 4 (1.88%) SOAP
6 3 (1.41%) .NET
6 3 (1.41%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.94%) JSP
7 2 (0.94%) Node.js
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.94%) Web Services
7 2 (0.94%) XML
8 1 (0.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.04%) Embedded Systems
1 15 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.10%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.10%) FPGA
3 11 (5.16%) CMDB
3 11 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.16%) Replication
4 8 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.76%) PKI
4 8 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.88%) Analogue Electronics
7 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.88%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.88%) PCIe
7 4 (1.88%) Verilog
8 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.55%) Windows
2 29 (13.62%) Linux
3 20 (9.39%) Windows Server
4 16 (7.51%) CentOS
4 16 (7.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.63%) Rocky
6 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.41%) Android
8 2 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.47%) Unix
9 1 (0.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (16.43%) Software Engineering
2 33 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (11.27%) Migration
4 23 (10.80%) Agile
5 22 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (9.86%) ITSM
7 20 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (8.45%) Validation
9 17 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (7.98%) Test Automation
10 16 (7.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.04%) Roadmaps
12 14 (6.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 14 (6.57%) ITIL
12 14 (6.57%) Software Testing
13 13 (6.10%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.10%) DevOps
13 13 (6.10%) Risk Management
14 12 (5.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.74%) Python
2 23 (10.80%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.63%) SQL
4 9 (4.23%) C++
4 9 (4.23%) MATLAB
5 8 (3.76%) Ada
5 8 (3.76%) C
6 6 (2.82%) Bash
6 6 (2.82%) C#
6 6 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.35%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.88%) Java
8 4 (1.88%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.94%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 213 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.39%) Degree
3 12 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.35%) HND
7 4 (1.88%) CCNP
7 4 (1.88%) HNC
8 3 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.47%) APMG
10 1 (0.47%) City & Guilds
10 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.47%) ISACA
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) SLA
2 11 (5.16%) QA
3 9 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.35%) Def Stans
5 5 (2.35%) GDPR
6 4 (1.88%) DO-254
6 4 (1.88%) NCSC
7 3 (1.41%) GRC
7 3 (1.41%) IEC 61508
7 3 (1.41%) NIST
7 3 (1.41%) PMO
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.94%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.94%) ISA99
8 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.47%) MISRA
9 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (9.86%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.23%) Firmware
4 8 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.41%) NFS
7 1 (0.47%) Docker
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (11.74%) Ansible
2 12 (5.63%) NetBackup
3 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.29%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.82%) Grafana
5 5 (2.35%) vRealize
6 4 (1.88%) Check_MK
6 4 (1.88%) Podman
6 4 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.88%) VxRail
7 3 (1.41%) Functional Safety
7 3 (1.41%) SCCM
8 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.47%) Nessus
9 1 (0.47%) QRadar
9 1 (0.47%) ServiceCenter
9 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.27%) VMware
3 17 (7.98%) SAP
4 16 (7.51%) ServiceNow
5 13 (6.10%) NetApp
5 13 (6.10%) Veeam
6 11 (5.16%) Remedy
7 10 (4.69%) Oracle
8 8 (3.76%) Cisco
8 8 (3.76%) EMC
8 8 (3.76%) Xilinx
9 7 (3.29%) BMC
9 7 (3.29%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.29%) Intel
10 5 (2.35%) Cribl.io
10 5 (2.35%) Splunk
10 5 (2.35%) Sybase
11 4 (1.88%) Microsemi
11 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.88%) Red Hat