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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 242 150 175
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.93% 15.06% 8.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.74% 43.86% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 58 50
10th Percentile £193 £195 £175
25th Percentile £350 £225 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £345
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +38.77% -31.00%
75th Percentile £628 £550 £505
90th Percentile £725 £604 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 59 85
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.99 £21.37
25th Percentile £18.17 £28.20 £21.46
Median hourly rate £55.50 £63.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +57.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.46 £77.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +87.91% -41.46% -13.04%

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 594 342 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.82% 34.34% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 150 224
10th Percentile £183 £195 £220
25th Percentile £388 £308 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 94 223
10th Percentile £16.65 £15.09 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.35 £24.78 £16.65
Median hourly rate £47.00 £53.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +34.38% +90.48%
75th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £77.63 £85.00 £72.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £40.13
% change year-on-year +53.85% -19.00% -27.05%

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 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 8 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 8 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 +1 114 £490 -6.71% 23
Bedfordshire +6 55 £475 +54.22% 12
Suffolk +2 29 £625 +177.78% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 20 £450 -8.86% 9
Essex +1 19 £450 -28.00% 2
Norfolk -17 5 £320 -40.47%
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 (2.48%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.89%) Simulink
4 5 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) CATIA
5 1 (0.41%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.02%) Azure
2 11 (4.55%) AWS
3 6 (2.48%) Google Workspace
4 5 (2.07%) GCP
5 4 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.65%) SaaS
6 3 (1.24%) IaaS
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.83%) Boomi
7 2 (0.83%) Cohesity
7 2 (0.83%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.83%) PaaS
7 2 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.37%) Network Security
2 11 (4.55%) DNS
2 11 (4.55%) Ethernet
3 10 (4.13%) Firewall
3 10 (4.13%) VPN
3 10 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.89%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (2.48%) SSL
5 6 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.48%) VoIP
6 5 (2.07%) FTP
6 5 (2.07%) HTTP
6 5 (2.07%) LAN
6 5 (2.07%) SMTP
6 5 (2.07%) WAN
7 3 (1.24%) SAN
7 3 (1.24%) SNMP
8 2 (0.83%) ADSL
8 2 (0.83%) DHCP
8 2 (0.83%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.48%) MaxDB
2 6 (2.48%) SAP HANA
2 6 (2.48%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (0.83%) Metadata
3 2 (0.83%) Power BI
4 1 (0.41%) Big Data
4 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) MySQL
4 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.02%) Git
2 12 (4.96%) JIRA
3 10 (4.13%) GitLab
3 10 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.31%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (2.89%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.48%) Rational Rhapsody
7 5 (2.07%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) Hudson
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.41%) MSI
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.41%) VectorCAST
General
1 59 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 20 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.61%) Legal
5 15 (6.20%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.31%) Electronics
9 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.48%) Military
11 5 (2.07%) Finance
11 5 (2.07%) Law
11 5 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) Games
13 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (16.53%) Software Engineer
2 32 (13.22%) Analyst
3 25 (10.33%) Administrator
4 14 (5.79%) Senior
5 13 (5.37%) Architect
5 13 (5.37%) Support Engineer
6 12 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
6 12 (4.96%) SAP Support
7 10 (4.13%) Ada Engineer
7 10 (4.13%) Consultant
7 10 (4.13%) Principal Software Engineer
7 10 (4.13%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.72%) Ada Software Engineer
8 9 (3.72%) IT Support
8 9 (3.72%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (3.72%) Technical Architect
9 8 (3.31%) FPGA Engineer
9 8 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (3.31%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.79%) LDAP
2 12 (4.96%) React
3 9 (3.72%) Middleware
4 6 (2.48%) .NET
4 6 (2.48%) Node.js
4 6 (2.48%) SAP Basis
4 6 (2.48%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (2.48%) SAPUI5
5 5 (2.07%) Web Services
6 3 (1.24%) eBPF
6 3 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.24%) REST
6 3 (1.24%) SOAP
7 2 (0.83%) Kafka
7 2 (0.83%) WinForms
7 2 (0.83%) WPF
8 1 (0.41%) SGML
8 1 (0.41%) Spring
8 1 (0.41%) XML
8 1 (0.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.85%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.37%) FPGA
4 10 (4.13%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.72%) Operational Technology
5 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.89%) CMDB
7 7 (2.89%) Insider Threat
7 7 (2.89%) SCADA
8 6 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.48%) PCIe
8 6 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.07%) CSOC
9 5 (2.07%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.07%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.07%) Verilog
10 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.88%) Windows
2 27 (11.16%) Linux
3 10 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.72%) CentOS
4 9 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.07%) Android
5 5 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.07%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.83%) Unix
8 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.41%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.07%) Software Engineering
2 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (11.16%) Agile
4 23 (9.50%) ITSM
4 23 (9.50%) Migration
5 22 (9.09%) Change Management
6 21 (8.68%) ITIL
7 19 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (7.85%) Test Automation
8 18 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (6.61%) Service Management
10 15 (6.20%) CI/CD
10 15 (6.20%) Customer Service
10 15 (6.20%) SDLC
11 14 (5.79%) Information Management
12 13 (5.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (5.37%) Mentoring
13 12 (4.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.68%) C++
1 21 (8.68%) Python
2 17 (7.02%) C#
3 15 (6.20%) MATLAB
4 13 (5.37%) Ada
4 13 (5.37%) C
4 13 (5.37%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.72%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.48%) SQL
7 6 (2.48%) SystemVerilog
8 5 (2.07%) Bash
9 3 (1.24%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.24%) Java
10 2 (0.83%) Tcl
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 242 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.57%) DV Cleared
3 14 (5.79%) Degree
4 8 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.89%) CTC Cleared
5 7 (2.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.24%) HNC
7 3 (1.24%) HND
7 3 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.41%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.85%) SLA
2 11 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.31%) Def Stans
4 6 (2.48%) NIST
5 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.24%) GDPR
7 3 (1.24%) QA
8 2 (0.83%) DO-254
8 2 (0.83%) ISA99
8 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.83%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.41%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (7.44%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.48%) Firmware
4 3 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Docker
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.44%) Ansible
2 9 (3.72%) Check_MK
2 9 (3.72%) Podman
2 9 (3.72%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (2.48%) Terraform
4 5 (2.07%) Grafana
5 4 (1.65%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) SCCM
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.83%) Nessus
7 2 (0.83%) ServiceCenter
7 2 (0.83%) VxRail
7 2 (0.83%) WSUS
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.57%) VMware
3 22 (9.09%) SAP
4 21 (8.68%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.13%) Remedy
6 9 (3.72%) Cisco
6 9 (3.72%) Dell
6 9 (3.72%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.31%) Oracle
8 7 (2.89%) BMC
8 7 (2.89%) Google
8 7 (2.89%) HP
8 7 (2.89%) Xilinx
9 6 (2.48%) Altera
9 6 (2.48%) Intel
9 6 (2.48%) Microsemi
9 6 (2.48%) Sybase
10 5 (2.07%) Barracuda Networks
10 5 (2.07%) Canon
10 5 (2.07%) Dynatrace