SC Cleared Contracts in the East of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 160 323 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.36% 15.79% 10.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.89% 42.72% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 163 123
10th Percentile £172 £273 £294
25th Percentile £210 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £634 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £631
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 111 78
10th Percentile £21.37 £19.06 £18.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £20.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.26% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £64.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.75 £61.33
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 595 756 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.07% 36.97% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 374 364
10th Percentile £210 £223 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.26%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £566
90th Percentile £720 £738 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 195 206
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +7.69% -49.19%
75th Percentile £43.19 £63.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the East of England

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 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the East of England

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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 -4 99 £345 -18.82% 42
Cambridgeshire -8 42 £500 +14.29% 7
Bedfordshire -15 8 £473 -21.25% 9
Essex -9 7 £535 -2.73% 3
Suffolk -2 4 £220 -68.57% 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) IIS
2 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.25%) Simulink
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.63%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (3.75%) Azure
3 2 (1.25%) AWS
4 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.13%) VPN
3 4 (2.50%) Firewall
4 3 (1.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.25%) LAN
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.63%) DNS
6 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.63%) Internet
6 1 (0.63%) Intranet
6 1 (0.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) Metadata
1 1 (0.63%) Power BI
1 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (3.13%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.88%) CppUnit
3 3 (1.88%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.88%) PVCS
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 54 (33.75%) Aerospace
3 40 (25.00%) Electronics
4 33 (20.63%) Manufacturing
5 21 (13.13%) Retail
6 16 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.88%) Finance
8 9 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.13%) Military
10 3 (1.88%) Aviation
10 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Automotive
12 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (35.00%) Analyst
2 37 (23.13%) Service Analyst
2 37 (23.13%) Service Desk Analyst
3 32 (20.00%) Architect
4 31 (19.38%) Test Architect
5 12 (7.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 11 (6.88%) Support Analyst
6 11 (6.88%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (6.88%) Technical Support
6 11 (6.88%) Technical Support Analyst
7 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.75%) Configuration Manager
8 6 (3.75%) Developer
8 6 (3.75%) Lead
8 6 (3.75%) Senior
8 6 (3.75%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.13%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.13%) Validation Engineer
10 4 (2.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.50%) Web Services
2 2 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) Node.js
3 1 (0.63%) RESTful
3 1 (0.63%) SGML
3 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.25%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.50%) iPad
3 4 (2.50%) iPhone
4 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.63%) CMDB
6 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.75%) Windows
2 8 (5.00%) Linux
3 4 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.25%) Project Management
2 37 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (22.50%) Customer Service
4 32 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 27 (16.88%) ITIL
6 22 (13.75%) Incident Management
7 16 (10.00%) Agile
8 15 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (7.50%) Configuration Management
9 12 (7.50%) Software Engineering
10 10 (6.25%) Service Management
11 9 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (5.63%) PRINCE2
11 9 (5.63%) Validation
12 7 (4.38%) Change Management
12 7 (4.38%) PLM
13 6 (3.75%) Coaching
13 6 (3.75%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (3.75%) Customer-Centricity
13 6 (3.75%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.63%) C++
2 6 (3.75%) C
2 6 (3.75%) SQL
3 5 (3.13%) C#
3 5 (3.13%) MATLAB
4 3 (1.88%) Ada
5 2 (1.25%) Python
6 1 (0.63%) Java
6 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 160 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 16 (10.00%) MCSA
2 16 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.38%) MCP
5 6 (3.75%) Degree
5 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) CCENT
6 2 (1.25%) CCNP
6 2 (1.25%) HNC
6 2 (1.25%) HND
6 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CCSA
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) QA
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
4 3 (1.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.63%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.63%) SCCM
2 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (11.25%) Citrix
1 18 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.63%) ServiceNow
3 12 (7.50%) Cisco
4 11 (6.88%) Sun
5 3 (1.88%) Darktrace
5 3 (1.88%) Keysight
5 3 (1.88%) SAP
5 3 (1.88%) Twitter
5 3 (1.88%) Varonis
5 3 (1.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.25%) EMC
6 2 (1.25%) McAfee
6 2 (1.25%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) Juniper
7 1 (0.63%) NetApp
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat