SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.23% 2.17% 4.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.56% 11.11% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.12% +5.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 18 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 22.22% 19.57% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 6
10th Percentile £285 £281 £519
25th Percentile £300 £398 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -14.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £573 £656 £650
90th Percentile £624 £725 -
South East median daily rate £500 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -4.99% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in East Sussex

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Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SC Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Brighton - 1 £450 -
SC Cleared
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker