SC Cleared Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 97 102
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 25 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.06% 1.01% 1.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.92% 6.67% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 15
10th Percentile £218 £279 £413
25th Percentile £258 £308 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -19.44% +27.13%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £566
90th Percentile - £554 £585
Scotland median daily rate £575 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £21.47 £47.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £28.63 £48.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -0.48% +200.00%
75th Percentile - £64.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £61.50 £67.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £33.42
% change year-on-year +14.29% +57.09% -44.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 157 195 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.24% 15.08% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 126 152
10th Percentile £179 £166 £314
25th Percentile £406 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £578 £513 £575
90th Percentile £631 £600 £636
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 6
10th Percentile £15.15 £21.47 £18.42
25th Percentile £16.25 £28.63 £26.38
Median hourly rate £17.50 £52.25 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.51% +34.84% +121.43%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £35.00
% change year-on-year +88.92% -38.08% -4.78%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) AWS
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DHCP
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Metadata
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Electronics
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Ada Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Ada Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (8.00%) Configuration Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Database Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.00%) Digital Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Verilog
2 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (16.00%) ITIL
1 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 3 (12.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.00%) Network Management
3 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (4.00%) Compliance Management
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) High Availability
4 1 (4.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (4.00%) RBAC
4 1 (4.00%) SDLC
4 1 (4.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (4.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Ada
1 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) C
2 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) MCP
4 1 (4.00%) MCSE
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) WSUS
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Mentor Graphics
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Xilinx