SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in England

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 525 596
Rank change year-on-year +83 +71 +152
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 43 17 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.049% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 50
10th Percentile £513 £433 £500
25th Percentile £563 £481 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £656 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £594 £590
% change year-on-year -3.16% +0.64% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.71
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.71
% change year-on-year - - +30.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +47 13 £625 +28.21%
South East +49 12 £600 -5.70%
South West - 8 £575 -
North of England - 7 - - 1
North West - 6 - -
North East - 1 - - 1
SC Cleared Software Engineer
UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 43 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 24 (55.81%) Docker
3 22 (51.16%) Agile
4 21 (48.84%) Java
5 19 (44.19%) AWS
5 19 (44.19%) Jenkins
5 19 (44.19%) Containerisation
6 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
7 17 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (39.53%) DevOps
8 16 (37.21%) TypeScript
8 16 (37.21%) Migration
8 16 (37.21%) SQL
9 15 (34.88%) Python
9 15 (34.88%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (32.56%) Spring
10 14 (32.56%) Microservices
10 14 (32.56%) React
11 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
11 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
11 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
12 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
13 11 (25.58%) OpenAPI
13 11 (25.58%) Swagger
13 11 (25.58%) TDD
13 11 (25.58%) JUnit
13 11 (25.58%) JIRA
13 11 (25.58%) Kafka

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (16.28%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.98%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.33%) Big Data
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) Jenkins
2 11 (25.58%) JIRA
2 11 (25.58%) JUnit
3 10 (23.26%) Gradle
3 10 (23.26%) Liquibase
3 10 (23.26%) Mockito
4 7 (16.28%) GitLab
5 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket
5 6 (13.95%) Git
6 5 (11.63%) Cucumber
7 4 (9.30%) REST Assured
7 4 (9.30%) Selenium
7 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
8 3 (6.98%) Eclipse
8 3 (6.98%) GoogleTest
8 3 (6.98%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.33%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Electronics
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Manufacturing
2 10 (23.26%) Marketing
2 10 (23.26%) Telecoms
3 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Law
5 4 (9.30%) Police
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) React
1 14 (32.56%) Spring
2 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
3 11 (25.58%) Kafka
3 11 (25.58%) OpenAPI
3 11 (25.58%) Swagger
4 7 (16.28%) Node.js
5 6 (13.95%) REST
6 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
6 4 (9.30%) Java EE
7 3 (6.98%) .NET
7 3 (6.98%) Angular 2
7 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.98%) CSS
7 3 (6.98%) HTML
7 3 (6.98%) HTML5
8 2 (4.65%) SOAP
9 1 (2.33%) EDIFACT
9 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.33%) FPGA
3 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (51.16%) Agile
3 19 (44.19%) Containerisation
4 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
5 17 (39.53%) DevOps
6 16 (37.21%) Migration
7 15 (34.88%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (32.56%) Microservices
9 11 (25.58%) TDD
10 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (23.26%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (23.26%) Programme Management
11 8 (18.60%) Configuration Management
11 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
12 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (11.63%) Scrum
13 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Java
2 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) TypeScript
3 15 (34.88%) Python
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.30%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) Ada
6 3 (6.98%) C++
6 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) CCNP
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) OCA
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (4.65%) RHCA
2 2 (4.65%) RHCE
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (9.30%) Podman
5 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.65%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) SAP
2 7 (16.28%) Atlassian
3 6 (13.95%) Google
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle
5 3 (6.98%) Intel
5 3 (6.98%) VMware
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco
7 1 (2.33%) Confluent
7 1 (2.33%) Databricks
7 1 (2.33%) MKS