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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 534 598
Rank change year-on-year +61 +64 +147
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 34 15 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.041% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.044% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 37
10th Percentile £507 £356 £463
25th Percentile £522 £486 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £607 £634 £610
90th Percentile £636 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £562
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.03% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.30 - -
25th Percentile £55.25 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £73.71
75th Percentile £61.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 - £73.71
% change year-on-year - - +27.33%

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 25,109 34,216 45,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.93% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,354 22,394 32,126
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £740 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 2,460 1,400
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.00 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -9.09% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.59 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +34 11 £575 +15.00% 1
South East +45 10 £600 -4.00%
North of England - 7 - - 1
North West - 6 - -
South West - 3 £575 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
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 12 July 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 34 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 34 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 24 (70.59%) Docker
3 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
4 19 (55.88%) Java
4 19 (55.88%) Jenkins
5 17 (50.00%) DevOps
6 15 (44.12%) TypeScript
6 15 (44.12%) React
7 14 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
8 13 (38.24%) Migration
8 13 (38.24%) Relational Database
8 13 (38.24%) Microservices
9 12 (35.29%) Spring Boot
9 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (35.29%) Spring
9 12 (35.29%) SQL
10 11 (32.35%) Python
10 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
10 11 (32.35%) AWS
11 10 (29.41%) Mockito
11 10 (29.41%) Kafka
11 10 (29.41%) Gradle
11 10 (29.41%) Liquibase
11 10 (29.41%) Swagger
11 10 (29.41%) JUnit
11 10 (29.41%) SAP

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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) Relational Database
2 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Jenkins
2 10 (29.41%) Gradle
2 10 (29.41%) JUnit
2 10 (29.41%) Liquibase
2 10 (29.41%) Mockito
3 9 (26.47%) JIRA
4 7 (20.59%) Git
4 7 (20.59%) GitLab
5 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
6 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 4 (11.76%) Selenium
6 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (8.82%) Eclipse
7 3 (8.82%) GoogleTest
7 3 (8.82%) Robot Framework
8 1 (2.94%) LabVIEW
General
1 10 (29.41%) Electronics
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
1 10 (29.41%) Manufacturing
1 10 (29.41%) Marketing
1 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
1 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Law
3 4 (11.76%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) React
2 12 (35.29%) Spring
2 12 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 10 (29.41%) OpenAPI
3 10 (29.41%) Swagger
4 8 (23.53%) REST
5 6 (17.65%) Node.js
6 4 (11.76%) ARM Templates
6 4 (11.76%) Java EE
7 2 (5.88%) .NET
7 2 (5.88%) RESTful
7 2 (5.88%) SOAP
8 1 (2.94%) PySpark
8 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.94%) Qt
8 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
8 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (58.82%) Agile
2 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
3 17 (50.00%) DevOps
4 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 14 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (38.24%) Microservices
5 13 (38.24%) Migration
6 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (29.41%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (29.41%) Programme Management
6 10 (29.41%) TDD
7 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
7 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
8 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (11.76%) Multithreading
9 4 (11.76%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) TypeScript
3 12 (35.29%) SQL
4 11 (32.35%) Python
5 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.76%) C++
7 3 (8.82%) C#
8 2 (5.88%) Bash
8 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.94%) Ada
9 1 (2.94%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) CCNP
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) OCA
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.88%) RHCA
2 2 (5.88%) RHCE
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (11.76%) Podman
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) SAP
2 6 (17.65%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Intel
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks