SC Cleared Contracts in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,471 6,612 6,086
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 12.10% 13.08% 8.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.61% 47.14% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,049 4,678 4,123
10th Percentile £350 £373 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 357 275
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.80 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £30.00 £36.12
Median hourly rate £49.00 £59.80 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +15.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £63.88
90th Percentile £77.70 £83.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.50% +11.11% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +1 1,664 £525 -8.70% 188
South East 0 845 £563 +7.14% 270
South West -1 796 £538 -7.08% 237
North of England -1 503 £525 -4.55% 150
North West -1 389 £525 -2.33% 118
Midlands +10 347 £485 -10.19% 85
West Midlands +10 247 £450 -16.67% 67
East of England -6 158 £365 -29.81% 71
East Midlands +7 100 £533 +1.43% 18
Yorkshire +1 88 £525 -11.58% 16
North East -11 28 £500 -11.46% 16
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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
1 168 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 149 (3.33%) Confluence
3 86 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 52 (1.16%) Apache
5 24 (0.54%) nginx
6 15 (0.34%) Skype for Business
7 13 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.20%) CICS
9 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (0.16%) IIS
11 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
11 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.11%) CMS
13 4 (0.089%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 117 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.38%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
7 7 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.089%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.045%) Trello
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.022%) CATIA
11 1 (0.022%) SPSS
11 1 (0.022%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 47 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 24 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.49%) Teamcenter
5 20 (0.45%) Primavera
6 19 (0.42%) SAP EWM
7 13 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.20%) SAP HR
11 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.13%) SAP PSCD
12 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
13 4 (0.089%) Maximo
13 4 (0.089%) SAP BPC
13 4 (0.089%) SAP MM
13 4 (0.089%) SAP PM
13 4 (0.089%) SAP PS
13 4 (0.089%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 707 (15.81%) AWS
2 567 (12.68%) Azure
3 179 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (2.68%) Power Platform
5 105 (2.35%) Serverless
6 97 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 86 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (1.68%) GCP
9 73 (1.63%) GitHub
10 67 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
11 64 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (1.30%) Entra ID
13 53 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
14 52 (1.16%) OCI
15 45 (1.01%) PaaS
16 39 (0.87%) OpenShift
17 38 (0.85%) SaaS
18 34 (0.76%) Route 53
19 33 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 261 (5.84%) Firewall
2 161 (3.60%) WAN
3 116 (2.59%) VPN
4 109 (2.44%) DNS
5 84 (1.88%) LAN
6 83 (1.86%) Network Security
7 73 (1.63%) Wireless
8 71 (1.59%) DHCP
9 70 (1.57%) BGP
10 66 (1.48%) IPsec
11 62 (1.39%) SAN
12 59 (1.32%) MPLS
13 52 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 48 (1.07%) OSPF
15 47 (1.05%) TCP/IP
16 43 (0.96%) SSL
17 41 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
18 32 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
19 31 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 66 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 65 (1.45%) Power BI
6 62 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 51 (1.14%) Metadata
10 42 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 41 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (0.89%) Flink
13 39 (0.87%) MySQL
14 36 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 34 (0.76%) Data Vault
16 32 (0.72%) Data Lake
17 30 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 25 (0.56%) Metadata Repository
19 24 (0.54%) Big Data
20 22 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 247 (5.52%) JIRA
2 223 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 212 (4.74%) Git
4 129 (2.89%) GitLab
5 74 (1.66%) Selenium
6 65 (1.45%) Visual Studio
7 60 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 52 (1.16%) JUnit
9 51 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 48 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
11 47 (1.05%) PVCS
12 39 (0.87%) REST Assured
13 36 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 28 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 23 (0.51%) JMeter
16 20 (0.45%) Maven
17 17 (0.38%) Postman
17 17 (0.38%) TestNG
18 15 (0.34%) SoapUI
18 15 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 970 (21.70%) Public Sector
2 807 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 366 (8.19%) Finance
4 330 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 168 (3.76%) Aerospace
7 132 (2.95%) Manufacturing
8 130 (2.91%) Electronics
9 121 (2.71%) Military
10 79 (1.77%) Marketing
11 69 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (1.52%) Law
13 65 (1.45%) Police
14 60 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (1.34%) Legal
15 53 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 42 (0.94%) Banking
17 28 (0.63%) Retail
18 26 (0.58%) Publishing
19 25 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 741 (16.57%) Architect
2 515 (11.52%) Developer
3 348 (7.78%) Analyst
4 313 (7.00%) Senior
5 291 (6.51%) Lead
6 267 (5.97%) Consultant
7 189 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 187 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
9 177 (3.96%) Network Engineer
10 160 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 154 (3.44%) Data Engineer
12 130 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 119 (2.66%) Java Developer
14 96 (2.15%) Lead Architect
15 95 (2.12%) Technical Architect
16 93 (2.08%) Service Analyst
17 89 (1.99%) Support Engineer
18 86 (1.92%) Business Analyst
18 86 (1.92%) Software Engineer
19 84 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.77%) REST
2 119 (2.66%) Spring
3 105 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 101 (2.26%) Kafka
4 101 (2.26%) React
5 98 (2.19%) .NET
6 84 (1.88%) Node.js
7 76 (1.70%) HTML
7 76 (1.70%) Web Services
8 69 (1.54%) CSS
9 50 (1.12%) JPA
10 48 (1.07%) JSON
11 47 (1.05%) Hibernate
12 45 (1.01%) RESTful
13 37 (0.83%) ARM Templates
14 35 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (0.63%) AngularJS
17 25 (0.56%) Java EE
17 25 (0.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 142 (3.18%) PKI
2 109 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 101 (2.26%) Data Centre
4 83 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 73 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.21%) Cloud Native
7 52 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 48 (1.07%) Product Ownership
9 44 (0.98%) CMDB
10 40 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 36 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
13 33 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 32 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
15 30 (0.67%) Mainframe
16 29 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
16 29 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
16 29 (0.65%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 447 (10.00%) Windows
2 421 (9.42%) Linux
3 143 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 65 (1.45%) Unix
6 49 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.10%) Windows 7
7 48 (1.07%) Android
8 43 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 40 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 40 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 36 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 26 (0.58%) Mac OS X
13 20 (0.45%) Debian
14 17 (0.38%) AIX
15 16 (0.36%) VMS
16 15 (0.34%) Windows Vista
17 14 (0.31%) Windows XP
18 12 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (18.09%) Agile
2 531 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
3 497 (11.12%) DevOps
4 389 (8.70%) ITIL
5 363 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 355 (7.94%) CI/CD
7 304 (6.80%) Project Management
8 268 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
9 253 (5.66%) Service Management
10 243 (5.44%) Migration
11 219 (4.90%) Software Engineering
12 217 (4.85%) Decision-Making
13 196 (4.38%) Scrum
14 193 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 188 (4.20%) Mentoring
16 184 (4.12%) Configuration Management
17 182 (4.07%) Change Management
18 172 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
19 170 (3.80%) Analytics
19 170 (3.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 421 (9.42%) Python
2 346 (7.74%) Java
3 300 (6.71%) SQL
4 206 (4.61%) PowerShell
5 171 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 132 (2.95%) C#
7 108 (2.42%) C
8 86 (1.92%) Bash
9 80 (1.79%) C++
9 80 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 65 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 35 (0.78%) MATLAB
12 34 (0.76%) PHP
13 27 (0.60%) Go
13 27 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.49%) Bicep
15 20 (0.45%) Perl
15 20 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.40%) R
17 16 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,471 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 533 (11.92%) DV Cleared
3 306 (6.84%) Degree
4 182 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 116 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
6 83 (1.86%) CCNP
7 77 (1.72%) CCNA
8 69 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 65 (1.45%) CISSP
11 42 (0.94%) CISM
11 42 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.92%) PMP
13 33 (0.74%) Azure Certification
14 31 (0.69%) MCSA
15 30 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 27 (0.60%) AWS Certification
17 24 (0.54%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.51%) ISTQB
19 22 (0.49%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (2.73%) QA
2 112 (2.51%) SLA
3 84 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (1.68%) NIST
5 73 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 58 (1.30%) PMO
7 52 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 52 (1.16%) NCSC
8 39 (0.87%) GDPR
9 31 (0.69%) JSP 440
10 29 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
11 21 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.34%) Def Stans
13 13 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 13 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.20%) COBIT
15 9 (0.20%) WCAG
16 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 265 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 203 (4.54%) Docker
3 156 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.32%) vSphere
5 57 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 47 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 45 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (0.78%) Firmware
10 25 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.089%) UAG
14 3 (0.067%) iptables
14 3 (0.067%) XenApp
14 3 (0.067%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.045%) KVM
16 1 (0.022%) LXC
16 1 (0.022%) vCloud
16 1 (0.022%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 299 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 277 (6.20%) Terraform
3 260 (5.82%) Ansible
4 80 (1.79%) SCCM
5 58 (1.30%) vCenter Server
6 51 (1.14%) Grafana
7 44 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 42 (0.94%) SCOM
9 40 (0.89%) Puppet
10 38 (0.85%) WSUS
11 35 (0.78%) Prometheus
12 33 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
13 29 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.58%) VxRail
15 25 (0.56%) PowerCLI
16 24 (0.54%) Kibana
17 23 (0.51%) Packer
18 20 (0.45%) NetBackup
19 19 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
19 19 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 544 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.04%) VMware
3 226 (5.05%) SAP
4 222 (4.97%) Oracle
5 216 (4.83%) Cisco
6 131 (2.93%) Juniper
7 99 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 88 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 84 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 83 (1.86%) IBM
11 68 (1.52%) Dell
12 58 (1.30%) HP
13 57 (1.27%) Atlassian
13 57 (1.27%) Sparx
14 53 (1.19%) SolarWinds
15 52 (1.16%) Splunk
16 50 (1.12%) Fortinet
17 46 (1.03%) Citrix
18 45 (1.01%) Google
19 42 (0.94%) F5