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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,285 6,277 6,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.77% 12.95% 8.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.33% 47.03% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 4,409 4,273
10th Percentile £350 £375 £385
25th Percentile £449 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £723 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 315 269
10th Percentile £13.27 £20.00 £19.49
25th Percentile £21.37 £30.26 £37.52
Median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.55% +10.58% +21.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £59.42 £54.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +10.03% +27.06%

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 11,179 13,347 15,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 27.54% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,938 8,950 10,232
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 675 686
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%
75th Percentile £62.28 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 1,586 £525 -6.67% 270
South East 0 824 £554 +8.58% 339
South West -1 774 £532 -9.53% 256
North of England 0 465 £515 -6.35% 179
North West 0 354 £517 -1.51% 128
Midlands +6 334 £485 -11.82% 137
West Midlands +10 236 £450 -21.23% 96
East of England -7 155 £348 -30.50% 69
East Midlands +4 97 £545 +0.12% 41
Yorkshire -4 87 £525 -12.50% 33
North East -8 26 £450 -20.53% 18
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
1 156 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 146 (3.41%) Confluence
3 89 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.28%) Apache
5 31 (0.72%) nginx
6 13 (0.30%) SAS
6 13 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (0.21%) CICS
9 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (0.14%) CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
10 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 118 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.33%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 5 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.093%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.070%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.047%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) CATIA
12 1 (0.023%) SPSS
12 1 (0.023%) Stata
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 22 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 21 (0.49%) SAP EWM
5 18 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.33%) Primavera
6 14 (0.33%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.093%) Maximo
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.093%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
12 3 (0.070%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 689 (16.08%) AWS
2 547 (12.77%) Azure
3 181 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 101 (2.36%) Serverless
6 90 (2.10%) Amazon S3
7 82 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (1.75%) GCP
9 72 (1.68%) GitHub
10 62 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (1.42%) OCI
12 58 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (1.35%) Entra ID
13 52 (1.21%) OpenShift
14 51 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (1.14%) PaaS
15 49 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (1.00%) SaaS
17 38 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.58%) Firewall
2 124 (2.89%) WAN
3 95 (2.22%) DNS
4 93 (2.17%) VPN
5 67 (1.56%) DHCP
6 64 (1.49%) Network Security
7 61 (1.42%) BGP
7 61 (1.42%) LAN
8 58 (1.35%) SAN
9 57 (1.33%) IPsec
9 57 (1.33%) Wireless
10 53 (1.24%) MPLS
11 48 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (1.03%) OSPF
12 44 (1.03%) SSL
13 40 (0.93%) TCP/IP
14 39 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
15 36 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
15 36 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 64 (1.49%) Power BI
5 63 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 57 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 48 (1.12%) MySQL
10 46 (1.07%) Metadata
11 45 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 38 (0.89%) Flink
14 33 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 33 (0.77%) Data Vault
15 30 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (0.56%) Big Data
17 23 (0.54%) Metadata Repository
18 22 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 241 (5.62%) JIRA
2 209 (4.88%) Git
3 206 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 129 (3.01%) GitLab
5 78 (1.82%) Selenium
6 66 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 60 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 51 (1.19%) JUnit
9 49 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 47 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
11 46 (1.07%) PVCS
12 39 (0.91%) REST Assured
13 38 (0.89%) SonarQube
14 29 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 26 (0.61%) JMeter
16 20 (0.47%) Maven
17 19 (0.44%) TestNG
18 17 (0.40%) Postman
19 16 (0.37%) Mockito
19 16 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 931 (21.73%) Public Sector
2 784 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 355 (8.28%) Finance
4 295 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (4.04%) Telecoms
6 166 (3.87%) Aerospace
7 121 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 116 (2.71%) Electronics
8 116 (2.71%) Military
9 67 (1.56%) Marketing
10 65 (1.52%) Law
11 64 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.38%) Legal
13 57 (1.33%) Police
14 46 (1.07%) Banking
14 46 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (0.61%) Retail
17 24 (0.56%) Publishing
18 21 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 708 (16.52%) Architect
2 496 (11.58%) Developer
3 345 (8.05%) Analyst
4 312 (7.28%) Senior
5 277 (6.46%) Lead
6 251 (5.86%) Consultant
7 198 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 174 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 167 (3.90%) Network Engineer
10 148 (3.45%) Project Manager
11 127 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 125 (2.92%) Data Engineer
13 118 (2.75%) Java Developer
14 97 (2.26%) Lead Architect
15 96 (2.24%) Technical Architect
16 94 (2.19%) Service Analyst
17 88 (2.05%) Software Engineer
18 87 (2.03%) Support Engineer
19 83 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
19 83 (1.94%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (3.06%) REST
2 114 (2.66%) Spring
3 110 (2.57%) React
4 108 (2.52%) Kafka
5 105 (2.45%) Spring Boot
6 96 (2.24%) .NET
7 93 (2.17%) HTML
8 84 (1.96%) CSS
9 83 (1.94%) Node.js
10 74 (1.73%) Web Services
11 46 (1.07%) JSON
12 45 (1.05%) JPA
13 43 (1.00%) Hibernate
14 40 (0.93%) RESTful
15 37 (0.86%) ARM Templates
16 33 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
18 26 (0.61%) .NET Framework
18 26 (0.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 126 (2.94%) PKI
2 108 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 99 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 86 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 79 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 52 (1.21%) Cloud Native
7 52 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 39 (0.91%) CMDB
8 39 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 36 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
10 32 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 30 (0.70%) Private Cloud
13 28 (0.65%) Clustering
13 28 (0.65%) Mainframe
14 27 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
14 27 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (0.63%) Reference Data
15 26 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 434 (10.13%) Windows
2 432 (10.08%) Linux
3 142 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.26%) Windows 10
5 69 (1.61%) Unix
6 55 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.12%) Android
8 45 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 42 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (0.96%) Apple iOS
11 38 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
12 34 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
13 27 (0.63%) Mac OS X
14 24 (0.56%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.42%) AIX
16 17 (0.40%) VMS
17 15 (0.35%) Debian
17 15 (0.35%) Windows XP
18 13 (0.30%) Windows Vista
19 12 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (18.23%) Agile
2 498 (11.62%) DevOps
3 488 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
4 374 (8.73%) ITIL
5 344 (8.03%) CI/CD
6 339 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 284 (6.63%) Project Management
8 250 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
9 247 (5.76%) Service Management
10 225 (5.25%) Software Engineering
11 222 (5.18%) Migration
12 186 (4.34%) Configuration Management
13 185 (4.32%) Decision-Making
13 185 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 185 (4.32%) Scrum
14 179 (4.18%) Change Management
15 170 (3.97%) Mentoring
16 166 (3.87%) Test Automation
17 163 (3.80%) Analytics
18 155 (3.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 406 (9.47%) Python
2 345 (8.05%) Java
3 288 (6.72%) SQL
4 203 (4.74%) PowerShell
5 186 (4.34%) JavaScript
6 128 (2.99%) C#
7 106 (2.47%) C
8 81 (1.89%) C++
9 78 (1.82%) Bash
10 76 (1.77%) PL/SQL
11 67 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.84%) Go
13 33 (0.77%) PHP
14 29 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.56%) Bicep
16 23 (0.54%) MATLAB
17 20 (0.47%) Perl
17 20 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.44%) VB
19 18 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,285 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 508 (11.86%) DV Cleared
3 303 (7.07%) Degree
4 173 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 110 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
6 77 (1.80%) CCNP
7 70 (1.63%) CCNA
8 66 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 61 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (1.26%) CISSP
11 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
12 37 (0.86%) CISM
13 35 (0.82%) PMP
14 33 (0.77%) MCSA
15 31 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 28 (0.65%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.54%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 23 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (2.68%) SLA
2 114 (2.66%) QA
3 79 (1.84%) NIST
4 74 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 54 (1.26%) PMO
7 48 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.03%) NCSC
9 38 (0.89%) GDPR
10 31 (0.72%) JSP 440
11 27 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
12 22 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
17 9 (0.21%) COBIT
17 9 (0.21%) RMADS
18 8 (0.19%) WCAG
19 7 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 260 (6.07%) Active Directory
2 204 (4.76%) Docker
3 141 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.31%) vSphere
5 48 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 33 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 29 (0.68%) Firmware
9 23 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.070%) iptables
12 3 (0.070%) KVM
12 3 (0.070%) XenApp
12 3 (0.070%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.023%) LXC
13 1 (0.023%) UAG
13 1 (0.023%) vCloud
13 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 311 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 265 (6.18%) Terraform
3 238 (5.55%) Ansible
4 78 (1.82%) SCCM
5 61 (1.42%) Grafana
6 52 (1.21%) vCenter Server
7 44 (1.03%) SCOM
8 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 43 (1.00%) Prometheus
9 41 (0.96%) WSUS
10 35 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (0.68%) Kibana
11 29 (0.68%) Puppet
12 28 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (0.65%) Packer
13 26 (0.61%) VxRail
14 25 (0.58%) PowerCLI
15 23 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
16 20 (0.47%) NetBackup
17 19 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 535 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.81%) VMware
3 223 (5.20%) Oracle
4 201 (4.69%) Cisco
5 194 (4.53%) SAP
6 121 (2.82%) Juniper
7 96 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 86 (2.01%) IBM
9 76 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.31%) Dell
12 53 (1.24%) SolarWinds
13 52 (1.21%) Atlassian
13 52 (1.21%) HP
14 49 (1.14%) Sparx
15 48 (1.12%) Citrix
16 46 (1.07%) Google
17 41 (0.96%) Splunk
18 39 (0.91%) EMC
19 38 (0.89%) F5