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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,525 6,733 6,165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 12.16% 13.14% 8.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.66% 47.57% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,078 4,766 4,142
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 372 274
10th Percentile £13.30 £19.25 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £28.85 £30.73
Median hourly rate £48.56 £59.20 £51.43
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +15.11% +14.28%
75th Percentile £68.52 £70.00 £62.10
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £70.76
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £60.00 £52.82
% change year-on-year -19.07% +13.60% +14.82%

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 11,704 14,154 15,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.45% 27.63% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 9,475 10,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 773 698
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.00 £36.46
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +42.64% -5.31%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.82 £80.25 £67.08
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year -25.93% +35.92% -0.25%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 1,700 £525 -8.70% 179
South East +1 859 £560 +6.67% 259
South West 0 830 £550 -4.35% 237
North of England -2 475 £525 -4.55% 149
North West -2 365 £525 -0.94% 117
Midlands +10 348 £485 -10.19% 86
West Midlands +10 247 £450 -16.67% 63
East of England -8 159 £375 -27.36% 66
East Midlands +7 101 £520 -0.95% 23
Yorkshire -2 83 £525 -8.70% 14
North East -9 30 £500 -11.70% 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
1 169 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 153 (3.38%) Confluence
3 89 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 52 (1.15%) Apache
5 25 (0.55%) nginx
6 17 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 15 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.22%) SAS
9 9 (0.20%) CICS
10 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (0.15%) IIS
12 6 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.13%) CMS
12 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.088%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 120 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.38%) Simulink
7 8 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.066%) Revit
9 2 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.044%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.044%) Trello
9 2 (0.044%) Windchill
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) CATIA
10 1 (0.022%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 49 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 30 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
4 21 (0.46%) Teamcenter
5 20 (0.44%) Primavera
6 18 (0.40%) SAP EWM
7 13 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.20%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (0.13%) SAP PSCD
13 5 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
14 4 (0.088%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 4 (0.088%) SAP BPC
14 4 (0.088%) SAP BRIM
14 4 (0.088%) SAP Hybris
14 4 (0.088%) SAP PM
14 4 (0.088%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 720 (15.91%) AWS
2 575 (12.71%) Azure
3 182 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (2.72%) Power Platform
5 107 (2.36%) Serverless
6 99 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 87 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (1.75%) GCP
9 78 (1.72%) GitHub
10 69 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (1.39%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 51 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (1.08%) OCI
16 46 (1.02%) PaaS
17 41 (0.91%) OpenShift
18 38 (0.84%) SaaS
19 34 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (0.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 262 (5.79%) Firewall
2 163 (3.60%) WAN
3 116 (2.56%) DNS
3 116 (2.56%) VPN
4 93 (2.06%) LAN
5 83 (1.83%) Network Security
6 75 (1.66%) Wireless
7 69 (1.52%) BGP
7 69 (1.52%) DHCP
8 66 (1.46%) IPsec
9 64 (1.41%) SAN
10 57 (1.26%) MPLS
11 51 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (1.10%) TCP/IP
13 49 (1.08%) OSPF
14 42 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
14 42 (0.93%) SSL
15 37 (0.82%) Internet
16 32 (0.71%) Skype
17 31 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.48%) Power BI
4 66 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 60 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 55 (1.22%) Metadata
7 54 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 43 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (0.95%) MongoDB
10 41 (0.91%) Flink
11 36 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (0.80%) MySQL
12 34 (0.75%) Data Vault
13 33 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 29 (0.64%) Big Data
16 25 (0.55%) Metadata Repository
17 22 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 252 (5.57%) JIRA
2 225 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 203 (4.49%) Git
4 130 (2.87%) GitLab
5 76 (1.68%) Selenium
6 63 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 61 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 51 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 50 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
10 47 (1.04%) JUnit
11 45 (0.99%) PVCS
12 39 (0.86%) REST Assured
13 36 (0.80%) SonarQube
14 29 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 27 (0.60%) JMeter
16 20 (0.44%) Maven
17 17 (0.38%) Postman
17 17 (0.38%) TestNG
18 16 (0.35%) SoapUI
19 15 (0.33%) Mockito
General
1 979 (21.64%) Public Sector
2 793 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 376 (8.31%) Finance
4 333 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 172 (3.80%) Aerospace
7 144 (3.18%) Manufacturing
8 141 (3.12%) Electronics
9 123 (2.72%) Military
10 90 (1.99%) Marketing
11 76 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 73 (1.61%) Law
13 68 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (1.50%) Police
14 61 (1.35%) Legal
15 55 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
16 42 (0.93%) Banking
17 28 (0.62%) Publishing
18 27 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 752 (16.62%) Architect
2 503 (11.12%) Developer
3 353 (7.80%) Analyst
4 318 (7.03%) Senior
5 290 (6.41%) Lead
6 266 (5.88%) Consultant
7 200 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
8 192 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 178 (3.93%) Network Engineer
10 158 (3.49%) Project Manager
11 157 (3.47%) Data Engineer
12 130 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 108 (2.39%) Java Developer
14 98 (2.17%) Technical Architect
15 96 (2.12%) Support Engineer
16 92 (2.03%) Service Analyst
17 91 (2.01%) Lead Architect
17 91 (2.01%) Software Engineer
18 87 (1.92%) Business Analyst
19 82 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (2.56%) REST
2 105 (2.32%) Spring
3 104 (2.30%) Kafka
4 100 (2.21%) .NET
5 89 (1.97%) React
5 89 (1.97%) Spring Boot
6 81 (1.79%) Node.js
7 76 (1.68%) HTML
8 75 (1.66%) Web Services
9 68 (1.50%) CSS
10 48 (1.06%) JSON
11 46 (1.02%) RESTful
12 40 (0.88%) JPA
13 37 (0.82%) ARM Templates
13 37 (0.82%) Hibernate
14 35 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.62%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
16 25 (0.55%) Java EE
17 24 (0.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 145 (3.20%) PKI
2 111 (2.45%) Management Information System
3 102 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 84 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 57 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 51 (1.13%) Product Ownership
9 46 (1.02%) CMDB
10 41 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 41 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 39 (0.86%) Security Posture
12 36 (0.80%) Analogue Electronics
12 36 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
14 31 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
15 29 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (0.64%) Mainframe
16 28 (0.62%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 458 (10.12%) Windows
2 427 (9.44%) Linux
3 142 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 93 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 67 (1.48%) Unix
6 53 (1.17%) Windows 7
7 49 (1.08%) Android
8 48 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 44 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 40 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 39 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
12 36 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
13 31 (0.69%) Ubuntu
14 30 (0.66%) Mac OS X
15 20 (0.44%) Debian
16 17 (0.38%) AIX
17 16 (0.35%) VMS
17 16 (0.35%) Windows Vista
18 13 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
18 13 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (17.59%) Agile
2 522 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 502 (11.09%) DevOps
4 394 (8.71%) ITIL
5 365 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 361 (7.98%) CI/CD
7 314 (6.94%) Project Management
8 279 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
9 249 (5.50%) Service Management
10 240 (5.30%) Migration
11 219 (4.84%) Software Engineering
12 213 (4.71%) Decision-Making
13 196 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 195 (4.31%) Change Management
15 186 (4.11%) Configuration Management
16 185 (4.09%) Scrum
17 184 (4.07%) Business Intelligence
18 183 (4.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 179 (3.96%) Test Automation
20 173 (3.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 435 (9.61%) Python
2 343 (7.58%) Java
3 292 (6.45%) SQL
4 206 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 168 (3.71%) JavaScript
6 140 (3.09%) C#
7 106 (2.34%) C
8 92 (2.03%) Bash
9 82 (1.81%) C++
10 77 (1.70%) PL/SQL
11 54 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 38 (0.84%) MATLAB
13 33 (0.73%) PHP
14 28 (0.62%) Go
15 26 (0.57%) Perl
16 24 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 21 (0.46%) Bicep
17 21 (0.46%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.44%) R
19 16 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,525 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 535 (11.82%) DV Cleared
3 287 (6.34%) Degree
4 186 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 112 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
6 82 (1.81%) CCNP
7 73 (1.61%) CCNA
8 66 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 65 (1.44%) CISSP
9 65 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (0.95%) CISM
11 42 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.91%) PMP
13 34 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 30 (0.66%) MCSA
15 29 (0.64%) AWS Certification
16 28 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 25 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 23 (0.51%) ISTQB
19 22 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (2.78%) QA
2 112 (2.48%) SLA
3 84 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (1.66%) NIST
5 69 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 59 (1.30%) PMO
7 54 (1.19%) NCSC
8 51 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 39 (0.86%) GDPR
10 30 (0.66%) JSP 440
11 29 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.33%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.29%) COBIT
14 13 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 13 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.18%) WCAG
17 7 (0.15%) ISO 9000
17 7 (0.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 266 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 205 (4.53%) Docker
3 162 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.35%) vSphere
5 54 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 45 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 43 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (0.77%) Firmware
8 35 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) KVM
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.088%) UAG
13 3 (0.066%) iptables
14 2 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.044%) XenApp
14 2 (0.044%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.022%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 292 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 284 (6.28%) Terraform
3 269 (5.94%) Ansible
4 82 (1.81%) SCCM
5 54 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 49 (1.08%) Grafana
7 48 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 41 (0.91%) SCOM
9 40 (0.88%) Puppet
10 37 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 36 (0.80%) WSUS
12 35 (0.77%) Prometheus
13 28 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.57%) Kibana
15 25 (0.55%) PowerCLI
15 25 (0.55%) VxRail
16 24 (0.53%) Packer
17 19 (0.42%) NetBackup
17 19 (0.42%) vRealize
18 17 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 548 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.06%) VMware
3 253 (5.59%) SAP
4 216 (4.77%) Oracle
5 211 (4.66%) Cisco
6 127 (2.81%) Juniper
7 110 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 86 (1.90%) Palo Alto
10 83 (1.83%) IBM
11 66 (1.46%) Dell
12 64 (1.41%) HP
13 58 (1.28%) Sparx
14 56 (1.24%) Atlassian
15 52 (1.15%) SolarWinds
16 50 (1.10%) Fortinet
16 50 (1.10%) Splunk
17 48 (1.06%) Google
18 47 (1.04%) Citrix
19 42 (0.93%) F5