SC Cleared Contracts in Glasgow

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -51 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 12 95 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.50% 10.83% 8.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.09% 41.67% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 63 57
10th Percentile £263 £404 £250
25th Percentile £268 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £473
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +21.69% -3.08%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £660 £700 £677
Scotland median daily rate £431 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +27.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.51 £60.00 £52.25
% change year-on-year -69.15% +14.83% +30.66%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 132 228 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 16.54% 26.00% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 149
10th Percentile £230 £203 £250
25th Percentile £352 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £608 £670 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.94 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £75.92 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
% change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (8.33%) PVCS
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Collaboration Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle ETL Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) EntireX
1 1 (8.33%) Java EE
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) FPGA
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Coaching
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) ETL
2 1 (8.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (8.33%) Project Management
2 1 (8.33%) Service Management
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (8.33%) ProC
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Software AG
2 1 (8.33%) webMethods