SC Cleared Contracts in Gloucester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 2 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 30 31 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 32.97% 36.90% 47.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.18% 60.78% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 63
10th Percentile £283 £200 £210
25th Percentile £425 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £600
90th Percentile £860 - £669
Gloucestershire median daily rate £545 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £30.25 £68.00
% change year-on-year +124.79% -55.51% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 51 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 48.35% 60.71% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 96
10th Percentile £363 £346 £275
25th Percentile £425 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £700 £688 £600
90th Percentile £800 £706 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.08% -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £71.50 £24.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +194.85% -68.91% +41.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Gloucester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Gloucester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) IIS
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (3.33%) VMWare Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Node.js
1 2 (6.67%) React
1 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) iPad
2 3 (10.00%) iPhone
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.33%) Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Task Automation
2 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
3 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 5 (16.67%) ITIL
4 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (10.00%) Application Security
6 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (10.00%) Inventory Management
6 3 (10.00%) Threat Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 3 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Go
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) MCSA
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NCSC
2 3 (10.00%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) Docker
3 4 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.33%) BitLocker
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (6.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.33%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (3.33%) Podman
5 1 (3.33%) QRadar
5 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.33%) vMotion
5 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) McAfee
3 3 (10.00%) Symantec
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.67%) Tenable
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Exabeam
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk