SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Surrey > Guildford

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 6 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 22.22% - 19.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.00% - 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £233 - £338
25th Percentile £252 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.95%
75th Percentile £478 - £511
90th Percentile £551 - £515
Surrey median daily rate £532 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -18.15% +13.04% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.15 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 - -
Median hourly rate £36.75 - £61.63
75th Percentile £45.88 - -
90th Percentile £51.35 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £83.82 £67.27 £67.27
% change year-on-year +24.61% - +202.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 5 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 55.56% 19.23% 36.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 11
10th Percentile £249 - £200
25th Percentile £263 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £70 £500
Median % change year-on-year +507.14% -86.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £600 - £545
90th Percentile - £387 £630
Surrey median daily rate £500 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.76% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £22.15 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 - -
Median hourly rate £36.75 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +284.62%
75th Percentile £45.88 - £52.91
90th Percentile £51.35 - £58.14
Surrey median hourly rate £79.06 £24.18 £64.00
% change year-on-year +226.97% -62.22% +42.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Guildford

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Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Guildford over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Guildford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Guildford

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Guildford over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Guildford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics Technician
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) SIEM Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) HNC
2 1 (16.67%) HND
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Progress
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk