SC Cleared Contracts in Hampshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 199 404 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 26.68% 25.09% 30.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.71% 37.83% 53.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 250 306
10th Percentile £261 £425 £261
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.27% +0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £660 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £540 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 42
10th Percentile £19.63 - £21.31
25th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +4.42% +8.30%
75th Percentile £62.50 £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.56 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.08% +13.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 426 1,068 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.10% 66.34% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 603 527
10th Percentile £375 £425 £250
25th Percentile £488 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.48%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £638
90th Percentile £660 £743 £713
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 74 62
10th Percentile £20.09 £26.00 £25.39
25th Percentile £24.66 £53.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.35 £61.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -6.88% +26.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.96
90th Percentile - £80.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Hampshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Hampshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Hampshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Hampshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Portsmouth 0 71 £525 -7.89% 51
Farnborough -4 25 £500 -6.89% 24
Basingstoke +1 23 £575 -8.00% 21
Southampton +1 22 £550 +10.00% 29
Andover +1 10 £513 -24.07% 3
Winchester -1 7 £550 +7.00% 4
Gosport +2 4 £600 +14.29% 8
Fareham -2 4 £455 -17.27% 5
Aldershot 0 1 £525 -
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 12 (6.03%) Confluence
2 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.50%) Mule
4 1 (0.50%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (7.54%) Azure
3 13 (6.53%) AWS
4 7 (3.52%) GCP
5 5 (2.51%) GitHub
5 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.01%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.51%) SaaS
8 2 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.50%) MinIO
9 1 (0.50%) PaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.05%) Firewall
2 13 (6.53%) Network Security
3 11 (5.53%) DNS
3 11 (5.53%) LAN
3 11 (5.53%) VPN
4 10 (5.03%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (3.02%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (3.02%) SNMP
5 6 (3.02%) WAN
6 5 (2.51%) Internet
7 4 (2.01%) DHCP
7 4 (2.01%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.01%) SAN
7 4 (2.01%) VLAN
8 3 (1.51%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.51%) VSAN
8 3 (1.51%) Wireless
9 2 (1.01%) NGFW
9 2 (1.01%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.02%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.51%) Power BI
3 4 (2.01%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.51%) GIS
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.01%) Redis
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.50%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 15 (7.54%) JIRA
2 13 (6.53%) Robot Framework
3 12 (6.03%) GoogleTest
4 11 (5.53%) Bitbucket
4 11 (5.53%) Git
5 10 (5.03%) Eclipse
5 10 (5.03%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.02%) GitLab
7 1 (0.50%) Poetry
General
1 61 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.60%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.03%) Finance
5 5 (2.51%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.51%) Military
6 4 (2.01%) Legal
7 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Aviation
8 2 (1.01%) Electronics
8 2 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (11.56%) Architect
2 17 (8.54%) Network Architect
3 15 (7.54%) Network Engineer
4 14 (7.04%) Consultant
5 13 (6.53%) Senior
6 11 (5.53%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Communications Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Analyst
8 9 (4.52%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Embedded Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.52%) Developer
10 7 (3.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) IT Services Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.03%) CSS
2 8 (4.02%) HTML
3 6 (3.02%) Kafka
4 5 (2.51%) .NET
5 4 (2.01%) Node.js
5 4 (2.01%) SOAP
6 3 (1.51%) Flask
6 3 (1.51%) Playwright
6 3 (1.51%) React
6 3 (1.51%) Web Services
7 2 (1.01%) Angular 2
7 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.01%) Celery
7 2 (1.01%) Django
7 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.01%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.01%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.01%) Next.js
7 2 (1.01%) pytest
7 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
1 5 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.01%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.51%) Clustering
3 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
3 3 (1.51%) SCADA
3 3 (1.51%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.50%) CUDA
5 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.50%) PMI
5 1 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.50%) Verilog
5 1 (0.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.56%) Linux
2 22 (11.06%) Windows
3 11 (5.53%) Windows 10
4 10 (5.03%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.01%) CentOS
5 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.51%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.61%) Agile
2 24 (12.06%) Software Engineering
3 23 (11.56%) Migration
4 20 (10.05%) CI/CD
5 19 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.05%) Test Automation
7 17 (8.54%) Scrum
8 16 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (6.53%) Customer Requirements
9 13 (6.53%) Network Architecture
10 12 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (6.03%) Validation
11 11 (5.53%) Software Testing
12 10 (5.03%) DevOps
12 10 (5.03%) Integration Testing
13 9 (4.52%) Analytics
13 9 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (4.52%) ITIL
13 9 (4.52%) SysML
13 9 (4.52%) UML
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.05%) Python
2 12 (6.03%) C++
2 12 (6.03%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.53%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.03%) SQL
5 8 (4.02%) Bash
6 5 (2.51%) C#
6 5 (2.51%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.51%) Perl
8 2 (1.01%) Go
8 2 (1.01%) Java
9 1 (0.50%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.50%) PHP
9 1 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 199 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.56%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) CCNA
3 14 (7.04%) CCNP
3 14 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.53%) Degree
5 9 (4.52%) JNCIS
6 6 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) CISSP
8 2 (1.01%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) APMP
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.50%) HND
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.56%) SLA
2 4 (2.01%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 3 (1.51%) JSP 440
3 3 (1.51%) NIST
4 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.50%) PMO
5 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.03%) vSphere
4 8 (4.02%) Docker
5 4 (2.01%) Firmware
5 4 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.04%) Ansible
3 12 (6.03%) Terraform
4 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.02%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.01%) SCCM
6 3 (1.51%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.51%) Nessus
6 3 (1.51%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (1.51%) SCOM
6 3 (1.51%) WSUS
7 2 (1.01%) Iperf
7 2 (1.01%) SCSM
8 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.50%) Grafana
8 1 (0.50%) Packer
8 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.50%) Puppet
8 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (14.07%) Google
2 26 (13.07%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.55%) Juniper
3 19 (9.55%) VMware
4 18 (9.05%) Cisco
5 11 (5.53%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.52%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.02%) Fujitsu
7 6 (3.02%) Intel
7 6 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.02%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.02%) Splunk
8 5 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.01%) F5
9 4 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.51%) NETGEAR
10 3 (1.51%) Symantec
10 3 (1.51%) TP-LINK
11 2 (1.01%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.01%) IFS