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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SC Cleared 263 331 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 26.30% 22.50% 26.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.03% 35.21% 49.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 250 222
10th Percentile £200 £360 £273
25th Percentile £413 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.64% -11.18%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £514 £573 £520
% change year-on-year -10.22% +10.10% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 29
10th Percentile - £25.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.13 £58.59
Median hourly rate £24.91 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.49% -4.00% -0.26%
75th Percentile £27.30 £69.38 £71.25
90th Percentile £57.88 £92.07 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year -58.08% -2.64% -1.65%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 584 940 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 58.40% 63.90% 54.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 620 403
10th Percentile £312 £400 £269
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £613
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 71 51
10th Percentile - £26.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.40 £54.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% -7.50% +3.33%
75th Percentile £69.99 £65.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.18% -4.42% +33.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Hampshire over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Hampshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Hampshire over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Hampshire

SC Cleared
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth +3 111 £531 -1.16% 21
Farnborough +2 47 £500 -14.53% 23
Southampton 0 34 £500 +11.11% 10
Basingstoke -10 16 £600 - 19
Aldershot +1 13 £128 -77.69% 1
Andover +1 10 £631 -6.48% 1
Romsey -1 4 £508 +12.78% 2
Fareham -3 3 £455 -17.27% 4
Gosport +4 2 £439 -20.27%
Winchester -4 1 £613 +19.16% 7
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 8 (3.04%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.38%) Mule
3 1 (0.38%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.14%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.22%) Azure
2 15 (5.70%) OpenShift
3 9 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (2.66%) AWS
5 4 (1.52%) GCP
5 4 (1.52%) GitHub
6 3 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.38%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.46%) Firewall
2 16 (6.08%) Network Security
3 9 (3.42%) VPN
4 8 (3.04%) LAN
5 6 (2.28%) WAN
6 4 (1.52%) BGP
6 4 (1.52%) OSPF
6 4 (1.52%) VLAN
7 3 (1.14%) HTTP
7 3 (1.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.76%) SNMP
8 2 (0.76%) VoIP
8 2 (0.76%) Wireless
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.38%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.38%) PCoIP
9 1 (0.38%) Skype
9 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.14%) GIS
3 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.76%) Redis
5 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 19 (7.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.08%) JIRA
3 13 (4.94%) GitLab
4 9 (3.42%) Git
5 8 (3.04%) GoogleTest
5 8 (3.04%) Robot Framework
6 7 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.66%) MSI
7 6 (2.28%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.76%) Postman
8 2 (0.76%) Selenium
8 2 (0.76%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.38%) Maven
9 1 (0.38%) Poetry
9 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.65%) Public Sector
3 14 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.18%) Finance
5 8 (3.04%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.90%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.52%) Electronics
7 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.14%) Aviation
8 3 (1.14%) Marketing
8 3 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Law
9 2 (0.76%) Legal
9 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Billing
10 1 (0.38%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 42 (15.97%) Architect
2 25 (9.51%) Service Architect
3 20 (7.60%) Communications Engineer
4 16 (6.08%) Network Engineer
5 15 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (4.94%) Developer
6 13 (4.94%) Network Architect
7 11 (4.18%) Analyst
8 10 (3.80%) Desktop Support
9 8 (3.04%) Consultant
9 8 (3.04%) IT Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) Senior
10 7 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.66%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (2.66%) Security Specialist
10 7 (2.66%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.66%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (2.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (2.28%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.18%) React
2 8 (3.04%) Middleware
3 6 (2.28%) SOAP
4 5 (1.90%) REST
5 4 (1.52%) CSS
5 4 (1.52%) Kafka
5 4 (1.52%) RESTful
6 3 (1.14%) Swagger
7 2 (0.76%) .NET
7 2 (0.76%) Celery
7 2 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.76%) Flask
7 2 (0.76%) HTML
7 2 (0.76%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.76%) LDAP
7 2 (0.76%) Next.js
7 2 (0.76%) Node.js
7 2 (0.76%) OAuth
7 2 (0.76%) RAML
7 2 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.46%) Private Cloud
2 10 (3.80%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.52%) SCADA
4 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.14%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.14%) Smartphone
6 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.76%) PMI
7 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.38%) CMDB
7 1 (0.38%) CUDA
7 1 (0.38%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.38%) State Machine
7 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.51%) Windows
2 21 (7.98%) Linux
3 13 (4.94%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (15.59%) Migration
2 40 (15.21%) Agile
3 31 (11.79%) CI/CD
3 31 (11.79%) ITIL
4 29 (11.03%) Project Delivery
5 27 (10.27%) Service Management
6 26 (9.89%) Service Design
7 25 (9.51%) IT4IT
8 24 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (7.22%) Workflow
11 17 (6.46%) Asset Management
11 17 (6.46%) Workflow Management
12 16 (6.08%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (6.08%) Software Engineering
13 15 (5.70%) Ticket Management
14 14 (5.32%) DevOps
14 14 (5.32%) High Availability
14 14 (5.32%) Scrum
15 13 (4.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.03%) PowerShell
1 29 (11.03%) Python
2 20 (7.60%) JavaScript
2 20 (7.60%) SQL
3 19 (7.22%) C#
4 15 (5.70%) Java
5 9 (3.42%) Bash
6 7 (2.66%) C++
7 6 (2.28%) VB
8 4 (1.52%) Go
9 3 (1.14%) Perl
9 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 263 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.51%) DV Cleared
3 18 (6.84%) Degree
4 16 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.32%) CCNP
7 10 (3.80%) CCNA
8 8 (3.04%) CISM
9 5 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.90%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.14%) CISSP
11 2 (0.76%) CASP
11 2 (0.76%) CISA
11 2 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.76%) CRISC
11 2 (0.76%) GCIH
11 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMP
12 1 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.65%) SLA
2 25 (9.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 13 (4.94%) QA
4 9 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.76%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) PMBOK
System Software
1 15 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Docker
4 3 (1.14%) Firmware
5 2 (0.76%) UAG
5 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (9.89%) Ansible
2 21 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.94%) Terraform
4 7 (2.66%) SCCM
5 5 (1.90%) Rsyslog
5 5 (1.90%) SCOM
6 4 (1.52%) Grafana
6 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.52%) Rundeck
6 4 (1.52%) vRealize
7 3 (1.14%) Cilium
7 3 (1.14%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.14%) Salt
8 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.76%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.76%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) Rancher
9 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (11.03%) Google
2 22 (8.37%) VMware
3 20 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.08%) Cisco
5 11 (4.18%) Fortinet
5 11 (4.18%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.42%) Juniper
7 6 (2.28%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.28%) Intel
8 4 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.52%) SAP
8 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.14%) Adobe
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.76%) Aruba
10 2 (0.76%) Dell
10 2 (0.76%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.76%) IBM
10 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft