SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Kent

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 3.33% 0.56% 3.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.22% 2.70% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £102
25th Percentile - - £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £314
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.95%
75th Percentile - - £454
90th Percentile - - £534
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £37.19
25th Percentile £19.10 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £19.19 £67.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.37% +21.85% +7.37%
75th Percentile £19.29 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £70.51
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.30 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.86% -2.83% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 37 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 15.00% 20.56% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 25
10th Percentile £146 £161 £226
25th Percentile £166 £178 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £291 £259 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -50.71% +110.00%
75th Percentile £375 £525 £538
90th Percentile £438 £596 £567
South East median daily rate £500 £528 £538
% change year-on-year -5.21% -1.86% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £23.87 £19.54 £41.85
25th Percentile £31.02 £22.40 £52.13
Median hourly rate £37.00 £38.85 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -29.36% +29.98%
75th Percentile £39.00 £40.30 £59.38
90th Percentile - £56.33 £68.43
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.92% -2.71% +33.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Kent

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Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Dover - 3 £375 -
Chatham - 1 - - 1
SC Cleared
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) Veeam
1 3 (75.00%) VMware