SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Kingston Upon Thames

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kingston Upon Thames with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 15 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in Kingston Upon Thames 46.88% 17.39% 34.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 83.33% 44.44% 72.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £475 £675 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +66.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £825 £475
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.42% - -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £54.37 - £34.00
25th Percentile £65.50 - £49.88
Median hourly rate £71.27 - £55.00
75th Percentile £76.58 - -
90th Percentile - - £70.65
South London median hourly rate £71.27 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 9 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 56.25% 39.13% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £374 £174 £405
25th Percentile £438 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -55.56% +227.27%
75th Percentile £525 £288 £475
90th Percentile - £610 -
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £529
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.48% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 13
10th Percentile £54.37 - £31.00
25th Percentile £65.50 £68.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +33.82% +13.31%
75th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £65.11
90th Percentile - - £71.50
South London median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.17% +33.82% +13.31%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Kingston Upon Thames

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Kingston Upon Thames

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Kingston Upon Thames over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Kingston Upon Thames

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
New Malden 0 14 £500 -33.33% 8
SC Cleared
South London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Rust Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Rust Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Vue
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Project Management
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (20.00%) Test Management
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
3 3 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (20.00%) Workload Management
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.67%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.67%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C#
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) EMC Certification
3 3 (20.00%) HNC
3 3 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Def Stans
1 3 (20.00%) IEC 61508
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft