SC Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 5 17 2
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 26 15 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.86% 7.69% 36.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.77% 21.43% 74.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 46
10th Percentile - - £381
25th Percentile £153 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £542 £531 £590
90th Percentile £580 £558 £659
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 26
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - £45.88 £28.85
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £41.54
Median % change year-on-year - +11.18% +0.44%
75th Percentile - £48.50 £46.38
90th Percentile - £50.00 £49.52
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £11.20 £42.50
% change year-on-year +435.95% -73.66% +2.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 77 70 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 44.00% 35.90% 49.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 63
10th Percentile £153 £313 £370
25th Percentile £390 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% +7.91%
75th Percentile £540 £704 £600
90th Percentile £598 £720 £695
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 33
10th Percentile - £11.77 £25.75
25th Percentile - £15.00 £29.30
Median hourly rate £31.52 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.26% -62.21% +2.77%
75th Percentile - - £49.52
90th Percentile - £46.18 £53.28
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston +3 13 £447 -5.89% 19
Lytham St Annes - 2 £153 -
Blackpool +6 1 - -
Lancaster - 1 £530 -
SC Cleared
North West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Teamcenter
2 5 (19.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) IaaS
2 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Configuration Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) ABAP Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support
3 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Agile Coach
5 1 (3.85%) CAD Designer
5 1 (3.85%) Designer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) XML
2 5 (19.23%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (19.23%) SAPUI5
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Agile
1 7 (26.92%) Data Governance
2 6 (23.08%) CAD
2 6 (23.08%) PLM
2 6 (23.08%) User Experience
3 5 (19.23%) Time Management
4 4 (15.38%) Kanban
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.54%) Coaching
5 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (7.69%) Agile Coaching
6 2 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
6 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Scorecard
6 2 (7.69%) Service Design
6 2 (7.69%) Software License Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) ABAP
2 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) TOWER Software
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media