SC Cleared Contracts in Leicestershire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 4 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 14 33 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 14.00% 20.75% 1.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.84% 49.25% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 0
10th Percentile £513 £278 -
25th Percentile £548 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% - -
75th Percentile £663 £620 -
90th Percentile £715 £653 -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year +22.90% -3.40% +3.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 37 67 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 37.00% 42.14% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 19
10th Percentile £243 £213 £302
25th Percentile £250 £257 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% -10.59% -0.58%
75th Percentile £651 £544 £513
90th Percentile £687 £625 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £360 £500
% change year-on-year +24.17% -28.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +187.23%
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £20.00 £16.83
% change year-on-year +21.70% +18.84% -21.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Leicestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Leicestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Leicestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Leicestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire 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
Leicester -3 14 £650 +25.00% 11
SC Cleared
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (35.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (35.71%) IPsec
3 4 (28.57%) HSRP
3 4 (28.57%) OSPF
3 4 (28.57%) VLAN
4 2 (14.29%) LAN
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) 3G
5 1 (7.14%) 3GPP
5 1 (7.14%) 4G
5 1 (7.14%) 5G
5 1 (7.14%) LTE
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
5 1 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Architect
2 10 (71.43%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Biometrics
1 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) API Design
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) CCNP
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) F5
1 10 (71.43%) SolarWinds
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Juniper
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce