SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Lincoln

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Lincolnshire > Lincoln

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lincoln 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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 19 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lincoln 61.29% - 8.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 86.36% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lincolnshire median daily rate £158 £425 £660
% change year-on-year -62.94% -35.61% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £19.79 - -
25th Percentile £22.79 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £24.41 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lincoln

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 Lincoln.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 22 0 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln 70.97% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £507 - £340
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.36%
75th Percentile £613 - £363
90th Percentile £635 - £445
Lincolnshire median daily rate £197 £663 £363
% change year-on-year -70.26% +82.76% -34.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £19.79 - -
25th Percentile £22.79 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £24.41 £15.10 £20.51
% change year-on-year +61.67% -26.38% +4.11%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincoln

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Lincoln

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Daily Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincoln 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Electronics
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Manufacturing
1 6 (31.58%) Marketing
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Migration Technician
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Technician
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) PC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Migration
2 15 (78.95%) Workflow
3 12 (63.16%) Workflow Management
4 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (31.58%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (31.58%) Programme Management
5 3 (15.79%) Hardware Maintenance
5 3 (15.79%) Logistics
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) GitOps
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Ticket Management
6 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Argo
1 2 (10.53%) Istio
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Computacenter
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) HP