SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in London

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
England > London

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 387 489
Rank change year-on-year +47 +102 +102
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 13 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.024% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £468 £256 £472
25th Percentile £550 £341 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £488 £669
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -27.13% +13.87%
75th Percentile £656 £497 £677
90th Percentile £707 £499 £691
England median daily rate £575 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer within the London 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
South London - 5 - -
SC Cleared Software Engineer
England

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (69.23%) Docker
4 8 (61.54%) Java
4 8 (61.54%) SQL
5 7 (53.85%) Migration
5 7 (53.85%) Spring
5 7 (53.85%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
6 6 (46.15%) OpenAPI
6 6 (46.15%) Swagger
6 6 (46.15%) Microservices
6 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
6 6 (46.15%) Kafka
6 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (46.15%) Agile
6 6 (46.15%) TDD
6 6 (46.15%) JUnit
7 5 (38.46%) SAP
7 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (38.46%) Marketing
7 5 (38.46%) Electronics
7 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
7 5 (38.46%) Finance
7 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
7 5 (38.46%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (38.46%) Programme Management

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) Gradle
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Liquibase
2 5 (38.46%) Mockito
3 2 (15.38%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Jasmine
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Electronics
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
1 5 (38.46%) Marketing
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
2 6 (46.15%) Kafka
2 6 (46.15%) OpenAPI
2 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 6 (46.15%) Swagger
3 5 (38.46%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) EDIFACT
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Security
5 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
5 1 (7.69%) XML
5 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Migration
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
3 6 (46.15%) TDD
4 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (38.46%) Programme Management
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Confluent
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) MKS