SC Cleared Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
England > London

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 361 417
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 +161
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 6 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.077% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.082% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £623 - £517
25th Percentile £638 £500 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -11.39% -7.06%
75th Percentile £688 £619 £667
90th Percentile - £689 £734
England median daily rate £575 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.39%

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 12,746 14,684 18,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.03% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 9,481 13,720
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 155 210
10th Percentile £17.29 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -6.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.54 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SC Cleared Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SC Cleared Software Engineer job vacancy trend in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Node.js
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless
5 2 (33.33%) API Management
5 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (33.33%) Bicep
5 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (33.33%) Express.js
5 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) Kibana
5 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (33.33%) Next.js

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Node.js
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Express.js
3 2 (33.33%) Next.js
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
4 1 (16.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Equities
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) API Management
5 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (16.67%) SDET
6 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JSX
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Charles River
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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