SC Cleared Contracts in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 18 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,664 2,347 2,277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.40% 8.67% 5.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.81% 40.28% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,636 1,642
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £706
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 47
10th Percentile £13.87 £20.22 £34.27
25th Percentile £17.88 £36.17 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +21.35% -16.82%
75th Percentile - £74.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.65 £87.50 £61.40
England median hourly rate £49.00 £59.80 £52.00
% change year-on-year -18.06% +15.00% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London -7 165 £501 -6.88% 27
South London +2 107 £513 -6.82% 13
West London +29 19 £500 +23.46% 14
East London +2 7 £500 +66.67% 3
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
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 74 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.39%) Confluence
3 46 (2.76%) Apache
4 24 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.20%) nginx
6 12 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 9 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.18%) Simulink
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.060%) SPSS
9 1 (0.060%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 28 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
2 11 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.060%) Maximo
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.060%) Primavera
7 1 (0.060%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.060%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 457 (27.46%) AWS
2 231 (13.88%) Azure
3 91 (5.47%) Serverless
4 78 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (4.45%) Amazon S3
7 46 (2.76%) GCP
8 45 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (2.52%) Power Platform
10 34 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (1.98%) GitHub
12 32 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (1.80%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.50%) Amazon MSK
16 24 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (1.44%) OCI
17 22 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.43%) Firewall
2 32 (1.92%) VPN
3 30 (1.80%) Wireless
4 29 (1.74%) WAN
5 22 (1.32%) LAN
6 16 (0.96%) OSPF
7 15 (0.90%) BGP
7 15 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (0.90%) Network Security
7 15 (0.90%) WLAN
8 14 (0.84%) IPsec
9 13 (0.78%) DNS
10 12 (0.72%) SNA
11 11 (0.66%) Skype
11 11 (0.66%) VoIP
12 9 (0.54%) Internet
13 8 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (0.48%) VSAN
14 7 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 40 (2.40%) Flink
3 40 (2.40%) Metadata
3 40 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 36 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (2.04%) Data Vault
6 31 (1.86%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.62%) Power BI
9 26 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.32%) Big Data
11 21 (1.26%) Metadata Repository
11 21 (1.26%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.08%) Parquet
14 17 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (0.84%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 121 (7.27%) JIRA
2 116 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 106 (6.37%) Git
4 59 (3.55%) GitLab
5 39 (2.34%) Selenium
6 37 (2.22%) JUnit
7 31 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.02%) Postman
8 17 (1.02%) TestNG
9 15 (0.90%) Maven
9 15 (0.90%) REST Assured
10 14 (0.84%) JMeter
11 13 (0.78%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.72%) SoapUI
13 11 (0.66%) Mockito
14 10 (0.60%) Appium
15 9 (0.54%) eggPlant
15 9 (0.54%) SOAtest
16 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 488 (29.33%) Public Sector
2 264 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 192 (11.54%) Finance
4 110 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (2.46%) Telecoms
6 40 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (2.22%) Law
8 36 (2.16%) Banking
9 34 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (1.92%) Marketing
10 32 (1.92%) Military
11 31 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.62%) Electronics
13 25 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.38%) Police
15 19 (1.14%) Legal
16 15 (0.90%) Publishing
17 12 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 5 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 287 (17.25%) Architect
2 241 (14.48%) Developer
3 141 (8.47%) Senior
4 121 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 111 (6.67%) Analyst
6 96 (5.77%) Lead
7 95 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 83 (4.99%) Consultant
9 79 (4.75%) Java Developer
10 72 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
11 64 (3.85%) Data Architect
12 59 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
13 58 (3.49%) Project Manager
14 56 (3.37%) Business Analyst
15 49 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
16 47 (2.82%) Technical Architect
17 45 (2.70%) Security Architect
18 40 (2.40%) AWS DevOps
19 39 (2.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.29%) Kafka
2 76 (4.57%) Spring
3 73 (4.39%) Spring Boot
4 62 (3.73%) React
5 60 (3.61%) REST
6 41 (2.46%) CSS
6 41 (2.46%) HTML
7 37 (2.22%) JSON
8 32 (1.92%) Node.js
9 30 (1.80%) RESTful
10 29 (1.74%) .NET
11 28 (1.68%) JPA
12 27 (1.62%) Hibernate
13 21 (1.26%) Web Services
14 18 (1.08%) Apache Avro
15 17 (1.02%) Laravel
15 17 (1.02%) OpenID
15 17 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
16 16 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (0.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 44 (2.64%) Onboarding
2 42 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 28 (1.68%) Reference Data
4 25 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 22 (1.32%) PKI
6 20 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.02%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (0.72%) Blockchain
11 11 (0.66%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.54%) CMDB
12 9 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.54%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.48%) Taxonomies
13 8 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.63%) Linux
2 109 (6.55%) Windows
3 37 (2.22%) Unix
4 32 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.02%) Android
6 16 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.72%) Windows 7
8 9 (0.54%) Mac OS X
8 9 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.36%) CentOS
9 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.30%) VMS
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (21.09%) Agile
2 234 (14.06%) DevOps
3 195 (11.72%) CI/CD
4 153 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
5 143 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 111 (6.67%) Migration
7 97 (5.83%) Microservices
8 94 (5.65%) Data Modelling
9 91 (5.47%) Decision-Making
9 91 (5.47%) ITIL
10 90 (5.41%) Test Automation
11 86 (5.17%) Change Management
12 84 (5.05%) Analytics
13 83 (4.99%) Scrum
14 82 (4.93%) Project Management
15 80 (4.81%) Roadmaps
16 78 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 78 (4.69%) Service Management
17 77 (4.63%) Cybersecurity
17 77 (4.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 218 (13.10%) Python
2 217 (13.04%) Java
3 157 (9.44%) SQL
4 91 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 48 (2.88%) C#
7 45 (2.70%) Bash
8 42 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.08%) Go
9 18 (1.08%) PHP
10 10 (0.60%) Ruby
10 10 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.54%) C++
12 8 (0.48%) ABAP
12 8 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.42%) C
13 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.36%) Perl
14 6 (0.36%) R
15 4 (0.24%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,664 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 160 (9.62%) DV Cleared
3 78 (4.69%) Degree
4 41 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.44%) PMP
7 23 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
10 12 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.42%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 7 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 6 (0.36%) CCNP
15 6 (0.36%) CISM
15 6 (0.36%) CISSP
16 5 (0.30%) CCNA
16 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.25%) QA
2 40 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 38 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.26%) PMO
5 18 (1.08%) NCSC
5 18 (1.08%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) NIST
7 9 (0.54%) GDPR
8 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.30%) WCAG
10 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.18%) COBIT
11 3 (0.18%) GRC
11 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 134 (8.05%) Docker
2 44 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.72%) vSphere
6 8 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) UAG
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.060%) KVM
11 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 175 (10.52%) Terraform
2 168 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 114 (6.85%) Ansible
4 26 (1.56%) Grafana
5 25 (1.50%) Puppet
6 22 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.72%) SCCM
9 12 (0.72%) VxRail
10 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.54%) Packer
11 9 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.48%) Nagios
13 7 (0.42%) Kibana
13 7 (0.42%) vRealize
14 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.30%) Consul
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 156 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.25%) Oracle
3 59 (3.55%) VMware
4 50 (3.00%) SAP
5 48 (2.88%) Cisco
6 32 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.92%) Sparx
7 31 (1.86%) Splunk
8 26 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.20%) Juniper
10 19 (1.14%) IBM
11 18 (1.08%) NetApp
12 15 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 14 (0.84%) Apple
13 14 (0.84%) F5
13 14 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.84%) Informatica
14 12 (0.72%) Foundry
14 12 (0.72%) Google
14 12 (0.72%) Red Hat