SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 204 53 36
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 31.83% 24.88% 22.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.38% 58.89% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 40 25
10th Percentile £349 £394 £352
25th Percentile £369 £437 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £523 £501
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £594 £616 £626
90th Percentile £650 £658 £692
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -11.06% +3.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 1 6
10th Percentile - - £50.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £69.75 £52.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -25.71% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.50 £52.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +33.65% -25.71% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 312 90 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.67% 42.25% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 61 39
10th Percentile £313 £200 £350
25th Percentile £383 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +1.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £594 £619
90th Percentile £625 £675 £704
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -5.76% +0.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 1 7
10th Percentile £43.96 - £37.20
25th Percentile £51.56 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.71% +268.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.71% +268.42%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 28 (13.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (12.25%) Apache
2 25 (12.25%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (11.27%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.45%) SAS
5 2 (0.98%) CMS
5 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) WordPress
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.31%) AWS
2 24 (11.76%) OpenShift
3 23 (11.27%) Azure
4 18 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (8.82%) Serverless
5 17 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 10 (4.90%) OCI
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon EMR
7 9 (4.41%) GCP
7 9 (4.41%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.43%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (3.43%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.45%) Kong
11 4 (1.96%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.96%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.96%) BGP
2 4 (1.96%) BIG-IP
2 4 (1.96%) DNS
2 4 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (1.96%) OSPF
2 4 (1.96%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.47%) HTTP
3 3 (1.47%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.47%) WAN
4 2 (0.98%) SSL
4 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.49%) Wireless
5 1 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.43%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.43%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.45%) Metadata
3 5 (2.45%) Power BI
4 4 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.96%) Big Data
4 4 (1.96%) Looker
5 3 (1.47%) Flink
5 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.98%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.98%) Redis
6 2 (0.98%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 2 (0.98%) Tableau
7 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (21.57%) GitLab
2 24 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 14 (6.86%) Git
4 7 (3.43%) Postman
4 7 (3.43%) Selenium
5 6 (2.94%) JIRA
5 6 (2.94%) REST Assured
6 5 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.96%) ERwin
7 4 (1.96%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.49%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.49%) JMeter
9 1 (0.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (42.65%) Public Sector
2 37 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (1.96%) Publishing
6 3 (1.47%) Legal
7 2 (0.98%) Finance
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (26.47%) Developer
2 43 (21.08%) Senior
3 34 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (14.71%) Lead
5 17 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (7.84%) Architect
6 16 (7.84%) Java Developer
7 15 (7.35%) Software Developer
8 14 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.39%) Lead Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Software Architect
10 11 (5.39%) Test Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.41%) Analyst
12 9 (4.41%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.00%) Terraform
2 26 (12.75%) AngularJS
3 24 (11.76%) Quarkus
4 12 (5.88%) Kafka
5 11 (5.39%) REST
6 8 (3.92%) Node.js
7 7 (3.43%) RESTful
8 6 (2.94%) PySpark
9 5 (2.45%) CSS
9 5 (2.45%) HTML
9 5 (2.45%) Playwright
9 5 (2.45%) Web Services
10 4 (1.96%) .NET
10 4 (1.96%) Spring
10 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.47%) JSON
11 3 (1.47%) OpenID
11 3 (1.47%) React
11 3 (1.47%) WireMock
12 2 (0.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.90%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.98%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.98%) Replication
7 2 (0.98%) SCADA
8 1 (0.49%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) MicroBlaze
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) PKI
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) RISC-V
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.39%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.98%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (47.55%) Agile
2 55 (26.96%) CI/CD
3 51 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 50 (24.51%) DevOps
5 49 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (20.59%) Scrum
7 39 (19.12%) Software Engineering
8 37 (18.14%) SDLC
9 34 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 31 (15.20%) Sprint Planning
10 31 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (14.22%) DevSecOps
12 29 (14.22%) Unit Testing
13 26 (12.75%) Analytics
14 24 (11.76%) Front End Development
14 24 (11.76%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.27%) Data Engineering
16 22 (10.78%) Sprint Review
17 21 (10.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 56 (27.45%) Python
2 43 (21.08%) Java
3 23 (11.27%) SQL
4 9 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.92%) Bash
6 5 (2.45%) Groovy
7 4 (1.96%) C#
7 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.98%) Go
8 2 (0.98%) PHP
8 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) C
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.49%) Perl
9 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.49%) Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) QA
2 13 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.90%) WCAG
4 8 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (21.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (21.08%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.76%) Argo
3 17 (8.33%) Ansible
4 10 (4.90%) Grafana
4 10 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.47%) Packer
7 2 (0.98%) Consul
7 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.98%) Rancher
7 2 (0.98%) VxRail
7 2 (0.98%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.49%) Control-M
8 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.49%) Nessus
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (11.27%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.39%) Trend Micro
3 10 (4.90%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.92%) Informatica
5 7 (3.43%) Databricks
5 7 (3.43%) Google
6 6 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.96%) Arista
7 4 (1.96%) F5
7 4 (1.96%) Splunk
7 4 (1.96%) UiPath
8 3 (1.47%) Aruba
9 2 (0.98%) Adobe
9 2 (0.98%) Confluent
9 2 (0.98%) DataFlux
9 2 (0.98%) Dell
9 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle
9 2 (0.98%) VMware