SC Cleared Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 51 17 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.87% 8.10% 44.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.67% 21.25% 78.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 116
10th Percentile £327 £380 £400
25th Percentile £458 £409 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.46% -13.08%
75th Percentile £613 £545 £700
90th Percentile £650 £605 £767
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £520 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +3.95% -11.46% -13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 90 80 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.36% 38.10% 55.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 150
10th Percentile £325 £370 £369
25th Percentile £430 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £654
90th Percentile £650 £710 £756
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £510 £565
% change year-on-year -2.01% -9.69% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £46.83 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £47.69 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £49.75 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - -
75th Percentile £51.19 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £51.68 £60.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £29.57 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year +47.85% - -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 5 (9.80%) nginx
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.96%) Traefik
4 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) AWS
2 7 (13.73%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) Kong
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.84%) Serverless
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.88%) IaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (3.92%) Figma
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) SSL
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) SMS
3 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Metadata
1 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.84%) MySQL
2 3 (5.88%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) Tableau
3 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) GitLab
2 6 (11.76%) Git
3 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.88%) gulp
5 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) Maven
5 3 (5.88%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.96%) JUnit
6 1 (1.96%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 25 (49.02%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Military
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Electronics
5 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.88%) Marketing
5 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Senior
3 7 (13.73%) Lead
4 6 (11.76%) Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Kafka
1 8 (15.69%) Node.js
2 5 (9.80%) Spring
2 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.84%) React
4 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.88%) Apache CXF
4 3 (5.88%) Dropwizard
4 3 (5.88%) Express.js
4 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.88%) JAX-RS
4 3 (5.88%) MEAN Stack
4 3 (5.88%) MERN Stack
4 3 (5.88%) Mongoose
4 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.88%) Sequelize
5 2 (3.92%) PySpark
5 2 (3.92%) REST
5 2 (3.92%) SOAP
6 1 (1.96%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) CentOS
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) VMS
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.65%) DevOps
2 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.80%) Agile
5 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
5 5 (9.80%) Migration
6 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (7.84%) Data Modelling
6 4 (7.84%) ETL
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (7.84%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.84%) Microservices
6 4 (7.84%) Software Delivery
6 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
6 4 (7.84%) Test Strategy
7 3 (5.88%) BDD
7 3 (5.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (5.88%) Open Source
7 3 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Java
2 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
2 7 (13.73%) SQL
3 5 (9.80%) Python
4 3 (5.88%) Groovy
4 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.96%) ABAP
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) C
5 1 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (1.96%) PHP
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.92%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) WCAG
3 1 (1.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Terraform
2 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Packer
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Consul
5 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.96%) Istio
5 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.96%) linkerd
5 1 (1.96%) Rancher
5 1 (1.96%) SCCM
5 1 (1.96%) VxRail
5 1 (1.96%) WSUS
5 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Atlassian
2 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.92%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.96%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) Dell
5 1 (1.96%) ESET
5 1 (1.96%) Okta
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk