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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 48 30 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.24% 20.13% 28.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.55% 54.55% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 37
10th Percentile £425 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% -5.62%
75th Percentile £616 £606 £575
90th Percentile £688 £664 £715
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £538 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +23.56% -17.14% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 88 55 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 44.44% 36.91% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 36 52
10th Percentile £410 £350 £287
25th Percentile £438 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile - £23.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile - £70.00 £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £11.64 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -76.72% +163.16% -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 18 August 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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.25%) IaaS
3 3 (6.25%) Kong
3 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) Serverless
4 2 (4.17%) Figma
4 2 (4.17%) GCP
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.08%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DHCP
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) MongoDB
1 13 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) MySQL
3 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Power BI
5 2 (4.17%) Tableau
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.08%) Looker
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Git
2 9 (18.75%) JIRA
3 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.42%) GitLab
4 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.25%) gulp
6 3 (6.25%) Maven
6 3 (6.25%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) LabVIEW
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 24 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Military
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Architect
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) JIRA Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Designer
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) Node.js
2 7 (14.58%) Spring
3 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.42%) Keycloak
5 4 (8.33%) Kafka
5 4 (8.33%) React
5 4 (8.33%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.25%) Apache CXF
6 3 (6.25%) Dropwizard
6 3 (6.25%) Express.js
6 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.25%) JAX-RS
6 3 (6.25%) MEAN Stack
6 3 (6.25%) MERN Stack
6 3 (6.25%) Mongoose
6 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (6.25%) Sequelize
6 3 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 3 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.08%) FPGA
2 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Agile
1 13 (27.08%) Microservices
2 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
3 8 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (10.42%) DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.42%) Validation
5 4 (8.33%) GitOps
5 4 (8.33%) MVC
5 4 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.25%) Operational Stability
6 3 (6.25%) Secrets Management
6 3 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Java
1 10 (20.83%) SQL
2 9 (18.75%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) Groovy
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) C
6 1 (2.08%) COBOL
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) CISSP
3 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) WCAG
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Ansible
4 5 (10.42%) Istio
5 4 (8.33%) Argo
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
6 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Dell
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) VMware