SC Cleared Contracts in the North East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 12 2
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 65 28 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 20.31% 8.28% 36.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.39% 25.45% 74.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 10 121
10th Percentile £305 £380 £388
25th Percentile £363 £409 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -11.46% -13.08%
75th Percentile £610 £545 £700
90th Percentile £650 £605 £775
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £22.18 - -
25th Percentile £27.15 £13.99 -
Median hourly rate £35.44 £48.09 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% - -
75th Percentile £43.72 £52.50 -
90th Percentile £48.69 £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £57.63
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.24% +10.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 110 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 40.31% 32.54% 48.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 44 166
10th Percentile £200 £318 £280
25th Percentile £356 £417 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -7.52% +7.62%
75th Percentile £590 £628 £645
90th Percentile £650 £685 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 1
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.15 -
25th Percentile £13.23 £13.99 £48.50
Median hourly rate £18.81 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile £41.41 £47.14 £49.50
90th Percentile £50.38 £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the North East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear +10 52 £520 +3.95% 16
Durham - 5 £155 - 3
Northumberland -3 3 - - 3
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England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (7.69%) nginx
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) Traefik
4 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 8 (12.31%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Kong
4 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.15%) Figma
4 4 (6.15%) Serverless
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.62%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.62%) IaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) Miro
7 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) SSL
1 4 (6.15%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) SMS
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Metadata
1 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.15%) MySQL
2 3 (4.62%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) Tableau
3 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) GitLab
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.15%) JIRA
4 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.62%) gulp
5 3 (4.62%) Maven
5 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
5 3 (4.62%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.08%) JUnit
7 1 (1.54%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 30 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Military
4 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Electronics
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Developer
2 8 (12.31%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Analyst
3 7 (10.77%) Lead
3 7 (10.77%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Designer
6 4 (6.15%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Desktop Support
6 4 (6.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Product Designer
6 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 3 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Kafka
1 8 (12.31%) Node.js
2 6 (9.23%) Spring
2 6 (9.23%) Spring Boot
3 4 (6.15%) React
4 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.62%) Apache CXF
4 3 (4.62%) Dropwizard
4 3 (4.62%) Express.js
4 3 (4.62%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.62%) JAX-RS
4 3 (4.62%) MEAN Stack
4 3 (4.62%) MERN Stack
4 3 (4.62%) Mongoose
4 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.62%) Sequelize
5 2 (3.08%) PySpark
5 2 (3.08%) REST
5 2 (3.08%) SOAP
6 1 (1.54%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.08%) PKI
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.54%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Mac OS
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) AIX
3 1 (1.54%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.54%) CentOS
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.54%) VMS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (15.38%) DevOps
3 7 (10.77%) Agile
3 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
4 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 5 (7.69%) ETL
5 5 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 5 (7.69%) Microservices
5 5 (7.69%) Migration
6 4 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (6.15%) Design Thinking
6 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (6.15%) Software Delivery
6 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
6 4 (6.15%) Test Strategy
6 4 (6.15%) Wireframes
7 3 (4.62%) Operational Stability
7 3 (4.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) Java
2 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
3 5 (7.69%) Python
4 3 (4.62%) Groovy
4 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.08%) ABAP
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) C
6 1 (1.54%) Go
6 1 (1.54%) PHP
6 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 65 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.08%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) WCAG
3 1 (1.54%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) NEBOSH
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) Terraform
2 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Ansible
3 4 (6.15%) Packer
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Consul
5 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.54%) Istio
5 1 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.54%) linkerd
5 1 (1.54%) Rancher
5 1 (1.54%) SCCM
5 1 (1.54%) VxRail
5 1 (1.54%) WSUS
5 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Databricks
2 5 (7.69%) SAP
3 4 (6.15%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.15%) VMware
4 3 (4.62%) Dell
4 3 (4.62%) Google
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.08%) HP
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.08%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.54%) Apple
6 1 (1.54%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.54%) ESET
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) Okta
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Pega
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk