SC Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 490 474 701
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.65% 10.07% 12.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.71% 41.80% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 320 495
10th Percentile £236 £400 £393
25th Percentile £410 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -5.94% -0.45%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 57 41
10th Percentile £20.36 - £22.51
25th Percentile £25.15 £10.95 £28.70
Median hourly rate £27.25 £13.99 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.78% -67.08% +2.77%
75th Percentile £59.93 £50.00 £52.13
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £49.28 £57.50
% change year-on-year -35.06% -14.30% +10.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,072 1,134 1,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.06% 24.10% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 631 932
10th Percentile £230 £310 £325
25th Percentile £375 £416 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 174 72
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.02 £13.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.38 £16.06 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -60.43% +27.83%
75th Percentile £50.38 £43.10 £50.17
90th Percentile £70.75 £63.38 £66.97
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +37.50%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
North West +1 341 £500 -2.91% 157
Yorkshire +12 99 £500 -0.10% 62
North East +7 56 £480 +10.34% 31
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 24 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.86%) Confluence
2 14 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 10 (2.04%) Skype for Business
5 5 (1.02%) IIS
6 4 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.41%) Mendix
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.20%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.63%) Siemens NX
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.24%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.22%) Primavera
4 4 (0.82%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.82%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.61%) SAP LE
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.20%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 91 (18.57%) AWS
2 58 (11.84%) Azure
3 24 (4.90%) Serverless
4 18 (3.67%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.06%) SaaS
7 12 (2.45%) GCP
8 11 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.84%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.84%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.22%) GitHub
12 6 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.02%) Kong
14 4 (0.82%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 55 (11.22%) Firewall
2 34 (6.94%) DNS
3 32 (6.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 31 (6.33%) WAN
5 28 (5.71%) BGP
5 28 (5.71%) HSRP
5 28 (5.71%) IPsec
5 28 (5.71%) OSPF
6 26 (5.31%) Cisco ASA
7 25 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (4.90%) EIGRP
9 21 (4.29%) Cisco ISE
9 21 (4.29%) VPN
10 18 (3.67%) NetScaler
11 17 (3.47%) Structured Cabling
12 16 (3.27%) Network Security
13 13 (2.65%) Skype
14 11 (2.24%) DHCP
15 10 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (2.04%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (3.67%) Oracle Database
3 12 (2.45%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.45%) MySQL
4 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.84%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.63%) SAP HANA
7 8 (1.63%) Siebel EIM
8 6 (1.22%) Power BI
9 5 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.02%) Tableau
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.82%) Big Data
10 4 (0.82%) Metadata
11 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 39 (7.96%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.71%) GitLab
3 24 (4.90%) JIRA
4 19 (3.88%) Git
5 15 (3.06%) JUnit
6 13 (2.65%) Selenium
7 12 (2.45%) Maven
8 11 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.24%) Gradle
9 10 (2.04%) Liquibase
9 10 (2.04%) Mockito
9 10 (2.04%) Postman
9 10 (2.04%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.63%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.43%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.22%) JMeter
12 6 (1.22%) TestNG
13 5 (1.02%) gulp
General
1 107 (21.84%) Public Sector
2 94 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.55%) Finance
4 28 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 20 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.24%) Electronics
6 11 (2.24%) Legal
6 11 (2.24%) Military
7 10 (2.04%) Marketing
8 9 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.63%) Banking
10 6 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Advertising
13 1 (0.20%) Law
13 1 (0.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (15.92%) Network Engineer
2 65 (13.27%) Developer
3 49 (10.00%) Senior
4 46 (9.39%) Architect
5 41 (8.37%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 32 (6.53%) Analyst
7 25 (5.10%) Lead
8 24 (4.90%) Support Engineer
9 21 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (3.67%) Consultant
13 14 (2.86%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.65%) Desktop Support
14 13 (2.65%) SAP Developer
14 13 (2.65%) Siebel Developer
15 12 (2.45%) ABAP Developer
15 12 (2.45%) Desktop Engineer
15 12 (2.45%) IT Engineer
16 11 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.51%) Node.js
2 24 (4.90%) Kafka
3 22 (4.49%) Spring
4 20 (4.08%) Spring Boot
5 18 (3.67%) Web Services
6 17 (3.47%) React
7 14 (2.86%) 802.1X
8 11 (2.24%) XML
9 10 (2.04%) OpenAPI
9 10 (2.04%) SOAP
9 10 (2.04%) Swagger
10 9 (1.84%) JMS
11 8 (1.63%) BAPI
12 7 (1.43%) RESTful
13 6 (1.22%) Playwright
14 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.02%) Apache CXF
14 5 (1.02%) Dropwizard
14 5 (1.02%) Express.js
14 5 (1.02%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.84%) Fibre Optics
6 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.02%) Life Science
8 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.82%) Blackberry
9 4 (0.82%) Handset
9 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.82%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.18%) Windows
2 39 (7.96%) Linux
3 30 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.24%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.43%) Android
7 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.22%) Unix
9 5 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.82%) CentOS
10 4 (0.82%) Solaris
10 4 (0.82%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.61%) AIX
11 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.41%) HPUX
13 1 (0.20%) VMS
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.57%) Agile
2 65 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (11.84%) Migration
4 51 (10.41%) DevOps
5 47 (9.59%) CI/CD
6 40 (8.16%) ITSM
6 40 (8.16%) Microservices
7 38 (7.76%) ITIL
8 32 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (6.12%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (5.51%) Software Engineering
12 24 (4.90%) Test Automation
13 22 (4.49%) Load Balancing
13 22 (4.49%) Network Management
14 21 (4.29%) User Experience
15 20 (4.08%) TDD
16 19 (3.88%) Network Design
16 19 (3.88%) Project Management
16 19 (3.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.65%) SQL
2 43 (8.78%) Java
3 31 (6.33%) PowerShell
3 31 (6.33%) Python
4 28 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 26 (5.31%) Bash
6 17 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.27%) Perl
8 14 (2.86%) ABAP
8 14 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.02%) Groovy
9 5 (1.02%) VB
9 5 (1.02%) VBScript
10 4 (0.82%) C++
10 4 (0.82%) Go
10 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.41%) Bicep
11 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 490 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (5.51%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.27%) Degree
6 11 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.22%) CCNA
9 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.20%) Dell Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.53%) QA
2 18 (3.67%) SLA
3 12 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.84%) WCAG
6 5 (1.02%) NIST
7 4 (0.82%) GDPR
8 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.31%) Docker
3 19 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.84%) BitLocker
4 9 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.82%) Firmware
7 4 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (7.35%) Terraform
2 15 (3.06%) SCCM
2 15 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (2.65%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.45%) Ansible
4 12 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.84%) vCenter Server
6 8 (1.63%) Grafana
7 6 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.02%) Puppet
8 5 (1.02%) WSUS
9 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.82%) NetApp OnCommand
9 4 (0.82%) vMotion
10 3 (0.61%) Kibana
10 3 (0.61%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.61%) SELinux
11 2 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.41%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 83 (16.94%) Cisco
2 71 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 44 (8.98%) Palo Alto
4 40 (8.16%) SAP
5 29 (5.92%) Oracle
6 22 (4.49%) VMware
7 21 (4.29%) CheckPoint
7 21 (4.29%) Google
8 17 (3.47%) Splunk
9 15 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.86%) Meraki
10 14 (2.86%) Siebel
11 10 (2.04%) SolarWinds
12 9 (1.84%) HP
13 8 (1.63%) Databricks
14 7 (1.43%) Dell
14 7 (1.43%) IBM
14 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.22%) Atlassian
16 5 (1.02%) CyberArk