SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 15.00% 2.63% -
As % of the Qualifications category 52.94% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £259 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £384 - -
90th Percentile £421 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £415 £588 £475
% change year-on-year -29.36% +23.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £21.08 - -
25th Percentile £23.70 - -
Median hourly rate £25.80 £46.30 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% - -
75th Percentile £27.56 - -
90th Percentile £28.27 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.32 £37.03 -
% change year-on-year -45.13% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 28.33% 18.42% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £196 £504 £139
25th Percentile £300 £509 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £613 £200
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +206.25% -58.97%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £327
90th Percentile £580 - £569
Oxfordshire median daily rate £390 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -27.44% +26.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £17.11 - -
25th Percentile £19.34 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% -28.77% +170.83%
75th Percentile £27.16 - -
90th Percentile £28.11 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.25 £46.30 £48.75
% change year-on-year -56.26% -5.03% +95.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Oxford

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Oxford over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Oxford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SC Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) OpenID
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) Celery
2 1 (11.11%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Next.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Runbook
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
3 1 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle