SC Cleared Contracts in Oxfordshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 19 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 21 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.19% 2.81% 3.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.75% 20.59% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £152 - £431
25th Percentile £153 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £177 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -67.82% -15.38% +32.65%
75th Percentile £200 £641 £700
90th Percentile £253 £646 -
South East median daily rate £513 £575 £510
% change year-on-year -10.87% +12.75% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £23.89 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.50 £26.08
Median hourly rate £46.30 £25.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +85.20% -11.22% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £27.50 £30.24
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% -3.23% -1.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 48 34 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 32.43% 13.65% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 25
10th Percentile £159 £190 £366
25th Percentile £200 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £475 £500 £638
90th Percentile £500 £643 £690
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 3
10th Percentile - £21.20 £23.22
25th Percentile £25.15 £46.25 £24.29
Median hourly rate £46.30 £55.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +95.31% +34.10%
75th Percentile £86.32 £65.00 £39.87
90th Percentile £89.63 - £45.65
South East median hourly rate £41.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% -4.42% +33.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Oxfordshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Oxfordshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Oxfordshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Carterton 0 9 £175 - 2
Oxford -3 5 - - 5
Witney - 1 £177 -
Kidlington - 1 - - 2
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.76%) Google Sheets
1 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (19.05%) VPN
1 4 (19.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Analyst
1 6 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Service Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Data Management
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Time Management
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (19.05%) ITSM
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow Management
6 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.76%) Change Control
7 1 (4.76%) Critical Path Analysis
7 1 (4.76%) Data Entry
7 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Project Management
7 1 (4.76%) Project Planning
7 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 4 (19.05%) A+ Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
2 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Twitter