SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Peterborough with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 1.72% 6.54% 10.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 53.85% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.46 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £23.50 - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £21.34
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £22.27 £21.46 £19.81
% change year-on-year +3.75% +8.33% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8 13 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 6.90% 12.15% 38.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £231
25th Percentile £213 £431 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £438 £291
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +50.21% -26.03%
75th Percentile £238 £444 £396
90th Percentile - - £490
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £508 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +12.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 68
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile - - £13.85
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +48.00% -6.45%
75th Percentile £23.50 - £20.56
90th Percentile £23.89 £26.19 £24.03
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £22.17 £22.44 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.18% +54.72% -14.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Peterborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware