SC Cleared Contracts in Portsmouth

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 71 75 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 57.72% 25.08% 60.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 76.34% 44.91% 83.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 49 104
10th Percentile £200 £470 £200
25th Percentile £400 £519 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £606 £635 £570
90th Percentile £625 £713 £610
Hampshire median daily rate £545 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.27% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 13
10th Percentile £24.66 - £51.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £60.00 £52.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.25% -4.97%
75th Percentile £62.50 £84.45 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £88.89 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year -9.62% +4.42% +8.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 167 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.61% 55.85% 72.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 79 122
10th Percentile £200 £470 £201
25th Percentile £400 £519 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £592 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +18.35% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £733 £570
90th Percentile £625 £850 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 52 16
10th Percentile £24.66 - £48.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £53.40 £51.81
Median hourly rate £58.75 £57.35 £60.59
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.34% +21.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £83.01 £70.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £62.50 £57.35 £61.59
% change year-on-year +8.98% -6.88% +26.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 11 (15.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) GitHub
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.41%) AWS
2 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (1.41%) MinIO
2 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
2 1 (1.41%) PaaS
2 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (11.27%) LAN
3 6 (8.45%) SNMP
4 3 (4.23%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (4.23%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (4.23%) Firewall
4 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.23%) WAN
4 3 (4.23%) Wireless
5 2 (2.82%) HTTP
5 2 (2.82%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.23%) GIS
3 2 (2.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.41%) ObjectStore
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) JIRA
2 13 (18.31%) Robot Framework
3 12 (16.90%) GoogleTest
4 11 (15.49%) Bitbucket
5 10 (14.08%) Eclipse
5 10 (14.08%) Git
6 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
7 7 (9.86%) GitLab
8 1 (1.41%) Poetry
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Automotive
6 1 (1.41%) Aviation
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Military
6 1 (1.41%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (14.08%) Communications Engineer
2 8 (11.27%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (11.27%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Architect
3 6 (8.45%) Developer
3 6 (8.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Software Test Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Test Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Network Architect
5 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Network Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Juniper Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) CSS
2 6 (8.45%) HTML
3 3 (4.23%) Flask
3 3 (4.23%) SOAP
4 2 (2.82%) Celery
4 2 (2.82%) Django
4 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.82%) Kafka
4 2 (2.82%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.82%) Next.js
4 2 (2.82%) Node.js
4 2 (2.82%) pytest
4 2 (2.82%) React
4 2 (2.82%) RESTful
4 2 (2.82%) Web Services
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
5 1 (1.41%) NumPy
5 1 (1.41%) Pandas
5 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.23%) Operational Technology
1 3 (4.23%) SCADA
2 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.41%) CUDA
3 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.41%) PMI
3 1 (1.41%) Verilog
3 1 (1.41%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) CentOS
2 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Agile
2 15 (21.13%) Scrum
3 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
4 11 (15.49%) Migration
5 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (12.68%) SysML
5 9 (12.68%) UML
6 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (9.86%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (9.86%) Network Design
6 7 (9.86%) Software Testing
7 6 (8.45%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
7 6 (8.45%) Validation
7 6 (8.45%) Verification and Validation
8 5 (7.04%) Preventative Maintenance
9 4 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.63%) DevOps
9 4 (5.63%) Prototyping
10 3 (4.23%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) C++
2 8 (11.27%) Python
3 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.23%) Perl
4 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.23%) SQL
5 2 (2.82%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.41%) C#
6 1 (1.41%) PHP
6 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.41%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (1.41%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.49%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) CCNA
3 7 (9.86%) CCNP
3 7 (9.86%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (9.86%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) Dell Certification
4 1 (1.41%) HND
4 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.76%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.41%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Firmware
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Packer
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (32.39%) Google
2 13 (18.31%) Cisco
3 11 (15.49%) Atlassian
4 10 (14.08%) Juniper
5 7 (9.86%) Fortinet
6 6 (8.45%) Fujitsu
6 6 (8.45%) Intel
7 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.23%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.82%) Citrix
10 1 (1.41%) Dell
10 1 (1.41%) HP
10 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.41%) Splunk
10 1 (1.41%) Twitter
10 1 (1.41%) VMware
10 1 (1.41%) Xilinx