SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in Reading

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in Reading is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 83 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 5 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.67% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £551 -
25th Percentile £619 £572 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £656 £650 -
90th Percentile - £665 -
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £625 -
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in Reading

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in Reading

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (80.00%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Police
2 4 (80.00%) REST Assured
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (80.00%) Podman
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Java EE

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
1 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Law
1 4 (80.00%) Police
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (80.00%) Java EE
1 4 (80.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) CRUD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Podman
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle