SC Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 12 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 61 172 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.22% 14.43% 12.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.52% 32.58% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 124 97
10th Percentile £381 £588 £413
25th Percentile £525 £603 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +4.52% +12.69%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £685
90th Percentile £825 £732 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -13.22% +5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - - £57.82
25th Percentile - £52.90 £64.85
Median hourly rate £77.19 £62.50 £74.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -16.21% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £79.19
90th Percentile - £87.12 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.75 £59.46 £64.68
% change year-on-year +13.94% -8.06% -10.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Primavera
2 1 (1.64%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) SaaS
4 4 (6.56%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Stack
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.64%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Network Security
1 2 (3.28%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.84%) GIS
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle Database
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) MS Access
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
1 11 (18.03%) JIRA
2 10 (16.39%) Cucumber
2 10 (16.39%) GitLab
2 10 (16.39%) REST Assured
2 10 (16.39%) Selenium
3 7 (11.48%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.64%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Git
5 1 (1.64%) jMock
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Mockito
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Finance
5 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
6 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
7 5 (8.20%) Electronics
7 5 (8.20%) Law
7 5 (8.20%) Marketing
8 4 (6.56%) Police
9 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Software Engineer
2 11 (18.03%) Senior
3 9 (14.75%) Java Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Consultant
6 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Developer
6 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Solutions Consultant
7 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Information Security Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Security Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Security Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
2 10 (16.39%) Java EE
3 6 (9.84%) ARM Templates
3 6 (9.84%) SOAP
4 4 (6.56%) PySpark
5 3 (4.92%) .NET
5 3 (4.92%) Gherkin
6 2 (3.28%) YAML
7 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.64%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.64%) JPA
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.64%) PowerMock
7 1 (1.64%) RESTful
7 1 (1.64%) RFC 2544
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Batch
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Integration
7 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Operational Technology
1 5 (8.20%) SCADA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) AIX
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) DevOps
2 17 (27.87%) Test Automation
3 14 (22.95%) Software Engineering
4 12 (19.67%) Configuration Management
4 12 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (16.39%) Software Architecture
7 8 (13.11%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.48%) Agile
8 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.48%) Data Migration
8 7 (11.48%) Migration
8 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (9.84%) CRUD
9 6 (9.84%) Programme Management
9 6 (9.84%) Prototyping
9 6 (9.84%) Secure Coding
9 6 (9.84%) Software Testing
9 6 (9.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) Java
2 12 (19.67%) PL/SQL
3 5 (8.20%) Perl
4 2 (3.28%) Bicep
4 2 (3.28%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 61 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) CISM
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.64%) ISEB
5 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) COBIT
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 6 (9.84%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (9.84%) Podman
3 6 (9.84%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Puppet
4 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) SAP
2 8 (13.11%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) Databricks
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.64%) Infor
6 1 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.64%) NEC
6 1 (1.64%) VMware