SC Cleared Contracts in Reading

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 12 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 -6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 158 117 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 13.70% 11.64% 4.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.47% 37.38% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 81 50
10th Percentile £600 £400 £406
25th Percentile £603 £465 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £680 £617
90th Percentile £735 £721 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £570 £518
% change year-on-year +6.14% +10.14% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile - £65.88 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.80 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.54% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.14 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £56.89 £66.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -13.81% -8.97% +271.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 502 313 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.54% 31.14% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 193 214
10th Percentile £205 £363 £320
25th Percentile £451 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +15.15% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £594
90th Percentile £725 £721 £673
Berkshire median daily rate £560 £550 £488
% change year-on-year +1.73% +12.82% +3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 14 1
10th Percentile £42.00 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £63.60 £9.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +580.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £85.65 £78.09 £10.25
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -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 16 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 (10.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (12.03%) SAP EWM
2 11 (6.96%) SAP QM
3 3 (1.90%) Primavera
4 1 (0.63%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.71%) Azure
2 31 (19.62%) AWS
3 18 (11.39%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.76%) Azure Storage
4 17 (10.76%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.86%) OCI
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.90%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.63%) GCP
8 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.63%) PaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.89%) Firewall
2 31 (19.62%) DHCP
2 31 (19.62%) DNS
3 14 (8.86%) SAN
4 2 (1.27%) Internet
4 2 (1.27%) MPLS
5 1 (0.63%) BGP
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) GGSN
5 1 (0.63%) HTTP
5 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.63%) RNC
5 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.63%) SGSN
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.49%) Oracle Database
3 13 (8.23%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.63%) GIS
6 1 (0.63%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.46%) Selenium
3 25 (15.82%) Cucumber
4 24 (15.19%) REST Assured
4 24 (15.19%) SonarQube
5 15 (9.49%) GitLab
6 13 (8.23%) JIRA
7 12 (7.59%) Git
8 7 (4.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.63%) Appium
9 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) MSTest
9 1 (0.63%) NUnit
9 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.66%) Law
4 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.23%) Police
6 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Finance
8 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (19.62%) Consultant
2 30 (18.99%) SAP Consultant
3 29 (18.35%) Developer
4 27 (17.09%) Active Directory Support
5 24 (15.19%) Active Directory Specialist
5 24 (15.19%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (15.19%) Support Specialist
6 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) Java Engineer
8 15 (9.49%) Senior
9 14 (8.86%) Storage Engineer
10 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 11 (6.96%) SAP EWM Consultant
12 10 (6.33%) SAP QM Consultant
13 8 (5.06%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 8 (5.06%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.43%) Server Engineer
15 6 (3.80%) Architect
15 6 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.99%) ARM Templates
2 28 (17.72%) REST
3 25 (15.82%) Java EE
4 8 (5.06%) .NET
5 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.90%) Node.js
6 3 (1.90%) Spring
6 3 (1.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.90%) Web Services
7 2 (1.27%) Kafka
7 2 (1.27%) Mustache
7 2 (1.27%) React
8 1 (0.63%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Camel
8 1 (0.63%) OpenLayers
8 1 (0.63%) RESTful
8 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.76%) PKI
1 17 (10.76%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (8.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.90%) iPad
5 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.27%) Robotics
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.42%) Linux
2 32 (20.25%) Windows
3 31 (19.62%) Windows Server
3 31 (19.62%) Windows Server 2016
3 31 (19.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (8.86%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (8.86%) Windows XP
5 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.90%) Unix
6 2 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.34%) DevOps
2 47 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (23.42%) Software Engineering
4 32 (20.25%) ITIL
5 31 (19.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (18.99%) Performance Tuning
7 27 (17.09%) Decision-Making
7 27 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (17.09%) Test Automation
8 26 (16.46%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (15.82%) Software Architecture
10 22 (13.92%) Agile
11 20 (12.66%) CI/CD
12 19 (12.03%) Analytics
13 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (10.76%) Log Analytics
14 17 (10.76%) Migration
14 17 (10.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 17 (10.76%) Privileged Identity Management
14 17 (10.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.32%) PowerShell
2 29 (18.35%) Java
3 28 (17.72%) C#
4 17 (10.76%) Bicep
4 17 (10.76%) VB
4 17 (10.76%) VBScript
5 16 (10.13%) SQL
6 14 (8.86%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.16%) Bash
8 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.90%) Python
8 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (37.34%) DV Cleared
3 31 (19.62%) Degree
4 17 (10.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (8.86%) CCNA
5 14 (8.86%) CCNP
5 14 (8.86%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) PMO
2 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (25.95%) Active Directory
2 19 (12.03%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (10.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (10.13%) Docker
4 16 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (8.86%) Hyper-V
5 14 (8.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.15%) Ansible
2 34 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 31 (19.62%) SCCM
3 31 (19.62%) SCOM
3 31 (19.62%) WSUS
4 17 (10.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (10.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (10.76%) Terraform
5 14 (8.86%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (8.86%) NetBackup
5 14 (8.86%) vCenter Server
6 12 (7.59%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (7.59%) Podman
7 2 (1.27%) Packer
7 2 (1.27%) vRealize
8 1 (0.63%) Grafana
8 1 (0.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 35 (22.15%) SAP
3 31 (19.62%) Oracle
4 17 (10.76%) VMware
5 16 (10.13%) Cisco
6 14 (8.86%) 3PAR
6 14 (8.86%) Dell
6 14 (8.86%) EMC
6 14 (8.86%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (8.86%) HP
6 14 (8.86%) Juniper
6 14 (8.86%) Palo Alto
6 14 (8.86%) Symantec
6 14 (8.86%) Veeam
7 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.27%) NEC
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.63%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.63%) Google
9 1 (0.63%) Mapinfo