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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 60 163 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.01% 13.78% 10.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.93% 32.02% 32.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 124 68
10th Percentile £340 £583 £400
25th Percentile £475 £603 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £605 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +6.14% +10.14%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £680
90th Percentile £743 £735 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £605 £558
% change year-on-year -13.22% +8.52% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £65.88
25th Percentile - £52.90 £70.00
Median hourly rate £77.19 £55.80 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -29.54% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £78.14 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £74.00 £56.89 £63.84
% change year-on-year +30.09% -10.89% -11.95%

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 167 509 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.64% 43.03% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 255 190
10th Percentile £372 £206 £363
25th Percentile £475 £444 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £605 £557
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +8.72% +11.30%
75th Percentile £700 £656 £638
90th Percentile - £721 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 46 15
10th Percentile - £45.50 £63.14
25th Percentile - £55.88 £64.07
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +600.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £87.46 £78.09
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -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 29 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 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.67%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (1.67%) Primavera
3 1 (1.67%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.33%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) SaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
2 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) GIS
2 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) JIRA
2 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 10 (16.67%) GitLab
3 10 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 10 (16.67%) Selenium
4 7 (11.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Git
6 1 (1.67%) jMock
6 1 (1.67%) JUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Law
5 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Police
6 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Consultant
2 11 (18.33%) Solutions Consultant
3 9 (15.00%) Architect
3 9 (15.00%) Java Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Information Security Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) Information Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Security Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Security Specialist
6 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) REST
2 10 (16.67%) Java EE
3 6 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.00%) SOAP
4 3 (5.00%) .NET
5 2 (3.33%) RFC 2544
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Axis
6 1 (1.67%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.67%) JPA
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.67%) PowerMock
6 1 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Integration
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 5 (8.33%) SCADA
2 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Test Automation
2 15 (25.00%) DevOps
3 11 (18.33%) Configuration Management
3 11 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 10 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
6 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (10.00%) Test Scripting
8 5 (8.33%) Agile
8 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.33%) Performance Testing
9 4 (6.67%) Load Testing
9 4 (6.67%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) SQL
2 12 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Perl
4 5 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) CISM
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) CCNA
6 1 (1.67%) CCNP
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) ISEB
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMP
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Ansible
1 6 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.00%) Podman
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) SAP
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.67%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.67%) Infor
5 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.67%) NEC