SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 45 12
Rank change year-on-year +28 -33 +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 199 80 196
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 9.23% 4.82% 9.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.12% 20.20% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 32 120
10th Percentile £405 £153 £200
25th Percentile £425 £255 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £385
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +12.01% -14.44%
75th Percentile £768 £506 £588
90th Percentile £800 £598 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 15 9
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £27.33 £19.38 £12.50
Median hourly rate £60.91 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.19% -44.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £61.84 £26.55 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.91 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +142.19% -49.70% -13.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 484 396 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.44% 23.87% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 241 297
10th Percentile £303 £175 £178
25th Percentile £358 £313 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £578 £525 £588
90th Percentile £768 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £525
% change year-on-year +0.82% -0.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 33 45
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.84 £12.38
25th Percentile £24.23 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% +2.56% -10.01%
75th Percentile £64.25 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £42.31 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +78.57% -31.61% -26.70%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Scotland

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Glasgow +36 86 £750 +54.64% 29
Edinburgh +29 66 £450 +5.88% 12
South Lanarkshire +1 19 £669 - 1
Highlands -9 9 £447 - 4
Moray -1 8 - - 2
Fife -4 3 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire +1 1 - -
Argyll and Bute -1 1 - -
Aberdeen -5 1 £210 -30.58% 1
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.01%) Simulink
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) SAP GRC
1 8 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.01%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.05%) Azure
2 19 (9.55%) AWS
3 16 (8.04%) GCP
4 8 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.02%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.01%) SaaS
9 3 (1.51%) GitHub
9 3 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.01%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.01%) Miro
10 2 (1.01%) OCI
10 2 (1.01%) Slack
10 2 (1.01%) SonarCloud
11 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.50%) Kong
11 1 (0.50%) PaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.51%) SSL
3 4 (2.01%) Network Security
4 3 (1.51%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.51%) SSH
4 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
5 2 (1.01%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.01%) Internet
5 2 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) MPLS
6 1 (0.50%) SDH
6 1 (0.50%) VoIP
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (3.52%) Power BI
2 5 (2.51%) Big Data
2 5 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.51%) Metadata
3 4 (2.01%) Power Query
4 3 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.51%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.51%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.51%) MySQL
4 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.01%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) LabVIEW
2 8 (4.02%) JIRA
3 4 (2.01%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.01%) Git
3 4 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.01%) Postman
3 4 (2.01%) REST Assured
3 4 (2.01%) Selenium
4 3 (1.51%) Appium
4 3 (1.51%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.51%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 44 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.61%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.05%) Finance
4 12 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.03%) Legal
6 7 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.02%) Military
8 4 (2.01%) Games
9 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (13.07%) Architect
2 25 (12.56%) Analyst
3 20 (10.05%) Consultant
4 16 (8.04%) Test Engineer
5 13 (6.53%) Design Engineer
5 13 (6.53%) Senior
6 12 (6.03%) Developer
6 12 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.03%) Support Engineer
7 11 (5.53%) Python Developer
8 9 (4.52%) Cloud Consultant
8 9 (4.52%) Oracle Consultant
9 8 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Service Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Field Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Hardware Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.02%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (3.02%) Playwright
3 3 (1.51%) Kafka
3 3 (1.51%) Middleware
3 3 (1.51%) Spring
3 3 (1.51%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.51%) Streamlit
4 2 (1.01%) ADO
5 1 (0.50%) .NET
5 1 (0.50%) CSS
5 1 (0.50%) CSS3
5 1 (0.50%) HTML
5 1 (0.50%) HTML5
5 1 (0.50%) JSON
5 1 (0.50%) Node.js
5 1 (0.50%) React
5 1 (0.50%) REST
5 1 (0.50%) RESTful
5 1 (0.50%) SOAP
5 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.52%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.52%) Virtual Team
3 6 (3.02%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.51%) PKI
4 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.51%) CMDB
5 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.51%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.01%) FPGA
6 2 (1.01%) PCIe
6 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) VHDL
7 1 (0.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.54%) Linux
2 15 (7.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (12.06%) Decision-Making
2 24 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 22 (11.06%) Analytics
4 18 (9.05%) Agile
4 18 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (8.54%) DevOps
6 14 (7.04%) Service Management
7 13 (6.53%) CI/CD
7 13 (6.53%) Roadmaps
8 12 (6.03%) Change Management
8 12 (6.03%) Containerisation
8 12 (6.03%) RBAC
9 11 (5.53%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (5.53%) Data Governance
9 11 (5.53%) Mentoring
10 10 (5.03%) Customer Service
11 9 (4.52%) Coaching
11 9 (4.52%) Dashboard Development
11 9 (4.52%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.07%) Python
2 11 (5.53%) Java
3 10 (5.03%) SQL
4 5 (2.51%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.01%) Bash
5 4 (2.01%) C#
5 4 (2.01%) C++
5 4 (2.01%) Lua
6 3 (1.51%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.01%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 199 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.08%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (7.04%) Degree
4 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.01%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.51%) CISM
6 3 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.51%) PMP
7 2 (1.01%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) GRC
2 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.51%) NCSC
3 5 (2.51%) QA
4 4 (2.01%) SLA
5 3 (1.51%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.01%) DO-254
6 2 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
6 2 (1.01%) RMADS
7 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.52%) Docker
3 6 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.01%) Ceph
4 4 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.01%) Firmware
5 2 (1.01%) Squid
5 2 (1.01%) vSphere
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.02%) Terraform
3 5 (2.51%) Istio
4 4 (2.01%) Ansible
4 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.01%) Argo
5 2 (1.01%) CASB
6 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.53%) Oracle
3 10 (5.03%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.52%) SAP
5 8 (4.02%) Dell
5 8 (4.02%) HP
6 6 (3.02%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (3.02%) Canon
6 6 (3.02%) Google
6 6 (3.02%) Okta
6 6 (3.02%) VMware
7 4 (2.01%) Splunk
8 3 (1.51%) Citrix
8 3 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.51%) Informatica
8 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.51%) Talend
9 2 (1.01%) IBM
9 2 (1.01%) Microsemi
9 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
58 SC Cleared jobs in Scotland