SC Cleared Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 81 201 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.74% 9.69% 6.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.58% 39.49% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 123 114
10th Percentile £153 £200 £300
25th Percentile £260 £240 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £571
90th Percentile £620 £720 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 5
10th Percentile £18.51 - £21.42
25th Percentile £19.38 £12.50 £21.67
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £26.55 £75.00 £59.03
90th Percentile £65.00 - £61.11
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -49.70% -14.66% +8.00%

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 436 509 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.50% 24.53% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 300 382
10th Percentile £176 £179 £181
25th Percentile £313 £297 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.53% -1.72%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £588 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 45 11
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.38 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.04 £14.50 £15.87
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -10.01% -56.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £51.39
90th Percentile £42.31 £62.80 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
% change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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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 4 July 2025. 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 -42 24 £493 -10.45% 102
Edinburgh -26 22 £425 +34.81% 88
Fife +5 10 £112 -84.62% 4
Aberdeen - 5 £303 - 36
Moray - 5 £153 - 2
South Lanarkshire 0 3 - - 3
Highlands 0 2 - - 3
Renfrewshire -1 2 £492 +40.43% 13
Argyll and Bute +1 1 £400 - 6
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 7
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £141 - 1
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (4.94%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.64%) Azure
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.17%) AWS
2 5 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) WAN
2 3 (3.70%) LAN
2 3 (3.70%) VPN
2 3 (3.70%) Wireless
3 2 (2.47%) BGP
3 2 (2.47%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.47%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.47%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) IPsec
3 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) OSPF
3 2 (2.47%) SDH
3 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.23%) 4G
4 1 (1.23%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) DNS
4 1 (1.23%) MPLS
4 1 (1.23%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) GIS
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
1 4 (4.94%) LabVIEW
2 2 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.23%) PVCS
3 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.23%) Subversion
3 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Electronics
4 15 (18.52%) Finance
4 15 (18.52%) Manufacturing
5 13 (16.05%) Telecoms
6 9 (11.11%) Marketing
7 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (6.17%) Military
9 3 (3.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.47%) Legal
11 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Analyst
2 8 (9.88%) Service Analyst
2 8 (9.88%) Service Desk Analyst
3 7 (8.64%) RF Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Senior
4 5 (6.17%) Consultant
4 5 (6.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Developer
5 4 (4.94%) Development Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
5 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (4.94%) Test Development Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (2.47%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Node.js
1 4 (4.94%) React
1 4 (4.94%) REST
1 4 (4.94%) Spring
1 4 (4.94%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.47%) SOAP
3 1 (1.23%) EntireX
3 1 (1.23%) Java EE
3 1 (1.23%) Java RMI
3 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Analogue Electronics
4 3 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.70%) SCADA
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) FPGA
6 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Replication
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) Linux
2 7 (8.64%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (17.28%) Migration
3 10 (12.35%) Schematic Capture
3 10 (12.35%) Workflow
3 10 (12.35%) Workflow Management
4 9 (11.11%) Agile
4 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 8 (9.88%) ITIL
5 8 (9.88%) Prototyping
6 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (8.64%) Feasibility Study
7 5 (6.17%) DevOps
7 5 (6.17%) Incident Response
7 5 (6.17%) SIEM
8 4 (4.94%) Project Management
8 4 (4.94%) Risk Management
8 4 (4.94%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.41%) Java
2 4 (4.94%) C#
3 3 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.47%) SQL
5 1 (1.23%) C
5 1 (1.23%) C++
5 1 (1.23%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.23%) Perl
5 1 (1.23%) ProC
5 1 (1.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) Degree
3 6 (7.41%) CISSP
4 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.17%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (6.17%) GCIA
4 5 (6.17%) GCIH
5 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.70%) CASP
7 2 (2.47%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CCA
7 2 (2.47%) CCNP
7 2 (2.47%) CIPD
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.47%) HNC
8 1 (1.23%) CISM
8 1 (1.23%) Dell Certification
8 1 (1.23%) HND
8 1 (1.23%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) SLA
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) NEBOSH
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Argo
3 1 (1.23%) Istio
3 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.23%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.23%) SCCM
3 1 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) SAP
3 6 (7.41%) Cisco
4 5 (6.17%) ArcSight
5 4 (4.94%) Mentor Graphics
6 3 (3.70%) Dell
6 3 (3.70%) F5
6 3 (3.70%) HP
6 3 (3.70%) Nokia
7 2 (2.47%) IBM
7 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.23%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle
8 1 (1.23%) Remedy
8 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) Software AG
8 1 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (1.23%) webMethods