SC Cleared Contracts in Somerset

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 2 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 50 23 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 35.97% 11.33% 27.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.46% 28.75% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 48
10th Percentile £575 £251 £513
25th Percentile £625 £563 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £580 £670
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -13.37% +28.38%
75th Percentile £760 £606 £723
90th Percentile £855 £625 £806
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £579
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.08% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 - £67.34
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £87.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.87% +2.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 69 80 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 49.64% 39.41% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 65
10th Percentile £306 £185 £363
25th Percentile £505 £285 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% +30.62%
75th Percentile £685 £613 £693
90th Percentile £781 £625 £776
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 11
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - £25.00 £34.38
Median hourly rate £18.51 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.05% -35.00% -4.53%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £65.65
90th Percentile - - £82.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Somerset

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Somerset

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Somerset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Somerset

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bath +4 19 £650 - 17
Yeovil +9 11 - - 1
Bridgwater +2 1 - -
Taunton -2 1 £865 +47.23%
Street - 1 £325 - 1
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (2.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) BGP
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) MPLS
1 2 (4.00%) OSPF
1 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.00%) VLAN
1 2 (4.00%) VPN
1 2 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) NUnit
1 1 (2.00%) Postman
1 1 (2.00%) Selenium
1 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (44.00%) Finance
2 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Legal
4 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Lead
2 10 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 10 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 10 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Field Service Technician
3 3 (6.00%) Head of AI
3 3 (6.00%) Head of Data Science
4 2 (4.00%) Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Transition Manager
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (2.00%) Developer
5 1 (2.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (2.00%) Operations Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.00%) Playwright
2 1 (2.00%) Swagger
2 1 (2.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Asset Management
1 13 (26.00%) Business Strategy
1 13 (26.00%) Collaborative Working
1 13 (26.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 13 (26.00%) Ticket Management
2 12 (24.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (24.00%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (24.00%) Target Operating Model
3 10 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 10 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (8.00%) Data Science
5 4 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) Python
1 2 (4.00%) R
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Bash
2 1 (2.00%) C#
2 1 (2.00%) C++
2 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Dell Certification
3 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CCIE
4 2 (4.00%) CCNP
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) JNCIE
4 2 (4.00%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Puppet
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Dell
1 10 (20.00%) HP
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco
2 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) Juniper
2 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle