SC Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 845 1,094 949
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.29% 18.77% 12.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.13% 50.14% 38.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 794 679
10th Percentile £400 £317 £365
25th Percentile £483 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £688
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 71 37
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.13 £19.52
25th Percentile £43.56 £51.25 £39.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +13.82% +29.31%
75th Percentile £67.01 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.41 £75.00 £78.10
England median hourly rate £49.00 £59.80 £52.00
% change year-on-year -18.06% +15.00% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,476 2,182 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.81% 37.43% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,441 1,585
10th Percentile £313 £300 £299
25th Percentile £439 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 144 85
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.30 £19.06
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.02 £69.06 £56.03
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hampshire -1 400 £550 +4.27% 110
Thames Valley -2 361 £600 +19.88% 98
Berkshire -3 244 £605 +4.22% 62
Buckinghamshire 0 116 £525 +11.82% 18
Surrey +11 49 £613 +1.66% 29
West Sussex -12 20 £515 -11.21% 8
Kent +5 9 £294 -2.00% 1
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
Oxfordshire -4 1 £650 +23.81% 18
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.49%) Confluence
3 20 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.36%) CICS
6 3 (0.36%) SAS
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.07%) Simulink
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.13%) SAP EWM
2 12 (1.42%) SAP QM
3 9 (1.07%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.71%) Primavera
5 6 (0.71%) SAP PSCD
5 6 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
6 4 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP PS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 122 (14.44%) Azure
2 87 (10.30%) AWS
3 25 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 21 (2.49%) OpenShift
6 19 (2.25%) GitHub
7 17 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (1.89%) Azure Storage
9 15 (1.78%) OCI
10 14 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (0.95%) Serverless
14 7 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.83%) Boomi
15 6 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.71%) GCP
16 5 (0.59%) IaaS
17 4 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
18 3 (0.36%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.64%) Firewall
2 58 (6.86%) DNS
3 48 (5.68%) DHCP
4 47 (5.56%) SAN
5 38 (4.50%) SSL
6 30 (3.55%) WAN
7 24 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 22 (2.60%) VPN
9 18 (2.13%) Network Security
10 17 (2.01%) Wireless
11 15 (1.78%) BGP
12 13 (1.54%) LAN
13 12 (1.42%) MPLS
14 11 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.18%) SD-WAN
16 9 (1.07%) VSAN
17 7 (0.83%) Internet
17 7 (0.83%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.84%) Oracle Database
3 18 (2.13%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.42%) MySQL
5 12 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.71%) Metadata
9 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.36%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.36%) DB2
11 3 (0.36%) IDMS
11 3 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 2 (0.24%) Lumira
12 2 (0.24%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 43 (5.09%) Git
3 35 (4.14%) GitLab
4 30 (3.55%) JIRA
5 26 (3.08%) Selenium
6 25 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.96%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.84%) REST Assured
8 14 (1.66%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.59%) ClearCase
12 5 (0.59%) ClearQuest
13 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.47%) JUnit
14 3 (0.36%) GoogleTest
14 3 (0.36%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
15 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
General
1 135 (15.98%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.89%) Public Sector
3 60 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.04%) Aerospace
5 38 (4.50%) Finance
6 35 (4.14%) Military
7 23 (2.72%) Law
8 15 (1.78%) Police
8 15 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.54%) Electronics
10 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.47%) Aviation
12 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.24%) Advertising
14 2 (0.24%) Banking
14 2 (0.24%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (13.02%) Developer
2 102 (12.07%) Architect
3 79 (9.35%) Consultant
4 63 (7.46%) Senior
5 49 (5.80%) SAP Consultant
6 46 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (4.97%) Network Engineer
8 36 (4.26%) Analyst
9 31 (3.67%) Support Specialist
10 29 (3.43%) Active Directory Support
11 28 (3.31%) Azure Specialist
12 27 (3.20%) Active Directory Specialist
13 25 (2.96%) Software Engineer
14 24 (2.84%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.60%) Project Manager
17 21 (2.49%) Network Architect
18 20 (2.37%) Java Engineer
19 18 (2.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.91%) REST
2 32 (3.79%) Web Services
3 28 (3.31%) ARM Templates
4 25 (2.96%) Java EE
5 22 (2.60%) .NET
6 21 (2.49%) HTML
7 15 (1.78%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.42%) Flash
8 12 (1.42%) Node.js
9 10 (1.18%) CSS
10 9 (1.07%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.07%) Kafka
11 7 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.83%) RESTful
11 7 (0.83%) Spring
11 7 (0.83%) YAML
12 6 (0.71%) SOAP
12 6 (0.71%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.59%) React
14 4 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.40%) PKI
2 24 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.30%) Clustering
7 11 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.95%) FPGA
10 8 (0.95%) Replication
11 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.71%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.59%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.59%) PMI
14 4 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.47%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 131 (15.50%) Linux
2 94 (11.12%) Windows
3 48 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 35 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (2.37%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.25%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.78%) Debian
9 15 (1.78%) Unix
10 13 (1.54%) Windows XP
11 12 (1.42%) AIX
12 9 (1.07%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.95%) VMS
14 3 (0.36%) zOS
15 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (18.22%) Agile
2 108 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (12.31%) DevOps
4 80 (9.47%) Software Engineering
5 76 (8.99%) ITIL
6 60 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 54 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (6.27%) Performance Tuning
9 50 (5.92%) Containerisation
10 49 (5.80%) Test Automation
11 48 (5.68%) Migration
11 48 (5.68%) Project Management
12 45 (5.33%) Scrum
13 44 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (4.62%) Decision-Making
15 38 (4.50%) Configuration Management
16 37 (4.38%) Threat Modelling
17 35 (4.14%) Data Migration
17 35 (4.14%) Service Management
18 33 (3.91%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 67 (7.93%) PowerShell
2 58 (6.86%) Python
3 57 (6.75%) Java
4 49 (5.80%) SQL
5 41 (4.85%) C#
6 26 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.72%) C++
8 20 (2.37%) PL/SQL
9 19 (2.25%) Bash
10 16 (1.89%) C
10 16 (1.89%) VB
10 16 (1.89%) VBScript
11 15 (1.78%) Bicep
11 15 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.54%) PHP
13 9 (1.07%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.47%) Ada
15 3 (0.36%) ABAP
15 3 (0.36%) COBOL
15 3 (0.36%) REXX
Qualifications
1 845 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 189 (22.37%) DV Cleared
3 88 (10.41%) Degree
4 37 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.79%) CCNP
5 32 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (2.37%) CCNA
7 17 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (1.18%) MCSE
9 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.95%) JNCIS
10 8 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.83%) MCSA
12 5 (0.59%) ISEB
12 5 (0.59%) PMP
13 4 (0.47%) CCSA
13 4 (0.47%) HND
13 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.47%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.01%) SLA
2 9 (1.07%) QA
3 8 (0.95%) NIST
3 8 (0.95%) PMO
4 7 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.83%) NCSC
5 5 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.59%) GDPR
6 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.36%) DO-178B
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.36%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 44 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.08%) Docker
4 23 (2.72%) vSphere
5 22 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.37%) Hyper-V
6 20 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.66%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.59%) Firmware
10 2 (0.24%) XenApp
10 2 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.12%) LXC
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.12%) UAG
11 1 (0.12%) vCloud
11 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 74 (8.76%) Ansible
2 62 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 43 (5.09%) Terraform
4 36 (4.26%) SCCM
5 35 (4.14%) WSUS
6 32 (3.79%) SCOM
7 21 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.49%) vCenter Server
8 15 (1.78%) NetBackup
9 13 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.42%) Podman
11 11 (1.30%) Grafana
11 11 (1.30%) Istio
11 11 (1.30%) vRealize
12 8 (0.95%) Packer
13 7 (0.83%) Argo
13 7 (0.83%) Kibana
13 7 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 131 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.60%) VMware
3 69 (8.17%) SAP
4 66 (7.81%) Cisco
5 65 (7.69%) Oracle
6 52 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 49 (5.80%) Juniper
8 26 (3.08%) Palo Alto
9 25 (2.96%) Dell
10 23 (2.72%) HP
10 23 (2.72%) IBM
11 19 (2.25%) SolarWinds
12 18 (2.13%) F5
12 18 (2.13%) Veeam
13 17 (2.01%) 3PAR
13 17 (2.01%) EMC
14 15 (1.78%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.66%) Symantec
16 13 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
17 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow