SC Cleared Contracts in South London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 3 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 50 108 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 27.03% 44.63% 27.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.65% 80.00% 60.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 68 82
10th Percentile £398 £363 £468
25th Percentile £463 £425 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £584 £575 £625
90th Percentile £645 £630 £675
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 135 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 33.51% 55.79% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 89 137
10th Percentile £389 £265 £358
25th Percentile £463 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £649
90th Percentile £731 £630 £725
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £70.24 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £72.40 £48.12 -
Median hourly rate £78.40 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% - -
75th Percentile £82.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon 0 48 £496 -2.93% 6
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - - 3
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London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 7 (14.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 2 (4.00%) Camunda
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.00%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Serverless
3 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.00%) Azure
5 4 (8.00%) IaaS
5 4 (8.00%) PaaS
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) MySQL
3 3 (6.00%) Parquet
4 2 (4.00%) GIS
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (4.00%) Redis
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (20.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) Git
3 5 (10.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Gradle
3 5 (10.00%) JUnit
3 5 (10.00%) Liquibase
3 5 (10.00%) Mockito
4 4 (8.00%) Postman
5 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.00%) Selenium
6 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Electronics
4 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
4 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.00%) Military
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Police
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Product Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) Kafka
2 9 (18.00%) Spring
3 7 (14.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 5 (10.00%) React
4 5 (10.00%) Swagger
5 3 (6.00%) Apache Avro
5 3 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (6.00%) JSON
5 3 (6.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (6.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.00%) HTML
6 2 (4.00%) XML
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.00%) MIDP
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) PKI
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Microservices
2 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (28.00%) DevOps
5 13 (26.00%) TDD
6 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (12.00%) Programme Management
9 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.00%) Code Quality
10 5 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (10.00%) Product Management
10 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
2 11 (22.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.00%) Bash
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) C#
7 2 (4.00%) Lua
7 2 (4.00%) Perl
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) NCSC
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Grafana
4 5 (10.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.00%) Istio
6 1 (2.00%) Functional Safety
6 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) SAP
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Confluent
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) Siemens