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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 60 90 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 36.14% 43.06% 27.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 76.92% 78.95% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 64 71
10th Percentile £463 £363 £468
25th Percentile £475 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £505 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £619 £569 £600
90th Percentile £649 £630 £650
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -60.00% +23.60%

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 78 114 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 46.99% 54.55% 40.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 83 111
10th Percentile £448 £308 £356
25th Percentile £472 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £567 £600
90th Percentile £722 £630 £680
London median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £41.76 -
25th Percentile £68.80 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £73.60 £82.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +50.00% +13.22%
75th Percentile £78.40 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.50 £25.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.00% -52.38% +20.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 59 £531 +4.17% 11
SC Cleared
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 (11.67%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) MQSeries
3 3 (5.00%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (3.33%) Camunda
4 2 (3.33%) SAS
5 1 (1.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Azure
3 7 (11.67%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (10.00%) Serverless
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.33%) GCP
5 5 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.00%) IaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle CX
6 3 (5.00%) PaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) Redis
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (3.33%) GIS
7 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Parquet
7 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.33%) Git
3 8 (13.33%) JIRA
4 7 (11.67%) JUnit
4 7 (11.67%) Mockito
5 5 (8.33%) GitLab
5 5 (8.33%) Gradle
5 5 (8.33%) Liquibase
6 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.33%) Maven
8 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.67%) Postman
8 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.67%) Selenium
8 1 (1.67%) Storybook
8 1 (1.67%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Electronics
4 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.33%) Marketing
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.67%) Military
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Developer
1 10 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Lead
4 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) VMware Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Kafka
2 16 (26.67%) Spring
3 10 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.00%) React
4 6 (10.00%) XML
5 5 (8.33%) JSON
5 5 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 5 (8.33%) Swagger
6 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.67%) EDIFACT
6 4 (6.67%) REST
7 3 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (5.00%) Keycloak
7 3 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.33%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.33%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.33%) JPA
8 2 (3.33%) SOAP
8 2 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.33%) Replication
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
4 2 (3.33%) CSOC
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Microservices
2 22 (36.67%) DevOps
3 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 18 (30.00%) TDD
6 14 (23.33%) Agile
7 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (10.00%) Migration
9 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.33%) CQRS
10 5 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 5 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (8.33%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (8.33%) Programme Management
10 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 5 (8.33%) Python
3 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.67%) GIAC
4 1 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 5 (8.33%) Ansible
3 5 (8.33%) Grafana
3 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) Consul
5 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) SAP
2 5 (8.33%) Confluent
2 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (8.33%) Splunk
2 5 (8.33%) VMware
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce