SC Cleared Contracts in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 797 1,154 918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 24.91% 31.83% 24.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.13% 60.58% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 885 611
10th Percentile £303 £380 £370
25th Percentile £450 £475 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £579 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +10.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £618
90th Percentile £711 £725 £668
England median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 80 68
10th Percentile £40.00 £37.50 £38.30
25th Percentile £57.33 £57.07 £54.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £64.02
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +2.31% +28.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £83.42 £67.44
90th Percentile £80.68 £90.22 £75.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.63 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.24% +10.83% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,806 1,905 1,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.46% 52.54% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,403 1,067
10th Percentile £353 £388 £325
25th Percentile £465 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.06% +9.47%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £623
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 156 95
10th Percentile £22.31 £38.53 £30.34
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.01
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.69% +33.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £68.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.45 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Wiltshire -1 292 £525 -8.70% 41
Bristol 0 257 £575 -4.17% 77
Devon +6 89 £475 -24.60% 27
Gloucestershire -5 72 £500 -9.09% 29
Dorset +2 35 £600 +14.29% 21
Somerset -5 23 £580 -13.37% 21
Cornwall -5 1 - -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 48 (6.02%) Confluence
2 35 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) CATIA
5 1 (0.13%) Simulink
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.25%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.25%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Primavera
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.29%) Azure
2 52 (6.52%) Power Platform
3 45 (5.65%) AWS
4 32 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 10 (1.25%) GCP
6 10 (1.25%) PaaS
6 10 (1.25%) PowerApps
7 8 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (1.00%) Azure Storage
7 8 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.00%) GitHub
7 8 (1.00%) SaaS
8 6 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (0.75%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.02%) Firewall
2 33 (4.14%) WAN
3 24 (3.01%) DNS
4 17 (2.13%) Network Security
5 14 (1.76%) LAN
6 12 (1.51%) 4G
6 12 (1.51%) VSAN
7 11 (1.38%) DHCP
7 11 (1.38%) SDH
7 11 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.25%) Internet
8 10 (1.25%) VoIP
9 9 (1.13%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.88%) 3G
10 7 (0.88%) Skype
10 7 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.75%) Intranet
11 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.63%) Junos
12 5 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.51%) Power BI
3 13 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (1.00%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.50%) Biml
8 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.25%) MySQL
11 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 67 (8.41%) JIRA
2 32 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.51%) Bitbucket
3 28 (3.51%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (3.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.75%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) Git
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Snyk
9 1 (0.13%) Checkstyle
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 181 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 147 (18.44%) Public Sector
3 106 (13.30%) Telecoms
4 88 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.28%) Finance
6 49 (6.15%) Aerospace
7 48 (6.02%) Manufacturing
8 43 (5.40%) Military
9 38 (4.77%) Electronics
10 34 (4.27%) Marketing
11 13 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Police
14 8 (1.00%) Legal
14 8 (1.00%) Publishing
15 6 (0.75%) Law
16 5 (0.63%) Aeronautics
16 5 (0.63%) Aviation
17 3 (0.38%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 197 (24.72%) Architect
2 99 (12.42%) Lead
3 67 (8.41%) Lead Architect
4 63 (7.90%) Solutions Architect
5 56 (7.03%) Developer
6 52 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 43 (5.40%) Analyst
8 42 (5.27%) Network Architect
8 42 (5.27%) Senior
9 39 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (4.64%) Systems Architect
11 31 (3.89%) Network Engineer
12 28 (3.51%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 28 (3.51%) Support Engineer
13 25 (3.14%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.01%) Data Engineer
15 22 (2.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
15 22 (2.76%) Service Analyst
15 22 (2.76%) Service Desk Analyst
16 21 (2.63%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.76%) .NET
2 26 (3.26%) .NET Core
3 8 (1.00%) REST
3 8 (1.00%) SPFx
4 7 (0.88%) XML
5 6 (0.75%) CSS
5 6 (0.75%) Flash
5 6 (0.75%) React
6 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.63%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.63%) Spring
7 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.38%) RESTful
8 3 (0.38%) SOAP
9 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.25%) PySpark
10 1 (0.13%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.13%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.13%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.02%) Data Centre
2 30 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.89%) PKI
5 19 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 18 (2.26%) CMDB
6 18 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.51%) ARM Cortex
9 11 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.13%) Blog
10 9 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.13%) Replication
11 8 (1.00%) CESG
11 8 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (0.88%) Clustering
13 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.03%) Windows
2 70 (8.78%) Linux
3 22 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.51%) FreeRTOS
6 9 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.88%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (18.19%) Agile
2 122 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (14.55%) ITIL
4 102 (12.80%) Project Management
5 78 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (7.90%) Service Management
8 59 (7.40%) Business Intelligence
9 52 (6.52%) ArchiMate
9 52 (6.52%) Configuration Management
10 51 (6.40%) DevOps
11 49 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 46 (5.77%) Strategic Thinking
13 45 (5.65%) Migration
14 44 (5.52%) Change Management
15 43 (5.40%) Programme Management
15 43 (5.40%) Systems Engineering
16 39 (4.89%) Project Delivery
17 38 (4.77%) Network Management
18 37 (4.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.65%) PowerShell
2 47 (5.90%) Python
3 42 (5.27%) SQL
4 24 (3.01%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.76%) C
6 16 (2.01%) C#
7 15 (1.88%) Java
8 12 (1.51%) Embedded C
9 10 (1.25%) C++
10 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.75%) Ada
12 5 (0.63%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Bicep
13 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.38%) R
15 2 (0.25%) Scala
16 1 (0.13%) Fortran
16 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 797 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.31%) DV Cleared
3 84 (10.54%) Degree
4 37 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (3.64%) CISSP
7 24 (3.01%) CCNA
7 24 (3.01%) CISM
8 22 (2.76%) CCNP
9 16 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.25%) CEH
13 10 (1.25%) HND
14 9 (1.13%) CISA
14 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.13%) ISTQB
14 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.02%) SLA
2 30 (3.76%) QA
3 29 (3.64%) JSP 440
4 28 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (3.01%) NIST
5 24 (3.01%) PMO
6 17 (2.13%) NCSC
7 13 (1.63%) GDPR
8 11 (1.38%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.13%) Def Stans
9 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.63%) RMADS
12 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.25%) COBIT
14 2 (0.25%) GRC
15 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.13%) MISRA
System Software
1 52 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 51 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.51%) VMware NSX
3 20 (2.51%) vSphere
4 12 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.25%) Docker
6 6 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.38%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 36 (4.52%) Ansible
2 24 (3.01%) PowerCLI
2 24 (3.01%) vCenter Server
3 15 (1.88%) SCCM
3 15 (1.88%) Terraform
4 9 (1.13%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.63%) OPNET
5 5 (0.63%) Puppet
5 5 (0.63%) SCOM
6 4 (0.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 4 (0.50%) VxRail
7 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.25%) Argo
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.25%) WSUS
9 1 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.53%) VMware
3 57 (7.15%) SAP
4 49 (6.15%) Cisco
5 38 (4.77%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.51%) IBM
7 24 (3.01%) Dell
8 23 (2.89%) Remedy
9 22 (2.76%) HP
10 20 (2.51%) Juniper
11 19 (2.38%) Oracle
12 17 (2.13%) Sparx
13 16 (2.01%) Nokia
14 12 (1.51%) Lauterbach
14 12 (1.51%) Micro Focus
14 12 (1.51%) Splunk
15 11 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 11 (1.38%) Google
16 10 (1.25%) BT
17 8 (1.00%) Palo Alto