SC Cleared Contracts in South Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 42 28 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 6 28 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.61% 6.13% 8.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.33% 34.15% 51.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 28 44
10th Percentile - £386 £550
25th Percentile - £444 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +15.56%
75th Percentile £669 £588 £700
90th Percentile £680 £658 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 72 82 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.30% 17.94% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 77
10th Percentile £220 £381 £268
25th Percentile £328 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £529 £605 £688
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.42%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -19 4 £650 +23.81% 17
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 11
SC Cleared
Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Software Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Software AG
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) webMethods