SC Cleared Contracts in Surrey

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 7 15 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 38 47 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 12.75% 8.01% 6.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.89% 24.87% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 25
10th Percentile £462 £475 £493
25th Percentile £500 £544 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 £690 £740
South East median daily rate £540 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - - £42.34
25th Percentile - £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -72.02% +43.33%
75th Percentile £51.76 £34.38 £64.39
90th Percentile £67.72 £43.75 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.08% +13.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 189 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 34.56% 32.20% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 136 105
10th Percentile £231 £294 £307
25th Percentile £403 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +11.22%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £700
90th Percentile £666 £700 £750
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 29
10th Percentile £24.18 - £38.43
25th Percentile £25.15 £11.71 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% -60.44% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.00 £58.77
90th Percentile £62.50 £55.25 £62.79
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Surrey

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Surrey

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Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Surrey

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Surrey

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Surrey

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Leatherhead 0 7 £650 +4.00% 5
Camberley - 7 £543 - 4
Guildford -1 5 £514 -12.88% 15
Staines - 5 £425 -
Redhill - 3 £200 - 4
Woking -1 2 £550 +20.88% 16
Chertsey - 1 £525 - 5
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Solr
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) MPLS
1 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
1 4 (10.53%) Maven
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
2 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Consultant
1 7 (18.42%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (10.53%) ABAP Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Integration Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) SAP Integration Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Senior ABAP Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.26%) SAP Security Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) React
2 5 (13.16%) JSON
3 4 (10.53%) REST
4 3 (7.89%) Java EE
4 3 (7.89%) Node.js
4 3 (7.89%) RESTful
4 3 (7.89%) Web Services
4 3 (7.89%) XML
5 2 (5.26%) Ajax
5 2 (5.26%) JAXB
5 2 (5.26%) JAX-RS
5 2 (5.26%) JAX-WS
5 2 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (5.26%) SOAP
5 2 (5.26%) XSD
5 2 (5.26%) XSL
5 2 (5.26%) XSLT
6 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.63%) PySpark
6 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 8 (21.05%) DevSecOps
2 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
3 6 (15.79%) Workflow
4 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
4 5 (13.16%) Migration
4 5 (13.16%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.53%) DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Scrum
5 4 (10.53%) SOA
6 3 (7.89%) API Management
6 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (7.89%) Microservices
6 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) ABAP
6 3 (7.89%) Perl
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.26%) XPath
8 1 (2.63%) Bash
8 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) Degree
3 6 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) OCP
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMP
6 1 (2.63%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) SAP
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.63%) Xilinx