SC Cleared Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 368 497 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.92% 17.49% 9.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.49% 50.71% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 379 285
10th Percentile £370 £320 £357
25th Percentile £465 £409 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -5.71% +8.02%
75th Percentile £645 £599 £625
90th Percentile £716 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £563 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +9.76% -3.30% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 7
10th Percentile £18.05 £23.50 £19.65
25th Percentile £22.54 £39.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.34 £64.68 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +22.03% +130.43%
75th Percentile £63.08 £75.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.66 £79.19 £82.60
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £54.48
% change year-on-year -4.08% +14.82% +28.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,067 980 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.37% 34.48% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 654 669
10th Percentile £213 £317 £271
25th Percentile £415 £410 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £593
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 29
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.90 £16.50
25th Percentile £41.75 £27.00 £18.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £71.07 £74.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.37 £80.25 £80.67
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.04% +31.56% +11.25%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Berkshire -1 247 £605 +6.14% 63
Buckinghamshire 0 119 £511 +11.09% 17
Oxfordshire +1 2 £650 +30.00% 18
SC Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 23 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.27%) JBoss
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (5.43%) SAP EWM
2 13 (3.53%) SAP QM
3 8 (2.17%) Primavera
4 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.82%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.29%) Azure
2 41 (11.14%) AWS
3 23 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.89%) Entra ID
5 17 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (4.62%) OpenShift
6 16 (4.35%) Azure Storage
7 14 (3.80%) OCI
8 5 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.09%) Serverless
10 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.54%) GCP
11 2 (0.54%) PaaS
11 2 (0.54%) SaaS
12 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.27%) GitHub
12 1 (0.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.23%) DNS
2 41 (11.14%) DHCP
3 39 (10.60%) Firewall
4 33 (8.97%) SAN
5 22 (5.98%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.99%) VPN
6 11 (2.99%) WAN
7 7 (1.90%) BGP
7 7 (1.90%) MPLS
7 7 (1.90%) VSAN
8 6 (1.63%) Network Security
9 5 (1.36%) Internet
9 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.82%) NAS
10 3 (0.82%) OSPF
10 3 (0.82%) SNA
11 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.54%) GGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.98%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.35%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.09%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.82%) MySQL
8 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.27%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (10.05%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.07%) Selenium
3 25 (6.79%) Cucumber
4 24 (6.52%) REST Assured
4 24 (6.52%) SonarQube
5 16 (4.35%) Git
5 16 (4.35%) GitLab
6 13 (3.53%) JIRA
7 7 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.54%) JUnit
9 2 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.27%) Appium
10 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.27%) MSI
10 1 (0.27%) MSTest
10 1 (0.27%) NUnit
10 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.43%) Law
5 13 (3.53%) Finance
5 13 (3.53%) Police
6 8 (2.17%) Military
7 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Electronics
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (16.85%) Developer
2 49 (13.32%) Consultant
3 42 (11.41%) Senior
4 41 (11.14%) SAP Consultant
5 31 (8.42%) Analyst
5 31 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.61%) Active Directory Support
7 26 (7.07%) Active Directory Specialist
7 26 (7.07%) Azure Specialist
7 26 (7.07%) Support Specialist
8 22 (5.98%) Python Developer
9 19 (5.16%) Architect
10 18 (4.89%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 14 (3.80%) Storage Engineer
12 13 (3.53%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (3.26%) SAP EWM Consultant
13 12 (3.26%) SAP QM Consultant
14 10 (2.72%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.88%) ARM Templates
1 29 (7.88%) REST
2 25 (6.79%) Java EE
3 11 (2.99%) .NET
4 10 (2.72%) Kafka
5 8 (2.17%) ASP.NET
6 7 (1.90%) YAML
7 5 (1.36%) Web Services
8 4 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.09%) Node.js
8 4 (1.09%) SAP Basis
8 4 (1.09%) Spring
8 4 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.82%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.82%) React
10 2 (0.54%) CSS
10 2 (0.54%) HTML
10 2 (0.54%) Mustache
10 2 (0.54%) RESTful
10 2 (0.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.34%) PKI
2 17 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.82%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.82%) iPad
8 3 (0.82%) PMI
8 3 (0.82%) Robotics
8 3 (0.82%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.54%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.12%) Linux
2 59 (16.03%) Windows
3 37 (10.05%) Windows Server
4 36 (9.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 33 (8.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (5.16%) Windows 10
7 17 (4.62%) Ubuntu
7 17 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (3.80%) Debian
8 14 (3.80%) Windows XP
9 9 (2.45%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.09%) Unix
12 2 (0.54%) VMS
13 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (20.92%) DevOps
2 76 (20.65%) Agile
3 70 (19.02%) ITIL
4 69 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (14.67%) Software Engineering
6 45 (12.23%) Performance Tuning
7 38 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (9.24%) Decision-Making
8 34 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (8.97%) Project Management
10 31 (8.42%) Release Management
10 31 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (8.15%) Configuration Management
11 30 (8.15%) Test Automation
12 27 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (7.34%) ITSM
13 26 (7.07%) Containerisation
13 26 (7.07%) Migration
14 25 (6.79%) Service Management
14 25 (6.79%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 32 (8.70%) Java
3 31 (8.42%) Python
4 28 (7.61%) C#
5 23 (6.25%) SQL
6 17 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.35%) Bicep
7 16 (4.35%) VB
7 16 (4.35%) VBScript
8 6 (1.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.36%) Bash
9 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 125 (33.97%) DV Cleared
3 41 (11.14%) Degree
4 22 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (5.71%) CCNP
6 17 (4.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (4.35%) CCNA
8 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.36%) ISEB
11 4 (1.09%) VCAP
11 4 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.82%) APMP
12 3 (0.82%) MCSE
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.82%) PMP
13 2 (0.54%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.54%) CCDP
13 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.54%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.90%) PMO
2 6 (1.63%) NCSC
2 6 (1.63%) NIST
2 6 (1.63%) SLA
3 4 (1.09%) QA
4 3 (0.82%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 64 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (4.89%) Docker
4 18 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 16 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.63%) vSphere
8 2 (0.54%) XenApp
8 2 (0.54%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.27%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 45 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.68%) Ansible
3 34 (9.24%) SCCM
3 34 (9.24%) WSUS
4 31 (8.42%) SCOM
5 22 (5.98%) Terraform
6 20 (5.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (5.43%) vCenter Server
7 17 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (4.35%) NetBackup
9 14 (3.80%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (3.26%) Grafana
10 12 (3.26%) Istio
10 12 (3.26%) Podman
11 8 (2.17%) Argo
11 8 (2.17%) Kibana
11 8 (2.17%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.36%) Nessus
12 5 (1.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 64 (17.39%) VMware
3 46 (12.50%) SAP
4 45 (12.23%) Oracle
5 29 (7.88%) Red Hat
6 27 (7.34%) Cisco
7 23 (6.25%) Juniper
8 20 (5.43%) HP
9 19 (5.16%) Veeam
10 18 (4.89%) 3PAR
11 17 (4.62%) Dell
12 16 (4.35%) Palo Alto
13 14 (3.80%) EMC
13 14 (3.80%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (3.80%) Symantec
14 12 (3.26%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.09%) NetApp
15 4 (1.09%) Nimble Storage
16 3 (0.82%) Citrix
16 3 (0.82%) NEC