SC Cleared Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 3 13 2
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 52 20 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.31% 8.23% 41.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.53% 21.98% 77.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 118
10th Percentile £327 £380 £396
25th Percentile £446 £409 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -11.46% -13.08%
75th Percentile £613 £545 £700
90th Percentile £650 £605 £763
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -0.05% -11.46% -13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £48.09 -
% change year-on-year -26.32% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 99 91 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 40.57% 37.45% 54.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 42 154
10th Percentile £305 £313 £354
25th Percentile £403 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -9.69% +2.73%
75th Percentile £590 £634 £650
90th Percentile £650 £695 £752
North East median daily rate £500 £523 £565
% change year-on-year -4.31% -7.52% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £13.99 -
Median hourly rate £29.57 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.85% - -
75th Percentile £49.56 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.03 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £18.81 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.44% -57.61% -1.01%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Tyne and Wear

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 51 £523 +4.45% 21
SC Cleared
North East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 5 (9.62%) nginx
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.92%) CMS
4 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.92%) Traefik
4 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 7 (13.46%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) Kong
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.77%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.77%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (3.85%) Figma
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) SSL
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) SMS
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Metadata
1 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
2 3 (5.77%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.77%) Power BI
2 3 (5.77%) Tableau
3 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) GitLab
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.77%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.77%) gulp
5 3 (5.77%) JIRA
5 3 (5.77%) Maven
5 3 (5.77%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.77%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 25 (48.08%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Military
5 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Electronics
5 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.77%) Marketing
5 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) Kafka
1 8 (15.38%) Node.js
2 5 (9.62%) Spring
2 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.69%) React
4 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.77%) Apache CXF
4 3 (5.77%) Dropwizard
4 3 (5.77%) Express.js
4 3 (5.77%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.77%) JAX-RS
4 3 (5.77%) MEAN Stack
4 3 (5.77%) MERN Stack
4 3 (5.77%) Mongoose
4 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.77%) Sequelize
5 2 (3.85%) PySpark
5 2 (3.85%) REST
5 2 (3.85%) SOAP
6 1 (1.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.92%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) CentOS
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) DevOps
1 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (9.62%) Agile
4 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
4 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
4 5 (9.62%) ETL
4 5 (9.62%) Migration
5 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 4 (7.69%) Microservices
5 4 (7.69%) Software Delivery
5 4 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 4 (7.69%) Test Strategy
6 3 (5.77%) BDD
6 3 (5.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (5.77%) Open Source
6 3 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) Java
2 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
2 7 (13.46%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 3 (5.77%) Groovy
4 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.85%) ABAP
6 1 (1.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) WCAG
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Ansible
3 4 (7.69%) Packer
4 3 (5.77%) Grafana
4 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) Consul
5 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.92%) Istio
5 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.92%) linkerd
5 1 (1.92%) Rancher
5 1 (1.92%) SCCM
5 1 (1.92%) VxRail
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
5 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Databricks
2 5 (9.62%) SAP
3 4 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.77%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.92%) Apple
6 1 (1.92%) Dell
6 1 (1.92%) ESET
6 1 (1.92%) Okta
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk