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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 44 26 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.64% 11.26% 35.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.16% 30.95% 70.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 74
10th Percentile £361 £350 £360
25th Percentile £443 £354 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £565
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -27.43% +2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £501 £700
90th Percentile £645 £590 £775
North East median daily rate £480 £415 £565
% change year-on-year +15.66% -26.55% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £50.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -29.13% +8.27% -

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 86 84 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 36.44% 36.36% 50.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 102
10th Percentile £223 £319 £350
25th Percentile £411 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -20.35% +6.60%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £669
90th Percentile £648 £650 £774
North East median daily rate £475 £463 £560
% change year-on-year +2.70% -17.41% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 4
10th Percentile - £13.58 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £13.99 £18.00
Median hourly rate £11.64 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.72% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £31.84 £60.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £43.94 £70.00 £29.70
North East median hourly rate £15.26 £46.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -66.97% +136.82% -60.61%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +4 43 £500 +20.48% 24
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 8 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) AWS
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) IaaS
2 3 (6.82%) Kong
2 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.82%) Serverless
3 2 (4.55%) Figma
3 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Lightsail
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) SSL
1 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 8 (18.18%) MySQL
1 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.91%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) Tableau
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.27%) Looker
4 1 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
2 8 (18.18%) JIRA
3 5 (11.36%) GitLab
3 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.82%) gulp
5 3 (6.82%) Maven
5 3 (6.82%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
6 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 23 (52.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Developer
2 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (6.82%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) JIRA Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) ABAP Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) SAP Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Node.js
2 7 (15.91%) Spring
3 6 (13.64%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.09%) Kafka
4 4 (9.09%) React
4 4 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.82%) Apache CXF
5 3 (6.82%) Dropwizard
5 3 (6.82%) Express.js
5 3 (6.82%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.82%) JAX-RS
5 3 (6.82%) MEAN Stack
5 3 (6.82%) MERN Stack
5 3 (6.82%) Mongoose
5 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (6.82%) Sequelize
5 3 (6.82%) Spring MVC
5 3 (6.82%) Web Services
6 1 (2.27%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 2 (4.55%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.27%) FPGA
2 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) PKI
2 1 (2.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (2.27%) VMS
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Agile
2 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.64%) Microservices
5 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.36%) ETL
5 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.09%) MVC
6 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.82%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (6.82%) Event-Driven
7 3 (6.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.82%) Operational Stability
7 3 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.82%) SFIA
7 3 (6.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) SQL
2 10 (22.73%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) Python
4 4 (9.09%) Groovy
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) ABAP
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (2.27%) C
6 1 (2.27%) COBOL
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Perl
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.55%) QA
1 2 (4.55%) WCAG
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
1 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Packer
4 1 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (2.27%) VxRail
4 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 4 (9.09%) Databricks
2 3 (6.82%) VMware
3 2 (4.55%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.27%) Dell
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle