SC Cleared Desktop Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Desktop Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Desktop Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £216 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 428 491
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 -64
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Desktop Support 7 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.14% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.15% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 4
10th Percentile £188 £194 £174
25th Percentile £202 £200 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £216 £205 £200
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £220 £250 £225
90th Percentile £225 £293 £270
UK median daily rate £144 £205 £200
% change year-on-year -29.76% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile - - £24.25
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.82 - £25.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

SC Cleared Desktop Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Desktop Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Desktop Support in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Desktop Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Desktop Support in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Desktop Support in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Desktop Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Desktop Support in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Desktop Support in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Desktop Support
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Desktop Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
East of England +14 4 £220 -
Scotland - 2 £206 - 2
South West +7 1 - -
SC Cleared Desktop Support
UK

SC Cleared Desktop Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, SC Cleared Desktop Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SC Cleared Desktop Support in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 10
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) iPhone
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) iPad
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Service
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (42.86%) Break/Fix
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (28.57%) SCCM
5 2 (28.57%) Time Management
5 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (28.57%) DHCP
5 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco
5 2 (28.57%) McAfee

SC Cleared Desktop Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) iPad
1 4 (57.14%) iPhone
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Service
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Break/Fix
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
3 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) McAfee