SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 383 408
Rank change year-on-year +31 +25 +89
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 21 9 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.043% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.047% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 33
10th Percentile £528 £469 £463
25th Percentile £553 £558 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +16.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £590
90th Percentile £613 £661 £685
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £546
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.42% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.30 - -
25th Percentile £55.25 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £73.71
75th Percentile £61.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 - £73.71
% change year-on-year - - +27.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,559 19,149 22,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.34% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,378 11,512 15,130
10th Percentile £216 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 2,331 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.57
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +82.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.78
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
South East +47 10 £600 -4.00%
North of England - 7 - - 1
North West - 6 - -
South West - 3 £575 - 1
North East - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
SC Cleared Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 21 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (61.90%) Docker
3 13 (61.90%) Java
4 12 (57.14%) Agile
5 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
6 9 (42.86%) DevOps
6 9 (42.86%) JIRA
6 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (38.10%) Migration
7 8 (38.10%) AWS
7 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
8 7 (33.33%) React
8 7 (33.33%) GitLab
8 7 (33.33%) Ansible
8 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (33.33%) Spring
8 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
9 6 (28.57%) SQL
9 6 (28.57%) Atlassian
9 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
9 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
9 6 (28.57%) Microservices
9 6 (28.57%) Azure
9 6 (28.57%) REST
10 5 (23.81%) Confluence
10 5 (23.81%) Kafka

SC Cleared Software Engineer 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 5 (23.81%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) JIRA
3 7 (33.33%) GitLab
4 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket
4 5 (23.81%) Gradle
4 5 (23.81%) JUnit
4 5 (23.81%) Liquibase
4 5 (23.81%) Mockito
5 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
5 4 (19.05%) Git
5 4 (19.05%) REST Assured
5 4 (19.05%) Selenium
5 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
6 3 (14.29%) Eclipse
6 3 (14.29%) GoogleTest
6 3 (14.29%) Robot Framework
7 1 (4.76%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (23.81%) Electronics
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
1 5 (23.81%) Marketing
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
1 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Law
2 4 (19.05%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) React
1 7 (33.33%) Spring
1 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 6 (28.57%) REST
3 5 (23.81%) Kafka
3 5 (23.81%) OpenAPI
3 5 (23.81%) Swagger
4 4 (19.05%) ARM Templates
4 4 (19.05%) Java EE
5 2 (9.52%) SOAP
6 1 (4.76%) .NET
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 8 (38.10%) Migration
6 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Microservices
8 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (23.81%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (23.81%) Programme Management
8 5 (23.81%) TDD
8 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (19.05%) Software Architecture
9 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (14.29%) Scrum
11 2 (9.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 4 (19.05%) C++
6 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.52%) Bash
7 2 (9.52%) C#
7 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.76%) Ada
8 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CCNP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) OCA
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (9.52%) RHCA
2 2 (9.52%) RHCE
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Terraform
4 4 (19.05%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (19.05%) Podman
5 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 2 (9.52%) Puppet
5 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
3 3 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (14.29%) Intel
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) VMware