SC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,922 3,577 3,470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.70% 15.76% 11.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.21% 48.43% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 2,493 2,400
10th Percentile £313 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £626 £644 £625
90th Percentile £694 £715 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 284 239
10th Percentile £13.20 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £26.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.33 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +6.17% +40.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £78.20 £80.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +35.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,648 7,386 8,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.86% 32.55% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 4,873 5,318
10th Percentile £275 £305 £263
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 571 539
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.88 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.25 £56.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
South East 0 886 £550 +7.84% 259
South West -1 775 £540 -9.20% 227
North of England -1 470 £501 -7.31% 164
Midlands +12 386 £500 -11.89% 130
North West -2 342 £515 -0.96% 107
West Midlands +16 280 £496 -15.62% 107
Scotland +18 222 £458 +1.67% 51
East of England -4 178 £345 -31.00% 84
East Midlands +2 105 £523 -9.13% 23
Yorkshire -3 97 £500 -16.67% 47
Wales -7 43 £600 +9.09% 22
North East -7 34 £435 -23.01% 11
Northern Ireland +15 19 £469 -6.25% 21
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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
1 119 (4.07%) Confluence
2 93 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 86 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.44%) IIS
5 10 (0.34%) SAS
6 9 (0.31%) Apache
6 9 (0.31%) CICS
7 3 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.10%) CMS
7 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.068%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.068%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.034%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.034%) Appian
9 1 (0.034%) Camunda
9 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.034%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.034%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 113 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.41%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.034%) CATIA
9 1 (0.034%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.034%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.034%) Stata
9 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.68%) SAP EWM
3 17 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.44%) SAP QM
5 13 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.38%) Primavera
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.10%) Maximo
10 2 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Cash Management
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.034%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 306 (10.47%) Azure
2 220 (7.53%) AWS
3 109 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 56 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 42 (1.44%) OpenShift
7 31 (1.06%) Power Automate
8 30 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (0.99%) GitHub
10 28 (0.96%) Azure Storage
11 27 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (0.86%) OCI
13 24 (0.82%) GCP
13 24 (0.82%) PowerApps
14 23 (0.79%) Amazon S3
14 23 (0.79%) PaaS
15 21 (0.72%) SaaS
16 18 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (6.40%) Firewall
2 108 (3.70%) DNS
3 96 (3.29%) WAN
4 94 (3.22%) VPN
5 90 (3.08%) DHCP
6 59 (2.02%) SAN
7 50 (1.71%) BGP
8 47 (1.61%) IPsec
9 46 (1.57%) MPLS
10 45 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.51%) LAN
11 44 (1.51%) Network Security
12 43 (1.47%) SSL
13 37 (1.27%) Wireless
14 32 (1.10%) TCP/IP
15 29 (0.99%) OSPF
16 28 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
16 28 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
17 26 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
18 21 (0.72%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 45 (1.54%) Power BI
4 35 (1.20%) MySQL
4 35 (1.20%) Oracle Database
5 33 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 31 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (0.68%) Adabas
9 18 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.41%) Metadata
11 12 (0.41%) SAP BW
12 11 (0.38%) DB2
12 11 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
13 10 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.31%) IDMS
14 9 (0.31%) Tableau
15 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 182 (6.23%) JIRA
2 117 (4.00%) Git
3 110 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 77 (2.64%) GitLab
5 62 (2.12%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
7 44 (1.51%) PVCS
8 39 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.30%) Selenium
10 30 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 24 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 22 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.55%) JUnit
15 10 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.34%) JMeter
16 6 (0.21%) ClearCase
16 6 (0.21%) ClearQuest
16 6 (0.21%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
General
1 543 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 492 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 216 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (5.75%) Aerospace
5 150 (5.13%) Finance
6 137 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 103 (3.52%) Electronics
8 100 (3.42%) Manufacturing
9 78 (2.67%) Military
10 60 (2.05%) Marketing
11 43 (1.47%) Legal
12 33 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.03%) Police
14 29 (0.99%) Law
15 27 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.68%) Retail
17 19 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.62%) Local Government
19 12 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 11 (0.38%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 453 (15.50%) Architect
2 243 (8.32%) Developer
3 239 (8.18%) Analyst
4 181 (6.19%) Consultant
4 181 (6.19%) Senior
5 178 (6.09%) Lead
6 140 (4.79%) Network Engineer
7 130 (4.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 118 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (3.29%) Support Engineer
10 90 (3.08%) Project Manager
11 82 (2.81%) Service Analyst
12 81 (2.77%) Service Desk Analyst
13 80 (2.74%) Network Architect
14 79 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 78 (2.67%) Lead Architect
16 77 (2.64%) Software Engineer
17 66 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
18 60 (2.05%) Support Specialist
19 57 (1.95%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.53%) REST
2 63 (2.16%) .NET
3 61 (2.09%) Web Services
4 46 (1.57%) Node.js
5 39 (1.33%) ARM Templates
6 35 (1.20%) Spring
7 34 (1.16%) HTML
8 33 (1.13%) React
9 30 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 28 (0.96%) CSS
11 25 (0.86%) .NET Core
11 25 (0.86%) Java EE
11 25 (0.86%) Kafka
12 23 (0.79%) JPA
13 21 (0.72%) Hibernate
14 17 (0.58%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.55%) Flash
15 16 (0.55%) LDAP
16 15 (0.51%) YAML
17 14 (0.48%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 119 (4.07%) PKI
2 76 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 71 (2.43%) Data Centre
4 70 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 44 (1.51%) Product Ownership
6 41 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 38 (1.30%) Analogue Electronics
9 35 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 31 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.03%) CMDB
11 30 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 24 (0.82%) Clustering
13 23 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 22 (0.75%) Driving Licence
14 22 (0.75%) Private Cloud
15 21 (0.72%) Onboarding
15 21 (0.72%) Replication
16 19 (0.65%) Operational Technology
17 18 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 403 (13.79%) Windows
2 347 (11.88%) Linux
3 132 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 110 (3.76%) Windows 10
5 85 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.75%) Windows 7
7 49 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 47 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 43 (1.47%) Android
10 38 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 32 (1.10%) Unix
13 29 (0.99%) zOS
14 22 (0.75%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.62%) AIX
16 16 (0.55%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.51%) Mac OS X
17 15 (0.51%) Windows Vista
18 14 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
19 13 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (15.85%) Agile
2 360 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
3 296 (10.13%) ITIL
4 289 (9.89%) DevOps
5 224 (7.67%) Project Management
6 205 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 196 (6.71%) Software Engineering
8 179 (6.13%) Service Management
9 175 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 168 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
11 159 (5.44%) Customer Service
12 157 (5.37%) CI/CD
13 151 (5.17%) Configuration Management
14 122 (4.18%) ITSM
15 118 (4.04%) Infrastructure as Code
16 116 (3.97%) Scrum
17 112 (3.83%) Risk Management
18 111 (3.80%) Decision-Making
18 111 (3.80%) Migration
19 106 (3.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (6.26%) PowerShell
2 168 (5.75%) Python
3 127 (4.35%) Java
4 123 (4.21%) SQL
5 96 (3.29%) C
6 77 (2.64%) C#
7 71 (2.43%) C++
8 69 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 66 (2.26%) PL/SQL
10 38 (1.30%) Bash
11 34 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 27 (0.92%) Bicep
13 23 (0.79%) VB
14 22 (0.75%) VBScript
15 21 (0.72%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.68%) Natural
17 18 (0.62%) TypeScript
18 16 (0.55%) Embedded C
19 14 (0.48%) Ada
20 13 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,922 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 379 (12.97%) DV Cleared
3 245 (8.38%) Degree
4 132 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 80 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 62 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (1.95%) CCNP
8 55 (1.88%) CCNA
9 37 (1.27%) CISSP
10 33 (1.13%) MCSA
11 32 (1.10%) A+ Certification
12 30 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.89%) MCSE
14 25 (0.86%) CISM
14 25 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 23 (0.79%) PMP
16 22 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 22 (0.75%) Master's Degree
17 19 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (3.73%) SLA
2 57 (1.95%) NIST
3 55 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (1.78%) QA
5 34 (1.16%) PMO
6 26 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
6 26 (0.89%) GDPR
7 24 (0.82%) JSP 440
7 24 (0.82%) NCSC
8 23 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 19 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.38%) Def Stans
11 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.34%) RMADS
12 9 (0.31%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) COBIT
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 279 (9.55%) Active Directory
2 151 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (3.22%) Docker
4 59 (2.02%) vSphere
5 57 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (1.78%) Hyper-V
7 42 (1.44%) VMware NSX
8 41 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
9 27 (0.92%) Firmware
9 27 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.34%) KVM
11 8 (0.27%) VMFS
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
12 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) iptables
15 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.034%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 169 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 155 (5.30%) Ansible
3 106 (3.63%) Terraform
4 105 (3.59%) SCCM
5 52 (1.78%) WSUS
6 47 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 44 (1.51%) Grafana
8 43 (1.47%) SCOM
9 42 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 24 (0.82%) PowerCLI
12 23 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 22 (0.75%) Prometheus
14 21 (0.72%) Kibana
14 21 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 20 (0.68%) Puppet
15 20 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
16 18 (0.62%) Istio
16 18 (0.62%) VxRail
17 16 (0.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 444 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 250 (8.56%) VMware
3 177 (6.06%) Cisco
4 140 (4.79%) SAP
5 109 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 105 (3.59%) Oracle
7 103 (3.52%) Juniper
8 79 (2.70%) IBM
9 69 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 66 (2.26%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.92%) HP
12 53 (1.81%) Dell
13 51 (1.75%) Palo Alto
14 48 (1.64%) Citrix
15 41 (1.40%) SolarWinds
16 31 (1.06%) Google
17 29 (0.99%) EMC
18 26 (0.89%) F5
19 25 (0.86%) Remedy
20 24 (0.82%) Talend