SC Cleared Business Analyst Contract Job Trends

Security Check Clearance Business Analyst (SC Cleared BA)
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Business Analyst (SC Cleared BA) daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 522 577
Rank change year-on-year +5 +55 +162
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Business Analyst 40 40 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 64
10th Percentile £401 £451 £400
25th Percentile £442 £474 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £547 £663 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £521 £550
% change year-on-year -1.20% -5.23% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,071 35,156 45,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.93% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,008 21,306 31,394
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,609 1,551 1,496
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.85 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.31 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.69% -2.05% +95.11%

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Business Analyst in the UK

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 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
England -6 31 £475 -9.52% 3
London +20 27 £475 -9.52% 3
Work from Home +29 20 £475 -7.32%
UK excluding London -4 3 £515 -1.20% 2
South East - 2 £568 - 2
South West +16 1 £463 -11.27%

SC Cleared Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, SC Cleared Business Analyst 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 featuring SC Cleared Business Analyst in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 40 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 18 (45.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (40.00%) Agile
4 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (27.50%) User Stories
5 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (22.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (22.50%) Business Analysis
8 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
9 6 (15.00%) Use Case
10 5 (12.50%) JIRA
10 5 (12.50%) Azure
10 5 (12.50%) AWS
10 5 (12.50%) Migration
10 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 5 (12.50%) Power BI
10 5 (12.50%) Process Improvement
10 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
10 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
11 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
11 4 (10.00%) Law
11 4 (10.00%) Validation
11 4 (10.00%) Visualisation

SC Cleared Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
1 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (5.00%) GCP
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Collibra
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 3 (7.50%) Tableau
3 2 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (27.50%) User Stories
4 10 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (22.50%) Business Analysis
5 9 (22.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (15.00%) Use Case
7 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (12.50%) Migration
7 5 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.00%) Validation
8 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
9 3 (7.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Databricks
2 1 (2.50%) Informatica
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) Workday