SC Cleared Deployment Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Deployment Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 579 705
Rank change year-on-year +70 +126 +142
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Deployment Engineer 11 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.007% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.007% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £144 £160
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £182 -
90th Percentile - £205 £167
UK excluding London median daily rate - £220 £160
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -26.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Deployment Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Deployment Engineer.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Deployment Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Deployment Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Deployment Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Deployment Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +64 10 £200 +38.89%
London +44 8 £200 +38.89%
Work from Home - 6 - -
UK excluding London +64 2 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared Deployment 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 featuring SC Cleared Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) Apple
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (9.09%) Service Management
7 1 (9.09%) ITSM
7 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (9.09%) LAN
7 1 (9.09%) WAN
7 1 (9.09%) DHCP
7 1 (9.09%) VPN
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) VBScript
7 1 (9.09%) VB
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (9.09%) VLAN
7 1 (9.09%) Degree
7 1 (9.09%) SCCM
7 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
7 1 (9.09%) PowerShell

SC Cleared Deployment Engineer 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) Skype
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
4 1 (9.09%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) VB
1 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow