SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, 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 474 564 652
Rank change year-on-year +90 +88 +161
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 46 18 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.041% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.045% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 56
10th Percentile £516 £441 £503
25th Percentile £548 £481 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +0.64% +7.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £656 £661 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £636 £575
% change year-on-year -9.63% +10.65% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.71
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.71
% change year-on-year - - +30.46%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Top 10 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 Software 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 +83 43 £575 -2.13% 2
UK excluding London +82 28 £575 -9.63% 1
Work from Home +51 16 £625 -3.85%
London +47 13 £625 +28.21%
South East +49 12 £600 -5.70%
South West - 8 £575 -
North of England - 7 - - 1
North West - 6 - -
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 46 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 46 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 26 (56.52%) Docker
3 22 (47.83%) Agile
4 21 (45.65%) Java
4 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
5 20 (43.48%) AWS
6 19 (41.30%) Jenkins
7 18 (39.13%) Python
8 17 (36.96%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (36.96%) DevOps
8 17 (36.96%) TypeScript
9 16 (34.78%) Microservices
9 16 (34.78%) Migration
9 16 (34.78%) SQL
10 15 (32.61%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (32.61%) Relational Database
11 14 (30.43%) React
11 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
11 14 (30.43%) Spring
12 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
12 13 (28.26%) Spring Boot
13 11 (23.91%) Swagger
13 11 (23.91%) OpenAPI
13 11 (23.91%) TDD
13 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
13 11 (23.91%) JUnit
13 11 (23.91%) JIRA

SC Cleared Software 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 7 (15.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) GCP
3 8 (17.39%) Azure
4 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.52%) Serverless
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (32.61%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) Jenkins
2 11 (23.91%) JIRA
2 11 (23.91%) JUnit
3 10 (21.74%) Gradle
3 10 (21.74%) Liquibase
3 10 (21.74%) Mockito
4 7 (15.22%) GitLab
5 6 (13.04%) Bitbucket
5 6 (13.04%) Git
6 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
7 4 (8.70%) REST Assured
7 4 (8.70%) Selenium
7 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
8 3 (6.52%) Eclipse
8 3 (6.52%) GoogleTest
8 3 (6.52%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.17%) LabVIEW
General
1 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.74%) Electronics
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Manufacturing
2 10 (21.74%) Marketing
2 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Law
5 4 (8.70%) Police
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) React
1 14 (30.43%) Spring
2 13 (28.26%) Spring Boot
3 11 (23.91%) Kafka
3 11 (23.91%) OpenAPI
3 11 (23.91%) Swagger
4 8 (17.39%) Node.js
5 6 (13.04%) REST
6 4 (8.70%) Angular 2
6 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
6 4 (8.70%) CSS
6 4 (8.70%) HTML
6 4 (8.70%) HTML5
6 4 (8.70%) Java EE
7 3 (6.52%) .NET
8 2 (4.35%) SOAP
9 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.17%) EDIFACT
9 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.17%) FPGA
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
4 17 (36.96%) DevOps
5 16 (34.78%) Microservices
5 16 (34.78%) Migration
6 15 (32.61%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (23.91%) TDD
8 10 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (21.74%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (21.74%) Programme Management
8 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.39%) Configuration Management
9 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (13.04%) OO
11 5 (10.87%) Multithreading
11 5 (10.87%) Scrum
11 5 (10.87%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Java
2 18 (39.13%) Python
3 17 (36.96%) TypeScript
4 16 (34.78%) SQL
5 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.70%) Bash
7 3 (6.52%) Ada
7 3 (6.52%) C++
7 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.35%) C#
9 1 (2.17%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 46 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) CCNP
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) OCA
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (4.35%) RHCA
2 2 (4.35%) RHCE
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (56.52%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Terraform
3 7 (15.22%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (8.70%) Podman
5 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.35%) Puppet
5 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.17%) Grafana
6 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) SAP
2 7 (15.22%) Atlassian
2 7 (15.22%) Google
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle
4 3 (6.52%) Intel
4 3 (6.52%) VMware
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) Confluent
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) MKS
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