SC Cleared Software Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £594 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 646 810
Rank change year-on-year +66 +164 -166
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 18 66 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.12% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 56 31
10th Percentile £441 £503 £463
25th Percentile £481 £536 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +7.27% +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £631
90th Percentile £661 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £636 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +10.65% +9.52% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £73.71 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +30.46% -
75th Percentile - - £57.20
90th Percentile - - £57.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.71 £56.50
% change year-on-year - +30.46% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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 2024.

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
Top 5 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 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
England +92 17 £588 +2.17% 3
South East +11 9 £636 +13.21% 2
UK excluding London +10 9 £636 +10.65% 3
Work from Home +113 6 £650 +7.88% 2
London +100 4 £488 -27.13%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 18 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) Java
3 11 (61.11%) Docker
4 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 10 (55.56%) Azure
4 10 (55.56%) AWS
4 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
5 8 (44.44%) Selenium
5 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
6 7 (38.89%) Ansible
6 7 (38.89%) Terraform
6 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 7 (38.89%) Configuration Management
6 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
7 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 6 (33.33%) REST
7 6 (33.33%) Java EE
7 6 (33.33%) JIRA
7 6 (33.33%) Spring
7 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 6 (33.33%) ARM Templates
7 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (33.33%) GitLab

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Selenium
3 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (33.33%) GitLab
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
4 5 (27.78%) REST Assured
4 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
5 3 (16.67%) Git
6 1 (5.56%) Appium
6 1 (5.56%) Maven
6 1 (5.56%) MSTest
6 1 (5.56%) NUnit
6 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Law
3 4 (22.22%) Police
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
6 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 6 (33.33%) Java EE
1 6 (33.33%) REST
1 6 (33.33%) Spring
2 5 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) React
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) Redux
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
5 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Configuration Management
3 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (5.56%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) Terraform
3 5 (27.78%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (27.78%) Podman
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle