SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 15 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 17.65% 29.69% 28.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.59% 57.58% 69.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 14
10th Percentile £313 £212 £351
25th Percentile £395 £250 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £425 £556
90th Percentile - £488 £750
Cheshire median daily rate £675 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +58.82% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £66.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +223.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 41 33 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 48.24% 51.56% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 17
10th Percentile £165 £203 £346
25th Percentile £214 £297 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £575
90th Percentile £469 £514 £750
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £20.02
25th Percentile £15.50 - £29.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £39.54
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.83%
75th Percentile £41.88 - £52.50
90th Percentile £67.25 - £66.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £19.00 £55.10 £30.04
% change year-on-year -65.51% +83.41% +1.47%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Warrington

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Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warrington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Warrington over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Warrington

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SC Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) NX-OS
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Logistics Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Security Operations
3 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) Application Security
4 5 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (20.00%) SIEM
6 3 (20.00%) SOAR
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
6 3 (20.00%) Use Case
7 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CCDP
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) McAfee
2 5 (33.33%) Symantec
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
4 3 (20.00%) LogRhythm
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) F5
5 2 (13.33%) Meraki
5 2 (13.33%) NetApp
5 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (13.33%) Veeam
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow