SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 25 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 10.42% 4.69% 7.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.89% 21.43% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 9
10th Percentile £473 £574 £412
25th Percentile £500 £663 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £509
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +42.44% -12.99%
75th Percentile £573 £738 £515
90th Percentile £714 - £558
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.92% -2.71% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 76 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 31.67% 21.88% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 19 26
10th Percentile £181 £421 £381
25th Percentile £300 £444 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -0.70% +1.72%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £602 £738 £684
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.51
25th Percentile £21.50 - £66.27
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £67.54
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -77.79% +204.76%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £68.80
90th Percentile - - £69.56
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in West Sussex

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Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in West Sussex over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in West Sussex

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SC Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Worthing +8 19 £515 -
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Crawley -11 2 £360 -50.34% 5
Horsham - 1 £570 -
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (12.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.00%) SAP EP
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (32.00%) SAP HR
1 8 (32.00%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (12.00%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (8.00%) SAP ERP
3 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (4.00%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (4.00%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (12.00%) PaaS
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Aviation
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Billing
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Consultant
1 13 (52.00%) SAP Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) HR Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) Payroll Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) SAP HR Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) SAP Payroll Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Engagement Manager
3 4 (16.00%) SAP Engagement Manager
3 4 (16.00%) SAP Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) SAP BW Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) Next.js
1 3 (12.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (4.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Tandem
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Change Management
3 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) AI
4 4 (16.00%) Budget Management
4 4 (16.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 4 (16.00%) Data Management
4 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
4 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
4 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (16.00%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) ABAP
2 3 (12.00%) C#
2 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) CCA
3 1 (4.00%) APMG
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) NCSC
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) SAP
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Ariba