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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 12 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 52 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 16.20% 10.74% 5.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.47% 38.10% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 8 11
10th Percentile £444 £430 £358
25th Percentile £460 £517 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -6.61% -0.86%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £588
90th Percentile £628 £631 -
South East median daily rate £525 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +0.48% -9.13% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.66 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £47.81 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.05% -20.33% -4.08%

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 86 42 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.79% 28.19% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 29 45
10th Percentile £275 £282 £353
25th Percentile £359 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £588
90th Percentile £623 £614 -
South East median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate £37.12 £24.66 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.53% +14.70% -2.98%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -1.57% -2.57% -4.42%

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

SC Cleared
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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in West Sussex over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in West Sussex

SC Cleared
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

SC Cleared
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 2 June 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 +3 30 £470 -18.13% 4
Crawley 0 15 £600 +55.84% 2
Horsham -13 2 £588 - 2
Gatwick - 2 £725 - 1
Burgess Hill - 1 £364 -
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 5 (9.62%) Confluence
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.69%) NetWeaver
2 4 (7.69%) SAP EP
2 4 (7.69%) SAS
3 2 (3.85%) ArcGIS
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (21.15%) SAP PSCD
2 5 (9.62%) SAP BRIM
2 5 (9.62%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (7.69%) SAP CRM
4 2 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (1.92%) Primavera
5 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.92%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Entra ID
3 6 (11.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (5.77%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (5.77%) Pentaho
2 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) GitLab
2 8 (15.38%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) JIRA
3 5 (9.62%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.77%) Zephyr
5 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.92%) Gradle
6 1 (1.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
2 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Billing
4 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Aviation
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Military
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Consultant
1 11 (21.15%) SAP Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Management Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Functional Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Information Assurance Specialist
4 5 (9.62%) Information Specialist
4 5 (9.62%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) SAP Architect
5 4 (7.69%) SAP Technical Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Engagement Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) SAP Manager
7 2 (3.85%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) .NET
2 4 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (7.69%) SAP PI
2 4 (7.69%) SAPUI5
3 3 (5.77%) WinForms
4 2 (3.85%) FHIR
4 2 (3.85%) JSON
4 2 (3.85%) Next.js
4 2 (3.85%) React
4 2 (3.85%) REST
4 2 (3.85%) SOAP
4 2 (3.85%) XML
5 1 (1.92%) Spring
5 1 (1.92%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Unix
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Agile
2 11 (21.15%) Revenue Management
3 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (17.31%) Project Delivery
4 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 7 (13.46%) DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) Migration
6 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (9.62%) Change Management
7 5 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (9.62%) Data Engineering
7 5 (9.62%) Data Integration
7 5 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (9.62%) Information Assurance
7 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.62%) Project Management
7 5 (9.62%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) PL/SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) ABAP
5 3 (5.77%) C
5 3 (5.77%) C++
5 3 (5.77%) Python
6 2 (3.85%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.92%) APMG
4 1 (1.92%) CCSK
4 1 (1.92%) CISM
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) HL7
3 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.92%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.92%) Puppet
2 1 (1.92%) Salt
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) SAP
2 14 (26.92%) Oracle
3 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 9 (17.31%) Talend
5 4 (7.69%) Ariba
5 4 (7.69%) Cisco
5 4 (7.69%) Denodo
6 3 (5.77%) Informatica
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.85%) InterSystems
8 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.92%) Splunk