SC Cleared Contracts in Wiltshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 214 294 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 47.77% 32.06% 41.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.85% 42.42% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 238 354
10th Percentile £319 £363 £415
25th Percentile £500 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -6.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £675
90th Percentile £693 £741 £723
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile - - £32.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £68.00 £51.31
Median hourly rate £25.08 £71.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.68% -5.33% +38.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% +5.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 330 693 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 73.66% 75.57% 71.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 557 607
10th Percentile £322 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £579
% change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 12
10th Percentile - - £23.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £56.06
Median hourly rate £25.08 £42.75 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% -32.14% -0.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £31.13 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -52.12% - +6.18%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Corsham +1 142 £575 -1.46% 28
Salisbury -1 22 £238 -52.52% 16
Tidworth - 6 £153 - 4
Chippenham +3 5 £604 +26.72% 5
Swindon +2 2 £550 +10.00% 24
Warminster - 2 £725 - 2
Melksham - 1 - -
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 23 (10.75%) Confluence
2 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.87%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) Documentum
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (11.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Primavera
2 2 (0.93%) Maximo
2 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.61%) AWS
1 12 (5.61%) Azure
2 4 (1.87%) PaaS
2 4 (1.87%) SaaS
3 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (0.93%) GCP
4 2 (0.93%) IaaS
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
4 2 (0.93%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.47%) BrowserStack
5 1 (0.47%) GitHub
5 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.47%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.47%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.54%) DNS
2 13 (6.07%) Firewall
3 12 (5.61%) VPN
4 11 (5.14%) BGP
5 8 (3.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (3.27%) OSPF
6 7 (3.27%) Skype
6 7 (3.27%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.80%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (2.80%) DHCP
7 6 (2.80%) DMVPN
7 6 (2.80%) VXLAN
8 5 (2.34%) VoIP
9 4 (1.87%) MPLS
9 4 (1.87%) PBX
9 4 (1.87%) VSAN
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.40%) IPsec
11 2 (0.93%) LAN
11 2 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.40%) MySQL
2 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (11.21%) JIRA
2 19 (8.88%) Git
3 16 (7.48%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.40%) GitLab
5 3 (1.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.93%) JUnit
6 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.47%) Appium
7 1 (0.47%) MSI
7 1 (0.47%) Snyk
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 70 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.96%) Public Sector
3 41 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.41%) Finance
5 17 (7.94%) Military
6 16 (7.48%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.21%) Electronics
7 9 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.21%) Marketing
8 6 (2.80%) Legal
9 3 (1.40%) Advertising
9 3 (1.40%) Fire and Rescue
9 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.40%) Police
9 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (9.81%) Network Engineer
2 20 (9.35%) Lead
3 19 (8.88%) Architect
4 12 (5.61%) IT Engineer
5 11 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (5.14%) Service Manager
6 10 (4.67%) Coordinator
6 10 (4.67%) Senior
7 9 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (3.74%) IT Support
8 8 (3.74%) Security Architect
8 8 (3.74%) Security Assurance Coordinator
9 7 (3.27%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.27%) Project Planner
9 7 (3.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (3.27%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Consultant
10 6 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.54%) REST
2 12 (5.61%) SOAP
3 7 (3.27%) Flash
4 4 (1.87%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.87%) HTML
4 4 (1.87%) Spine.js
5 3 (1.40%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.40%) LDAP
5 3 (1.40%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.40%) RESTCONF
5 3 (1.40%) XML
6 2 (0.93%) Ajax
6 2 (0.93%) CSS
6 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.93%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.93%) JPA
6 2 (0.93%) Kafka
6 2 (0.93%) Playwright
6 2 (0.93%) Spring
6 2 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.54%) PKI
2 12 (5.61%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.27%) Clustering
5 5 (2.34%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.87%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.93%) CMDB
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.17%) Windows
2 26 (12.15%) Linux
3 23 (10.75%) Windows Server
4 17 (7.94%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.10%) Service Management
2 45 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (19.16%) Agile
4 37 (17.29%) NsoIT
5 31 (14.49%) ITIL
5 31 (14.49%) Validation
6 30 (14.02%) System Testing
7 25 (11.68%) Configuration Management
8 23 (10.75%) Migration
9 22 (10.28%) Critical Thinking
10 21 (9.81%) Waterfall
11 19 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (7.48%) Project Management
13 14 (6.54%) Network Virtualisation
13 14 (6.54%) Service Delivery
14 13 (6.07%) Programme Management
15 12 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (5.61%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (5.61%) High Availability
15 12 (5.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.08%) Python
2 25 (11.68%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.48%) Bash
4 8 (3.74%) SQL
5 6 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.87%) Java
7 1 (0.47%) Groovy
7 1 (0.47%) PHP
7 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 214 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.70%) DV Cleared
3 35 (16.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 30 (14.02%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (11.68%) CCNP
6 24 (11.21%) Degree
7 11 (5.14%) OCA
7 11 (5.14%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (4.67%) RHCA
8 10 (4.67%) RHCE
9 8 (3.74%) CESG Certified Professional
9 8 (3.74%) CISSP
10 7 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.34%) CCNA
11 5 (2.34%) ISTQB
11 5 (2.34%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.87%) CISA
12 4 (1.87%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) JSP 440
1 12 (5.61%) RMADS
2 11 (5.14%) PMO
3 10 (4.67%) QA
4 8 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.34%) NIST
5 5 (2.34%) SLA
6 4 (1.87%) NCSC
7 3 (1.40%) P3O
8 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.47%) GRC
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (18.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.48%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.54%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (4.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.34%) Docker
5 5 (2.34%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.93%) vSphere
8 1 (0.47%) Firmware
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (13.55%) Ansible
2 23 (10.75%) vCenter Server
3 13 (6.07%) Puppet
4 12 (5.61%) Terraform
5 11 (5.14%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.21%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.87%) OPNET
7 4 (1.87%) WSUS
8 3 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.93%) Nessus
9 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) Grafana
10 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (24.77%) VMware
2 46 (21.50%) Cisco
3 31 (14.49%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.81%) Atlassian
5 13 (6.07%) Oracle
6 9 (4.21%) SAP
7 8 (3.74%) F5
8 7 (3.27%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.80%) Juniper
9 6 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.34%) Dell
10 5 (2.34%) HP
10 5 (2.34%) Remedy
11 4 (1.87%) Avaya
11 4 (1.87%) Ericsson
11 4 (1.87%) Nokia
11 4 (1.87%) Ribbon
11 4 (1.87%) Veeam
12 2 (0.93%) MobileIron