SC Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 310 199 314
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 55.16% 38.42% 39.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.82% 53.78% 59.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 145 210
10th Percentile £450 £340 £413
25th Percentile £514 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £656
90th Percentile £768 £718 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 17
10th Percentile £18.87 - £40.85
25th Percentile £20.82 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +23.71% -25.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £65.30
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% -

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 471 370 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.81% 71.43% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 264 368
10th Percentile £450 £363 £413
25th Percentile £516 £492 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £715 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 18
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.06 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +21.83% -24.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £52.06
90th Percentile - - £65.10
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -61.89% +5.60% -3.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

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 29 November 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 +1 179 £600 +4.35% 46
Salisbury 0 37 £670 +67.50% 10
Swindon - 14 £588 - 3
Pewsey - 12 £160 -
Tidworth - 9 £153 -
Chippenham -1 7 £588 +2.17% 1
Marlborough - 1 - -
Warminster - 1 £725 - 3
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 55 (17.74%) Confluence
2 20 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.52%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.23%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.29%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.97%) Documentum
7 1 (0.32%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
Applications
1 40 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (10.97%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.29%) Primavera
3 3 (0.97%) Maximo
4 2 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.45%) Azure
2 19 (6.13%) AWS
3 11 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.26%) GCP
5 6 (1.94%) IaaS
6 5 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.29%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.97%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.65%) GitHub
9 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.65%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.32%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.45%) Skype
2 14 (4.52%) DNS
3 10 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.90%) DHCP
4 9 (2.90%) Unified Communications
5 5 (1.61%) VPN
6 4 (1.29%) BGP
6 4 (1.29%) Firewall
6 4 (1.29%) VoIP
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
7 3 (0.97%) OSPF
8 2 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
8 2 (0.65%) SNMP
8 2 (0.65%) VSAN
8 2 (0.65%) WAN
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.32%) NGFW
9 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.32%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.29%) Metadata
3 2 (0.65%) Looker
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 2 (0.65%) Tableau
4 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.32%) MySQL
4 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 59 (19.03%) JIRA
2 12 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.58%) Bitbucket
3 8 (2.58%) Git
4 7 (2.26%) GitLab
5 3 (0.97%) MSI
5 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.32%) Bazaar
7 1 (0.32%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.32%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Mocha
7 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
General
1 104 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 94 (30.32%) Public Sector
3 64 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (14.84%) Military
5 30 (9.68%) Finance
6 28 (9.03%) Telecoms
7 26 (8.39%) Electronics
7 26 (8.39%) Manufacturing
7 26 (8.39%) Marketing
8 11 (3.55%) Legal
9 9 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Law
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.32%) Advertising
14 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (22.90%) Architect
2 28 (9.03%) Lead
3 24 (7.74%) Service Architect
4 22 (7.10%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.13%) Consultant
6 17 (5.48%) IT Engineer
7 16 (5.16%) Analyst
8 14 (4.52%) IT Support
9 13 (4.19%) Enterprise Architect
10 11 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.55%) Incident Manager
10 11 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Service Manager
12 8 (2.58%) Developer
13 7 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) Senior
13 7 (2.26%) Service Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.13%) REST
2 4 (1.29%) Node.js
3 3 (0.97%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.97%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.65%) .NET
4 2 (0.65%) Express.js
4 2 (0.65%) Kafka
4 2 (0.65%) RESTful
4 2 (0.65%) XML
5 1 (0.32%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.32%) HTML
5 1 (0.32%) JFC
5 1 (0.32%) JPA
5 1 (0.32%) OAuth
5 1 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.32%) SOAP
5 1 (0.32%) Spring
5 1 (0.32%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.81%) CMDB
3 13 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.19%) PKI
4 9 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.90%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.26%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.65%) Replication
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.32%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.32%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.32%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.32%) Handset
9 1 (0.32%) STB
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.61%) Windows
2 18 (5.81%) Linux
3 13 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.29%) VMS
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.97%) CentOS
6 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.65%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.32%) ITIL
2 90 (29.03%) Service Management
3 82 (26.45%) Agile
4 40 (12.90%) Critical Thinking
4 40 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (12.26%) TOGAF
6 36 (11.61%) ITSM
6 36 (11.61%) Migration
7 35 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (10.97%) Knowledge Transfer
9 31 (10.00%) DevOps
10 30 (9.68%) Service Design
11 29 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (9.03%) Analytical Thinking
12 28 (9.03%) Service Delivery
13 26 (8.39%) Digital Marketing
13 26 (8.39%) Programme Management
13 26 (8.39%) Workflow
14 25 (8.06%) Business Continuity
14 25 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.87%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.68%) Python
3 10 (3.23%) SQL
4 4 (1.29%) Bash
5 3 (0.97%) Bicep
5 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) Java
6 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) C
7 1 (0.32%) C#
7 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 310 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.06%) DV Cleared
3 55 (17.74%) Degree
4 24 (7.74%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (3.87%) CISSP
5 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.23%) APMP
6 10 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.90%) ISEB
8 7 (2.26%) MCSE
9 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.29%) CISM
10 4 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.29%) MCSA
10 4 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.29%) SANS
10 4 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.97%) OCA
11 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.90%) COBIT
1 9 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.90%) NIST
2 8 (2.58%) NCSC
3 7 (2.26%) JSP 440
3 7 (2.26%) PMO
3 7 (2.26%) QA
4 5 (1.61%) SLA
5 4 (1.29%) P3O
6 3 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.97%) RMADS
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.90%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.58%) Docker
5 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.32%) UAG
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (8.06%) OPNET
2 19 (6.13%) Ansible
2 19 (6.13%) Terraform
3 18 (5.81%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.94%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.94%) WSUS
6 4 (1.29%) Grafana
6 4 (1.29%) Packer
6 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.97%) Nessus
7 3 (0.97%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.65%) Puppet
8 2 (0.65%) SCCM
9 1 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (18.39%) Atlassian
2 42 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 38 (12.26%) ServiceNow
4 36 (11.61%) Remedy
5 26 (8.39%) SAP
6 23 (7.42%) VMware
7 15 (4.84%) Cisco
8 8 (2.58%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.58%) Veeam
9 6 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.61%) Oracle
11 4 (1.29%) IBM
11 4 (1.29%) Juniper
12 3 (0.97%) McAfee
12 3 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.65%) F5
13 2 (0.65%) Okta
13 2 (0.65%) Sophos
13 2 (0.65%) Sparx
13 2 (0.65%) Splunk