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 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 329 192 294
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 56.63% 38.48% 38.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.42% 54.24% 58.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 143 196
10th Percentile £447 £340 £413
25th Percentile £513 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £705 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 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 488 354 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.99% 70.94% 65.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 255 347
10th Percentile £450 £359 £413
25th Percentile £513 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £650
90th Percentile £739 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 17
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £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 £66.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year -62.18% +7.54% -4.86%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +1 196 £600 +4.80% 62
Salisbury 0 38 £670 +71.79% 12
Swindon - 14 £588 - 12
Pewsey - 12 £160 -
Tidworth - 10 £153 - 2
Chippenham -1 7 £588 +2.17%
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 60 (18.24%) Confluence
2 20 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.04%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.22%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.91%) Documentum
Applications
1 45 (13.68%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (12.16%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.22%) Primavera
3 3 (0.91%) Maximo
4 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.69%) Azure
2 20 (6.08%) AWS
3 11 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.43%) GCP
5 7 (2.13%) IaaS
6 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.22%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.91%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.91%) GitHub
8 3 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.30%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.30%) Miro
10 1 (0.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.08%) Skype
2 13 (3.95%) DNS
3 10 (3.04%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.74%) DHCP
4 9 (2.74%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.22%) Firewall
5 4 (1.22%) VoIP
5 4 (1.22%) VPN
6 3 (0.91%) BGP
6 3 (0.91%) LAN
6 3 (0.91%) OSPF
7 2 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.61%) SNMP
7 2 (0.61%) VSAN
7 2 (0.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.30%) SDH
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.30%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.22%) Metadata
3 2 (0.61%) Looker
3 2 (0.61%) Power BI
3 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (19.45%) JIRA
2 13 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.74%) Git
4 8 (2.43%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.43%) GitLab
5 3 (0.91%) MSI
5 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.30%) Bazaar
7 1 (0.30%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.30%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) Mocha
7 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
General
1 111 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 97 (29.48%) Public Sector
3 69 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (16.41%) Military
5 30 (9.12%) Finance
6 28 (8.51%) Telecoms
7 26 (7.90%) Electronics
7 26 (7.90%) Manufacturing
7 26 (7.90%) Marketing
8 11 (3.34%) Legal
9 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Law
14 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.30%) Advertising
15 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (23.71%) Architect
2 30 (9.12%) Lead
2 30 (9.12%) Service Architect
3 22 (6.69%) Support Engineer
4 20 (6.08%) Consultant
5 17 (5.17%) IT Engineer
6 16 (4.86%) Analyst
7 14 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 14 (4.26%) IT Support
8 11 (3.34%) Business Analyst
8 11 (3.34%) Incident Manager
8 11 (3.34%) IT Support Engineer
9 10 (3.04%) Migration Engineer
9 10 (3.04%) Service Manager
10 9 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.43%) Developer
11 8 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Engineer
12 7 (2.13%) Security Consultant
12 7 (2.13%) Service Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.47%) REST
2 5 (1.52%) Node.js
3 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.91%) Express.js
3 3 (0.91%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.91%) RESTful
3 3 (0.91%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.61%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) Jest
5 1 (0.30%) JFC
5 1 (0.30%) Kafka
5 1 (0.30%) NestJS
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.30%) SOAP
5 1 (0.30%) Web Services
5 1 (0.30%) XML
5 1 (0.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.47%) CMDB
3 13 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.34%) PKI
5 9 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.61%) Handset
9 2 (0.61%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.61%) Replication
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.30%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.30%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.30%) STB
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.25%) Windows
2 19 (5.78%) Linux
3 13 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.04%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.22%) VMS
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.91%) CentOS
7 2 (0.61%) Android
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.70%) ITIL
2 96 (29.18%) Service Management
3 90 (27.36%) Agile
4 45 (13.68%) Critical Thinking
5 44 (13.37%) TOGAF
6 41 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (12.16%) Knowledge Transfer
8 38 (11.55%) Service Design
9 36 (10.94%) ITSM
9 36 (10.94%) Migration
9 36 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (10.33%) Analytical Thinking
10 34 (10.33%) DevOps
11 31 (9.42%) Acceptance Criteria
11 31 (9.42%) Business Continuity
12 29 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (8.81%) Security Patching
12 29 (8.81%) Service Delivery
13 26 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (7.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.07%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.81%) Python
3 10 (3.04%) SQL
4 4 (1.22%) Bash
4 4 (1.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.91%) Bicep
5 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.30%) C
6 1 (0.30%) C#
6 1 (0.30%) Java
6 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 329 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.24%) Degree
3 57 (17.33%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.12%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (3.65%) CISSP
5 12 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.04%) APMP
6 10 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.74%) ISEB
8 7 (2.13%) MCSE
9 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.22%) CISM
10 4 (1.22%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.22%) MCSA
10 4 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.22%) SANS
10 4 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.74%) COBIT
1 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.74%) NIST
2 8 (2.43%) NCSC
2 8 (2.43%) PMO
3 7 (2.13%) JSP 440
3 7 (2.13%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) SLA
5 4 (1.22%) P3O
6 3 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.91%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.91%) RMADS
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (4.86%) Active Directory
1 16 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.74%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.43%) Docker
4 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) UAG
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (9.42%) OPNET
2 20 (6.08%) Terraform
3 19 (5.78%) Ansible
4 18 (5.47%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.82%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.82%) WSUS
7 5 (1.52%) Grafana
7 5 (1.52%) Packer
7 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.22%) Nessus
9 3 (0.91%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.61%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.61%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) SCCM
11 1 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (18.84%) Atlassian
2 44 (13.37%) ServiceNow
3 42 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 42 (12.77%) Remedy
4 26 (7.90%) SAP
5 23 (6.99%) VMware
6 14 (4.26%) Cisco
7 8 (2.43%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.43%) Veeam
8 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.22%) Juniper
11 3 (0.91%) Google
11 3 (0.91%) McAfee
11 3 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.61%) F5
12 2 (0.61%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.61%) Sophos
12 2 (0.61%) Splunk