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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 216 292 475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 48.98% 31.06% 44.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.26% 40.39% 62.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 211 399
10th Percentile £250 £353 £400
25th Percentile £466 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +8.39%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £675
90th Percentile £688 £738 £723
South West median daily rate £550 £532 £588
% change year-on-year +3.48% -9.53% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £18.73 - £46.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £68.00 £62.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £71.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.58% -5.33% +18.11%
75th Percentile £26.85 £74.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £41.13 - £97.50
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -50.00% +7.28% +0.38%

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 326 723 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 73.92% 76.91% 70.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 564 637
10th Percentile £310 £400 £413
25th Percentile £488 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +7.70%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £586
% change year-on-year - -6.10% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £18.73 - £29.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% -34.73% +1.31%
75th Percentile £26.85 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £41.13 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +3.17%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 18 May 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

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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 18 May 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 +1 131 £575 +6.93% 16
Salisbury -1 40 £475 -5.05% 4
Chippenham +4 6 £567 +21.88% 7
Warminster - 1 - -
Melksham - 1 - - 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 24 (11.11%) Confluence
2 10 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.78%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (13.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.56%) Azure
2 9 (4.17%) AWS
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.85%) PaaS
3 4 (1.85%) SaaS
4 3 (1.39%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.93%) IaaS
5 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
5 2 (0.93%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.94%) DNS
2 13 (6.02%) Firewall
2 13 (6.02%) VPN
3 9 (4.17%) Skype
4 8 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (3.70%) DHCP
5 7 (3.24%) BGP
5 7 (3.24%) OSPF
6 6 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (2.78%) DMVPN
6 6 (2.78%) VXLAN
7 5 (2.31%) VoIP
8 4 (1.85%) PBX
8 4 (1.85%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.85%) VSAN
9 3 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.93%) SSL
10 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (11.57%) JIRA
2 19 (8.80%) Git
3 16 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 11 (5.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) MSI
6 1 (0.46%) Snyk
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 84 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (21.30%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.94%) Finance
4 15 (6.94%) Military
5 12 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.09%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.85%) Electronics
7 4 (1.85%) Legal
7 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.85%) Marketing
7 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.39%) Advertising
8 3 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (1.39%) Police
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (11.11%) Architect
2 19 (8.80%) Service Manager
3 18 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 14 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (4.63%) Coordinator
5 10 (4.63%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 9 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 9 (4.17%) IT Support
6 9 (4.17%) Lead
6 9 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (3.70%) Analyst
7 8 (3.70%) Capacity Manager
7 8 (3.70%) Project Manager
7 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 8 (3.70%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 8 (3.70%) Senior
8 7 (3.24%) Report Analyst
8 7 (3.24%) Security Architect
8 7 (3.24%) Service Analyst
8 7 (3.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.56%) REST
1 12 (5.56%) SOAP
2 10 (4.63%) Flash
3 4 (1.85%) Spine.js
4 3 (1.39%) LDAP
5 2 (0.93%) Ajax
5 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.93%) CSS
5 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.93%) HTML
5 2 (0.93%) Web Services
6 1 (0.46%) .NET
6 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.46%) LAMP
6 1 (0.46%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.46%) Playwright
6 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.02%) PKI
3 12 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.63%) Clustering
5 6 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.85%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) CMDB
8 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.46%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (28.70%) Windows
2 26 (12.04%) Linux
2 26 (12.04%) Windows Server
3 23 (10.65%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.93%) VMS
8 1 (0.46%) Android
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Solaris
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Service Management
2 59 (27.31%) ITIL
3 48 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (19.91%) Agile
5 38 (17.59%) NsoIT
6 29 (13.43%) System Testing
6 29 (13.43%) Validation
7 27 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 24 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (10.19%) Critical Thinking
10 21 (9.72%) Project Management
11 19 (8.80%) Waterfall
12 17 (7.87%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.41%) ITSM
13 16 (7.41%) Problem Management
13 16 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (6.94%) Quality Management
14 15 (6.94%) Statistics
15 14 (6.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 25 (11.57%) Python
3 16 (7.41%) Bash
4 8 (3.70%) SQL
5 5 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.93%) Java
7 1 (0.46%) Groovy
7 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 216 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.07%) DV Cleared
3 38 (17.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 29 (13.43%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (10.65%) CCNP
7 20 (9.26%) Degree
8 11 (5.09%) OCA
8 11 (5.09%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (4.63%) RHCA
9 10 (4.63%) RHCE
10 8 (3.70%) CCNA
10 8 (3.70%) Master's Degree
11 7 (3.24%) MCSA
11 7 (3.24%) MCSE
11 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.31%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.85%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (1.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) SLA
2 8 (3.70%) JSP 440
2 8 (3.70%) RMADS
3 6 (2.78%) QA
4 5 (2.31%) PMO
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (18.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (10.19%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (6.48%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.24%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.93%) Docker
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.46%) vCloud
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (12.96%) Ansible
2 26 (12.04%) vCenter Server
3 13 (6.02%) Puppet
3 13 (6.02%) Terraform
4 11 (5.09%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.24%) Kubernetes
5 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.24%) SCCM
6 6 (2.78%) OPNET
7 4 (1.85%) WSUS
8 3 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.39%) SCOM
9 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.93%) Nessus
9 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.46%) Grafana
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) Packer
10 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 56 (25.93%) VMware
2 47 (21.76%) Cisco
3 42 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 22 (10.19%) Atlassian
5 13 (6.02%) Oracle
6 10 (4.63%) Remedy
7 7 (3.24%) F5
7 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.78%) HP
8 6 (2.78%) Juniper
8 6 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.78%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.85%) Avaya
9 4 (1.85%) Dell
9 4 (1.85%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.85%) Nokia
9 4 (1.85%) Ribbon
9 4 (1.85%) SAP
9 4 (1.85%) Veeam
10 3 (1.39%) Broadcom