SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Workington

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Cumbria > Workington

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Workington with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Workington 66.67% - 75.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £481 £540 £539
% change year-on-year -10.88% +0.23% +26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £10.95
Cumbria median hourly rate £63.14 £54.51 £10.95
% change year-on-year +15.82% +397.81% -84.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Workington

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 Workington.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Workington 66.67% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £496 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -5.49% +1.92% +20.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £10.95
Cumbria median hourly rate £61.57 £35.30 £10.95
% change year-on-year +74.44% +222.33% -80.27%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Workington

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Workington

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Workington

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

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

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes