SC Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 234 210 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.26% 11.98% 5.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.89% 38.25% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 132 100
10th Percentile £379 £358 £388
25th Percentile £501 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +7.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £635 £625
90th Percentile £716 £721 £688
South East median daily rate £554 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +8.58% -2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 4
10th Percentile £32.66 £22.50 £55.85
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £60.13
Median hourly rate £56.89 £66.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% -8.97% +271.79%
75th Percentile £63.15 £75.75 £82.56
90th Percentile £68.66 £79.19 £82.68
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £62.78 £54.96
% change year-on-year -4.42% +14.23% +29.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 839 549 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 43.95% 31.32% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 307 377
10th Percentile £213 £331 £323
25th Percentile £425 £431 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% +3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £720 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +5.67% +4.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 14
10th Percentile £41.40 £21.60 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +209.16% -0.12%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -3.54% +32.12% +5.88%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Reading +5 157 £613 +7.46% 66
Wokingham -2 21 £482 -16.17% 1
Bracknell -10 14 £400 +10.34% 3
Newbury +8 12 £525 +40.00% 1
Maidenhead - 2 £625 -
Slough +2 1 £345 -43.90% 4
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (8.55%) SAP EWM
2 13 (5.56%) SAP QM
3 8 (3.42%) Primavera
4 5 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.43%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.78%) Azure
2 30 (12.82%) AWS
3 20 (8.55%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (7.26%) Azure Storage
6 14 (5.98%) OCI
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.28%) Serverless
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.43%) GCP
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.67%) DNS
2 37 (15.81%) Firewall
3 35 (14.96%) DHCP
4 17 (7.26%) SAN
5 8 (3.42%) WAN
6 6 (2.56%) BGP
6 6 (2.56%) MPLS
7 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.71%) Internet
9 3 (1.28%) NAS
9 3 (1.28%) VPN
10 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.85%) GGSN
10 2 (0.85%) IPsec
10 2 (0.85%) OSPF
11 1 (0.43%) DSL
11 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.43%) HTTP
11 1 (0.43%) PPP
11 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.55%) Oracle Database
3 14 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (2.14%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.28%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) GIS
9 1 (0.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.11%) Selenium
3 25 (10.68%) Cucumber
4 24 (10.26%) REST Assured
4 24 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 15 (6.41%) GitLab
6 13 (5.56%) JIRA
7 12 (5.13%) Git
8 7 (2.99%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.71%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.43%) Appium
11 1 (0.43%) JUnit
11 1 (0.43%) MSI
11 1 (0.43%) MSTest
11 1 (0.43%) NUnit
11 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.25%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.55%) Law
5 13 (5.56%) Police
6 6 (2.56%) Finance
7 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.28%) Military
9 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.38%) Consultant
2 37 (15.81%) Developer
2 37 (15.81%) SAP Consultant
3 28 (11.97%) Active Directory Support
4 25 (10.68%) Active Directory Specialist
4 25 (10.68%) Azure Specialist
4 25 (10.68%) Support Specialist
5 21 (8.97%) Senior
6 19 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 16 (6.84%) Site Engineer
8 16 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (5.98%) Storage Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 12 (5.13%) SAP EWM Consultant
11 12 (5.13%) SAP QM Consultant
12 8 (3.42%) Architect
12 8 (3.42%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.42%) ServiceNow Developer
12 8 (3.42%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.82%) ARM Templates
2 28 (11.97%) REST
3 25 (10.68%) Java EE
4 13 (5.56%) Kafka
5 9 (3.85%) .NET
6 7 (2.99%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.14%) SAP Basis
8 4 (1.71%) Web Services
8 4 (1.71%) YAML
9 3 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.28%) Node.js
9 3 (1.28%) React
9 3 (1.28%) Spring
9 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.85%) Mustache
10 2 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
11 1 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.43%) Apache Camel
11 1 (0.43%) OpenLayers
11 1 (0.43%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.97%) PKI
2 17 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.41%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.28%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.28%) iPad
7 3 (1.28%) PMI
7 3 (1.28%) Robotics
7 3 (1.28%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
9 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.23%) Linux
2 44 (18.80%) Windows
3 37 (15.81%) Windows Server
4 34 (14.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (13.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (6.84%) Windows 10
7 14 (5.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (5.98%) Windows XP
8 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.28%) Unix
10 2 (0.85%) VMS
11 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (32.05%) DevOps
2 56 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.09%) Software Engineering
4 45 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (15.38%) Agile
6 35 (14.96%) ITIL
7 31 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (11.97%) Containerisation
8 28 (11.97%) Decision-Making
8 28 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (11.97%) Test Automation
9 26 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (10.68%) ITSM
10 25 (10.68%) Software Architecture
11 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (8.97%) Project Management
13 20 (8.55%) CI/CD
13 20 (8.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (8.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (8.12%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.09%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.25%) Java
3 28 (11.97%) C#
4 17 (7.26%) Bicep
4 17 (7.26%) SQL
4 17 (7.26%) VB
4 17 (7.26%) VBScript
5 13 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.14%) Bash
6 5 (2.14%) Python
7 4 (1.71%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (28.63%) DV Cleared
3 32 (13.68%) Degree
4 17 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (7.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (6.84%) CCNA
5 16 (6.84%) CCNP
6 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.28%) APMP
7 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.85%) CCDP
9 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) CCIP
9 1 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) HND
9 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.28%) ISO 9000
2 2 (0.85%) PMO
2 2 (0.85%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 50 (21.37%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.12%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (7.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (7.26%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (6.84%) Docker
5 16 (6.84%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.85%) vSphere
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) XenApp
7 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (20.09%) Kubernetes
2 38 (16.24%) Ansible
3 35 (14.96%) WSUS
4 33 (14.10%) SCCM
5 32 (13.68%) SCOM
6 21 (8.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (7.69%) Terraform
8 17 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (7.26%) vCenter Server
9 15 (6.41%) Grafana
9 15 (6.41%) Istio
10 14 (5.98%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (5.98%) NetBackup
11 12 (5.13%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (5.13%) Podman
12 11 (4.70%) Argo
12 11 (4.70%) Kibana
12 11 (4.70%) Prometheus
13 3 (1.28%) Nessus
13 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (17.95%) SAP
3 38 (16.24%) Oracle
4 25 (10.68%) VMware
5 24 (10.26%) Cisco
6 20 (8.55%) Juniper
7 17 (7.26%) Veeam
8 15 (6.41%) 3PAR
8 15 (6.41%) Dell
8 15 (6.41%) HP
9 14 (5.98%) EMC
9 14 (5.98%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (5.98%) Palo Alto
9 14 (5.98%) Symantec
10 12 (5.13%) Red Hat
11 9 (3.85%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.85%) F5
12 2 (0.85%) NEC
12 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
13 1 (0.43%) Google