SC Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 152 305 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.31% 8.16% 6.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.60% 39.25% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 178 188
10th Percentile £422 £412 £363
25th Percentile £463 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £672 £663
90th Percentile £768 £763 £725
London median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -71.44% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £21.19 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £52.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -57.69% +16.85% -25.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 481 777 866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.98% 20.79% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 459 572
10th Percentile £373 £324 £367
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £816 £725
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 18
10th Percentile - £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £39.50
Median hourly rate £23.91 £51.50 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +9.57% +135.00%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £38.73 £71.75 £67.55
London median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -47.37% +6.74% +21.92%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 23 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
City of London -5 133 £525 -4.55% 24
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.97%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) nginx
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Camunda
4 1 (0.66%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.66%) JBoss
4 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) Moodle
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.66%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.63%) AWS
2 13 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (8.55%) Serverless
3 11 (7.24%) Amazon S3
4 10 (6.58%) Azure
5 7 (4.61%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (4.61%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.29%) GitHub
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
9 2 (1.32%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) WAN
2 2 (1.32%) CTI
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (1.32%) H.323
2 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.32%) VLAN
3 1 (0.66%) BGP
3 1 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.66%) DHCP
3 1 (0.66%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.66%) HSRP
3 1 (0.66%) HTTP
3 1 (0.66%) Internet
3 1 (0.66%) IPsec
3 1 (0.66%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.66%) OSPF
3 1 (0.66%) SSH
3 1 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.61%) Parquet
5 6 (3.95%) Metadata
6 5 (3.29%) Data Vault
7 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.97%) Tableau
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.32%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.32%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.66%) GIS
10 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.58%) Selenium
2 9 (5.92%) Git
3 8 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.95%) GitLab
4 6 (3.95%) JIRA
4 6 (3.95%) JUnit
5 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.63%) Postman
6 4 (2.63%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.63%) TestNG
6 4 (2.63%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.97%) JMeter
7 3 (1.97%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.32%) Appium
8 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.32%) eggPlant
8 2 (1.32%) Maven
8 2 (1.32%) Mockito
8 2 (1.32%) SOAtest
General
1 57 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.13%) Finance
4 9 (5.92%) Law
5 6 (3.95%) Banking
5 6 (3.95%) Police
6 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Publishing
7 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
8 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (16.45%) Developer
2 22 (14.47%) Architect
3 13 (8.55%) Consultant
3 13 (8.55%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.24%) Analyst
5 10 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Senior
7 8 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.61%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Data Architect
9 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
10 5 (3.29%) Designer
10 5 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (3.29%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) IT Consultant
11 4 (2.63%) Service Manager
12 3 (1.97%) Content Designer
12 3 (1.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (1.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.55%) Kafka
2 11 (7.24%) Spring
3 10 (6.58%) CSS
3 10 (6.58%) HTML
3 10 (6.58%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.92%) JSON
5 7 (4.61%) Apache Avro
5 7 (4.61%) OpenID
5 7 (4.61%) SAML
6 6 (3.95%) Node.js
6 6 (3.95%) XACML
7 5 (3.29%) React
7 5 (3.29%) REST
8 4 (2.63%) .NET
8 4 (2.63%) jQuery
8 4 (2.63%) RESTful
9 3 (1.97%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.97%) JAX-RS
9 3 (1.97%) Laravel
9 3 (1.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.29%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.97%) Social Media
4 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.32%) CBDC
4 2 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.66%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.66%) Clustering
5 1 (0.66%) Digital Currency
5 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) IoT
5 1 (0.66%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Windows
3 3 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.08%) Agile
2 18 (11.84%) DevOps
3 15 (9.87%) Test Automation
4 13 (8.55%) CI/CD
4 13 (8.55%) Data Modelling
5 12 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (7.24%) ETL
7 10 (6.58%) Data Ingestion
8 9 (5.92%) Project Delivery
8 9 (5.92%) Security Architecture
9 8 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (5.26%) Microservices
9 8 (5.26%) Roadmaps
9 8 (5.26%) SFIA
10 7 (4.61%) Data Lineage
11 6 (3.95%) Business Analysis
11 6 (3.95%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (3.95%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (3.95%) Migration
11 6 (3.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.11%) Python
2 22 (14.47%) Java
3 18 (11.84%) SQL
4 13 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.97%) Bash
5 3 (1.97%) C#
5 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.32%) C++
6 2 (1.32%) PHP
6 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.66%) C
7 1 (0.66%) Go
7 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.66%) Rust
7 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.66%) VC++
Qualifications
1 152 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.92%) Degree
3 7 (4.61%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.63%) ACCA
6 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.97%) CISM
6 3 (1.97%) CISSP
7 2 (1.32%) CCNA
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) MBA
8 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PMP
8 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.63%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.97%) PMO
5 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 12 (7.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.55%) Terraform
3 10 (6.58%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.32%) Packer
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.66%) Consul
6 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.66%) Kibana
6 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.66%) logstash
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.24%) Oracle
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.95%) IBM
3 6 (3.95%) Okta
4 5 (3.29%) Sparx
5 3 (1.97%) Avaya
5 3 (1.97%) Cisco
5 3 (1.97%) SAP
6 2 (1.32%) Brandwatch
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Proofpoint
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.32%) Siebel
7 1 (0.66%) Aruba
7 1 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) Zoho