SC Cleared Contracts in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,403 6,379 6,054
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.98% 13.02% 8.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.56% 47.15% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,002 4,492 4,140
10th Percentile £350 £375 £387
25th Percentile £450 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 332 270
10th Percentile £13.42 £20.00 £19.50
25th Percentile £21.37 £30.39 £35.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £51.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.81% +14.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £59.90 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.53% +10.93% +20.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,420 13,530 15,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.07% 27.63% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,032 9,064 10,005
10th Percentile £313 £335 £320
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 713 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%
75th Percentile £61.82 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +1 1,640 £525 -7.28% 203
South East 0 848 £563 +9.76% 273
South West -1 783 £533 -9.20% 247
North of England 0 485 £525 -4.55% 167
North West -1 369 £525 - 123
Midlands +10 341 £485 -10.19% 92
West Midlands +11 241 £450 -18.18% 65
East of England -7 156 £348 -31.36% 71
East Midlands +4 99 £550 +2.45% 27
Yorkshire -1 89 £525 -12.50% 30
North East -10 29 £450 -21.74% 14
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 160 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 145 (3.29%) Confluence
3 86 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.25%) Apache
5 31 (0.70%) nginx
6 13 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 9 (0.20%) CICS
10 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (0.16%) IIS
10 7 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.14%) CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 116 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.36%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 6 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.091%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.068%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.045%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) CATIA
12 1 (0.023%) SPSS
12 1 (0.023%) Stateflow
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 28 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 22 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 21 (0.48%) SAP EWM
5 18 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 17 (0.39%) Primavera
7 14 (0.32%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
8 11 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.20%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
11 5 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
12 4 (0.091%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.091%) SAP BPC
12 4 (0.091%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.091%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.091%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.091%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 711 (16.15%) AWS
2 561 (12.74%) Azure
3 177 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (2.75%) Power Platform
5 103 (2.34%) Serverless
6 96 (2.18%) Amazon S3
7 84 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (1.77%) GCP
9 75 (1.70%) GitHub
10 67 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 62 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (1.29%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.25%) OCI
14 53 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
14 53 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 48 (1.09%) OpenShift
16 47 (1.07%) PaaS
17 39 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 39 (0.89%) SaaS
18 38 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 242 (5.50%) Firewall
2 133 (3.02%) WAN
3 103 (2.34%) DNS
4 99 (2.25%) VPN
5 70 (1.59%) Network Security
6 69 (1.57%) DHCP
7 67 (1.52%) LAN
8 62 (1.41%) Wireless
9 61 (1.39%) SAN
10 60 (1.36%) BGP
11 55 (1.25%) MPLS
12 54 (1.23%) IPsec
13 49 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
14 44 (1.00%) SSL
15 43 (0.98%) TCP/IP
16 42 (0.95%) OSPF
17 37 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
18 33 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
19 32 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
20 28 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 67 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 66 (1.50%) Power BI
6 63 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 59 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (1.18%) Oracle Database
9 49 (1.11%) Metadata
10 46 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (1.02%) MySQL
12 41 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 39 (0.89%) Flink
14 38 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 34 (0.77%) Data Lake
15 34 (0.77%) Data Vault
16 30 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 25 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
18 23 (0.52%) Big Data
19 22 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 241 (5.47%) JIRA
2 218 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 213 (4.84%) Git
4 132 (3.00%) GitLab
5 78 (1.77%) Selenium
6 66 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 60 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 52 (1.18%) JUnit
9 50 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 48 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
11 46 (1.04%) PVCS
12 39 (0.89%) REST Assured
13 38 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 29 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 26 (0.59%) JMeter
16 20 (0.45%) Maven
17 19 (0.43%) TestNG
18 17 (0.39%) Postman
19 16 (0.36%) Mockito
19 16 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 943 (21.42%) Public Sector
2 797 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 355 (8.06%) Finance
4 309 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (4.02%) Telecoms
6 168 (3.82%) Aerospace
7 125 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 123 (2.79%) Electronics
9 117 (2.66%) Military
10 71 (1.61%) Marketing
11 68 (1.54%) Law
12 62 (1.41%) Legal
13 60 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.32%) Police
15 50 (1.14%) Banking
15 50 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 45 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (0.64%) Retail
18 25 (0.57%) Publishing
19 23 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 725 (16.47%) Architect
2 506 (11.49%) Developer
3 347 (7.88%) Analyst
4 316 (7.18%) Senior
5 294 (6.68%) Lead
6 262 (5.95%) Consultant
7 202 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 177 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
9 172 (3.91%) Network Engineer
10 156 (3.54%) Project Manager
11 142 (3.23%) Data Engineer
12 131 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 120 (2.73%) Java Developer
14 100 (2.27%) Lead Architect
15 97 (2.20%) Technical Architect
16 95 (2.16%) Service Analyst
17 86 (1.95%) Software Engineer
17 86 (1.95%) Support Engineer
18 84 (1.91%) Full Stack Developer
18 84 (1.91%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (3.02%) REST
2 118 (2.68%) Spring
3 110 (2.50%) React
4 108 (2.45%) Spring Boot
5 107 (2.43%) Kafka
6 95 (2.16%) .NET
7 88 (2.00%) HTML
8 84 (1.91%) Node.js
9 80 (1.82%) CSS
10 74 (1.68%) Web Services
11 49 (1.11%) JPA
12 47 (1.07%) Hibernate
13 46 (1.04%) JSON
14 41 (0.93%) RESTful
15 36 (0.82%) ARM Templates
16 33 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (0.61%) Redux
19 25 (0.57%) .NET Framework
19 25 (0.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (2.86%) PKI
2 108 (2.45%) Management Information System
3 100 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 90 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 80 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 54 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 49 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 42 (0.95%) CMDB
9 37 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
11 31 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
11 31 (0.70%) Virtual Team
12 30 (0.68%) Private Cloud
12 30 (0.68%) Security Posture
13 29 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
13 29 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (0.66%) Mainframe
14 28 (0.64%) Reference Data
15 27 (0.61%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 444 (10.08%) Windows
2 438 (9.95%) Linux
3 141 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 99 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 69 (1.57%) Unix
6 55 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.09%) Android
8 47 (1.07%) Windows 7
9 45 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
11 40 (0.91%) Apple iOS
12 37 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
13 28 (0.64%) Ubuntu
14 26 (0.59%) Mac OS X
15 17 (0.39%) AIX
15 17 (0.39%) Debian
16 16 (0.36%) VMS
17 15 (0.34%) Windows XP
18 14 (0.32%) CentOS
18 14 (0.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (18.03%) Agile
2 507 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
3 506 (11.49%) DevOps
4 389 (8.83%) ITIL
5 358 (8.13%) CI/CD
6 343 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 296 (6.72%) Project Management
8 257 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
9 256 (5.81%) Service Management
10 231 (5.25%) Migration
11 225 (5.11%) Software Engineering
12 200 (4.54%) Decision-Making
13 192 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 190 (4.32%) Configuration Management
15 189 (4.29%) Scrum
16 180 (4.09%) Change Management
17 179 (4.07%) Mentoring
18 171 (3.88%) Analytics
19 167 (3.79%) Test Automation
20 163 (3.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 413 (9.38%) Python
2 347 (7.88%) Java
3 296 (6.72%) SQL
4 206 (4.68%) PowerShell
5 180 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 129 (2.93%) C#
7 104 (2.36%) C
8 84 (1.91%) Bash
9 80 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 78 (1.77%) C++
11 68 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.77%) Go
13 33 (0.75%) PHP
14 29 (0.66%) MATLAB
14 29 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 23 (0.52%) Bicep
16 20 (0.45%) Perl
16 20 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.39%) VB
18 16 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,403 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 519 (11.79%) DV Cleared
3 313 (7.11%) Degree
4 179 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 116 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 83 (1.89%) CCNP
7 75 (1.70%) CCNA
8 66 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 64 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.32%) CISSP
11 39 (0.89%) PMI Certification
12 38 (0.86%) CISM
13 37 (0.84%) PMP
14 31 (0.70%) MCSA
15 30 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 29 (0.66%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.57%) AWS Certification
18 24 (0.55%) Master's Degree
19 22 (0.50%) CEH
19 22 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (2.68%) QA
2 115 (2.61%) SLA
3 77 (1.75%) NIST
4 76 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 56 (1.27%) PMO
7 49 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 45 (1.02%) NCSC
9 37 (0.84%) GDPR
10 31 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 29 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.32%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
16 9 (0.20%) COBIT
16 9 (0.20%) RMADS
16 9 (0.20%) WCAG
17 8 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 264 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 212 (4.81%) Docker
3 146 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.25%) vSphere
5 50 (1.14%) VMware NSX
6 46 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 32 (0.73%) Firmware
10 22 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.091%) XenApp
12 4 (0.091%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.068%) iptables
13 3 (0.068%) KVM
14 2 (0.045%) UAG
15 1 (0.023%) LXC
15 1 (0.023%) vCloud
15 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 313 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 281 (6.38%) Terraform
3 251 (5.70%) Ansible
4 78 (1.77%) SCCM
5 58 (1.32%) Grafana
6 55 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 43 (0.98%) SCOM
8 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 40 (0.91%) WSUS
11 36 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.77%) Puppet
13 29 (0.66%) Packer
14 27 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 27 (0.61%) VxRail
15 26 (0.59%) Kibana
16 25 (0.57%) PowerCLI
17 23 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
18 22 (0.50%) NetBackup
19 16 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 541 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.86%) VMware
3 219 (4.97%) Oracle
4 208 (4.72%) Cisco
5 206 (4.68%) SAP
6 122 (2.77%) Juniper
7 96 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.93%) IBM
8 85 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.43%) Dell
11 58 (1.32%) HP
12 54 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 51 (1.16%) Sparx
14 50 (1.14%) SolarWinds
15 46 (1.04%) Google
15 46 (1.04%) Splunk
16 45 (1.02%) Citrix
17 39 (0.89%) EMC
17 39 (0.89%) Fortinet