SC Cleared Contracts in Lancashire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 12 89 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.77% 37.55% 16.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.79% 74.79% 46.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 43 32
10th Percentile £353 £400 £251
25th Percentile £394 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £531 £585 £650
90th Percentile £558 £620 £797
North West median daily rate £515 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -4.73% +27.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 28 6
10th Percentile - £25.75 £34.57
25th Percentile £45.88 £29.15 £38.68
Median hourly rate £46.03 £42.50 £41.93
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +1.37% -27.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £55.07
90th Percentile £47.09 £50.30 £77.49
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £42.50 £41.36
% change year-on-year -73.66% +2.77% -16.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 76 119 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 36.54% 50.21% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 58 56
10th Percentile £313 £359 £228
25th Percentile £447 £416 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £510 £494
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% +3.34% +23.38%
75th Percentile £672 £599 £650
90th Percentile £720 £653 £765
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 37 16
10th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £33.86
25th Percentile £15.00 £29.30 £38.57
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £44.94
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% -5.42% +23.12%
75th Percentile - £49.52 £71.04
90th Percentile £45.88 £54.57 £96.23
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £41.36
% change year-on-year -60.42% -1.89% +13.30%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Lancashire over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Lancashire

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Lancashire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Preston -12 4 £513 +10.81% 15
SC Cleared
North West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTP
1 3 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Power View
1 1 (8.33%) PowerPivot
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Engagement Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) JDBC
1 3 (25.00%) JPA
1 3 (25.00%) JWT
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) GitOps
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) VMware