SC Cleared Contracts in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 18 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -18
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,639 2,318 2,269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.29% 8.85% 5.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.86% 40.80% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 1,609 1,661
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £706
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 45
10th Percentile £13.87 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £35.59 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% +16.85% -25.83%
75th Percentile - £71.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.17 £87.50 £63.15
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year -13.04% +13.08% +13.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,218 5,682 6,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.90% 21.69% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 3,844 4,582
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 80 149
10th Percentile £14.21 £19.94 £22.58
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.35 £84.13 £65.93
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +3.95%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London -6 163 £525 -2.33% 22
South London +2 109 £512 -6.95% 14
West London +35 22 £500 +23.46% 19
East London - 7 £500 - 2
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 73 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.33%) Confluence
3 45 (2.75%) Apache
4 27 (1.65%) nginx
5 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 7 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.18%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.18%) Simulink
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) SPSS
9 1 (0.061%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 27 (1.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.061%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.061%) Magento
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.061%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 473 (28.86%) AWS
2 242 (14.77%) Azure
3 89 (5.43%) Serverless
4 77 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (4.51%) Amazon S3
7 49 (2.99%) GCP
8 45 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (2.68%) Power Platform
10 38 (2.32%) GitHub
11 35 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (1.53%) OCI
16 24 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (1.46%) Amazon MSK
17 23 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.11%) Firewall
2 23 (1.40%) VPN
3 21 (1.28%) Wireless
4 20 (1.22%) WAN
5 16 (0.98%) LAN
5 16 (0.98%) Network Security
6 13 (0.79%) VoIP
7 11 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (0.67%) Skype
8 10 (0.61%) OSPF
8 10 (0.61%) WLAN
9 9 (0.55%) BGP
9 9 (0.55%) DNS
10 8 (0.49%) SNA
11 7 (0.43%) IPsec
11 7 (0.43%) VSAN
12 6 (0.37%) Internet
13 5 (0.31%) DHCP
13 5 (0.31%) MPLS
13 5 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 39 (2.38%) Flink
4 39 (2.38%) Metadata
4 39 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 38 (2.32%) SQL Server
6 35 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (2.07%) Data Vault
8 29 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 28 (1.71%) Power BI
10 22 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.28%) Big Data
11 21 (1.28%) Metadata Repository
12 20 (1.22%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.10%) Parquet
14 17 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 115 (7.02%) JIRA
2 107 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 104 (6.35%) Git
4 60 (3.66%) GitLab
5 41 (2.50%) Selenium
6 36 (2.20%) JUnit
7 31 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.16%) TestNG
9 17 (1.04%) Postman
10 16 (0.98%) JMeter
11 15 (0.92%) Maven
11 15 (0.92%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.79%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.73%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.67%) Mockito
15 10 (0.61%) Appium
16 9 (0.55%) eggPlant
16 9 (0.55%) SOAtest
16 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 479 (29.23%) Public Sector
2 269 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 190 (11.59%) Finance
4 94 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.75%) Banking
6 37 (2.26%) Law
7 36 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 30 (1.83%) Marketing
8 30 (1.83%) Military
9 29 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.59%) Electronics
13 24 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.16%) Legal
14 19 (1.16%) Police
15 14 (0.85%) Publishing
16 12 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 286 (17.45%) Architect
2 240 (14.64%) Developer
3 137 (8.36%) Senior
4 129 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 112 (6.83%) Analyst
6 92 (5.61%) Lead
7 86 (5.25%) Data Engineer
8 83 (5.06%) Consultant
9 78 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 69 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (3.78%) Data Architect
12 59 (3.60%) Full Stack Developer
13 58 (3.54%) Project Manager
14 55 (3.36%) Business Analyst
15 49 (2.99%) Technical Architect
16 45 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
17 42 (2.56%) Security Architect
18 40 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
19 39 (2.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.37%) Kafka
2 75 (4.58%) Spring
2 75 (4.58%) Spring Boot
3 69 (4.21%) React
4 62 (3.78%) REST
5 52 (3.17%) HTML
6 49 (2.99%) CSS
7 35 (2.14%) JSON
8 31 (1.89%) Node.js
9 29 (1.77%) .NET
10 28 (1.71%) RESTful
11 27 (1.65%) Hibernate
11 27 (1.65%) JPA
12 20 (1.22%) Laravel
13 18 (1.10%) Apache Avro
13 18 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
14 17 (1.04%) OpenID
14 17 (1.04%) Web Services
15 16 (0.98%) Sass
16 15 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.29%) Onboarding
2 40 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 28 (1.71%) Reference Data
4 26 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 21 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 16 (0.98%) PKI
10 14 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.73%) Blockchain
11 12 (0.73%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.55%) Clustering
14 9 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.49%) CMDB
15 8 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 137 (8.36%) Linux
2 109 (6.65%) Windows
3 43 (2.62%) Unix
4 27 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.98%) Android
8 12 (0.73%) Windows 7
9 9 (0.55%) Mac OS X
9 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.37%) CentOS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.31%) VMS
12 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (20.62%) Agile
2 234 (14.28%) DevOps
3 194 (11.84%) CI/CD
4 139 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 111 (6.77%) Migration
7 98 (5.98%) Microservices
8 93 (5.67%) Data Modelling
9 87 (5.31%) ITIL
9 87 (5.31%) Test Automation
10 86 (5.25%) Analytics
11 83 (5.06%) Change Management
12 80 (4.88%) Scrum
13 79 (4.82%) Decision-Making
13 79 (4.82%) Project Management
13 79 (4.82%) Roadmaps
14 75 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 75 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
15 71 (4.33%) Service Management
16 69 (4.21%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 216 (13.18%) Java
1 216 (13.18%) Python
2 156 (9.52%) SQL
3 97 (5.92%) JavaScript
4 54 (3.29%) PowerShell
5 48 (2.93%) C#
6 43 (2.62%) Bash
7 41 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.40%) Go
9 19 (1.16%) PHP
10 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.55%) C++
12 8 (0.49%) Ruby
13 7 (0.43%) ABAP
13 7 (0.43%) C
13 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.37%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) COBOL
15 4 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 1,639 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 152 (9.27%) DV Cleared
3 82 (5.00%) Degree
4 42 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.22%) PMP
7 19 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
9 12 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.49%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 7 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.37%) CISM
13 6 (0.37%) CISSP
13 6 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.31%) CITP
14 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.23%) QA
2 43 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.28%) PMO
5 18 (1.10%) SLA
6 15 (0.92%) NCSC
7 14 (0.85%) NIST
8 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.55%) GDPR
10 5 (0.31%) WCAG
11 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.18%) COBIT
12 3 (0.18%) GRC
12 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.061%) IFRS
14 1 (0.061%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.061%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.061%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 135 (8.24%) Docker
2 48 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.61%) vSphere
6 8 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) UAG
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 182 (11.10%) Terraform
2 172 (10.49%) Kubernetes
3 106 (6.47%) Ansible
4 25 (1.53%) Grafana
5 23 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.22%) Puppet
7 15 (0.92%) Packer
8 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.67%) Consul
9 11 (0.67%) SCCM
10 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.61%) VxRail
11 7 (0.43%) Nagios
11 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.37%) Kibana
13 5 (0.31%) vRealize
14 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 157 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.28%) Oracle
3 50 (3.05%) VMware
4 45 (2.75%) SAP
5 41 (2.50%) Cisco
6 31 (1.89%) Sparx
7 29 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.65%) Splunk
9 20 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.16%) NetApp
11 18 (1.10%) IBM
12 15 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 14 (0.85%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.85%) F5
14 13 (0.79%) Apple
14 13 (0.79%) Google
14 13 (0.79%) Informatica
14 13 (0.79%) Juniper
14 13 (0.79%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.73%) Siebel