SC Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 15 9 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 132 228 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.34% 12.66% 7.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.49% 50.55% 38.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 159 143
10th Percentile £335 £400 £375
25th Percentile £447 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £641
90th Percentile £825 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £515 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -4.73% +27.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £31.23 £22.87 £24.36
25th Percentile £32.88 £26.85 £27.02
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +66.67% -18.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £62.00
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
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 326 451 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.07% 25.04% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 331 350
10th Percentile £313 £338 £281
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £694 £634 £631
90th Percentile £825 £700 £676
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 22
10th Percentile £21.93 £19.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £38.75 £25.00 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -38.65% +132.86%
75th Percentile £73.75 £37.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.25 £70.00 £80.40
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford +2 3 £425 -22.73% 1
Bolton 0 2 £480 - 11
SC Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.76%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.06%) AWS
2 17 (12.88%) Azure
3 11 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 11 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.55%) Route 53
7 5 (3.79%) Serverless
8 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.27%) GCP
10 2 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.52%) SaaS
11 1 (0.76%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.76%) IaaS
11 1 (0.76%) PaaS
11 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (24.24%) VPN
2 23 (17.42%) Firewall
3 13 (9.85%) Wireless
4 11 (8.33%) Wireless Security
5 10 (7.58%) Ethernet
5 10 (7.58%) LAN
5 10 (7.58%) OSPF
5 10 (7.58%) WAN
6 3 (2.27%) DNS
7 2 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.27%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.52%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (9.85%) Git
2 12 (9.09%) GitLab
3 9 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.30%) JUnit
5 6 (4.55%) webpack
6 3 (2.27%) LSMW
6 3 (2.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) ERwin
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) Mockito
7 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 26 (19.70%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.58%) Legal
4 6 (4.55%) Finance
5 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Electronics
7 1 (0.76%) Marketing
7 1 (0.76%) Military
7 1 (0.76%) Publishing
7 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Architect
2 31 (23.48%) Lead
3 25 (18.94%) Developer
4 20 (15.15%) Network Engineer
4 20 (15.15%) Technical Architect
5 19 (14.39%) Technical Leader
6 17 (12.88%) Java Developer
7 14 (10.61%) Lead Architect
8 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.79%) Consultant
11 5 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Senior
12 4 (3.03%) Analyst
12 4 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.24%) Node.js
2 20 (15.15%) Spring Boot
3 19 (14.39%) Spring
4 16 (12.12%) React
5 14 (10.61%) Hibernate
5 14 (10.61%) JPA
5 14 (10.61%) REST
6 10 (7.58%) Redux
7 8 (6.06%) Spring Security
8 6 (4.55%) Express.js
9 3 (2.27%) BAPI
9 3 (2.27%) Jest
10 2 (1.52%) Middleware
10 2 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.52%) PySpark
10 2 (1.52%) React Native
11 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.76%) cloud-init
11 1 (0.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.27%) NHS
5 3 (2.27%) PKI
6 2 (1.52%) Life Science
6 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.76%) Clustering
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.76%) Tandem
7 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Windows
2 26 (19.70%) Android
2 26 (19.70%) Apple iOS
3 25 (18.94%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.58%) Linux
5 1 (0.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 42 (31.82%) Agile
3 33 (25.00%) DevOps
4 27 (20.45%) Security Architecture
5 25 (18.94%) Mobile Device Management
6 24 (18.18%) Zero Trust
7 23 (17.42%) Risk Management
8 22 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 22 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
9 20 (15.15%) Front End Development
10 17 (12.88%) Microservices
11 15 (11.36%) Containerisation
12 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (9.09%) Design Patterns
14 10 (7.58%) High Availability
14 10 (7.58%) Roadmaps
14 10 (7.58%) Scrum
14 10 (7.58%) Unit Testing
15 9 (6.82%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) Java
2 11 (8.33%) Python
3 6 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.79%) Bash
5 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.03%) SQL
6 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) Go
7 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.58%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.30%) CCNA
3 7 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.52%) Degree
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.52%) RIBA
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Docker
2 9 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.30%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.58%) Terraform
3 5 (3.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Consul
4 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Graphite
4 1 (0.76%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.76%) Istio
4 1 (0.76%) linkerd
4 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.76%) Packer
4 1 (0.76%) Podman
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) SCCM
4 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (9.85%) VMware
2 7 (5.30%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.55%) SAP
4 5 (3.79%) Apple
4 5 (3.79%) Google
5 2 (1.52%) Cisco
5 2 (1.52%) Databricks
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) Aruba
6 1 (0.76%) Brocade
6 1 (0.76%) CA
6 1 (0.76%) Meraki
6 1 (0.76%) NetApp
6 1 (0.76%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.76%) Remedy
6 1 (0.76%) Sparx
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk