SC Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 10 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 484 733 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.36% 12.91% 7.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.80% 51.51% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 531 374
10th Percentile £400 £388 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £676
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 39 17
10th Percentile - £25.03 £23.57
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.00 £30.47
Median hourly rate £13.99 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -67.08% +2.77% -5.47%
75th Percentile £47.09 £53.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £62.00
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,216 1,423 1,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.02% 25.07% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 997 990
10th Percentile £313 £324 £200
25th Percentile £420 £433 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £492
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.65% +9.39%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 73 85
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.35 £25.75 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +5.39% +44.03%
75th Percentile £38.43 £52.13 £56.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.94 £75.00
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West -1 368 £525 - 122
Yorkshire -2 89 £525 -12.50% 30
North East -10 29 £450 -21.23% 17
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 15 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.62%) IIS
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Camunda
4 1 (0.21%) nginx
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.21%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.24%) Revit
5 4 (0.83%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.62%) Maximo
4 2 (0.41%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.91%) AWS
2 49 (10.12%) Azure
3 20 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (3.72%) Amazon S3
5 13 (2.69%) Route 53
6 11 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.86%) SaaS
8 8 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.24%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (1.24%) GitHub
10 6 (1.24%) IaaS
10 6 (1.24%) PaaS
10 6 (1.24%) Serverless
11 5 (1.03%) AWS KMS
11 5 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.06%) Firewall
2 35 (7.23%) VPN
3 24 (4.96%) OSPF
4 20 (4.13%) Wireless
5 15 (3.10%) Cisco ISE
5 15 (3.10%) NetScaler
6 14 (2.89%) BGP
6 14 (2.89%) WAN
6 14 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 13 (2.69%) EIGRP
7 13 (2.69%) HSRP
7 13 (2.69%) IPsec
8 12 (2.48%) LAN
8 12 (2.48%) SNMP
8 12 (2.48%) Spanning Tree
9 11 (2.27%) Wireless Security
10 10 (2.07%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.45%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.48%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.45%) SAP BW
3 7 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.24%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.62%) Power BI
7 3 (0.62%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.41%) Metadata
8 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Power View
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (7.64%) Git
2 27 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.34%) GitLab
4 15 (3.10%) JIRA
5 13 (2.69%) JUnit
6 6 (1.24%) Selenium
6 6 (1.24%) webpack
7 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.83%) JMeter
8 4 (0.83%) Maven
9 3 (0.62%) LSMW
9 3 (0.62%) Mocha
9 3 (0.62%) Mockito
9 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.41%) Gatling
10 2 (0.41%) gulp
10 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 104 (21.49%) Public Sector
2 91 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 33 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.99%) Finance
5 20 (4.13%) Legal
6 7 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.03%) Electronics
9 4 (0.83%) Marketing
10 3 (0.62%) Banking
10 3 (0.62%) Military
10 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.62%) Police
11 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.21%) Billing
12 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Publishing
12 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (15.29%) Architect
2 73 (15.08%) Developer
3 49 (10.12%) Lead
4 46 (9.50%) Consultant
5 37 (7.64%) Network Engineer
5 37 (7.64%) Senior
6 33 (6.82%) Analyst
7 28 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (5.58%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.55%) Technical Architect
10 19 (3.93%) Technical Leader
11 16 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.10%) Lead Architect
12 15 (3.10%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 14 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (2.69%) Capacity Manager
14 13 (2.69%) Domain Architect
14 13 (2.69%) Problem Manager
14 13 (2.69%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.69%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.64%) Node.js
2 30 (6.20%) Spring
3 27 (5.58%) Spring Boot
4 25 (5.17%) REST
5 23 (4.75%) JPA
6 22 (4.55%) React
6 22 (4.55%) Web Services
7 21 (4.34%) Hibernate
8 12 (2.48%) Jinja
9 10 (2.07%) .NET
9 10 (2.07%) Redux
10 8 (1.65%) Spring Security
11 7 (1.45%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.45%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.45%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.24%) CSS
12 6 (1.24%) Express.js
12 6 (1.24%) HTML
13 5 (1.03%) React Native
14 4 (0.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.10%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.86%) CMDB
5 9 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.45%) PKI
7 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.62%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.62%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.94%) Windows
2 33 (6.82%) Windows 10
3 31 (6.40%) Linux
4 28 (5.79%) Android
4 28 (5.79%) Apple iOS
5 26 (5.37%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.03%) CentOS
6 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.03%) Unix
7 4 (0.83%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (18.60%) DevOps
2 86 (17.77%) Agile
3 78 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 60 (12.40%) Service Management
6 55 (11.36%) Customer Service
7 54 (11.16%) Mentoring
8 51 (10.54%) ITIL
9 41 (8.47%) Risk Management
10 39 (8.06%) Service Delivery
10 39 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (7.85%) Statistics
11 38 (7.85%) Time Management
12 37 (7.64%) Quality Management
13 33 (6.82%) Decision-Making
13 33 (6.82%) ITSM
13 33 (6.82%) Security Architecture
14 31 (6.40%) Microservices
15 30 (6.20%) Asset Management
15 30 (6.20%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.33%) Python
2 49 (10.12%) Java
3 21 (4.34%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.31%) SQL
5 14 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.69%) C#
6 13 (2.69%) Perl
6 13 (2.69%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.48%) Tcl
8 9 (1.86%) Bash
9 7 (1.45%) C++
9 7 (1.45%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.03%) Scala
11 4 (0.83%) ABAP
12 3 (0.62%) Go
12 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.62%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.62%) VBA
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 484 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (4.34%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (3.93%) CCNA
5 18 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.10%) Degree
7 13 (2.69%) CCNP
8 7 (1.45%) CISSP
8 7 (1.45%) OSCP
9 6 (1.24%) CEH
9 6 (1.24%) CISM
9 6 (1.24%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.24%) GIAC
9 6 (1.24%) GPEN
10 4 (0.83%) CISA
10 4 (0.83%) ISSAP
10 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.79%) Disclosure Scotland
1 28 (5.79%) SLA
2 18 (3.72%) NIST
3 17 (3.51%) QA
4 13 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.83%) COBIT
5 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (0.62%) ISO17020
6 3 (0.62%) NCSC
7 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.21%) GDPR
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.99%) Docker
2 23 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.72%) Firmware
4 10 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.58%) Terraform
3 20 (4.13%) Ansible
4 8 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.24%) Puppet
5 6 (1.24%) SCCM
5 6 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.03%) Packer
7 4 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.83%) Grafana
7 4 (0.83%) Rancher
7 4 (0.83%) VxRail
8 2 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) Graphite
9 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.75%) SAP
3 21 (4.34%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.72%) Cisco
5 17 (3.51%) VMware
6 15 (3.10%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.89%) SolarWinds
8 13 (2.69%) Citrix
9 11 (2.27%) Google
10 9 (1.86%) Oracle
11 6 (1.24%) Dell
12 5 (1.03%) Apple
12 5 (1.03%) CA
13 4 (0.83%) Isilon
13 4 (0.83%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.62%) HP
14 3 (0.62%) Meraki
14 3 (0.62%) Nintex
14 3 (0.62%) Pega