SC Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 35 59
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -33
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 225 184 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.38% 6.70% 4.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.33% 32.06% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 127 107
10th Percentile £215 £315 £181
25th Percentile £340 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £12.50 £21.42 £21.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £21.67 £22.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +30.03% +153.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.03 £50.77
90th Percentile - £64.11 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £59.80 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.39% +10.74% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 587 574 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.08% 20.90% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 391 356
10th Percentile £188 £163 £200
25th Percentile £325 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £613 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 11 17
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.87 £25.28
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.26 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.30% -52.90% +96.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £56.77 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.80 £65.00 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +12 87 £575 +27.78% 17
South Lanarkshire 0 69 £575 +27.78%
Edinburgh +65 43 £340 +2.64% 32
Renfrewshire 0 20 £225 -56.94% 3
Highlands - 3 - -
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 61 (27.11%) Confluence
2 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.44%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.33%) Azure
2 10 (4.44%) Entra ID
3 9 (4.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.00%) PowerApps
4 4 (1.78%) AWS
4 4 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.44%) IaaS
5 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.56%) DNS
2 16 (7.11%) DHCP
2 16 (7.11%) VPN
3 9 (4.00%) VoIP
4 6 (2.67%) Firewall
5 5 (2.22%) SMTP
6 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.00%) Power BI
3 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.33%) Metadata
4 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Big Data
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 75 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.44%) Gatling
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) JMeter
3 1 (0.44%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 88 (39.11%) Public Sector
2 36 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.00%) Finance
5 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.67%) Electronics
6 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.22%) Marketing
6 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.33%) Police
7 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.89%) Legal
8 2 (0.89%) Military
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (11.56%) Senior
2 21 (9.33%) Support Engineer
3 20 (8.89%) Analyst
4 18 (8.00%) Product Manager
5 12 (5.33%) Consultant
5 12 (5.33%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (4.89%) Architect
6 11 (4.89%) Exchange Engineer
6 11 (4.89%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 11 (4.89%) Senior Manager
7 10 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Risk Officer
8 9 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.00%) DBA
8 9 (4.00%) SQL DBA
9 8 (3.56%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.22%) LDAP
1 5 (2.22%) WebRTC
2 3 (1.33%) REST
2 3 (1.33%) Web Services
3 2 (0.89%) RESTful
4 1 (0.44%) CSS
4 1 (0.44%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.44%) HTML
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.44%) Clustering
3 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.22%) PKI
5 4 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.78%) iPhone
5 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.78%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.44%) iPad
8 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.44%) Verilog
8 1 (0.44%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.00%) Windows
2 23 (10.22%) Linux
3 19 (8.44%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.67%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.78%) Solaris
9 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.89%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.22%) Agile
2 23 (10.22%) Project Management
3 22 (9.78%) Break/Fix
4 20 (8.89%) Risk Management
4 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
5 19 (8.44%) High Availability
6 18 (8.00%) Epics
6 18 (8.00%) User Research
7 17 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (7.56%) User Stories
8 16 (7.11%) Customer Service
9 15 (6.67%) Problem Management
10 14 (6.22%) Analytics
10 14 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (6.22%) ITIL
10 14 (6.22%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (6.22%) Service Delivery
11 12 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (4.89%) PRINCE2
12 11 (4.89%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.56%) SQL
3 7 (3.11%) T-SQL
4 6 (2.67%) Python
5 5 (2.22%) Bash
6 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.33%) Ada
8 2 (0.89%) Java
8 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 225 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.89%) DV Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) Degree
4 9 (4.00%) A+ Certification
5 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.78%) RHCE
6 3 (1.33%) CGEIT
6 3 (1.33%) CISA
6 3 (1.33%) CISM
6 3 (1.33%) CISSP
6 3 (1.33%) CRISC
6 3 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 3 (1.33%) MCP
6 3 (1.33%) MCSE
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.00%) NIST
1 9 (4.00%) SLA
2 8 (3.56%) PMO
3 6 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (19.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (2.22%) BitLocker
3 5 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.22%) KVM
3 5 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (2.22%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) Docker
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.56%) SCCM
2 8 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (2.67%) vCenter Server
3 6 (2.67%) WSUS
4 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.22%) vMotion
5 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.33%) Terraform
7 1 (0.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.44%) Nagios
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.44%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.78%) VMware
4 11 (4.89%) Cisco
4 11 (4.89%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.56%) Citrix
6 6 (2.67%) Apple
6 6 (2.67%) Oracle
6 6 (2.67%) SAP
7 5 (2.22%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.22%) McAfee
8 3 (1.33%) HP
8 3 (1.33%) Samsung
9 1 (0.44%) Mentor Graphics
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.44%) Xilinx