SC Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 853 1,092 956
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.34% 18.80% 12.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.31% 50.14% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 792 688
10th Percentile £400 £320 £365
25th Percentile £481 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £688
England median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 71 37
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.13 £19.52
25th Percentile £43.56 £51.25 £41.17
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +13.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £67.01 £70.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £84.41 £75.00 £82.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.63 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.24% +10.83% +15.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,486 2,178 2,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.71% 37.49% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,434 1,583
10th Percentile £313 £301 £301
25th Percentile £438 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 145 86
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.40 £19.14
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.76 £44.86
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +28.75% +12.16%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £68.90
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Hampshire -1 404 £550 +4.27% 109
Thames Valley -1 367 £600 +20.00% 102
Berkshire -3 250 £605 +5.22% 66
Buckinghamshire 0 116 £525 +11.79% 19
Surrey +10 47 £625 +4.17% 23
West Sussex -12 20 £515 -11.21% 8
Kent +6 9 £294 -2.00%
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
Oxfordshire -5 1 £650 +23.81% 17
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.34%) Confluence
3 18 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) CICS
6 3 (0.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.06%) Simulink
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.23%) SAP EWM
2 12 (1.41%) SAP QM
3 9 (1.06%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.94%) Primavera
5 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.70%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
8 4 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
8 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.35%) SAP PLM
10 2 (0.23%) SAP PS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
11 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 122 (14.30%) Azure
2 88 (10.32%) AWS
3 25 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (2.58%) Entra ID
5 21 (2.46%) OpenShift
6 17 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (1.99%) GitHub
7 16 (1.88%) Azure Storage
8 15 (1.76%) OCI
9 14 (1.64%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (0.94%) Serverless
13 7 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (0.82%) Boomi
14 6 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.70%) GCP
15 5 (0.59%) IaaS
16 4 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
17 3 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.56%) Firewall
2 58 (6.80%) DNS
3 48 (5.63%) DHCP
3 48 (5.63%) SAN
4 39 (4.57%) SSL
5 31 (3.63%) WAN
6 24 (2.81%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.58%) VPN
8 18 (2.11%) Network Security
9 17 (1.99%) Wireless
10 16 (1.88%) BGP
11 13 (1.52%) LAN
11 13 (1.52%) MPLS
12 12 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (1.29%) SD-WAN
14 10 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (1.06%) VSAN
16 7 (0.82%) Internet
16 7 (0.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.81%) Oracle Database
3 18 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.41%) MySQL
5 12 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.70%) Metadata
9 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.35%) DB2
11 3 (0.35%) IDMS
11 3 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 2 (0.23%) Lumira
12 2 (0.23%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 43 (5.04%) Git
3 36 (4.22%) GitLab
4 31 (3.63%) JIRA
5 26 (3.05%) Selenium
6 25 (2.93%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.93%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.81%) REST Assured
8 14 (1.64%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.59%) ClearCase
12 5 (0.59%) ClearQuest
13 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.47%) JUnit
14 3 (0.35%) GoogleTest
14 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
15 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 135 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 96 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 61 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (5.98%) Aerospace
5 38 (4.45%) Finance
6 35 (4.10%) Military
7 23 (2.70%) Law
8 15 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.64%) Police
10 13 (1.52%) Electronics
11 10 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.47%) Aviation
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
14 3 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.23%) Advertising
15 2 (0.23%) Banking
15 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (12.90%) Developer
2 103 (12.08%) Architect
3 80 (9.38%) Consultant
4 65 (7.62%) Senior
5 50 (5.86%) SAP Consultant
6 46 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (5.04%) Network Engineer
8 36 (4.22%) Analyst
9 31 (3.63%) Support Specialist
10 29 (3.40%) Active Directory Support
11 28 (3.28%) Azure Specialist
12 27 (3.17%) Active Directory Specialist
13 25 (2.93%) Software Engineer
14 24 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (2.81%) Network Architect
14 24 (2.81%) Python Developer
15 22 (2.58%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.34%) Java Engineer
18 18 (2.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.87%) REST
2 32 (3.75%) Web Services
3 28 (3.28%) ARM Templates
4 25 (2.93%) Java EE
5 22 (2.58%) .NET
6 21 (2.46%) HTML
7 15 (1.76%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.41%) Flash
8 12 (1.41%) Node.js
9 10 (1.17%) CSS
10 9 (1.06%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.06%) Kafka
11 8 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.82%) RESTful
12 7 (0.82%) Spring
12 7 (0.82%) YAML
13 6 (0.70%) SOAP
13 6 (0.70%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.59%) React
15 4 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.32%) PKI
2 24 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.29%) Clustering
7 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.94%) FPGA
10 8 (0.94%) Replication
11 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.70%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.70%) PMI
13 5 (0.59%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.59%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (15.47%) Linux
2 95 (11.14%) Windows
3 49 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 35 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (2.34%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.23%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.76%) Debian
9 15 (1.76%) Unix
10 13 (1.52%) Windows XP
11 12 (1.41%) AIX
12 9 (1.06%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.94%) VMS
14 3 (0.35%) zOS
15 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (18.05%) Agile
2 106 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (12.31%) DevOps
4 80 (9.38%) Software Engineering
5 79 (9.26%) ITIL
6 60 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 55 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (6.21%) Performance Tuning
9 50 (5.86%) Containerisation
9 50 (5.86%) Test Automation
10 48 (5.63%) Migration
10 48 (5.63%) Project Management
11 45 (5.28%) Scrum
11 45 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (4.69%) Decision-Making
13 39 (4.57%) Configuration Management
14 37 (4.34%) Service Management
14 37 (4.34%) Threat Modelling
15 35 (4.10%) Data Migration
16 33 (3.87%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 68 (7.97%) PowerShell
2 58 (6.80%) Python
3 57 (6.68%) Java
4 49 (5.74%) SQL
5 41 (4.81%) C#
6 26 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.70%) C++
8 20 (2.34%) PL/SQL
9 19 (2.23%) Bash
10 16 (1.88%) C
10 16 (1.88%) VB
10 16 (1.88%) VBScript
11 15 (1.76%) Bicep
11 15 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.52%) PHP
13 9 (1.06%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.47%) Ada
15 3 (0.35%) ABAP
15 3 (0.35%) Go
15 3 (0.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 853 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.51%) DV Cleared
3 88 (10.32%) Degree
4 37 (4.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (3.75%) CCNP
7 21 (2.46%) CCNA
8 17 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (1.17%) MCSE
10 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.94%) JNCIS
13 7 (0.82%) MCSA
14 5 (0.59%) ISEB
14 5 (0.59%) PMP
15 4 (0.47%) APMP
15 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.47%) JNCIA
15 4 (0.47%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.99%) SLA
2 9 (1.06%) QA
3 8 (0.94%) NIST
3 8 (0.94%) PMO
4 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.82%) NCSC
5 5 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.59%) GDPR
6 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.35%) DO-178B
7 3 (0.35%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.35%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.05%) Docker
4 23 (2.70%) vSphere
5 22 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (2.46%) Hyper-V
7 20 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.64%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.59%) Firmware
11 2 (0.23%) XenApp
11 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.12%) LXC
12 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.12%) UAG
12 1 (0.12%) vCloud
12 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 75 (8.79%) Ansible
2 63 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 44 (5.16%) Terraform
4 36 (4.22%) SCCM
5 35 (4.10%) WSUS
6 32 (3.75%) SCOM
7 21 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.46%) vCenter Server
8 15 (1.76%) NetBackup
9 13 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.41%) Podman
11 11 (1.29%) Grafana
11 11 (1.29%) Istio
11 11 (1.29%) vRealize
12 8 (0.94%) Packer
13 7 (0.82%) Argo
13 7 (0.82%) Endace
13 7 (0.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 134 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 100 (11.72%) VMware
3 70 (8.21%) SAP
4 69 (8.09%) Cisco
5 65 (7.62%) Oracle
6 52 (6.10%) Juniper
6 52 (6.10%) Red Hat
7 26 (3.05%) Palo Alto
8 25 (2.93%) Dell
9 24 (2.81%) IBM
10 23 (2.70%) HP
11 19 (2.23%) F5
11 19 (2.23%) SolarWinds
12 18 (2.11%) Veeam
13 17 (1.99%) 3PAR
13 17 (1.99%) EMC
14 15 (1.76%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.64%) Symantec
16 13 (1.52%) Brocade
16 13 (1.52%) Extreme Networks