SC Cleared Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 351 487 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.48% 17.38% 10.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.49% 50.94% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 368 304
10th Percentile £370 £320 £360
25th Percentile £463 £409 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £488 £515
Median % change year-on-year +21.03% -5.34% +3.00%
75th Percentile £645 £592 £625
90th Percentile £716 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £559 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +9.56% -2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 7
10th Percentile £18.00 £23.00 £19.65
25th Percentile £22.51 £34.24 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.80 £65.34 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +23.28% +130.43%
75th Percentile £60.15 £75.56 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £82.60
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £62.78 £54.48
% change year-on-year -4.42% +15.23% +28.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,048 956 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.25% 34.12% 29.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 635 690
10th Percentile £232 £317 £271
25th Percentile £416 £408 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £624 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £522 £500
% change year-on-year +5.41% +4.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 44 27
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.80 £16.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.77 £17.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.73 £74.84 £50.88
90th Percentile £87.05 £80.25 £80.94
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +4.71%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire -1 235 £605 +8.52% 84
Buckinghamshire 0 113 £500 +8.25% 25
Oxfordshire +7 3 £650 +45.25% 19
SC Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) JBoss
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 15 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (5.70%) SAP EWM
2 13 (3.70%) SAP QM
3 8 (2.28%) Primavera
4 5 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 72 (20.51%) Azure
2 36 (10.26%) AWS
3 25 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.41%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 18 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (4.84%) Azure Storage
7 14 (3.99%) OCI
8 3 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.85%) Serverless
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.57%) GCP
9 2 (0.57%) PaaS
9 2 (0.57%) SaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (13.11%) DNS
2 42 (11.97%) DHCP
2 42 (11.97%) Firewall
3 27 (7.69%) SAN
4 18 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.85%) VPN
5 10 (2.85%) WAN
6 6 (1.71%) BGP
6 6 (1.71%) MPLS
6 6 (1.71%) Network Security
7 5 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.14%) Internet
8 4 (1.14%) VSAN
9 3 (0.85%) NAS
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.57%) GGSN
10 2 (0.57%) LAN
10 2 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.70%) Oracle Database
3 13 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (1.42%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.85%) MySQL
7 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) GIS
8 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.41%) Selenium
3 25 (7.12%) Cucumber
4 24 (6.84%) REST Assured
4 24 (6.84%) SonarQube
5 15 (4.27%) GitLab
6 13 (3.70%) JIRA
7 12 (3.42%) Git
8 7 (1.99%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.28%) Appium
11 1 (0.28%) JUnit
11 1 (0.28%) MSI
11 1 (0.28%) MSTest
11 1 (0.28%) NUnit
11 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.68%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.70%) Law
5 15 (4.27%) Finance
6 13 (3.70%) Police
7 10 (2.85%) Military
8 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Aviation
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (15.95%) Developer
2 45 (12.82%) Consultant
3 41 (11.68%) Senior
4 37 (10.54%) SAP Consultant
5 32 (9.12%) Analyst
6 30 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (8.26%) Active Directory Support
8 26 (7.41%) Active Directory Specialist
8 26 (7.41%) Azure Specialist
8 26 (7.41%) Support Specialist
9 19 (5.41%) Architect
10 18 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 18 (5.13%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.27%) Site Engineer
11 15 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.99%) Storage Engineer
13 13 (3.70%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 12 (3.42%) SAP EWM Consultant
14 12 (3.42%) SAP QM Consultant
15 9 (2.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.55%) ARM Templates
2 28 (7.98%) REST
3 25 (7.12%) Java EE
4 12 (3.42%) Kafka
5 10 (2.85%) .NET
6 8 (2.28%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.42%) SAP Basis
8 4 (1.14%) Web Services
8 4 (1.14%) YAML
9 3 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.85%) Node.js
9 3 (0.85%) React
9 3 (0.85%) Spring
9 3 (0.85%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.57%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.57%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.57%) CSS
10 2 (0.57%) HTML
10 2 (0.57%) Mustache
10 2 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.98%) PKI
2 18 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.99%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.85%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.85%) iPad
8 3 (0.85%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.85%) PMI
8 3 (0.85%) Robotics
8 3 (0.85%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.81%) Linux
2 56 (15.95%) Windows
3 38 (10.83%) Windows Server
4 34 (9.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (8.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 14 (3.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (3.99%) Windows XP
8 13 (3.70%) Ubuntu
9 10 (2.85%) Debian
10 8 (2.28%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.85%) Unix
13 2 (0.57%) VMS
14 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (21.94%) DevOps
2 73 (20.80%) Agile
3 71 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (18.52%) ITIL
5 52 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 44 (12.54%) Performance Tuning
7 36 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (9.69%) Decision-Making
8 34 (9.69%) Project Management
9 32 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (8.55%) Release Management
11 30 (8.55%) Test Automation
12 29 (8.26%) Containerisation
12 29 (8.26%) ITSM
13 28 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (7.41%) Configuration Management
15 26 (7.41%) Service Management
16 25 (7.12%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 31 (8.83%) Java
3 29 (8.26%) C#
4 24 (6.84%) Python
5 19 (5.41%) SQL
6 17 (4.84%) Bicep
6 17 (4.84%) VB
6 17 (4.84%) VBScript
7 14 (3.99%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.42%) Bash
8 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 351 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 119 (33.90%) DV Cleared
3 42 (11.97%) Degree
4 22 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (5.98%) CCNP
6 18 (5.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (4.56%) CCNA
8 7 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.42%) ISEB
11 4 (1.14%) VCAP
11 4 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.85%) APMP
12 3 (0.85%) MCSE
12 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.85%) PMP
13 2 (0.57%) CCDP
13 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.57%) NVQ Level 3
14 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.28%) PMO
2 6 (1.71%) NCSC
2 6 (1.71%) NIST
2 6 (1.71%) SLA
3 3 (0.85%) ISO 9000
3 3 (0.85%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 24 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (4.84%) Docker
4 17 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.56%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.71%) vSphere
7 4 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.57%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) vCloud
9 1 (0.28%) XenApp
9 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.11%) Ansible
3 35 (9.97%) WSUS
4 34 (9.69%) SCCM
5 32 (9.12%) SCOM
6 21 (5.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (5.13%) Terraform
8 17 (4.84%) vCenter Server
9 14 (3.99%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (3.99%) Grafana
9 14 (3.99%) Istio
9 14 (3.99%) NetBackup
10 12 (3.42%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (3.42%) Podman
11 10 (2.85%) Argo
11 10 (2.85%) Kibana
11 10 (2.85%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.42%) Nessus
13 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 88 (25.07%) Microsoft
2 57 (16.24%) VMware
3 42 (11.97%) Oracle
3 42 (11.97%) SAP
4 26 (7.41%) Cisco
5 22 (6.27%) Juniper
5 22 (6.27%) Red Hat
6 19 (5.41%) Veeam
7 16 (4.56%) Dell
7 16 (4.56%) HP
7 16 (4.56%) Palo Alto
8 15 (4.27%) 3PAR
9 14 (3.99%) EMC
9 14 (3.99%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (3.99%) Symantec
10 12 (3.42%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.85%) NEC
12 2 (0.57%) Citrix
12 2 (0.57%) F5
12 2 (0.57%) SolarWinds