SC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 5 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,870 3,759 3,335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.01% 16.09% 10.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.02% 48.94% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,840 2,680 2,277
10th Percentile £315 £350 £360
25th Percentile £449 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 316 221
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.06 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £25.75 £24.79
Median hourly rate £56.49 £57.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% +5.99% +35.63%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.25 £71.08
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,549 7,681 7,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.88% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,133 5,181
10th Percentile £270 £288 £256
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £708 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 632 526
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.03 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +42.68% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.15
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East 0 848 £563 +9.76% 265
South West -1 784 £533 -8.10% 255
North of England 0 484 £525 -4.55% 169
North West -1 368 £525 - 122
Midlands +9 341 £485 -10.19% 93
West Midlands +9 242 £450 -18.18% 64
Scotland +24 225 £550 +22.22% 69
East of England -7 156 £348 -30.50% 71
East Midlands +4 98 £550 +2.11% 29
Yorkshire -2 89 £525 -12.50% 30
Wales -7 44 £600 +9.09% 11
North East -10 29 £450 -21.23% 17
Northern Ireland +13 8 £525 +5.00% 9
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 131 (4.56%) Confluence
2 96 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 77 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.31%) Apache
4 9 (0.31%) CICS
4 9 (0.31%) SAS
5 6 (0.21%) IIS
6 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.10%) CMS
7 3 (0.10%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.070%) nginx
8 2 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.035%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.035%) Appian
9 1 (0.035%) Camunda
9 1 (0.035%) Traefik
Applications
1 102 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.45%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) CATIA
10 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.70%) SAP EWM
3 16 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.49%) Primavera
4 14 (0.49%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.45%) SAP QM
6 12 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
10 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.10%) CA PPM
11 3 (0.10%) Maximo
11 3 (0.10%) SAP BRIM
11 3 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
11 3 (0.10%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.070%) Oracle Financials
12 2 (0.070%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.070%) SAP PM
12 2 (0.070%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 292 (10.17%) Azure
2 216 (7.53%) AWS
3 100 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (2.72%) Power Platform
5 46 (1.60%) Entra ID
6 33 (1.15%) GitHub
7 32 (1.11%) OpenShift
8 30 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 25 (0.87%) OCI
11 23 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (0.80%) GCP
11 23 (0.80%) PaaS
12 22 (0.77%) Azure Storage
12 22 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 21 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (0.73%) Amazon S3
13 21 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (0.70%) SaaS
15 18 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 191 (6.66%) Firewall
2 109 (3.80%) WAN
3 107 (3.73%) DNS
4 89 (3.10%) VPN
5 77 (2.68%) DHCP
6 62 (2.16%) SAN
7 51 (1.78%) BGP
7 51 (1.78%) Network Security
8 50 (1.74%) LAN
8 50 (1.74%) MPLS
9 47 (1.64%) IPsec
10 45 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.53%) SSL
12 41 (1.43%) Wireless
13 37 (1.29%) TCP/IP
14 32 (1.11%) OSPF
15 27 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
15 27 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
17 22 (0.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.43%) Power BI
4 40 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 31 (1.08%) MySQL
7 26 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 21 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.49%) Metadata
13 13 (0.45%) SAP BW
14 11 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.38%) DB2
15 10 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.31%) IDMS
17 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 195 (6.79%) JIRA
2 107 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 104 (3.62%) Git
4 67 (2.33%) GitLab
5 63 (2.20%) Visual Studio
6 45 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
7 44 (1.53%) PVCS
8 42 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.32%) Selenium
10 30 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.98%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (0.84%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.59%) JUnit
15 11 (0.38%) JMeter
16 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
17 7 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
18 6 (0.21%) webpack
19 5 (0.17%) ClearQuest
General
1 555 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 506 (17.63%) Public Sector
3 229 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (5.85%) Aerospace
4 168 (5.85%) Finance
5 144 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 102 (3.55%) Electronics
7 96 (3.34%) Manufacturing
8 87 (3.03%) Military
9 56 (1.95%) Marketing
10 47 (1.64%) Legal
11 33 (1.15%) Law
12 32 (1.11%) Police
13 28 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (0.77%) Retail
15 19 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (0.56%) Local Government
17 13 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 439 (15.30%) Architect
2 258 (8.99%) Developer
3 244 (8.50%) Analyst
4 209 (7.28%) Senior
5 188 (6.55%) Lead
6 184 (6.41%) Consultant
7 144 (5.02%) Network Engineer
8 120 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 114 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 85 (2.96%) Lead Architect
12 82 (2.86%) Service Analyst
13 81 (2.82%) Service Desk Analyst
14 72 (2.51%) Network Architect
15 71 (2.47%) Support Engineer
16 68 (2.37%) Software Engineer
17 66 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
18 58 (2.02%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
19 57 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
20 52 (1.81%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.58%) REST
2 63 (2.20%) Web Services
3 61 (2.13%) .NET
4 49 (1.71%) Node.js
5 40 (1.39%) Spring
6 35 (1.22%) HTML
6 35 (1.22%) React
7 33 (1.15%) ARM Templates
8 31 (1.08%) Spring Boot
9 29 (1.01%) .NET Core
10 28 (0.98%) CSS
11 25 (0.87%) Java EE
12 23 (0.80%) JPA
13 21 (0.73%) Hibernate
14 19 (0.66%) Kafka
15 17 (0.59%) Flash
16 14 (0.49%) AngularJS
16 14 (0.49%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.49%) RESTful
16 14 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (3.94%) PKI
2 87 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 70 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 41 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 40 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 36 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
8 32 (1.11%) CMDB
9 30 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 29 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 28 (0.98%) Clustering
11 28 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 23 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 22 (0.77%) Cloud Native
14 22 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
15 20 (0.70%) Operational Technology
15 20 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 361 (12.58%) Windows
2 316 (11.01%) Linux
3 122 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 99 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 51 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (1.53%) Windows 7
7 41 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 36 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 34 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.08%) Android
11 31 (1.08%) Unix
12 26 (0.91%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.59%) AIX
13 17 (0.59%) Debian
14 16 (0.56%) Windows XP
15 15 (0.52%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.45%) Windows Vista
17 12 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
18 11 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (16.76%) Agile
2 377 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
3 305 (10.63%) ITIL
4 264 (9.20%) DevOps
5 243 (8.47%) Project Management
6 225 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 199 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
8 187 (6.52%) Service Management
9 186 (6.48%) Software Engineering
10 162 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 151 (5.26%) Customer Service
12 144 (5.02%) CI/CD
13 138 (4.81%) Configuration Management
14 125 (4.36%) Risk Management
15 124 (4.32%) Mentoring
16 120 (4.18%) Decision-Making
17 118 (4.11%) Migration
18 116 (4.04%) Scrum
19 115 (4.01%) ITSM
20 98 (3.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 176 (6.13%) Python
2 169 (5.89%) PowerShell
3 133 (4.63%) SQL
4 128 (4.46%) Java
5 94 (3.28%) C
6 76 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 73 (2.54%) C#
7 73 (2.54%) PL/SQL
8 65 (2.26%) C++
9 41 (1.43%) Bash
10 26 (0.91%) MATLAB
11 22 (0.77%) Bicep
12 21 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.70%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.59%) VB
15 16 (0.56%) VBScript
16 15 (0.52%) Ada
16 15 (0.52%) Embedded C
17 13 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,870 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 385 (13.41%) DV Cleared
3 240 (8.36%) Degree
4 131 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 100 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 75 (2.61%) CCNP
7 68 (2.37%) CCNA
8 59 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (1.74%) CISSP
10 35 (1.22%) CISM
11 31 (1.08%) MCSA
12 28 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.91%) A+ Certification
13 26 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.87%) MCSE
15 23 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (0.80%) PMP
16 18 (0.63%) CEH
16 18 (0.63%) ISTQB
17 17 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.59%) SLA
2 73 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (2.47%) NIST
4 63 (2.20%) QA
5 45 (1.57%) PMO
6 31 (1.08%) JSP 440
6 31 (1.08%) NCSC
7 29 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
8 28 (0.98%) GDPR
9 26 (0.91%) Data Quality
10 21 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.49%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.45%) Def Stans
13 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
16 8 (0.28%) RMADS
17 6 (0.21%) COBIT
18 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 255 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 116 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (2.51%) Docker
4 46 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 45 (1.57%) vSphere
6 37 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
8 32 (1.11%) VMware NSX
9 29 (1.01%) Firmware
10 18 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.28%) KVM
12 6 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.14%) XenApp
14 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.10%) iptables
15 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.035%) LXC
Systems Management
1 138 (4.81%) Ansible
1 138 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 86 (3.00%) Terraform
3 83 (2.89%) SCCM
4 51 (1.78%) vCenter Server
5 45 (1.57%) WSUS
6 41 (1.43%) SCOM
7 35 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (1.15%) Grafana
9 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.87%) PowerCLI
11 24 (0.84%) NetBackup
12 23 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
13 17 (0.59%) Prometheus
13 17 (0.59%) VxRail
14 16 (0.56%) Kibana
15 14 (0.49%) Istio
15 14 (0.49%) Packer
16 13 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 13 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 426 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 217 (7.56%) VMware
3 174 (6.06%) Cisco
4 158 (5.51%) SAP
5 114 (3.97%) Oracle
6 108 (3.76%) Juniper
7 81 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 77 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 67 (2.33%) IBM
10 62 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 61 (2.13%) Dell
12 59 (2.06%) HP
13 51 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 47 (1.64%) Citrix
15 44 (1.53%) SolarWinds
16 30 (1.05%) Google
17 29 (1.01%) EMC
18 28 (0.98%) Remedy
19 27 (0.94%) Fortinet
20 25 (0.87%) F5