SC Cleared Contracts in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,380 6,026 6,226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.78% 12.80% 8.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.51% 46.84% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,957 4,191 4,338
10th Percentile £350 £375 £383
25th Percentile £440 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 306 284
10th Percentile £13.85 £20.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £21.46 £36.75 £33.87
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £51.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.81% +21.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.75 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +36.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,375 12,864 15,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 27.33% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 8,605 10,322
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 655 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.43
25th Percentile £18.72 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%
75th Percentile £63.88 £69.38 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
London +1 1,589 £525 -4.55% 252
South East 0 875 £560 +9.80% 254
South West -1 780 £546 -7.73% 230
North of England -2 469 £501 -7.31% 175
Midlands +10 377 £502 -10.84% 126
North West -1 343 £515 -0.96% 118
West Midlands +16 276 £500 -14.89% 98
East of England -3 176 £345 -31.00% 93
East Midlands +2 100 £525 -8.70% 28
Yorkshire -3 95 £500 -16.67% 46
North East -7 34 £435 -23.01% 12
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 155 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 141 (3.22%) Confluence
3 91 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 48 (1.10%) Apache
5 21 (0.48%) nginx
6 14 (0.32%) SAS
7 13 (0.30%) IIS
8 11 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 11 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.21%) CICS
10 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
11 6 (0.14%) CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (0.11%) Camunda
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 120 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.27%) Simulink
7 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.16%) Revit
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.091%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.046%) SPSS
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.023%) CATIA
12 1 (0.023%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.023%) Stata
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 21 (0.48%) SAP EWM
4 20 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.46%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.32%) SAP QM
6 13 (0.30%) Primavera
7 11 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
8 10 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.16%) SAP HR
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.091%) Maximo
11 4 (0.091%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.091%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.091%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.091%) SAP SD
12 3 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.068%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 660 (15.07%) AWS
2 563 (12.85%) Azure
3 185 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (2.81%) Power Platform
5 97 (2.21%) Serverless
6 86 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 77 (1.76%) GitHub
8 76 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (1.69%) GCP
10 71 (1.62%) Entra ID
11 64 (1.46%) OCI
12 57 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
13 55 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
14 53 (1.21%) OpenShift
14 53 (1.21%) PaaS
15 49 (1.12%) SaaS
16 47 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
19 36 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 226 (5.16%) Firewall
2 113 (2.58%) WAN
3 95 (2.17%) DNS
4 87 (1.99%) VPN
5 70 (1.60%) DHCP
6 68 (1.55%) Network Security
7 60 (1.37%) BGP
8 58 (1.32%) SAN
9 54 (1.23%) IPsec
10 53 (1.21%) LAN
10 53 (1.21%) MPLS
10 53 (1.21%) Wireless
11 48 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (1.00%) SSL
13 41 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
14 39 (0.89%) OSPF
15 38 (0.87%) TCP/IP
16 36 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
16 36 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
17 32 (0.73%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 66 (1.51%) Power BI
5 65 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 62 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 58 (1.32%) Oracle Database
8 53 (1.21%) MySQL
9 46 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (1.03%) Metadata
11 38 (0.87%) MongoDB
12 36 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 33 (0.75%) Data Vault
15 32 (0.73%) Flink
16 30 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 23 (0.53%) Big Data
18 22 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
19 21 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 230 (5.25%) JIRA
2 217 (4.95%) Git
3 198 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 137 (3.13%) GitLab
5 68 (1.55%) Selenium
6 65 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 50 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
8 49 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 46 (1.05%) PVCS
10 45 (1.03%) JUnit
11 43 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 37 (0.84%) SonarQube
13 36 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 27 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 22 (0.50%) JMeter
16 14 (0.32%) Maven
16 14 (0.32%) Postman
16 14 (0.32%) SoapUI
16 14 (0.32%) TestNG
16 14 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 926 (21.14%) Public Sector
2 768 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 349 (7.97%) Finance
4 280 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 165 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 164 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 122 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 118 (2.69%) Electronics
9 104 (2.37%) Military
10 66 (1.51%) Marketing
10 66 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 64 (1.46%) Law
12 53 (1.21%) Legal
13 50 (1.14%) Police
14 47 (1.07%) Banking
15 44 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
16 41 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (0.57%) Retail
18 23 (0.53%) Publishing
19 19 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 713 (16.28%) Architect
2 490 (11.19%) Developer
3 345 (7.88%) Analyst
4 327 (7.47%) Senior
5 274 (6.26%) Consultant
6 270 (6.16%) Lead
7 217 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 170 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 166 (3.79%) Network Engineer
10 145 (3.31%) Project Manager
11 135 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 118 (2.69%) Data Engineer
13 117 (2.67%) Java Developer
14 108 (2.47%) Technical Architect
15 101 (2.31%) Support Engineer
16 95 (2.17%) Software Engineer
17 94 (2.15%) Service Analyst
18 89 (2.03%) Lead Architect
19 88 (2.01%) Network Architect
20 86 (1.96%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.88%) REST
2 107 (2.44%) Spring
3 101 (2.31%) .NET
4 100 (2.28%) React
4 100 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 99 (2.26%) Kafka
6 87 (1.99%) HTML
7 79 (1.80%) CSS
8 77 (1.76%) Node.js
9 73 (1.67%) Web Services
10 45 (1.03%) ARM Templates
11 44 (1.00%) RESTful
12 43 (0.98%) JPA
12 43 (0.98%) JSON
13 41 (0.94%) Hibernate
14 30 (0.68%) .NET Core
15 29 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.64%) .NET Framework
17 27 (0.62%) YAML
18 25 (0.57%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 124 (2.83%) PKI
2 105 (2.40%) Data Centre
3 93 (2.12%) Management Information System
4 87 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
5 85 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 69 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 61 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 54 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 42 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 38 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
12 32 (0.73%) CMDB
12 32 (0.73%) Security Posture
13 31 (0.71%) Replication
13 31 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 29 (0.66%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.64%) Mainframe
16 27 (0.62%) Reference Data
17 26 (0.59%) Data Structures
18 24 (0.55%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 447 (10.21%) Linux
2 446 (10.18%) Windows
3 141 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 91 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 89 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 66 (1.51%) Unix
7 58 (1.32%) Android
8 48 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 45 (1.03%) Apple iOS
10 44 (1.00%) Windows 7
11 41 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 36 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
13 25 (0.57%) Mac OS X
14 24 (0.55%) zOS
15 21 (0.48%) Ubuntu
16 20 (0.46%) VMS
17 18 (0.41%) AIX
18 15 (0.34%) Windows XP
19 14 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
19 14 (0.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (17.72%) Agile
2 521 (11.89%) DevOps
3 485 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
4 361 (8.24%) ITIL
5 351 (8.01%) CI/CD
6 319 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 273 (6.23%) Project Management
8 244 (5.57%) Service Management
9 243 (5.55%) Cybersecurity
10 239 (5.46%) Software Engineering
11 235 (5.37%) Migration
12 202 (4.61%) Configuration Management
13 188 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 185 (4.22%) Scrum
15 182 (4.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 175 (4.00%) Change Management
17 173 (3.95%) Decision-Making
18 168 (3.84%) Mentoring
19 162 (3.70%) Analytics
20 161 (3.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 398 (9.09%) Python
2 326 (7.44%) Java
3 269 (6.14%) SQL
4 238 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 178 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 122 (2.79%) C#
7 110 (2.51%) C
8 84 (1.92%) Bash
9 81 (1.85%) C++
10 75 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 65 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 47 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 36 (0.82%) Go
14 28 (0.64%) Bicep
15 27 (0.62%) PHP
16 22 (0.50%) VB
17 21 (0.48%) VBScript
18 20 (0.46%) MATLAB
18 20 (0.46%) Perl
19 19 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4,380 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 507 (11.58%) DV Cleared
3 306 (6.99%) Degree
4 176 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (1.53%) CCNP
6 67 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 66 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (1.46%) CCNA
9 56 (1.28%) CISSP
10 36 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 35 (0.80%) CISM
11 35 (0.80%) MCSA
11 35 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 34 (0.78%) PMP
13 32 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 30 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 23 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (2.60%) SLA
2 96 (2.19%) QA
3 75 (1.71%) NIST
4 68 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 63 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.10%) PMO
7 40 (0.91%) NCSC
8 37 (0.84%) GDPR
9 33 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 26 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
12 20 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.25%) Def Stans
14 11 (0.25%) RMADS
15 10 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.21%) COBIT
17 8 (0.18%) GRC
18 7 (0.16%) WCAG
19 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 276 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 219 (5.00%) Docker
3 176 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (1.60%) vSphere
6 57 (1.30%) VMware NSX
7 51 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 42 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
9 33 (0.75%) Firmware
10 25 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.21%) VMFS
12 5 (0.11%) XenApp
12 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.068%) iptables
13 3 (0.068%) KVM
14 2 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.023%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.023%) LXC
15 1 (0.023%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 327 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 299 (6.83%) Terraform
3 258 (5.89%) Ansible
4 85 (1.94%) SCCM
5 67 (1.53%) Grafana
6 50 (1.14%) vCenter Server
7 47 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 43 (0.98%) SCOM
8 43 (0.98%) WSUS
9 41 (0.94%) Prometheus
10 36 (0.82%) Puppet
11 33 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.62%) Kibana
12 27 (0.62%) VxRail
13 26 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 25 (0.57%) Packer
14 25 (0.57%) PowerCLI
15 23 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
16 22 (0.50%) Progress Chef
17 19 (0.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 561 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 287 (6.55%) VMware
3 234 (5.34%) Oracle
4 204 (4.66%) Cisco
5 189 (4.32%) SAP
6 113 (2.58%) Juniper
7 102 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 100 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 93 (2.12%) IBM
10 71 (1.62%) Palo Alto
11 52 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 50 (1.14%) Dell
13 49 (1.12%) HP
14 48 (1.10%) Citrix
14 48 (1.10%) Google
14 48 (1.10%) SolarWinds
15 47 (1.07%) Sparx
16 39 (0.89%) EMC
16 39 (0.89%) F5
17 33 (0.75%) Splunk