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 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 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,902 3,579 3,492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.76% 15.76% 11.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.30% 48.50% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 2,494 2,413
10th Percentile £313 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £643 £625
90th Percentile £694 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 287 238
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £26.25 £24.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.33 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +6.17% +49.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.25 £68.75
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
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 7,578 7,380 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.93% 32.49% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,382 4,875 5,333
10th Percentile £275 £300 £261
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 571 539
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +25.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £56.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.60
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 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 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
South East 0 875 £560 +9.80% 254
South West -1 780 £546 -7.73% 229
North of England -2 469 £501 -7.31% 173
Midlands +10 377 £502 -10.84% 125
North West -1 343 £515 -0.96% 115
West Midlands +16 276 £500 -14.89% 97
Scotland +17 223 £465 +3.33% 66
East of England -3 176 £345 -31.00% 89
East Midlands +2 100 £525 -8.70% 28
Yorkshire -3 95 £500 -16.67% 47
Wales -7 43 £600 +9.09% 26
North East -7 34 £435 -23.01% 12
Northern Ireland +17 17 £469 -6.25% 23
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
1 120 (4.14%) Confluence
2 90 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 84 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.45%) IIS
5 10 (0.34%) SAS
6 9 (0.31%) Apache
6 9 (0.31%) CICS
7 3 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.10%) CMS
7 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.069%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.069%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.034%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.034%) Appian
9 1 (0.034%) Camunda
9 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.034%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.034%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 112 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.41%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.034%) CATIA
9 1 (0.034%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.034%) Stata
9 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.69%) SAP EWM
3 16 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.45%) SAP QM
4 13 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.38%) Primavera
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.10%) Maximo
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.034%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.034%) Dynamics CRM
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Cash Management
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.034%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 295 (10.17%) Azure
2 213 (7.34%) AWS
3 105 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (2.72%) Power Platform
5 53 (1.83%) Entra ID
6 38 (1.31%) OpenShift
7 31 (1.07%) Power Automate
8 30 (1.03%) GitHub
9 26 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (0.90%) OCI
10 25 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (0.83%) Azure Storage
11 24 (0.83%) GCP
11 24 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 23 (0.79%) PaaS
13 21 (0.72%) Amazon S3
14 20 (0.69%) SaaS
15 18 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 185 (6.37%) Firewall
2 106 (3.65%) DNS
3 98 (3.38%) WAN
4 94 (3.24%) VPN
5 88 (3.03%) DHCP
6 59 (2.03%) SAN
7 50 (1.72%) BGP
8 48 (1.65%) MPLS
9 47 (1.62%) IPsec
10 45 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.52%) LAN
11 44 (1.52%) Network Security
11 44 (1.52%) SSL
12 37 (1.27%) Wireless
13 32 (1.10%) TCP/IP
14 29 (1.00%) OSPF
15 28 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
15 28 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (0.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 44 (1.52%) Power BI
4 36 (1.24%) MySQL
5 35 (1.21%) Oracle Database
6 34 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (0.69%) Adabas
10 18 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.45%) SAP BW
13 11 (0.38%) DB2
13 11 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.34%) Metadata
15 9 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.31%) IDMS
15 9 (0.31%) Tableau
16 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 183 (6.31%) JIRA
2 116 (4.00%) Git
3 108 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 75 (2.58%) GitLab
5 62 (2.14%) Visual Studio
6 47 (1.62%) Rational DOORS
7 44 (1.52%) PVCS
8 40 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.31%) Selenium
10 30 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 24 (0.83%) REST Assured
13 23 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.55%) JUnit
15 10 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.34%) JMeter
16 6 (0.21%) ClearCase
16 6 (0.21%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
16 6 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 538 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 489 (16.85%) Public Sector
3 215 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (5.75%) Aerospace
5 157 (5.41%) Finance
6 136 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 99 (3.41%) Electronics
8 96 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 78 (2.69%) Military
10 56 (1.93%) Marketing
11 43 (1.48%) Legal
12 33 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.03%) Police
14 29 (1.00%) Law
15 26 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.69%) Retail
17 19 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.62%) Local Government
19 11 (0.38%) Aviation
19 11 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 454 (15.64%) Architect
2 240 (8.27%) Developer
3 237 (8.17%) Analyst
4 183 (6.31%) Consultant
4 183 (6.31%) Senior
5 180 (6.20%) Lead
6 141 (4.86%) Network Engineer
7 128 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 116 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (3.14%) Project Manager
10 88 (3.03%) Support Engineer
11 83 (2.86%) Network Architect
12 81 (2.79%) Service Analyst
13 80 (2.76%) Lead Architect
13 80 (2.76%) Service Desk Analyst
14 76 (2.62%) Software Engineer
15 75 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 63 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
17 60 (2.07%) Support Specialist
18 57 (1.96%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.55%) REST
2 61 (2.10%) .NET
2 61 (2.10%) Web Services
3 46 (1.59%) Node.js
4 38 (1.31%) ARM Templates
5 35 (1.21%) Spring
6 34 (1.17%) HTML
7 33 (1.14%) React
8 30 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 28 (0.96%) CSS
10 26 (0.90%) .NET Core
11 25 (0.86%) Java EE
12 23 (0.79%) JPA
12 23 (0.79%) Kafka
13 21 (0.72%) Hibernate
14 16 (0.55%) Flash
14 16 (0.55%) LDAP
15 15 (0.52%) .NET Framework
15 15 (0.52%) YAML
16 14 (0.48%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 118 (4.07%) PKI
2 74 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
3 71 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 70 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 42 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 41 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 37 (1.27%) Analogue Electronics
8 35 (1.21%) Cloud Native
8 35 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 31 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.03%) CMDB
11 29 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 25 (0.86%) Clustering
13 23 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 22 (0.76%) Driving Licence
14 22 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 22 (0.76%) Replication
15 21 (0.72%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.65%) Operational Technology
17 18 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 397 (13.68%) Windows
2 342 (11.78%) Linux
3 130 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 107 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 82 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.72%) Windows 7
7 48 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (1.55%) Apple iOS
9 41 (1.41%) Android
10 36 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 33 (1.14%) Unix
13 29 (1.00%) zOS
14 21 (0.72%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.62%) AIX
16 16 (0.55%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.52%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
18 14 (0.48%) Windows Vista
19 13 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (16.13%) Agile
2 358 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
3 295 (10.17%) ITIL
4 277 (9.55%) DevOps
5 225 (7.75%) Project Management
6 210 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 192 (6.62%) Software Engineering
8 176 (6.06%) Service Management
9 173 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 170 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
11 157 (5.41%) CI/CD
11 157 (5.41%) Customer Service
12 152 (5.24%) Configuration Management
13 117 (4.03%) ITSM
14 115 (3.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 114 (3.93%) Scrum
16 112 (3.86%) Risk Management
17 111 (3.82%) Mentoring
18 110 (3.79%) Decision-Making
19 109 (3.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 182 (6.27%) PowerShell
2 170 (5.86%) Python
3 127 (4.38%) Java
4 121 (4.17%) SQL
5 95 (3.27%) C
6 73 (2.52%) C#
7 70 (2.41%) C++
8 69 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 66 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 41 (1.41%) Bash
11 32 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.90%) Bicep
13 22 (0.76%) VB
14 21 (0.72%) VBScript
15 20 (0.69%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.69%) Natural
16 18 (0.62%) TypeScript
17 16 (0.55%) Embedded C
18 14 (0.48%) Ada
19 13 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,902 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 372 (12.82%) DV Cleared
3 240 (8.27%) Degree
4 134 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 80 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 62 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (1.96%) CCNP
8 55 (1.90%) CCNA
9 38 (1.31%) CISSP
10 33 (1.14%) MCSA
11 32 (1.10%) A+ Certification
12 30 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.90%) CISM
13 26 (0.90%) MCSE
14 25 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 24 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 23 (0.79%) PMP
17 22 (0.76%) Master's Degree
18 21 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 19 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (3.69%) SLA
2 59 (2.03%) NIST
3 57 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (1.83%) QA
5 36 (1.24%) PMO
6 27 (0.93%) GDPR
6 27 (0.93%) JSP 440
7 26 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
8 24 (0.83%) NCSC
9 23 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 20 (0.69%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.38%) Def Stans
12 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.34%) RMADS
13 9 (0.31%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.21%) COBIT
14 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 274 (9.44%) Active Directory
2 150 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (3.07%) Docker
4 59 (2.03%) vSphere
5 56 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (1.69%) Hyper-V
7 41 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 41 (1.41%) VMware NSX
8 27 (0.93%) Firmware
9 24 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.34%) KVM
11 8 (0.28%) VMFS
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
12 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) iptables
15 1 (0.034%) LXC
15 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 158 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 156 (5.38%) Ansible
3 106 (3.65%) Terraform
4 104 (3.58%) SCCM
5 51 (1.76%) WSUS
6 46 (1.59%) vCenter Server
7 42 (1.45%) SCOM
8 41 (1.41%) Grafana
9 40 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.86%) PowerCLI
12 23 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 21 (0.72%) NetBackup
14 20 (0.69%) Prometheus
14 20 (0.69%) Puppet
15 19 (0.65%) Kibana
16 18 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
16 18 (0.62%) VxRail
17 16 (0.55%) Istio
18 14 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 442 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 250 (8.61%) VMware
3 179 (6.17%) Cisco
4 141 (4.86%) SAP
5 108 (3.72%) Oracle
6 107 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 103 (3.55%) Juniper
8 78 (2.69%) IBM
9 70 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 65 (2.24%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.93%) Dell
11 56 (1.93%) HP
12 51 (1.76%) Palo Alto
13 47 (1.62%) Citrix
14 42 (1.45%) SolarWinds
15 31 (1.07%) Google
16 29 (1.00%) EMC
17 27 (0.93%) F5
18 25 (0.86%) Remedy
19 24 (0.83%) Denodo