SC Cleared Contracts

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 5,087 7,036 7,789
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 12.66% 8.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.24% 46.89% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,453 4,885 5,479
10th Percentile £335 £375 £397
25th Percentile £431 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 384 349
10th Percentile £13.31 £19.37 £19.83
25th Percentile £21.37 £37.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.33 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% +6.17% +49.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,965 15,005 19,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.93% 27.00% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 9,986 12,729
10th Percentile £310 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 750 780
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.67 £19.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.78 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +25.61%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England +1 4,380 £525 -4.55% 1,173
UK excluding London 0 2,902 £525 -4.55% 955
Work from Home -1 1,675 £538 -2.18% 602
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% 117
West Midlands +16 276 £500 -14.89% 98
Scotland +17 223 £465 +3.33% 67
East of England -3 176 £345 -31.00% 93
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 201 (3.95%) Confluence
2 181 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 114 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 49 (0.96%) Apache
5 22 (0.43%) nginx
6 16 (0.31%) SAS
7 14 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.28%) IIS
8 13 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 13 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.22%) CICS
10 10 (0.20%) CMS
11 8 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.12%) WordPress
14 5 (0.098%) Drupal
Applications
1 152 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.24%) Simulink
7 11 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.16%) Trello
10 7 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.098%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.098%) Sketch
12 4 (0.079%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.079%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.039%) SPSS
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.020%) Autodesk Inventor
14 1 (0.020%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (0.65%) Teamcenter
3 24 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 22 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 21 (0.41%) SAP QM
6 15 (0.29%) Primavera
7 11 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.098%) Magento
10 5 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.079%) Maximo
11 4 (0.079%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 4 (0.079%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.079%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 759 (14.92%) AWS
2 646 (12.70%) Azure
3 213 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
4 149 (2.93%) Power Platform
5 106 (2.08%) GitHub
6 102 (2.01%) Serverless
7 95 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 90 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 90 (1.77%) GCP
9 80 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 72 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.38%) PaaS
12 68 (1.34%) OCI
13 67 (1.32%) SaaS
14 60 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
15 57 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (1.08%) OpenShift
17 50 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 48 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 240 (4.72%) Firewall
2 118 (2.32%) DNS
2 118 (2.32%) WAN
3 115 (2.26%) VPN
4 92 (1.81%) DHCP
5 82 (1.61%) Network Security
6 62 (1.22%) BGP
7 60 (1.18%) SAN
8 58 (1.14%) Wireless
9 57 (1.12%) LAN
10 56 (1.10%) IPsec
11 53 (1.04%) MPLS
12 50 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (0.86%) OSPF
13 44 (0.86%) SSL
14 43 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
15 39 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
15 39 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
16 38 (0.75%) TCP/IP
17 34 (0.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 84 (1.65%) Power BI
4 77 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 71 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 69 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 63 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 56 (1.10%) MySQL
10 54 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 49 (0.96%) Metadata
12 40 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 39 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 34 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (0.65%) Data Vault
16 32 (0.63%) Flink
17 29 (0.57%) Big Data
18 24 (0.47%) Adabas
19 22 (0.43%) DB2
Development Applications
1 313 (6.15%) JIRA
2 240 (4.72%) Git
3 207 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 144 (2.83%) GitLab
5 79 (1.55%) Selenium
6 76 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 57 (1.12%) PVCS
8 54 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 50 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
10 49 (0.96%) JUnit
11 48 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 46 (0.90%) Bitbucket
13 37 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 28 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 27 (0.53%) JMeter
16 18 (0.35%) Maven
16 18 (0.35%) SoapUI
17 16 (0.31%) WebDriver
18 15 (0.29%) Cypress.io
18 15 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 1,097 (21.56%) Public Sector
2 898 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 388 (7.63%) Finance
4 339 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (3.40%) Aerospace
5 173 (3.40%) Telecoms
6 130 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 125 (2.46%) Electronics
8 111 (2.18%) Military
9 88 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (1.65%) Marketing
11 64 (1.26%) Law
12 63 (1.24%) Legal
13 59 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.04%) Police
15 47 (0.92%) Banking
16 46 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (0.51%) Retail
18 23 (0.45%) Publishing
19 21 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 799 (15.71%) Architect
2 565 (11.11%) Developer
3 382 (7.51%) Analyst
3 382 (7.51%) Senior
4 329 (6.47%) Consultant
5 307 (6.03%) Lead
6 243 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 198 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
8 179 (3.52%) Network Engineer
9 164 (3.22%) Project Manager
10 154 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 141 (2.77%) Support Engineer
12 133 (2.61%) Java Developer
13 128 (2.52%) Data Engineer
14 118 (2.32%) Technical Architect
15 105 (2.06%) Software Engineer
16 101 (1.99%) Service Analyst
17 99 (1.95%) AWS Engineer
18 96 (1.89%) Lead Architect
19 94 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (2.69%) REST
2 119 (2.34%) Spring
3 118 (2.32%) .NET
4 116 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 111 (2.18%) React
6 102 (2.01%) Kafka
7 97 (1.91%) HTML
8 87 (1.71%) CSS
9 84 (1.65%) Node.js
10 80 (1.57%) Web Services
11 57 (1.12%) ARM Templates
12 56 (1.10%) RESTful
13 46 (0.90%) JSON
14 44 (0.86%) Hibernate
15 43 (0.85%) JPA
16 38 (0.75%) OpenID
17 34 (0.67%) SAML
18 31 (0.61%) .NET Framework
19 30 (0.59%) .NET Core
20 29 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 127 (2.50%) PKI
2 118 (2.32%) Management Information System
3 116 (2.28%) Data Centre
4 102 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 92 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 71 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 59 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 44 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 41 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (0.75%) CMDB
12 37 (0.73%) Analogue Electronics
13 36 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (0.69%) Mainframe
14 35 (0.69%) Private Cloud
14 35 (0.69%) Replication
14 35 (0.69%) Security Posture
15 34 (0.67%) Clustering
16 32 (0.63%) Virtual Team
17 30 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 526 (10.34%) Windows
2 486 (9.55%) Linux
3 158 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 126 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 111 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 74 (1.45%) Unix
7 63 (1.24%) Android
8 62 (1.22%) Windows 7
9 53 (1.04%) Apple iOS
10 51 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 43 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 37 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
13 35 (0.69%) zOS
14 26 (0.51%) Mac OS X
15 21 (0.41%) Ubuntu
16 20 (0.39%) VMS
17 18 (0.35%) AIX
18 16 (0.31%) Windows XP
19 14 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
19 14 (0.28%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (17.26%) Agile
2 595 (11.70%) DevOps
3 557 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
4 405 (7.96%) ITIL
5 370 (7.27%) CI/CD
6 360 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 340 (6.68%) Project Management
8 301 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
9 290 (5.70%) Service Management
10 271 (5.33%) Migration
10 271 (5.33%) Software Engineering
11 234 (4.60%) Configuration Management
12 230 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 211 (4.15%) Analytics
14 207 (4.07%) Scrum
15 193 (3.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 189 (3.72%) Decision-Making
17 186 (3.66%) Change Management
18 185 (3.64%) Roadmaps
19 182 (3.58%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 448 (8.81%) Python
2 374 (7.35%) Java
3 325 (6.39%) SQL
4 265 (5.21%) PowerShell
5 195 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 138 (2.71%) C#
7 122 (2.40%) C
8 98 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 92 (1.81%) Bash
10 83 (1.63%) C++
11 76 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 39 (0.77%) Go
14 28 (0.55%) Bicep
14 28 (0.55%) PHP
15 24 (0.47%) Natural
16 23 (0.45%) Perl
16 23 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.43%) VB
18 21 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5,087 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 549 (10.79%) DV Cleared
3 368 (7.23%) Degree
4 208 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 86 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 77 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 71 (1.40%) CISSP
9 67 (1.32%) CCNP
10 64 (1.26%) CCNA
11 52 (1.02%) PMI Certification
12 51 (1.00%) PMP
13 45 (0.88%) CISM
14 41 (0.81%) Azure Certification
15 35 (0.69%) MCSA
16 34 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 33 (0.65%) A+ Certification
18 32 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 31 (0.61%) AWS Certification
20 28 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (2.65%) SLA
2 113 (2.22%) QA
3 90 (1.77%) NIST
4 80 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 77 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (1.16%) NCSC
7 56 (1.10%) PMO
8 43 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 37 (0.73%) GDPR
10 27 (0.53%) JSP 440
11 26 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
12 20 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.28%) GRC
14 12 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 11 (0.22%) RMADS
16 10 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.20%) COBIT
17 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 340 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 243 (4.78%) Docker
3 180 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 71 (1.40%) vSphere
6 60 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 54 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 46 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 36 (0.71%) Firmware
10 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) KVM
12 9 (0.18%) VMFS
13 5 (0.098%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.098%) XenApp
13 5 (0.098%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.079%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.059%) iptables
16 2 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.020%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 357 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 333 (6.55%) Terraform
3 277 (5.45%) Ansible
4 118 (2.32%) SCCM
5 70 (1.38%) Grafana
6 57 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 54 (1.06%) vCenter Server
8 52 (1.02%) WSUS
9 44 (0.86%) SCOM
10 43 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 38 (0.75%) Puppet
12 36 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 33 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 30 (0.59%) Kibana
15 28 (0.55%) Packer
16 27 (0.53%) VxRail
17 25 (0.49%) PowerCLI
18 23 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
18 23 (0.45%) Progress Chef
19 21 (0.41%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 687 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 297 (5.84%) VMware
3 272 (5.35%) Oracle
4 232 (4.56%) Cisco
5 217 (4.27%) SAP
6 121 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 114 (2.24%) Juniper
8 111 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 101 (1.99%) IBM
10 90 (1.77%) Atlassian
11 79 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 61 (1.20%) HP
13 59 (1.16%) Citrix
13 59 (1.16%) Dell
13 59 (1.16%) Google
14 50 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 50 (0.98%) Sparx
15 45 (0.88%) Splunk
16 40 (0.79%) F5
17 39 (0.77%) EMC