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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 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 4,351 6,159 6,214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.79% 12.97% 8.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.58% 47.09% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 4,305 4,335
10th Percentile £350 £375 £381
25th Percentile £449 £461 £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 360 301 276
10th Percentile £13.80 £19.50 £19.21
25th Percentile £21.37 £30.53 £33.87
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +22.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.18 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.53% +7.73% +35.00%

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 11,277 13,078 15,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.55% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,989 8,780 10,304
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 652 674
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.39 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,580 £525 -4.55% 242
South East 0 870 £575 +12.75% 269
South West 0 788 £538 -8.43% 236
North of England -3 474 £515 -5.94% 156
Midlands +9 359 £513 -8.89% 134
North West -1 356 £515 -0.96% 115
West Midlands +15 255 £500 -14.89% 105
East of England -4 167 £345 -31.00% 74
East Midlands +2 103 £525 -8.70% 29
Yorkshire -2 89 £501 -16.58% 30
North East -9 31 £435 -23.01% 11
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
1 158 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 140 (3.22%) Confluence
3 93 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 48 (1.10%) Apache
5 24 (0.55%) nginx
6 14 (0.32%) SAS
7 13 (0.30%) IIS
8 11 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 11 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 9 (0.21%) CICS
11 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
12 6 (0.14%) CMS
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 111 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.30%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.092%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.046%) SPSS
10 2 (0.046%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.023%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.023%) CATIA
11 1 (0.023%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.023%) Stata
11 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 26 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 21 (0.48%) SAP EWM
3 21 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 20 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
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 (0.092%) Maximo
11 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.092%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.092%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.092%) SAP SD
12 3 (0.069%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.069%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 665 (15.28%) AWS
2 565 (12.99%) Azure
3 185 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (2.83%) Power Platform
5 100 (2.30%) Serverless
6 87 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 81 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (1.77%) GitHub
9 76 (1.75%) GCP
10 69 (1.59%) Entra ID
11 63 (1.45%) OCI
12 59 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
13 58 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
14 54 (1.24%) OpenShift
15 52 (1.20%) PaaS
16 48 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 46 (1.06%) SaaS
18 45 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
19 38 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
20 37 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 237 (5.45%) Firewall
2 119 (2.74%) WAN
3 96 (2.21%) DNS
4 91 (2.09%) VPN
5 71 (1.63%) DHCP
6 68 (1.56%) Network Security
7 64 (1.47%) BGP
8 59 (1.36%) LAN
8 59 (1.36%) SAN
9 58 (1.33%) IPsec
10 57 (1.31%) Wireless
11 53 (1.22%) MPLS
12 48 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (1.01%) SSL
14 43 (0.99%) OSPF
15 42 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
15 42 (0.97%) TCP/IP
16 36 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
16 36 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
17 28 (0.64%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 66 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (1.52%) Power BI
5 60 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 58 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 57 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (1.13%) MySQL
9 47 (1.08%) Metadata
10 42 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 36 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 33 (0.76%) Data Vault
15 32 (0.74%) Flink
16 30 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 23 (0.53%) Big Data
18 22 (0.51%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 229 (5.26%) JIRA
2 215 (4.94%) Git
3 197 (4.53%) Jenkins
4 132 (3.03%) GitLab
5 69 (1.59%) Selenium
6 66 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 50 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 48 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 46 (1.06%) JUnit
9 46 (1.06%) PVCS
9 46 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
10 37 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 36 (0.83%) REST Assured
12 29 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (0.51%) JMeter
14 15 (0.34%) Maven
14 15 (0.34%) TestNG
15 14 (0.32%) Mockito
15 14 (0.32%) SoapUI
15 14 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 931 (21.40%) Public Sector
2 777 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 348 (8.00%) Finance
4 287 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 168 (3.86%) Aerospace
6 166 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 121 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 117 (2.69%) Electronics
9 107 (2.46%) Military
10 67 (1.54%) Marketing
11 65 (1.49%) Law
11 65 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.26%) Legal
13 51 (1.17%) Police
14 47 (1.08%) Banking
15 44 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 41 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.62%) Retail
18 23 (0.53%) Publishing
19 19 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 705 (16.20%) Architect
2 493 (11.33%) Developer
3 347 (7.98%) Analyst
4 319 (7.33%) Senior
5 267 (6.14%) Lead
6 262 (6.02%) Consultant
7 209 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 168 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
9 165 (3.79%) Network Engineer
10 147 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 134 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 119 (2.74%) Java Developer
13 118 (2.71%) Data Engineer
14 98 (2.25%) Support Engineer
15 96 (2.21%) Technical Architect
16 94 (2.16%) Service Analyst
17 92 (2.11%) Software Engineer
18 91 (2.09%) Lead Architect
19 87 (2.00%) Network Architect
20 83 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.87%) REST
2 110 (2.53%) Spring
3 104 (2.39%) React
4 101 (2.32%) .NET
4 101 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 99 (2.28%) Kafka
6 89 (2.05%) HTML
7 80 (1.84%) CSS
8 77 (1.77%) Node.js
9 73 (1.68%) Web Services
10 44 (1.01%) RESTful
11 43 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 43 (0.99%) JPA
11 43 (0.99%) JSON
12 41 (0.94%) Hibernate
13 32 (0.74%) .NET Core
14 28 (0.64%) .NET Framework
14 28 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
15 27 (0.62%) YAML
16 25 (0.57%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 133 (3.06%) PKI
2 107 (2.46%) Data Centre
3 96 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 88 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 83 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 58 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 55 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 39 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
11 36 (0.83%) Analogue Electronics
12 34 (0.78%) CMDB
13 31 (0.71%) Replication
13 31 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 30 (0.69%) Private Cloud
15 29 (0.67%) Security Posture
16 28 (0.64%) Mainframe
17 27 (0.62%) Clustering
17 27 (0.62%) Reference Data
18 25 (0.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 453 (10.41%) Linux
1 453 (10.41%) Windows
2 147 (3.38%) Windows Server
3 97 (2.23%) Windows 10
4 87 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 65 (1.49%) Unix
6 48 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 46 (1.06%) Android
7 46 (1.06%) Windows 7
8 41 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 38 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 36 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (0.60%) Mac OS X
12 23 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 18 (0.41%) AIX
13 18 (0.41%) VMS
14 16 (0.37%) Windows Vista
15 15 (0.34%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.32%) Debian
17 13 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (18.06%) Agile
2 521 (11.97%) DevOps
3 486 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
4 363 (8.34%) ITIL
5 345 (7.93%) CI/CD
6 327 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 280 (6.44%) Project Management
8 247 (5.68%) Service Management
9 240 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
10 236 (5.42%) Migration
11 232 (5.33%) Software Engineering
12 200 (4.60%) Configuration Management
13 192 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 181 (4.16%) Change Management
14 181 (4.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 180 (4.14%) Scrum
16 176 (4.05%) Decision-Making
17 169 (3.88%) Mentoring
18 156 (3.59%) Analytics
19 153 (3.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 398 (9.15%) Python
2 330 (7.58%) Java
3 271 (6.23%) SQL
4 242 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 182 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 126 (2.90%) C#
7 110 (2.53%) C
8 84 (1.93%) Bash
9 81 (1.86%) C++
10 75 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 63 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 42 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 38 (0.87%) Go
14 28 (0.64%) Bicep
14 28 (0.64%) PHP
15 22 (0.51%) VB
16 21 (0.48%) VBScript
17 20 (0.46%) MATLAB
17 20 (0.46%) Perl
17 20 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4,351 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 508 (11.68%) DV Cleared
3 305 (7.01%) Degree
4 171 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 101 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
6 70 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 69 (1.59%) CCNP
8 63 (1.45%) CCNA
9 62 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (1.24%) CISSP
11 36 (0.83%) CISM
11 36 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 35 (0.80%) MCSA
12 35 (0.80%) PMP
13 33 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 26 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 26 (0.60%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.55%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (2.67%) SLA
2 101 (2.32%) QA
3 80 (1.84%) NIST
4 70 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 66 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.17%) PMO
7 45 (1.03%) NCSC
8 38 (0.87%) GDPR
9 35 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.69%) JSP 440
11 27 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.32%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.25%) RMADS
16 9 (0.21%) COBIT
17 7 (0.16%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) WCAG
18 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 280 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 211 (4.85%) Docker
3 179 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 66 (1.52%) vSphere
6 58 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 50 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 42 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
9 33 (0.76%) Firmware
10 26 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.21%) VMFS
12 4 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.069%) iptables
13 3 (0.069%) KVM
13 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.069%) XenApp
13 3 (0.069%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.023%) Snort
14 1 (0.023%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 321 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 288 (6.62%) Terraform
3 255 (5.86%) Ansible
4 78 (1.79%) SCCM
5 63 (1.45%) Grafana
6 52 (1.20%) vCenter Server
7 45 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (1.03%) SCOM
8 43 (0.99%) WSUS
9 42 (0.97%) Prometheus
10 38 (0.87%) Puppet
11 33 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.62%) Kibana
13 27 (0.62%) PowerCLI
13 27 (0.62%) VxRail
14 26 (0.60%) Packer
15 23 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
16 22 (0.51%) Progress Chef
17 20 (0.46%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 557 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 292 (6.71%) VMware
3 231 (5.31%) Oracle
4 209 (4.80%) Cisco
5 191 (4.39%) SAP
6 118 (2.71%) Juniper
7 101 (2.32%) Red Hat
8 99 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 89 (2.05%) IBM
10 74 (1.70%) Palo Alto
11 54 (1.24%) Dell
12 51 (1.17%) HP
13 50 (1.15%) Atlassian
13 50 (1.15%) Google
13 50 (1.15%) SolarWinds
14 49 (1.13%) Sparx
15 46 (1.06%) Citrix
16 39 (0.90%) EMC
17 38 (0.87%) F5
18 37 (0.85%) Splunk