SC Cleared Contracts in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 18 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,580 2,313 2,278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.02% 9.09% 5.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.25% 41.40% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 1,616 1,709
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £739 £745 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 43
10th Percentile £13.87 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £35.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +21.35% -25.83%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.17 £87.50 £56.84
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +22.35%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,131 5,587 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.59% 21.96% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 3,835 4,698
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 85 146
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.89 £23.84
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -10 146 £525 -3.00% 23
South London +2 94 £510 -2.86% 26
West London +33 21 £500 +23.46% 10
East London - 7 £500 - 7
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 76 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 64 (4.05%) Confluence
3 38 (2.41%) Apache
4 20 (1.27%) nginx
5 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2003
8 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 4 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.25%) WildFly
11 3 (0.19%) CMS
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 31 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) SPSS
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
8 1 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 25 (1.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.70%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.063%) Magento
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 431 (27.28%) AWS
2 238 (15.06%) Azure
3 88 (5.57%) Serverless
4 78 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (4.18%) Amazon S3
7 46 (2.91%) GCP
8 45 (2.85%) Power Platform
9 41 (2.59%) GitHub
10 37 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (2.09%) OCI
13 29 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (1.65%) PaaS
15 26 (1.65%) SaaS
16 24 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.78%) Firewall
2 20 (1.27%) Wireless
3 17 (1.08%) Network Security
3 17 (1.08%) WAN
4 16 (1.01%) VPN
5 15 (0.95%) VoIP
6 13 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (0.82%) LAN
7 12 (0.76%) OSPF
8 11 (0.70%) BGP
9 10 (0.63%) Skype
10 9 (0.57%) IPsec
11 8 (0.51%) DNS
11 8 (0.51%) Internet
11 8 (0.51%) WLAN
12 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.32%) MPLS
14 5 (0.32%) SNA
14 5 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 39 (2.47%) Metadata
4 39 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 33 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (2.09%) Data Vault
7 32 (2.03%) Flink
8 31 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 27 (1.71%) Power BI
11 24 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.46%) Big Data
13 22 (1.39%) MongoDB
14 21 (1.33%) Metadata Repository
15 20 (1.27%) DynamoDB
16 18 (1.14%) Parquet
17 17 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (0.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 105 (6.65%) JIRA
2 95 (6.01%) Git
3 88 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.67%) GitLab
5 32 (2.03%) Selenium
6 30 (1.90%) JUnit
7 21 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.95%) TestNG
9 14 (0.89%) Postman
10 13 (0.82%) JMeter
11 12 (0.76%) REST Assured
11 12 (0.76%) WebDriver
12 11 (0.70%) SoapUI
13 10 (0.63%) Appium
13 10 (0.63%) Maven
14 9 (0.57%) eggPlant
14 9 (0.57%) Mockito
14 9 (0.57%) SOAtest
15 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 472 (29.87%) Public Sector
2 264 (16.71%) Social Skills
3 196 (12.41%) Finance
4 81 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (2.72%) Banking
6 35 (2.22%) Law
7 34 (2.15%) Telecoms
8 29 (1.84%) Manufacturing
8 29 (1.84%) Marketing
8 29 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (1.65%) Electronics
9 26 (1.65%) Military
10 23 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (0.95%) Police
13 14 (0.89%) Legal
14 12 (0.76%) Publishing
15 10 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 254 (16.08%) Architect
2 237 (15.00%) Developer
3 154 (9.75%) Senior
4 134 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 117 (7.41%) Analyst
6 91 (5.76%) Consultant
7 80 (5.06%) Lead
8 77 (4.87%) Data Engineer
8 77 (4.87%) Java Developer
9 63 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
11 60 (3.80%) Business Analyst
12 50 (3.16%) Data Architect
13 49 (3.10%) Technical Architect
14 48 (3.04%) Project Manager
15 45 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
16 44 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 44 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
17 43 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
18 40 (2.53%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.81%) Kafka
2 68 (4.30%) Spring
2 68 (4.30%) Spring Boot
3 64 (4.05%) React
4 52 (3.29%) HTML
4 52 (3.29%) REST
5 47 (2.97%) CSS
6 33 (2.09%) JSON
7 32 (2.03%) .NET
7 32 (2.03%) RESTful
8 27 (1.71%) Node.js
9 24 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
10 21 (1.33%) Hibernate
10 21 (1.33%) JPA
11 19 (1.20%) SailPoint
12 18 (1.14%) Apache Avro
12 18 (1.14%) OpenID
13 16 (1.01%) SAML
13 16 (1.01%) Web Services
14 15 (0.95%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.67%) Onboarding
2 40 (2.53%) Data Centre
3 29 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 27 (1.71%) Reference Data
5 24 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 19 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (0.82%) PKI
8 13 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (0.76%) Blockchain
9 12 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 12 (0.76%) Security Posture
10 10 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.57%) Clustering
12 8 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.51%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.51%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.51%) Replication
12 8 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.78%) Linux
2 98 (6.20%) Windows
3 35 (2.22%) Unix
4 21 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.95%) Android
7 11 (0.70%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.51%) Mac OS X
9 6 (0.38%) VMS
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.32%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.063%) NetWare
14 1 (0.063%) Solaris
14 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (20.76%) Agile
2 235 (14.87%) DevOps
3 175 (11.08%) CI/CD
4 132 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (7.66%) Migration
6 116 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (5.70%) Microservices
8 88 (5.57%) Data Modelling
9 83 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
11 80 (5.06%) ITIL
12 78 (4.94%) Roadmaps
13 77 (4.87%) Change Management
14 75 (4.75%) Analytics
14 75 (4.75%) Scrum
15 70 (4.43%) Test Automation
16 69 (4.37%) Project Management
17 66 (4.18%) Service Management
18 65 (4.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 64 (4.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 206 (13.04%) Python
2 198 (12.53%) Java
3 141 (8.92%) SQL
4 100 (6.33%) JavaScript
5 61 (3.86%) PowerShell
6 44 (2.78%) C#
7 42 (2.66%) Bash
8 39 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.71%) Go
10 14 (0.89%) PHP
11 12 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.70%) Ruby
13 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.57%) C
15 8 (0.51%) ABAP
15 8 (0.51%) C++
16 6 (0.38%) Perl
17 4 (0.25%) COBOL
17 4 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1,580 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 147 (9.30%) DV Cleared
3 82 (5.19%) Degree
4 40 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 19 (1.20%) PMP
6 18 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 15 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
8 14 (0.89%) CISSP
9 12 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (0.76%) CISM
10 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 7 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.38%) CCNP
13 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.32%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 42 (2.66%) QA
3 26 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.27%) NIST
5 19 (1.20%) PMO
5 19 (1.20%) SLA
6 15 (0.95%) NCSC
7 10 (0.63%) GDPR
7 10 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.32%) WCAG
9 4 (0.25%) GRC
9 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) COBIT
10 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.063%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.063%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 127 (8.04%) Docker
2 48 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.63%) vSphere
7 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.063%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 178 (11.27%) Terraform
2 166 (10.51%) Kubernetes
3 95 (6.01%) Ansible
4 26 (1.65%) Grafana
5 21 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.89%) Puppet
8 13 (0.82%) Packer
9 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.63%) SCCM
10 9 (0.57%) Consul
10 9 (0.57%) VxRail
11 8 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.32%) Nagios
13 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
15 3 (0.19%) vRealize
16 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 162 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.66%) Oracle
3 46 (2.91%) SAP
4 41 (2.59%) Cisco
5 39 (2.47%) VMware
6 33 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.84%) Sparx
8 20 (1.27%) CyberArk
8 20 (1.27%) NetApp
8 20 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.27%) Splunk
9 16 (1.01%) Databricks
9 16 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.95%) IBM
11 14 (0.89%) Apple
11 14 (0.89%) Google
12 13 (0.82%) Informatica
12 13 (0.82%) Juniper
12 13 (0.82%) Okta
13 12 (0.76%) F5