SC Cleared Contracts in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 788 1,079 893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 24.24% 31.89% 24.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.54% 60.41% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 819 606
10th Percentile £324 £400 £375
25th Percentile £454 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +11.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 63 68
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.99 £47.26
25th Percentile £57.33 £55.63 £54.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £61.58
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +5.56% +29.63%
75th Percentile £74.33 £83.31 £65.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £75.00
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,769 1,786 1,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.41% 52.79% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 1,300 1,038
10th Percentile £363 £400 £338
25th Percentile £473 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +10.33% +9.38%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £680
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 135 93
10th Percentile £21.26 £39.55 £41.61
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.27 £52.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +5.69% +30.16%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.88 £67.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.75 £75.00
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 the South West

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire -1 318 £530 -7.83% 45
Bristol 0 243 £570 -5.00% 99
Gloucestershire -6 70 £500 -13.04% 30
Devon +4 68 £465 -22.50% 28
Dorset 0 35 £600 +11.63% 19
Somerset -5 25 £578 -14.54% 20
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 50 (6.35%) Confluence
2 29 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.76%) Apache
5 3 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) CATIA
5 1 (0.13%) Simulink
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.14%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Primavera
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (10.91%) Azure
2 54 (6.85%) AWS
2 54 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 33 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (2.28%) Power Automate
5 15 (1.90%) GitHub
5 15 (1.90%) PaaS
6 14 (1.78%) GCP
7 13 (1.65%) PowerApps
8 11 (1.40%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.27%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.02%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.02%) SaaS
11 7 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (0.63%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (0.63%) OCI
14 4 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.81%) Firewall
2 23 (2.92%) WAN
3 15 (1.90%) DNS
4 14 (1.78%) LAN
5 13 (1.65%) 4G
6 12 (1.52%) DHCP
7 11 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.27%) Network Security
8 10 (1.27%) SDH
9 9 (1.14%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.02%) 3G
10 8 (1.02%) Internet
10 8 (1.02%) VoIP
10 8 (1.02%) VSAN
11 7 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (0.76%) HTTP
12 6 (0.76%) NX-OS
12 6 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.93%) Power BI
1 31 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (1.52%) Oracle Database
4 11 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (1.02%) Tableau
6 5 (0.63%) Triplestore
7 4 (0.51%) Biml
7 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) MySQL
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 68 (8.63%) JIRA
2 33 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.81%) Bitbucket
4 27 (3.43%) Rational DOORS
5 24 (3.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (1.40%) Git
7 9 (1.14%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Checkstyle
10 1 (0.13%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 180 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 99 (12.56%) Telecoms
4 82 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.98%) Finance
6 52 (6.60%) Aerospace
7 43 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 33 (4.19%) Electronics
8 33 (4.19%) Military
9 30 (3.81%) Marketing
10 14 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.52%) Police
12 10 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.89%) Publishing
14 6 (0.76%) Local Government
14 6 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.63%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.63%) Aviation
15 5 (0.63%) Law
16 4 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 194 (24.62%) Architect
2 91 (11.55%) Lead
3 66 (8.38%) Lead Architect
4 53 (6.73%) Developer
4 53 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
5 45 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 42 (5.33%) Network Architect
6 42 (5.33%) Senior
7 39 (4.95%) Analyst
8 36 (4.57%) Systems Architect
9 33 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 26 (3.30%) Service Manager
12 24 (3.05%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (2.92%) Network Engineer
13 23 (2.92%) Service Analyst
13 23 (2.92%) Service Desk Analyst
13 23 (2.92%) Support Engineer
14 20 (2.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.93%) .NET
2 25 (3.17%) .NET Core
3 13 (1.65%) REST
4 12 (1.52%) CSS
5 8 (1.02%) React
6 7 (0.89%) ModSecurity
6 7 (0.89%) YAML
7 6 (0.76%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (0.76%) HTML
7 6 (0.76%) Spring
7 6 (0.76%) XML
8 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.63%) Apache Jena
8 5 (0.63%) Flash
8 5 (0.63%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.63%) Kafka
8 5 (0.63%) PostGIS
9 4 (0.51%) SPFx
10 3 (0.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.70%) Data Centre
2 31 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.30%) PKI
4 18 (2.28%) Private Cloud
4 18 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.90%) CMDB
7 15 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.65%) ARM Cortex
8 13 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.52%) Replication
10 11 (1.40%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.14%) Blog
11 9 (1.14%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.02%) CESG
12 8 (1.02%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.02%) SCADA
13 7 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
14 6 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.80%) Linux
2 85 (10.79%) Windows
3 25 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.16%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.65%) FreeRTOS
7 11 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.63%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (18.53%) Agile
2 111 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (12.82%) ITIL
4 90 (11.42%) Project Management
5 75 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 69 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
7 66 (8.38%) DevOps
8 63 (7.99%) Service Management
9 59 (7.49%) Configuration Management
10 57 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (6.60%) ArchiMate
12 47 (5.96%) Strategic Thinking
13 46 (5.84%) CI/CD
13 46 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (5.46%) Migration
15 42 (5.33%) Change Management
15 42 (5.33%) Systems Engineering
16 41 (5.20%) Validation
17 40 (5.08%) ITSM
17 40 (5.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.38%) PowerShell
2 52 (6.60%) Python
3 43 (5.46%) SQL
4 25 (3.17%) C
4 25 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.16%) Java
6 13 (1.65%) Embedded C
7 12 (1.52%) C++
8 11 (1.40%) C#
9 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.76%) Ada
11 5 (0.63%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.51%) Bash
12 4 (0.51%) Bicep
13 3 (0.38%) R
14 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) ABAP
15 1 (0.13%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 788 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.32%) DV Cleared
3 82 (10.41%) Degree
4 39 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.28%) CISSP
7 18 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 16 (2.03%) CISM
9 14 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (1.52%) CCNP
11 11 (1.40%) CCNA
11 11 (1.40%) MCSE
12 10 (1.27%) CEH
12 10 (1.27%) CISA
12 10 (1.27%) HND
12 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.14%) MCSA
14 8 (1.02%) CISMP
14 8 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.06%) SLA
2 27 (3.43%) JSP 440
3 25 (3.17%) QA
4 21 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.66%) NIST
5 18 (2.28%) PMO
6 17 (2.16%) NCSC
7 10 (1.27%) GDPR
7 10 (1.27%) HIPAA
8 9 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.02%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.51%) RMADS
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.38%) MISRA
13 2 (0.25%) COBIT
13 2 (0.25%) GRC
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 74 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (7.49%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.43%) vSphere
4 25 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 19 (2.41%) Docker
6 15 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.89%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.63%) VMFS
10 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.38%) Firmware
12 2 (0.25%) KVM
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (5.46%) Ansible
2 27 (3.43%) PowerCLI
3 22 (2.79%) Terraform
3 22 (2.79%) vCenter Server
4 19 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.65%) SCCM
6 10 (1.27%) Puppet
7 8 (1.02%) OPNET
8 7 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.89%) Salt
9 6 (0.76%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.51%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 4 (0.51%) VxRail
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.25%) Argo
12 2 (0.25%) SCOM
12 2 (0.25%) WSUS
13 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 96 (12.18%) VMware
2 94 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.71%) SAP
4 42 (5.33%) Cisco
5 36 (4.57%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.55%) IBM
7 24 (3.05%) Dell
8 22 (2.79%) HP
9 21 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 21 (2.66%) Remedy
10 19 (2.41%) Juniper
10 19 (2.41%) Oracle
11 15 (1.90%) Google
11 15 (1.90%) Nokia
11 15 (1.90%) Sparx
12 13 (1.65%) Lauterbach
13 12 (1.52%) Micro Focus
14 10 (1.27%) Splunk
15 9 (1.14%) BT
16 6 (0.76%) BMC