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 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 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,877 3,622 3,437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.81% 15.90% 11.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.44% 48.69% 42.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 2,539 2,371
10th Percentile £313 £350 £360
25th Percentile £428 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £639 £625
90th Percentile £700 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 284 231
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.37 £25.75 £24.11
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.11 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +5.75% +38.75%
75th Percentile £70.17 £68.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.18 £68.75
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
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 7,485 7,439 8,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.94% 32.66% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,362 4,933 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 571 526
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.58 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.38
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 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 1 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 1 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 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
South East 0 870 £575 +12.75% 271
South West 0 788 £538 -8.43% 236
North of England -3 474 £515 -5.94% 161
Midlands +9 359 £513 -8.89% 136
North West -1 356 £515 -0.96% 116
West Midlands +15 255 £500 -14.89% 107
Scotland +19 225 £445 -1.11% 62
East of England -4 167 £345 -31.00% 74
East Midlands +2 103 £525 -8.70% 29
Yorkshire -2 89 £501 -16.58% 34
Wales -7 43 £600 +9.09% 22
North East -9 31 £435 -23.01% 11
Northern Ireland +9 8 £525 +5.00% 29
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
1 127 (4.41%) Confluence
2 91 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.45%) IIS
5 10 (0.35%) 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 (0.070%) nginx
8 2 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.070%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.035%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.035%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.035%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.035%) Smallworld
Applications
1 106 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.45%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.035%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.035%) CATIA
11 1 (0.035%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.035%) Stata
11 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.70%) SAP EWM
3 16 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.45%) SAP QM
4 13 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.45%) Teamcenter
5 11 (0.38%) Primavera
6 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Maximo
9 2 (0.070%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.035%) SAP BRIM
10 1 (0.035%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 301 (10.46%) Azure
2 214 (7.44%) AWS
3 105 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (2.75%) Power Platform
5 53 (1.84%) Entra ID
6 38 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 32 (1.11%) GitHub
8 30 (1.04%) Power Automate
9 27 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (0.94%) OCI
10 26 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (0.87%) GCP
12 24 (0.83%) Azure Storage
12 24 (0.83%) PaaS
12 24 (0.83%) PowerApps
13 21 (0.73%) Amazon S3
14 20 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (0.70%) SaaS
14 20 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (0.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (6.57%) Firewall
2 107 (3.72%) DNS
3 99 (3.44%) WAN
4 94 (3.27%) VPN
5 88 (3.06%) DHCP
6 60 (2.09%) SAN
7 50 (1.74%) BGP
8 48 (1.67%) MPLS
9 47 (1.63%) IPsec
10 46 (1.60%) Network Security
11 45 (1.56%) LAN
11 45 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (1.53%) SSL
13 37 (1.29%) Wireless
14 35 (1.22%) TCP/IP
15 29 (1.01%) OSPF
16 28 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
17 27 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
17 27 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
18 20 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.49%) Power BI
4 36 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.11%) MySQL
7 29 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 12 (0.42%) Oracle Database 11g
13 11 (0.38%) DB2
13 11 (0.38%) Metadata
14 10 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.31%) IDMS
15 9 (0.31%) Tableau
16 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 189 (6.57%) JIRA
2 115 (4.00%) Git
3 106 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 71 (2.47%) GitLab
5 63 (2.19%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 44 (1.53%) PVCS
7 43 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
8 38 (1.32%) Selenium
9 30 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 28 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (0.83%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.56%) JUnit
14 10 (0.35%) JMeter
15 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.28%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
16 6 (0.21%) webpack
17 5 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 539 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 492 (17.10%) Public Sector
3 217 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (5.91%) Aerospace
5 157 (5.46%) Finance
6 136 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 96 (3.34%) Electronics
8 93 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 81 (2.82%) Military
10 54 (1.88%) Marketing
11 44 (1.53%) Legal
12 32 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.08%) Law
14 30 (1.04%) Police
15 25 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.73%) Retail
17 19 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.63%) Local Government
19 11 (0.38%) Publishing
20 10 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 449 (15.61%) Architect
2 248 (8.62%) Developer
3 236 (8.20%) Analyst
4 188 (6.53%) Senior
5 177 (6.15%) Lead
6 172 (5.98%) Consultant
7 140 (4.87%) Network Engineer
8 127 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 112 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (3.16%) Project Manager
11 88 (3.06%) Support Engineer
12 82 (2.85%) Lead Architect
12 82 (2.85%) Network Architect
13 81 (2.82%) Service Analyst
14 80 (2.78%) Service Desk Analyst
15 73 (2.54%) Software Engineer
16 69 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 59 (2.05%) Support Specialist
18 58 (2.02%) Systems Engineer
19 57 (1.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.61%) REST
2 63 (2.19%) .NET
3 62 (2.16%) Web Services
4 47 (1.63%) Node.js
5 40 (1.39%) Spring
6 37 (1.29%) ARM Templates
7 36 (1.25%) HTML
7 36 (1.25%) React
8 31 (1.08%) Spring Boot
9 30 (1.04%) CSS
10 28 (0.97%) .NET Core
11 25 (0.87%) Java EE
12 23 (0.80%) JPA
12 23 (0.80%) Kafka
13 21 (0.73%) Hibernate
14 17 (0.59%) Flash
15 16 (0.56%) LDAP
15 16 (0.56%) YAML
16 15 (0.52%) .NET Framework
17 14 (0.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 121 (4.21%) PKI
2 74 (2.57%) Data Centre
3 73 (2.54%) Management Information System
3 73 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 37 (1.29%) Product Ownership
6 36 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
7 35 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 33 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 31 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.04%) CMDB
11 29 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 28 (0.97%) Clustering
13 24 (0.83%) Onboarding
14 23 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 23 (0.80%) Private Cloud
15 22 (0.76%) Replication
16 21 (0.73%) Driving Licence
17 20 (0.70%) Operational Technology
18 18 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 396 (13.76%) Windows
2 348 (12.10%) Linux
3 135 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 110 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 83 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.77%) Windows 7
7 48 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 36 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (1.22%) Unix
11 34 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 31 (1.08%) Android
13 22 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.63%) AIX
15 16 (0.56%) Mac OS X
15 16 (0.56%) Windows Vista
15 16 (0.56%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.49%) Debian
17 13 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
18 12 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (16.68%) Agile
2 360 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
3 298 (10.36%) ITIL
4 279 (9.70%) DevOps
5 233 (8.10%) Project Management
6 217 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 190 (6.60%) Software Engineering
8 184 (6.40%) Service Management
9 175 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 170 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
11 155 (5.39%) CI/CD
12 153 (5.32%) Customer Service
13 148 (5.14%) Configuration Management
14 116 (4.03%) ITSM
15 113 (3.93%) Decision-Making
16 112 (3.89%) Risk Management
17 111 (3.86%) Scrum
18 110 (3.82%) Mentoring
18 110 (3.82%) Migration
19 107 (3.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 187 (6.50%) PowerShell
2 173 (6.01%) Python
3 130 (4.52%) Java
4 124 (4.31%) SQL
5 97 (3.37%) C
6 75 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 74 (2.57%) C#
8 70 (2.43%) C++
9 67 (2.33%) PL/SQL
10 40 (1.39%) Bash
11 29 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.90%) Bicep
13 22 (0.76%) VB
14 21 (0.73%) VBScript
15 20 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 18 (0.63%) TypeScript
17 16 (0.56%) Embedded C
18 14 (0.49%) Ada
19 13 (0.45%) Perl
19 13 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,877 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 374 (13.00%) DV Cleared
3 236 (8.20%) Degree
4 127 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 84 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (2.09%) CCNP
8 55 (1.91%) CCNA
9 38 (1.32%) CISSP
10 33 (1.15%) MCSA
11 32 (1.11%) A+ Certification
12 31 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 29 (1.01%) MCSE
14 27 (0.94%) CISM
15 24 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.76%) PMP
17 21 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 20 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
18 20 (0.70%) Master's Degree
19 18 (0.63%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.65%) SLA
2 64 (2.22%) NIST
3 60 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (1.98%) QA
5 39 (1.36%) PMO
6 30 (1.04%) JSP 440
7 29 (1.01%) NCSC
8 28 (0.97%) GDPR
9 27 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
10 24 (0.83%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.49%) Def Stans
13 11 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.35%) RMADS
15 9 (0.31%) Accessibility
15 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.21%) COBIT
16 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 277 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 152 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (2.75%) Docker
4 55 (1.91%) vSphere
5 54 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (1.67%) Hyper-V
7 42 (1.46%) VMware NSX
8 41 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (1.01%) Firmware
10 24 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.35%) KVM
12 8 (0.28%) VMFS
13 4 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) iptables
14 3 (0.10%) XenApp
14 3 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 153 (5.32%) Ansible
2 151 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 98 (3.41%) Terraform
4 96 (3.34%) SCCM
5 51 (1.77%) WSUS
6 48 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 43 (1.49%) SCOM
8 40 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.25%) Grafana
10 34 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (0.94%) PowerCLI
12 23 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
13 22 (0.76%) NetBackup
13 22 (0.76%) Puppet
14 21 (0.73%) Prometheus
15 19 (0.66%) Kibana
16 18 (0.63%) VxRail
17 17 (0.59%) Istio
18 16 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
19 14 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 444 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 254 (8.83%) VMware
3 180 (6.26%) Cisco
4 141 (4.90%) SAP
5 110 (3.82%) Oracle
6 106 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 104 (3.61%) Juniper
8 74 (2.57%) IBM
9 73 (2.54%) Atlassian
10 63 (2.19%) ServiceNow
11 58 (2.02%) HP
12 53 (1.84%) Dell
13 51 (1.77%) Palo Alto
14 45 (1.56%) Citrix
15 43 (1.49%) SolarWinds
16 33 (1.15%) Google
17 29 (1.01%) EMC
18 26 (0.90%) F5
18 26 (0.90%) Remedy
19 23 (0.80%) Brocade