SC Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 20 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 146 316 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.11% 8.47% 6.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.61% 40.25% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 185 185
10th Percentile £420 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £656
90th Percentile £775 £755 £725
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £18.22 -
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £66.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £19.35 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -73.31% -
75th Percentile £21.41 £20.39 £78.75
90th Percentile - £20.87 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -59.26% +21.35% -25.83%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 477 785 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.97% 21.05% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 467 573
10th Percentile £366 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £700 £640
90th Percentile £775 £805 £725
London median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.81% +3.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 20
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £23.91 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% -18.87% +122.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.50 £56.13
90th Percentile £38.73 £68.75 £72.45
London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London -10 128 £525 -4.98% 22
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 10 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Camunda
4 1 (0.68%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.34%) AWS
2 13 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (8.90%) Serverless
3 10 (6.85%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.48%) Azure
5 7 (4.79%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (4.79%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (4.11%) GitHub
7 5 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.37%) GCP
9 2 (1.37%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.37%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.05%) WAN
2 2 (1.37%) CTI
2 2 (1.37%) H.323
3 1 (0.68%) BGP
3 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.68%) IPsec
3 1 (0.68%) IPv4
3 1 (0.68%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.68%) OSPF
3 1 (0.68%) SSH
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.48%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.79%) Parquet
4 7 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.11%) Metadata
6 5 (3.42%) Data Vault
7 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.05%) Tableau
9 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.37%) MySQL
9 2 (1.37%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.68%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) GIS
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Git
1 8 (5.48%) Selenium
2 6 (4.11%) Cucumber
2 6 (4.11%) JIRA
3 4 (2.74%) GitLab
3 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.74%) JUnit
3 4 (2.74%) Postman
3 4 (2.74%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.05%) TestNG
4 3 (2.05%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.37%) Appium
5 2 (1.37%) eggPlant
5 2 (1.37%) Mockito
5 2 (1.37%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.37%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.68%) Darcs
6 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 55 (37.67%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.75%) Finance
4 9 (6.16%) Law
5 6 (4.11%) Banking
5 6 (4.11%) Police
6 5 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Publishing
7 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (17.12%) Developer
2 22 (15.07%) Architect
3 13 (8.90%) Consultant
3 13 (8.90%) Data Engineer
4 12 (8.22%) Analyst
5 10 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.16%) Senior
7 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.48%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.79%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 5 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.42%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.42%) Designer
10 4 (2.74%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (2.74%) IT Consultant
10 4 (2.74%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.74%) Lead
10 4 (2.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.74%) Service Manager
11 3 (2.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.90%) Kafka
2 11 (7.53%) CSS
2 11 (7.53%) HTML
3 9 (6.16%) JSON
3 9 (6.16%) Spring
4 8 (5.48%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.79%) Apache Avro
5 7 (4.79%) OpenID
5 7 (4.79%) SAML
6 6 (4.11%) XACML
7 5 (3.42%) Node.js
7 5 (3.42%) React
8 4 (2.74%) .NET
8 4 (2.74%) jQuery
8 4 (2.74%) RESTful
9 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.05%) REST
10 2 (1.37%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.37%) JAX-RS
10 2 (1.37%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.42%) Reference Data
2 4 (2.74%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.37%) CBDC
3 2 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.37%) Social Media
4 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.68%) CMDB
4 1 (0.68%) Digital Currency
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.68%) IoT
4 1 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Windows
3 2 (1.37%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.86%) Agile
2 18 (12.33%) DevOps
3 12 (8.22%) Data Modelling
3 12 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (8.22%) Test Automation
4 11 (7.53%) CI/CD
5 10 (6.85%) Data Ingestion
5 10 (6.85%) ETL
6 9 (6.16%) Project Delivery
6 9 (6.16%) Security Architecture
7 8 (5.48%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (5.48%) Roadmaps
7 8 (5.48%) SFIA
8 7 (4.79%) Business Analysis
8 7 (4.79%) Data Lineage
8 7 (4.79%) Project Management
8 7 (4.79%) Web Development
9 6 (4.11%) ITIL
9 6 (4.11%) Microservices
9 6 (4.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.12%) Python
2 19 (13.01%) Java
3 16 (10.96%) SQL
4 13 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.74%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.05%) Bash
6 3 (2.05%) C#
7 2 (1.37%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) C
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) Go
8 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.68%) PHP
8 1 (0.68%) Rust
8 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 146 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.53%) Degree
3 7 (4.79%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) ACCA
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.05%) CISM
6 3 (2.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.37%) CCNA
7 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) NIST
3 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.05%) PMO
4 2 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.37%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.90%) Terraform
3 10 (6.85%) Ansible
4 8 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.37%) Packer
5 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Consul
6 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.68%) logstash
6 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (6.85%) Oracle
2 9 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.11%) Okta
4 5 (3.42%) IBM
4 5 (3.42%) Sparx
5 4 (2.74%) Cisco
6 3 (2.05%) Avaya
6 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.05%) SAP
7 2 (1.37%) Google
7 2 (1.37%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.37%) Siebel
7 2 (1.37%) VMware
8 1 (0.68%) Brandwatch
8 1 (0.68%) BT
8 1 (0.68%) Citrix
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) ESRI
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds