SC Cleared Contracts in the North West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 352 484 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 13.24% 15.86% 8.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.13% 52.32% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 320 260
10th Percentile £401 £400 £362
25th Percentile £457 £456 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -5.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 39 13
10th Percentile - £25.03 £23.77
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.00 £30.47
Median hourly rate £11.20 £42.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -73.66% +2.77% -12.81%
75th Percentile £46.03 £53.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -15.55% +9.52% +23.53%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 763 925 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.71% 30.31% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 606 594
10th Percentile £300 £339 £281
25th Percentile £415 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.28% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 68 63
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% -1.87% +13.30%
75th Percentile £42.88 £50.17 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.85 £67.90 £79.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +13.70%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Cumbria 0 153 £514 +12.30% 23
Manchester -5 132 £550 - 55
Cheshire -7 34 £450 -16.67% 23
Merseyside -15 15 £575 +15.00% 3
Lancashire -16 12 £475 -5.00% 29
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.85%) IIS
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.28%) Camunda
3 1 (0.28%) nginx
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.70%) Revit
5 4 (1.14%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.85%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.35%) AWS
2 29 (8.24%) Azure
3 14 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (3.98%) Amazon S3
3 14 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.56%) Route 53
5 7 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (1.99%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (1.42%) SaaS
7 5 (1.42%) Serverless
8 4 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.85%) GCP
10 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.57%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.28%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.80%) Firewall
2 34 (9.66%) VPN
3 24 (6.82%) OSPF
4 15 (4.26%) Cisco ISE
4 15 (4.26%) NetScaler
5 14 (3.98%) BGP
5 14 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (3.98%) Wireless
6 13 (3.69%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (3.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (3.69%) EIGRP
6 13 (3.69%) HSRP
6 13 (3.69%) IPsec
7 12 (3.41%) SNMP
7 12 (3.41%) Spanning Tree
7 12 (3.41%) WAN
8 11 (3.13%) Wireless Security
9 10 (2.84%) Ethernet
9 10 (2.84%) LAN
10 6 (1.70%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.85%) SAP BW
4 3 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.57%) Metadata
5 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.57%) Power BI
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Power View
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.28%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.55%) Git
2 12 (3.41%) GitLab
2 12 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.99%) JUnit
4 6 (1.70%) webpack
5 4 (1.14%) JIRA
6 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.85%) LSMW
6 3 (0.85%) Mocha
6 3 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) ERwin
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Mockito
8 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 71 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 25 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.53%) Finance
5 14 (3.98%) Legal
6 3 (0.85%) Banking
6 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.85%) Military
6 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.57%) Electronics
7 2 (0.57%) Marketing
7 2 (0.57%) Publishing
8 1 (0.28%) Advertising
8 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.28%) Billing
8 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (17.61%) Architect
2 40 (11.36%) Lead
3 37 (10.51%) Network Engineer
4 31 (8.81%) Developer
5 28 (7.95%) Senior
6 27 (7.67%) Consultant
7 23 (6.53%) Analyst
8 20 (5.68%) Technical Architect
9 19 (5.40%) Technical Leader
10 17 (4.83%) Java Developer
11 15 (4.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 14 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.98%) Lead Architect
12 14 (3.98%) Problem Manager
13 13 (3.69%) Capacity Manager
13 13 (3.69%) Domain Architect
13 13 (3.69%) Service Analyst
13 13 (3.69%) Service Desk Analyst
14 12 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.09%) Node.js
2 22 (6.25%) Spring
3 20 (5.68%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.11%) REST
5 17 (4.83%) JPA
6 16 (4.55%) React
7 14 (3.98%) Hibernate
8 12 (3.41%) Jinja
9 10 (2.84%) Redux
10 8 (2.27%) Spring Security
11 6 (1.70%) Express.js
12 5 (1.42%) .NET
12 5 (1.42%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.42%) React Native
13 4 (1.14%) CSS
13 4 (1.14%) HTML
13 4 (1.14%) JSON
14 3 (0.85%) BAPI
14 3 (0.85%) WebSockets
14 3 (0.85%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.53%) Virtual Team
2 20 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.56%) CMDB
6 7 (1.99%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.99%) PKI
7 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.85%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.85%) NHS
9 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Life Science
10 2 (0.57%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.28%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.28%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 69 (19.60%) Windows
2 32 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 26 (7.39%) Android
3 26 (7.39%) Apple iOS
4 25 (7.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.41%) Linux
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
6 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (16.48%) Agile
3 57 (16.19%) DevOps
4 54 (15.34%) CI/CD
5 46 (13.07%) Mentoring
6 40 (11.36%) Service Management
7 38 (10.80%) Quality Management
7 38 (10.80%) Time Management
8 37 (10.51%) Statistics
9 35 (9.94%) ITIL
9 35 (9.94%) Risk Management
10 33 (9.38%) Customer Service
10 33 (9.38%) Security Architecture
11 32 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 31 (8.81%) Problem Management
12 31 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (7.10%) Mobile Device Management
14 24 (6.82%) Zero Trust
15 23 (6.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.24%) Java
1 29 (8.24%) Python
2 13 (3.69%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.41%) Perl
3 12 (3.41%) Tcl
4 9 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.56%) SQL
5 7 (1.99%) C#
5 7 (1.99%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.42%) Bash
7 2 (0.57%) Bicep
7 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.28%) C
8 1 (0.28%) C++
8 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.28%) Go
8 1 (0.28%) Ruby
8 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 352 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (5.40%) CCNA
4 15 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.69%) Degree
5 13 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.41%) CCNP
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.57%) RIBA
8 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.28%) CRISC
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 27 (7.67%) SLA
2 13 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.13%) QA
4 8 (2.27%) NIST
5 7 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (0.85%) ISO17020
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (5.11%) Docker
2 13 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.69%) Firmware
3 10 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.83%) Ansible
3 13 (3.69%) Terraform
4 6 (1.70%) SCCM
5 4 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (1.14%) Grafana
5 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.14%) VxRail
6 2 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) Graphite
7 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.28%) Packer
7 1 (0.28%) Podman
7 1 (0.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.11%) VMware
3 17 (4.83%) Cisco
4 15 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 14 (3.98%) SolarWinds
6 13 (3.69%) Citrix
6 13 (3.69%) SAP
7 8 (2.27%) Oracle
8 5 (1.42%) Apple
8 5 (1.42%) CA
8 5 (1.42%) Google
9 3 (0.85%) IBM
9 3 (0.85%) Meraki
9 3 (0.85%) Nintex
9 3 (0.85%) Pega
10 2 (0.57%) Databricks
10 2 (0.57%) Dell
11 1 (0.28%) Brocade
11 1 (0.28%) NetApp
11 1 (0.28%) Remedy