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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 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 2,886 3,625 3,470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.71% 15.92% 11.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.18% 48.76% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 2,528 2,394
10th Percentile £313 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £640 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 288 237
10th Percentile £12.85 £19.06 £19.06
25th Percentile £21.42 £26.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £57.33 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +6.17% +39.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £79.60 £80.08 £68.39
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +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 7,559 7,435 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.91% 32.65% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,386 4,920 5,328
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £527 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.18% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 573 540
10th Percentile £13.56 £13.60 £13.39
25th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.97 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.69
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
% change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +29.03%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 0 869 £560 +9.80% 269
South West -1 787 £543 -7.97% 221
North of England -1 470 £508 -6.10% 164
Midlands +10 364 £506 -10.49% 129
North West -2 349 £515 -1.72% 112
West Midlands +15 260 £492 -16.34% 104
Scotland +17 224 £458 +1.67% 63
East of England -4 173 £345 -31.00% 76
East Midlands +3 103 £523 -9.13% 25
Yorkshire -8 91 £500 -16.67% 40
Wales -7 39 £600 +9.09% 26
North East -7 33 £435 -23.01% 12
Northern Ireland +15 14 £488 -2.50% 25
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
1 121 (4.19%) Confluence
2 92 (3.19%) 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 (0.069%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.069%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.035%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.035%) Appian
9 1 (0.035%) Camunda
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.035%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.035%) Traefik
Applications
1 110 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.42%) Simulink
6 11 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.24%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.035%) CATIA
10 1 (0.035%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.035%) Stata
10 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.69%) SAP EWM
3 15 (0.52%) 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 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.035%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle General Ledger
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 Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 302 (10.46%) Azure
2 216 (7.48%) AWS
3 107 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 54 (1.87%) Entra ID
6 38 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 31 (1.07%) GitHub
7 31 (1.07%) Power Automate
8 27 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (0.90%) OCI
10 25 (0.87%) GCP
11 24 (0.83%) Azure Storage
11 24 (0.83%) PaaS
11 24 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 21 (0.73%) Amazon S3
13 20 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (0.69%) SaaS
13 20 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (6.44%) Firewall
2 108 (3.74%) DNS
3 98 (3.40%) WAN
4 94 (3.26%) VPN
5 89 (3.08%) DHCP
6 59 (2.04%) SAN
7 50 (1.73%) BGP
8 48 (1.66%) MPLS
9 47 (1.63%) IPsec
10 45 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.52%) LAN
11 44 (1.52%) Network Security
11 44 (1.52%) SSL
12 37 (1.28%) Wireless
13 34 (1.18%) TCP/IP
14 29 (1.00%) OSPF
15 28 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
15 28 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
17 20 (0.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 44 (1.52%) Power BI
4 35 (1.21%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.14%) MySQL
7 29 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 11 (0.38%) DB2
12 11 (0.38%) Metadata
12 11 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
13 10 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.31%) IDMS
14 9 (0.31%) Tableau
15 8 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 184 (6.38%) JIRA
2 115 (3.98%) Git
3 107 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 76 (2.63%) GitLab
5 63 (2.18%) Visual Studio
6 45 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
7 44 (1.52%) PVCS
8 41 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.32%) Selenium
10 30 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.97%) SonarQube
12 24 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (0.83%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.55%) JUnit
14 10 (0.35%) JMeter
15 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.21%) ClearCase
16 6 (0.21%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
16 6 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 545 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 491 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 216 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (5.72%) Aerospace
5 162 (5.61%) Finance
6 138 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 100 (3.47%) Electronics
8 96 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 78 (2.70%) Military
10 57 (1.98%) Marketing
11 44 (1.52%) Legal
12 34 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.04%) Law
13 30 (1.04%) Police
14 26 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (0.73%) Retail
16 19 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.62%) Local Government
18 11 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 449 (15.56%) Architect
2 244 (8.45%) Developer
3 239 (8.28%) Analyst
4 185 (6.41%) Senior
5 181 (6.27%) Lead
6 165 (5.72%) Consultant
7 141 (4.89%) Network Engineer
8 128 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 112 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (3.19%) Project Manager
11 88 (3.05%) Support Engineer
12 81 (2.81%) Lead Architect
12 81 (2.81%) Network Architect
12 81 (2.81%) Service Analyst
13 80 (2.77%) Service Desk Analyst
14 74 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 73 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
16 59 (2.04%) Support Specialist
16 59 (2.04%) Systems Engineer
17 57 (1.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.60%) REST
2 62 (2.15%) .NET
3 61 (2.11%) Web Services
4 46 (1.59%) Node.js
5 39 (1.35%) Spring
6 37 (1.28%) ARM Templates
7 36 (1.25%) React
8 34 (1.18%) HTML
9 30 (1.04%) Spring Boot
10 28 (0.97%) CSS
11 27 (0.94%) .NET Core
12 25 (0.87%) Java EE
13 23 (0.80%) JPA
13 23 (0.80%) Kafka
14 21 (0.73%) Hibernate
15 16 (0.55%) Flash
15 16 (0.55%) LDAP
15 16 (0.55%) YAML
16 15 (0.52%) .NET Framework
17 14 (0.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 120 (4.16%) PKI
2 74 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 72 (2.49%) Data Centre
3 72 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 41 (1.42%) Product Ownership
4 41 (1.42%) Public Cloud
5 37 (1.28%) Analogue Electronics
6 35 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
7 34 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.04%) CMDB
10 29 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 26 (0.90%) Clustering
12 23 (0.80%) Mainframe
13 22 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.76%) Private Cloud
13 22 (0.76%) Replication
14 21 (0.73%) Driving Licence
15 19 (0.66%) Operational Technology
16 18 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 401 (13.89%) Windows
2 343 (11.88%) Linux
3 132 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 109 (3.78%) Windows 10
5 83 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.80%) Windows 7
7 48 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 44 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 38 (1.32%) Android
10 36 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 33 (1.14%) Unix
13 21 (0.73%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.62%) AIX
15 16 (0.55%) Windows Vista
15 16 (0.55%) Windows XP
16 15 (0.52%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.45%) Debian
17 13 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
17 13 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (16.42%) Agile
2 361 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
3 298 (10.33%) ITIL
4 278 (9.63%) DevOps
5 232 (8.04%) Project Management
6 213 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (6.51%) Software Engineering
8 181 (6.27%) Service Management
9 175 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 170 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
11 159 (5.51%) CI/CD
12 157 (5.44%) Customer Service
13 151 (5.23%) Configuration Management
14 117 (4.05%) ITSM
15 114 (3.95%) Infrastructure as Code
16 113 (3.92%) Scrum
17 112 (3.88%) Decision-Making
17 112 (3.88%) Risk Management
18 111 (3.85%) Mentoring
19 109 (3.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 185 (6.41%) PowerShell
2 174 (6.03%) Python
3 131 (4.54%) Java
4 123 (4.26%) SQL
5 99 (3.43%) C
6 76 (2.63%) C#
7 73 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 70 (2.43%) C++
9 66 (2.29%) PL/SQL
10 43 (1.49%) Bash
11 31 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.90%) Bicep
13 22 (0.76%) VB
14 21 (0.73%) VBScript
15 20 (0.69%) MATLAB
16 18 (0.62%) TypeScript
17 16 (0.55%) Embedded C
18 14 (0.49%) Ada
19 13 (0.45%) Perl
19 13 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,886 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 377 (13.06%) DV Cleared
3 241 (8.35%) Degree
4 131 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 80 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
6 62 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (1.98%) CCNP
8 55 (1.91%) CCNA
9 38 (1.32%) CISSP
10 33 (1.14%) MCSA
11 32 (1.11%) A+ Certification
12 30 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.90%) CISM
13 26 (0.90%) MCSE
14 25 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 24 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 23 (0.80%) PMP
17 21 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 21 (0.73%) Master's Degree
18 19 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (3.78%) SLA
2 59 (2.04%) NIST
3 57 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (1.98%) QA
4 37 (1.28%) PMO
5 28 (0.97%) GDPR
5 28 (0.97%) JSP 440
6 26 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 25 (0.87%) NCSC
8 24 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 20 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.38%) Def Stans
11 10 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.31%) RMADS
13 6 (0.21%) COBIT
13 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 276 (9.56%) Active Directory
2 151 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (3.01%) Docker
4 57 (1.98%) vSphere
5 56 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (1.70%) Hyper-V
7 41 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (1.35%) VMware NSX
9 28 (0.97%) Firmware
10 25 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.35%) KVM
12 8 (0.28%) VMFS
13 5 (0.17%) XenApp
13 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.10%) iptables
16 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 156 (5.41%) Ansible
3 103 (3.57%) SCCM
3 103 (3.57%) Terraform
4 51 (1.77%) WSUS
5 46 (1.59%) vCenter Server
6 43 (1.49%) SCOM
7 41 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (1.32%) Grafana
9 34 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.90%) PowerCLI
11 23 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
12 22 (0.76%) NetBackup
13 21 (0.73%) Prometheus
13 21 (0.73%) Puppet
14 19 (0.66%) Kibana
15 18 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (0.62%) VxRail
16 17 (0.59%) Istio
17 14 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 447 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 252 (8.73%) VMware
3 178 (6.17%) Cisco
4 143 (4.95%) SAP
5 109 (3.78%) Oracle
6 107 (3.71%) Red Hat
7 103 (3.57%) Juniper
8 75 (2.60%) IBM
9 71 (2.46%) Atlassian
10 64 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 58 (2.01%) Dell
12 57 (1.98%) HP
13 51 (1.77%) Palo Alto
14 47 (1.63%) Citrix
15 43 (1.49%) SolarWinds
16 31 (1.07%) Google
17 29 (1.00%) EMC
18 27 (0.94%) F5
19 26 (0.90%) Remedy
20 23 (0.80%) Brocade