SC Cleared Contracts in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 18 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,586 2,318 2,279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.07% 8.91% 5.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.32% 40.81% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,611 1,697
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +8.37%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 45
10th Percentile £13.87 £20.22 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £35.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +12.36% -25.83%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.11 £87.50 £63.15
England median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -15.55% +10.58% +21.38%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,139 5,680 6,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.68% 21.83% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 3,859 4,665
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 152
10th Percentile £14.19 £19.32 £24.77
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -5.06% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £87.50 £66.57
England median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London -8 160 £520 -3.26% 23
South London +2 103 £513 -5.09% 20
West London +33 21 £500 +23.46% 11
East London - 7 £500 - 25
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 74 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.48%) Confluence
3 44 (2.77%) Apache
4 27 (1.70%) nginx
5 22 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.25%) Camunda
11 4 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.19%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.063%) Simulink
9 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.69%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.063%) Magento
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 458 (28.88%) AWS
2 233 (14.69%) Azure
3 88 (5.55%) Serverless
4 77 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 47 (2.96%) GCP
8 44 (2.77%) Power Platform
9 41 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (2.27%) GitHub
11 34 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.95%) OCI
14 30 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 29 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (1.58%) PaaS
18 23 (1.45%) Amazon MSK
18 23 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.15%) Firewall
2 20 (1.26%) VPN
3 19 (1.20%) Wireless
4 17 (1.07%) WAN
5 16 (1.01%) Network Security
6 14 (0.88%) VoIP
7 13 (0.82%) LAN
8 12 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (0.76%) OSPF
9 11 (0.69%) BGP
9 11 (0.69%) Skype
10 9 (0.57%) IPsec
11 8 (0.50%) WLAN
12 7 (0.44%) DNS
13 6 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.38%) Internet
14 5 (0.32%) MPLS
14 5 (0.32%) SNA
14 5 (0.32%) SSH
14 5 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (3.53%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (2.40%) Flink
4 38 (2.40%) Metadata
4 38 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 35 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (2.08%) Data Vault
8 28 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 27 (1.70%) Power BI
10 22 (1.39%) Big Data
10 22 (1.39%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.32%) Metadata Repository
12 20 (1.26%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.13%) Parquet
14 17 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (0.95%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 114 (7.19%) JIRA
2 101 (6.37%) Git
3 96 (6.05%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.72%) GitLab
5 41 (2.59%) Selenium
6 35 (2.21%) JUnit
7 31 (1.95%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.20%) TestNG
9 17 (1.07%) Postman
10 16 (1.01%) JMeter
11 15 (0.95%) Maven
11 15 (0.95%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.76%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.69%) Mockito
15 10 (0.63%) Appium
16 9 (0.57%) eggPlant
16 9 (0.57%) SOAtest
16 9 (0.57%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 477 (30.08%) Public Sector
2 264 (16.65%) Social Skills
3 195 (12.30%) Finance
4 86 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (2.65%) Banking
6 36 (2.27%) Law
7 34 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 30 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (1.83%) Military
10 28 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.77%) Marketing
11 25 (1.58%) Electronics
11 25 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.13%) Police
14 16 (1.01%) Legal
15 13 (0.82%) Publishing
16 11 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 273 (17.21%) Architect
2 233 (14.69%) Developer
3 139 (8.76%) Senior
4 126 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 110 (6.94%) Analyst
6 85 (5.36%) Lead
7 84 (5.30%) Consultant
8 82 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 75 (4.73%) Java Developer
10 65 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 61 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
12 57 (3.59%) Data Architect
12 57 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
13 53 (3.34%) Business Analyst
14 52 (3.28%) Project Manager
15 49 (3.09%) Technical Architect
16 44 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
18 40 (2.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 40 (2.52%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.36%) Kafka
2 71 (4.48%) Spring Boot
3 70 (4.41%) Spring
4 69 (4.35%) React
5 58 (3.66%) REST
6 55 (3.47%) HTML
7 51 (3.22%) CSS
8 35 (2.21%) JSON
9 30 (1.89%) Node.js
10 29 (1.83%) .NET
11 27 (1.70%) RESTful
12 23 (1.45%) Hibernate
12 23 (1.45%) JPA
12 23 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.26%) Laravel
14 18 (1.13%) Apache Avro
14 18 (1.13%) OpenID
15 16 (1.01%) SAML
15 16 (1.01%) Sass
15 16 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.47%) Onboarding
2 40 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 27 (1.70%) Reference Data
4 26 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 22 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (0.95%) PKI
9 14 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (0.76%) Blockchain
10 12 (0.76%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.63%) Clustering
13 9 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.44%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.32%) Linux
2 104 (6.56%) Windows
3 41 (2.59%) Unix
4 23 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.01%) Android
7 12 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 9 (0.57%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.38%) VMS
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.32%) CentOS
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.063%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (20.55%) Agile
2 227 (14.31%) DevOps
3 183 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 127 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 109 (6.87%) Migration
7 97 (6.12%) Microservices
8 89 (5.61%) Data Modelling
9 85 (5.36%) Test Automation
10 84 (5.30%) Analytics
11 81 (5.11%) ITIL
12 78 (4.92%) Roadmaps
13 77 (4.85%) Change Management
13 77 (4.85%) Scrum
14 76 (4.79%) Cybersecurity
15 71 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (4.48%) Project Management
16 68 (4.29%) Decision-Making
17 67 (4.22%) ETL
17 67 (4.22%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 209 (13.18%) Java
1 209 (13.18%) Python
2 155 (9.77%) SQL
3 101 (6.37%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.96%) C#
6 41 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 38 (2.40%) Bash
8 25 (1.58%) Go
9 19 (1.20%) PHP
10 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.63%) Ruby
10 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.57%) C++
12 7 (0.44%) ABAP
12 7 (0.44%) C
12 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.38%) Perl
14 4 (0.25%) COBOL
14 4 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1,586 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 150 (9.46%) DV Cleared
3 79 (4.98%) Degree
4 41 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.20%) PMP
7 18 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.07%) CTC Cleared
9 12 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 7 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.38%) CISM
13 6 (0.38%) CISSP
13 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.32%) CCNP
14 5 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.22%) QA
2 42 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.26%) PMO
5 18 (1.13%) SLA
6 15 (0.95%) NIST
7 14 (0.88%) NCSC
8 10 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.57%) GDPR
10 5 (0.32%) WCAG
11 4 (0.25%) GRC
11 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.19%) COBIT
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.063%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.063%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 127 (8.01%) Docker
2 46 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.57%) vSphere
7 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.063%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.063%) UAG
Systems Management
1 173 (10.91%) Terraform
2 164 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 97 (6.12%) Ansible
4 24 (1.51%) Grafana
4 24 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.01%) Puppet
7 15 (0.95%) Packer
8 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.69%) Consul
9 11 (0.69%) SCCM
10 9 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.57%) VxRail
11 8 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.44%) Nagios
13 6 (0.38%) Kibana
13 6 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 155 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.94%) Oracle
3 44 (2.77%) SAP
4 42 (2.65%) Cisco
4 42 (2.65%) VMware
5 29 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 29 (1.83%) Sparx
6 24 (1.51%) Splunk
7 20 (1.26%) Palo Alto
8 19 (1.20%) NetApp
9 17 (1.07%) IBM
10 16 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 14 (0.88%) Apple
11 14 (0.88%) F5
11 14 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.82%) Databricks
12 13 (0.82%) Informatica
12 13 (0.82%) Juniper
12 13 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.76%) Okta