SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 112 54 48
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 24.51% 26.34% 16.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.33% 53.47% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 10 11
10th Percentile £450 £395 £258
25th Percentile £476 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +62.14% -24.73%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £463
90th Percentile £825 £705 £525
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £455
% change year-on-year +9.09% +20.88% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 35 27
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.13 £38.40
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +27.55%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £66.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +52.94% -29.17% +22.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Stevenage

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Stevenage.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 192 101 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 42.01% 49.27% 63.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 39 55
10th Percentile £389 £490 £332
25th Percentile £450 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.28%
75th Percentile £778 £578 £575
90th Percentile £825 £760 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £551 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.18% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 47 73
10th Percentile £24.19 £21.13 £38.40
25th Percentile £60.81 £34.74 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.88% - -28.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £68.50
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £68.75 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +61.76% -1.16% -28.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Stevenage

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Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Stevenage over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Stevenage

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Stevenage over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Stevenage

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.82%) CMS
2 6 (5.36%) Confluence
3 4 (3.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.89%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Windchill
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Simulink
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.25%) Azure
1 7 (6.25%) Google Workspace
1 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (5.36%) AWS
2 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.68%) SaaS
4 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (1.79%) GCP
4 2 (1.79%) Google Docs
4 2 (1.79%) iPaaS
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.89%) Boomi
5 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.89%) GitHub
5 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.89%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) SAN
2 12 (10.71%) DNS
3 11 (9.82%) H.323
4 10 (8.93%) Firewall
4 10 (8.93%) VLAN
5 6 (5.36%) HTTP
5 6 (5.36%) LAN
5 6 (5.36%) WAN
6 5 (4.46%) Ethernet
6 5 (4.46%) WebEx
7 3 (2.68%) Network Security
7 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.79%) FTP
8 2 (1.79%) SMTP
8 2 (1.79%) SSL
8 2 (1.79%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.89%) MQTT
9 1 (0.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.57%) Looker
3 3 (2.68%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.68%) Metadata
4 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) JIRA
2 5 (4.46%) Git
3 4 (3.57%) GitLab
4 3 (2.68%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.89%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.89%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.89%) PVCS
5 1 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
General
1 28 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.18%) Aerospace
4 16 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (9.82%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.25%) Finance
7 6 (5.36%) Law
7 6 (5.36%) Military
8 4 (3.57%) Aviation
8 4 (3.57%) Back Office
9 3 (2.68%) Electronics
9 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.79%) Legal
10 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Automotive
11 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (10.71%) Administrator
1 12 (10.71%) Senior
2 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (8.93%) Technical Administrator
4 9 (8.04%) Developer
4 9 (8.04%) NetApp Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) Applications Developer
5 8 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
5 8 (7.14%) Report Developer
5 8 (7.14%) Report Specialist
6 7 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 7 (6.25%) Lead
7 6 (5.36%) Consultant
7 6 (5.36%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Backup Specialist
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 5 (4.46%) Software Asset Manager
8 5 (4.46%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) LDAP
2 11 (9.82%) XMPP
3 10 (8.93%) REST
4 6 (5.36%) JSON
5 4 (3.57%) Regular Expression
5 4 (3.57%) SOAP
5 4 (3.57%) Web Services
5 4 (3.57%) XML
6 3 (2.68%) JSP
6 3 (2.68%) Node.js
7 2 (1.79%) Middleware
8 1 (0.89%) OAuth
8 1 (0.89%) PySpark
8 1 (0.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Replication
1 11 (9.82%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (8.93%) CMDB
3 9 (8.04%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.25%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.46%) PKI
8 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
8 4 (3.57%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.68%) FPGA
9 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.68%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.68%) Robotics
9 3 (2.68%) Verilog
9 3 (2.68%) VHDL
10 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (1.79%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.43%) Linux
2 22 (19.64%) Windows
3 15 (13.39%) Windows Server
4 13 (11.61%) CentOS
4 13 (11.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.82%) Rocky
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (16.96%) ITSM
3 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (12.50%) Service Management
5 13 (11.61%) Agile
5 13 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.61%) Data Modelling
5 13 (11.61%) ERP
6 12 (10.71%) AI
7 11 (9.82%) ITIL
8 10 (8.93%) Analytics
8 10 (8.93%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.93%) Computer Science
8 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (7.14%) Asset Management
9 8 (7.14%) Project Management
10 7 (6.25%) Change Management
10 7 (6.25%) Risk Management
10 7 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.82%) Python
3 10 (8.93%) SQL
4 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.25%) C++
6 5 (4.46%) C
6 5 (4.46%) Java
7 3 (2.68%) C#
7 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.68%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (1.79%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.79%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.89%) Ada
9 1 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.89%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) Degree
3 10 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.57%) CCNP
6 4 (3.57%) CCNP Voice
7 2 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) SLA
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
5 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.89%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.89%) MISRA
System Software
1 21 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.46%) vSphere
4 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.57%) NFS
5 1 (0.89%) Docker
5 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (11.61%) Ansible
2 11 (9.82%) Cisco CUCM
2 11 (9.82%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.79%) Check_MK
3 2 (1.79%) Podman
3 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) VMware
2 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.29%) NetApp
3 16 (14.29%) Veeam
4 14 (12.50%) Remedy
5 12 (10.71%) SAP
6 11 (9.82%) Cisco
7 8 (7.14%) Google
8 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.46%) Snow
10 4 (3.57%) PTC
11 3 (2.68%) EMC
11 3 (2.68%) IBM
11 3 (2.68%) Intel
11 3 (2.68%) Microsemi
11 3 (2.68%) Xilinx
12 2 (1.79%) Apple
12 2 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.79%) Pega
12 2 (1.79%) Red Hat