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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 117 56 49
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 25.16% 25.69% 20.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.50% 54.90% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 12
10th Percentile £450 £395 £263
25th Percentile £525 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £363
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +56.55% -23.68%
75th Percentile £801 £700 £450
90th Percentile £825 £705 £521
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% +29.41% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 37 27
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £25.24 £41.25 £38.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +22.45%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.12 £76.00 £66.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +52.94% -22.73% +12.24%

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 200 102 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 43.01% 46.79% 65.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 40 57
10th Percentile £389 £495 £324
25th Percentile £450 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +17.02%
75th Percentile £788 £576 £575
90th Percentile £825 £755 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £576 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.73% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 48 57
10th Percentile £22.83 £21.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £59.50 £38.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.88% - -28.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £85.00
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 16 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 16 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 (9.40%) CMS
2 6 (5.13%) Confluence
3 4 (3.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Windchill
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) Simulink
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (14.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) Google Workspace
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.13%) Azure
4 5 (4.27%) AWS
5 4 (3.42%) Google Docs
6 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.71%) GCP
6 2 (1.71%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.71%) SaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.85%) GitHub
7 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.97%) SAN
2 12 (10.26%) DNS
3 11 (9.40%) H.323
4 10 (8.55%) Firewall
4 10 (8.55%) VLAN
5 6 (5.13%) Ethernet
5 6 (5.13%) HTTP
5 6 (5.13%) LAN
5 6 (5.13%) WAN
6 5 (4.27%) WebEx
7 3 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.56%) Network Security
7 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.71%) FTP
8 2 (1.71%) SMTP
8 2 (1.71%) SSL
9 1 (0.85%) MQTT
9 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.85%) VoIP
9 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Power BI
2 5 (4.27%) BigQuery
2 5 (4.27%) Looker
3 3 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) Git
3 4 (3.42%) GitLab
4 3 (2.56%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.85%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.85%) PVCS
5 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
General
1 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.38%) Aerospace
4 16 (13.68%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.98%) Finance
7 6 (5.13%) Military
8 5 (4.27%) Law
9 4 (3.42%) Aviation
9 4 (3.42%) Back Office
10 3 (2.56%) Electronics
10 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.71%) Legal
11 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Automotive
12 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.85%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 14 (11.97%) Administrator
2 13 (11.11%) Senior
3 12 (10.26%) Technical Administrator
4 11 (9.40%) Developer
4 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.55%) Applications Developer
5 10 (8.55%) Applications Specialist
5 10 (8.55%) Report Developer
5 10 (8.55%) Report Specialist
6 9 (7.69%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) IT Manager
7 7 (5.98%) Lead
7 7 (5.98%) Support Specialist
8 6 (5.13%) Consultant
8 6 (5.13%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 5 (4.27%) Software Asset Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.11%) LDAP
2 11 (9.40%) XMPP
3 9 (7.69%) REST
4 6 (5.13%) JSON
5 4 (3.42%) Regular Expression
5 4 (3.42%) Web Services
5 4 (3.42%) XML
6 3 (2.56%) JSP
6 3 (2.56%) Node.js
6 3 (2.56%) SOAP
7 2 (1.71%) Middleware
8 1 (0.85%) OAuth
8 1 (0.85%) PySpark
8 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) CMDB
2 11 (9.40%) Replication
2 11 (9.40%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.84%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.27%) PKI
7 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.56%) FPGA
8 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.56%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.56%) Verilog
8 3 (2.56%) VHDL
9 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.71%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.71%) Robotics
9 2 (1.71%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.51%) Linux
2 22 (18.80%) Windows
3 15 (12.82%) Windows Server
4 13 (11.11%) CentOS
4 13 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.40%) Rocky
6 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.66%) ITSM
3 18 (15.38%) Service Management
4 17 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (12.82%) ERP
6 14 (11.97%) Agile
6 14 (11.97%) Data Modelling
6 14 (11.97%) ITIL
7 12 (10.26%) AI
7 12 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.55%) Analytics
8 10 (8.55%) Asset Management
8 10 (8.55%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.55%) Computer Science
8 10 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 8 (6.84%) Case Management
11 7 (5.98%) Roadmaps
11 7 (5.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.26%) Python
3 11 (9.40%) SQL
4 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.98%) C++
6 5 (4.27%) C
6 5 (4.27%) Java
7 3 (2.56%) C#
7 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.56%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (1.71%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.71%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.85%) Ada
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.85%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 117 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.82%) Degree
3 10 (8.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.42%) CCNP
6 4 (3.42%) CCNP Voice
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) SLA
2 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.42%) QA
3 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.85%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.85%) MISRA
System Software
1 21 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.27%) vSphere
4 4 (3.42%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.42%) NFS
5 1 (0.85%) Docker
5 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (11.11%) Ansible
2 11 (9.40%) Cisco CUCM
2 11 (9.40%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.71%) Check_MK
3 2 (1.71%) Podman
3 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (19.66%) VMware
2 20 (17.09%) Microsoft
3 17 (14.53%) Remedy
4 16 (13.68%) NetApp
4 16 (13.68%) Veeam
5 14 (11.97%) SAP
6 11 (9.40%) Cisco
7 10 (8.55%) Google
8 8 (6.84%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.27%) Snow
10 4 (3.42%) Apple
10 4 (3.42%) PTC
11 3 (2.56%) EMC
11 3 (2.56%) IBM
11 3 (2.56%) Intel
11 3 (2.56%) Microsemi
11 3 (2.56%) Xilinx
12 2 (1.71%) Pega
12 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.85%) Adobe