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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 58 61 48
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 16.86% 31.77% 11.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.00% 55.96% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 10
10th Percentile £425 £348 £253
25th Percentile £450 - £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £345
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +44.93% -27.37%
75th Percentile £544 £700 £447
90th Percentile £600 - £491
Hertfordshire median daily rate £500 £550 £339
% change year-on-year -9.09% +62.36% -32.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 41 33
10th Percentile £22.63 £40.75 £38.40
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70.63 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £81.35 £68.50
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -6.38%

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 100 109 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 29.07% 56.77% 44.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 54
10th Percentile £425 £450 £336
25th Percentile £450 £525 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 54 83
10th Percentile £22.63 £25.32 £40.00
25th Percentile £38.56 £40.88 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +25.58% -28.33%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.01 £85.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £48.84 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +13.58% - -28.33%

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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 31 July 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 31 July 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 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Simulink
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (5.17%) iPaaS
3 3 (5.17%) SaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) Boomi
4 2 (3.45%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.72%) IaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) SAN
2 7 (12.07%) DNS
3 6 (10.34%) Firewall
4 5 (8.62%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (8.62%) VLAN
4 5 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.90%) Ethernet
5 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.45%) LAN
6 2 (3.45%) Skype
6 2 (3.45%) WAN
7 1 (1.72%) H.323
7 1 (1.72%) SSL
7 1 (1.72%) VoIP
7 1 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
1 3 (5.17%) Metadata
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Eclipse
1 5 (8.62%) Git
1 5 (8.62%) GitLab
1 5 (8.62%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Aerospace
3 7 (12.07%) Military
4 6 (10.34%) Law
5 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Administrator
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) SAP Administrator
4 6 (10.34%) SAP Security Administrator
4 6 (10.34%) SAP Support
4 6 (10.34%) Security Administrator
5 5 (8.62%) Backup Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Data Centre Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Data Manager
5 5 (8.62%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) LDAP
1 4 (6.90%) Middleware
1 4 (6.90%) Node.js
1 4 (6.90%) REST
1 4 (6.90%) SOAP
1 4 (6.90%) Web Services
2 1 (1.72%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Data Centre
1 9 (15.52%) Replication
2 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.90%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.17%) FPGA
4 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.17%) Reference Data
4 3 (5.17%) Robotics
4 3 (5.17%) Verilog
4 3 (5.17%) VHDL
5 2 (3.45%) Smartcard
5 2 (3.45%) YubiKey
6 1 (1.72%) Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.72%) RISC-V
6 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Linux
2 16 (27.59%) Windows
3 13 (22.41%) CentOS
3 13 (22.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (18.97%) Windows Server
5 9 (15.52%) Rocky
6 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Change Management
1 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.79%) Agile
3 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
3 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
3 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
3 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (10.34%) SAP Security
4 6 (10.34%) SDLC
4 6 (10.34%) Visualisation
5 5 (8.62%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (8.62%) Digital Twin
5 5 (8.62%) Event-Driven
5 5 (8.62%) Line Management
5 5 (8.62%) Project Planning
5 5 (8.62%) Synthetic Environment
5 5 (8.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.79%) C++
3 6 (10.34%) C#
4 5 (8.62%) C
4 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) MATLAB
5 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.90%) SQL
6 3 (5.17%) SystemVerilog
7 2 (3.45%) Ada
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) Degree
3 5 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) SLA
2 3 (5.17%) Def Stans
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.72%) MISRA
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) Firmware
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) NetBackup
3 4 (6.90%) Check_MK
3 4 (6.90%) Podman
3 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (5.17%) SCCM
5 2 (3.45%) Nessus
5 2 (3.45%) WSUS
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.72%) Terraform
6 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) NetApp
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.52%) Veeam
3 7 (12.07%) SAP
4 6 (10.34%) VMware
5 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.17%) Intel
6 3 (5.17%) Microsemi
6 3 (5.17%) MuleSoft
6 3 (5.17%) Xilinx
7 2 (3.45%) Tenable
8 1 (1.72%) Cisco
8 1 (1.72%) Google
8 1 (1.72%) IBM
8 1 (1.72%) Informatica
8 1 (1.72%) Pega
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow