SC Cleared Contracts in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4,310 6,253 6,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.83% 12.98% 8.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.41% 47.13% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 4,400 4,223
10th Percentile £350 £375 £382
25th Percentile £450 £461 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 313 267
10th Percentile £13.27 £20.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £30.53 £38.10
Median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.55% +9.52% +22.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £59.90 £54.00
% change year-on-year -18.93% +10.93% +27.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,220 13,267 15,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.80% 27.53% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,953 8,906 10,133
10th Percentile £313 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 672 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.87 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +1 1,611 £525 -6.33% 231
South East 0 822 £559 +9.56% 315
South West -1 773 £532 -9.53% 240
North of England -1 468 £519 -5.64% 172
North West -1 357 £519 -1.14% 121
Midlands +7 335 £485 -11.82% 126
West Midlands +10 237 £450 -21.23% 88
East of England -5 156 £348 -30.50% 65
East Midlands +3 97 £545 -0.91% 38
Yorkshire -4 87 £525 -12.50% 33
North East -10 26 £450 -20.53% 18
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 158 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 147 (3.41%) Confluence
3 89 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 56 (1.30%) Apache
5 31 (0.72%) nginx
6 13 (0.30%) SAS
6 13 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (0.21%) CICS
9 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (0.14%) CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
10 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 118 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.37%) Simulink
7 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 5 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.093%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.070%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) CATIA
12 1 (0.023%) SPSS
12 1 (0.023%) Stata
12 1 (0.023%) Stateflow
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 42 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 22 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 21 (0.49%) SAP EWM
5 18 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.32%) Primavera
6 14 (0.32%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
7 11 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.093%) Maximo
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.093%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
12 3 (0.070%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 696 (16.15%) AWS
2 550 (12.76%) Azure
3 182 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 101 (2.34%) Serverless
6 90 (2.09%) Amazon S3
7 82 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (1.74%) GCP
9 72 (1.67%) GitHub
10 64 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (1.42%) OCI
12 58 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 51 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (1.18%) OpenShift
14 51 (1.18%) PaaS
14 51 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 43 (1.00%) SaaS
16 38 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 233 (5.41%) Firewall
2 124 (2.88%) WAN
3 95 (2.20%) DNS
4 93 (2.16%) VPN
5 67 (1.55%) DHCP
6 64 (1.48%) Network Security
7 61 (1.42%) LAN
8 58 (1.35%) Wireless
9 57 (1.32%) BGP
9 57 (1.32%) SAN
10 53 (1.23%) IPsec
10 53 (1.23%) MPLS
11 48 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (1.02%) SSL
13 40 (0.93%) OSPF
13 40 (0.93%) TCP/IP
14 35 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
15 32 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
15 32 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 65 (1.51%) Power BI
5 64 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 57 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 48 (1.11%) MySQL
10 47 (1.09%) Metadata
11 45 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 39 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (0.90%) Flink
14 34 (0.79%) Data Vault
15 33 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 30 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 24 (0.56%) Big Data
18 23 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
19 22 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 243 (5.64%) JIRA
2 209 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 207 (4.80%) Git
4 129 (2.99%) GitLab
5 78 (1.81%) Selenium
6 66 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 60 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 51 (1.18%) JUnit
9 49 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 47 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
11 46 (1.07%) PVCS
12 39 (0.90%) REST Assured
13 38 (0.88%) SonarQube
14 29 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 26 (0.60%) JMeter
16 20 (0.46%) Maven
17 19 (0.44%) TestNG
18 17 (0.39%) Postman
19 16 (0.37%) Mockito
19 16 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 938 (21.76%) Public Sector
2 785 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 360 (8.35%) Finance
4 295 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (4.06%) Telecoms
6 166 (3.85%) Aerospace
7 123 (2.85%) Manufacturing
8 118 (2.74%) Electronics
9 116 (2.69%) Military
10 69 (1.60%) Marketing
11 65 (1.51%) Law
12 64 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.39%) Legal
14 57 (1.32%) Police
15 49 (1.14%) Banking
16 47 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 43 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.63%) Retail
19 25 (0.58%) Publishing
20 21 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 717 (16.64%) Architect
2 498 (11.55%) Developer
3 349 (8.10%) Analyst
4 314 (7.29%) Senior
5 282 (6.54%) Lead
6 254 (5.89%) Consultant
7 200 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 178 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 163 (3.78%) Network Engineer
10 153 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 126 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 126 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 119 (2.76%) Java Developer
13 100 (2.32%) Lead Architect
14 96 (2.23%) Technical Architect
15 95 (2.20%) Service Analyst
16 87 (2.02%) Software Engineer
16 87 (2.02%) Support Engineer
17 84 (1.95%) Service Desk Analyst
18 83 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (3.04%) REST
2 114 (2.65%) Spring
3 110 (2.55%) React
4 109 (2.53%) Kafka
5 105 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 96 (2.23%) .NET
7 93 (2.16%) HTML
8 84 (1.95%) CSS
9 83 (1.93%) Node.js
10 74 (1.72%) Web Services
11 46 (1.07%) JSON
12 45 (1.04%) JPA
13 43 (1.00%) Hibernate
14 40 (0.93%) RESTful
15 37 (0.86%) ARM Templates
16 33 (0.77%) .NET Core
17 27 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
18 26 (0.60%) .NET Framework
18 26 (0.60%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 126 (2.92%) PKI
2 110 (2.55%) Management Information System
3 97 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 87 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 79 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 52 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 51 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 39 (0.90%) CMDB
10 38 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
12 32 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
13 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
14 30 (0.70%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.65%) Clustering
15 28 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
15 28 (0.65%) Mainframe
15 28 (0.65%) Reference Data
16 27 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 433 (10.05%) Windows
2 429 (9.95%) Linux
3 141 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 68 (1.58%) Unix
6 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.11%) Android
8 45 (1.04%) Windows 7
9 42 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (0.95%) Apple iOS
11 38 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 34 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
13 26 (0.60%) Mac OS X
14 24 (0.56%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.39%) AIX
15 17 (0.39%) VMS
16 15 (0.35%) Debian
16 15 (0.35%) Windows XP
17 13 (0.30%) Windows Vista
18 12 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (18.14%) Agile
2 500 (11.60%) DevOps
3 487 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
4 373 (8.65%) ITIL
5 346 (8.03%) CI/CD
6 341 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 288 (6.68%) Project Management
8 252 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
9 249 (5.78%) Service Management
10 225 (5.22%) Migration
10 225 (5.22%) Software Engineering
11 187 (4.34%) Decision-Making
12 186 (4.32%) Configuration Management
13 185 (4.29%) Scrum
14 183 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 181 (4.20%) Change Management
16 170 (3.94%) Mentoring
17 166 (3.85%) Test Automation
18 165 (3.83%) Analytics
19 157 (3.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 407 (9.44%) Python
2 347 (8.05%) Java
3 291 (6.75%) SQL
4 202 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 186 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 128 (2.97%) C#
7 106 (2.46%) C
8 80 (1.86%) C++
9 79 (1.83%) Bash
10 77 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 67 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 36 (0.84%) Go
13 33 (0.77%) PHP
14 28 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 24 (0.56%) Bicep
17 20 (0.46%) Perl
17 20 (0.46%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.44%) VB
19 18 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4,310 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 512 (11.88%) DV Cleared
3 305 (7.08%) Degree
4 174 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 110 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 77 (1.79%) CCNP
7 70 (1.62%) CCNA
8 66 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 60 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (1.25%) CISSP
11 38 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 37 (0.86%) CISM
13 35 (0.81%) PMP
14 33 (0.77%) MCSA
15 31 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 29 (0.67%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.58%) AWS Certification
17 25 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 23 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (2.67%) SLA
2 114 (2.65%) QA
3 78 (1.81%) NIST
4 73 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 55 (1.28%) PMO
7 48 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.02%) NCSC
9 37 (0.86%) GDPR
10 31 (0.72%) JSP 440
11 27 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
12 21 (0.49%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) Def Stans
14 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
16 9 (0.21%) COBIT
16 9 (0.21%) RMADS
17 8 (0.19%) WCAG
18 7 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 259 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 205 (4.76%) Docker
3 141 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.30%) vSphere
5 48 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.02%) VMware NSX
8 32 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (0.67%) Firmware
10 24 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.070%) iptables
13 3 (0.070%) KVM
13 3 (0.070%) XenApp
13 3 (0.070%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.046%) UAG
15 1 (0.023%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.023%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 312 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 270 (6.26%) Terraform
3 240 (5.57%) Ansible
4 78 (1.81%) SCCM
5 60 (1.39%) Grafana
6 51 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 44 (1.02%) SCOM
8 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 42 (0.97%) Prometheus
10 41 (0.95%) WSUS
11 35 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (0.67%) Puppet
13 28 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.65%) Kibana
13 28 (0.65%) Packer
14 26 (0.60%) VxRail
15 25 (0.58%) PowerCLI
16 23 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
17 20 (0.46%) NetBackup
18 18 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 538 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.75%) VMware
3 225 (5.22%) Oracle
4 198 (4.59%) Cisco
5 197 (4.57%) SAP
6 121 (2.81%) Juniper
7 96 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 86 (2.00%) IBM
9 76 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.30%) Dell
12 53 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 52 (1.21%) HP
14 50 (1.16%) Sparx
15 49 (1.14%) SolarWinds
16 46 (1.07%) Google
17 45 (1.04%) Citrix
18 41 (0.95%) Splunk
19 39 (0.90%) EMC
20 38 (0.88%) F5