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 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 17 18 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -14
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,611 2,310 2,268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.22% 8.93% 5.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.77% 40.95% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,609 1,678
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +1.91% +9.95%
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 44
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% -18.84%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.11 £87.50 £64.03
England median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -15.55% +9.52% +22.63%

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 4,155 5,641 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.78% 21.80% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,825 3,840 4,622
10th Percentile £325 £363 £367
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
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 79 151
10th Percentile £14.19 £19.23 £24.69
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.84
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -6.74% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £84.50 £66.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
% change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%

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 18 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

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
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 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
Central London -5 161 £515 -4.85% 23
South London +2 103 £513 -5.09% 11
West London +33 21 £500 +23.46% 12
East London - 7 £500 - 21
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 75 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.47%) Confluence
3 45 (2.79%) Apache
4 27 (1.68%) nginx
5 22 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.62%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.25%) Camunda
11 4 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.19%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.19%) Simulink
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.062%) SPSS
9 1 (0.062%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.062%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 464 (28.80%) AWS
2 236 (14.65%) Azure
3 88 (5.46%) Serverless
4 77 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (4.28%) Amazon S3
7 47 (2.92%) GCP
8 45 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 42 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (2.23%) GitHub
11 34 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.92%) OCI
14 30 (1.86%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (1.61%) PaaS
17 23 (1.43%) Amazon MSK
17 23 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.98%) Firewall
2 20 (1.24%) VPN
3 19 (1.18%) Wireless
4 17 (1.06%) WAN
5 16 (0.99%) Network Security
6 14 (0.87%) VoIP
7 13 (0.81%) LAN
8 11 (0.68%) Skype
9 10 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.62%) OSPF
10 9 (0.56%) BGP
11 8 (0.50%) WLAN
12 7 (0.43%) DNS
12 7 (0.43%) IPsec
13 6 (0.37%) Internet
14 5 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
14 5 (0.31%) MPLS
14 5 (0.31%) SNA
14 5 (0.31%) SSH
14 5 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (3.54%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
4 39 (2.42%) Flink
4 39 (2.42%) Metadata
5 38 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 37 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 35 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (2.11%) Data Vault
9 33 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 28 (1.74%) Power BI
11 22 (1.37%) Big Data
11 22 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
13 20 (1.24%) DynamoDB
14 18 (1.12%) Parquet
15 17 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (0.87%) MySQL
16 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 116 (7.20%) JIRA
2 100 (6.21%) Git
3 98 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.66%) GitLab
5 41 (2.55%) Selenium
6 35 (2.17%) JUnit
7 31 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.18%) TestNG
9 17 (1.06%) Postman
10 16 (0.99%) JMeter
11 15 (0.93%) Maven
11 15 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.81%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.74%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.68%) Mockito
15 10 (0.62%) Appium
16 9 (0.56%) eggPlant
16 9 (0.56%) SOAtest
16 9 (0.56%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 481 (29.86%) Public Sector
2 265 (16.45%) Social Skills
3 200 (12.41%) Finance
4 86 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.79%) Banking
6 36 (2.23%) Law
7 35 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 30 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 29 (1.80%) Marketing
9 29 (1.80%) Military
10 26 (1.61%) Electronics
11 25 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.12%) Legal
13 18 (1.12%) Police
14 14 (0.87%) Publishing
15 11 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 281 (17.44%) Architect
2 235 (14.59%) Developer
3 141 (8.75%) Senior
4 128 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 112 (6.95%) Analyst
6 88 (5.46%) Lead
7 85 (5.28%) Consultant
8 83 (5.15%) Data Engineer
9 76 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 69 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
12 60 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 58 (3.60%) Full Stack Developer
14 57 (3.54%) Project Manager
15 53 (3.29%) Business Analyst
16 49 (3.04%) Technical Architect
17 44 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
18 41 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
19 40 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 40 (2.48%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.40%) Kafka
2 71 (4.41%) Spring Boot
3 70 (4.35%) Spring
4 69 (4.28%) React
5 58 (3.60%) REST
6 55 (3.41%) HTML
7 51 (3.17%) CSS
8 35 (2.17%) JSON
9 30 (1.86%) Node.js
10 29 (1.80%) .NET
11 27 (1.68%) RESTful
12 23 (1.43%) Hibernate
12 23 (1.43%) JPA
12 23 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.24%) Laravel
14 18 (1.12%) Apache Avro
14 18 (1.12%) OpenID
15 16 (0.99%) SAML
15 16 (0.99%) Sass
15 16 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.48%) Onboarding
2 40 (2.48%) Data Centre
3 28 (1.74%) Reference Data
4 26 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 22 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.24%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (0.93%) PKI
9 14 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (0.74%) Blockchain
10 12 (0.74%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.62%) Clustering
13 9 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.43%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.19%) Linux
2 104 (6.46%) Windows
3 41 (2.55%) Unix
4 23 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.99%) Android
7 12 (0.74%) Windows 7
8 9 (0.56%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.37%) VMS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.31%) CentOS
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.062%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (20.42%) Agile
2 230 (14.28%) DevOps
3 185 (11.48%) CI/CD
4 127 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 111 (6.89%) Migration
7 97 (6.02%) Microservices
8 90 (5.59%) Data Modelling
9 86 (5.34%) Analytics
10 85 (5.28%) Test Automation
11 81 (5.03%) ITIL
12 80 (4.97%) Change Management
12 80 (4.97%) Roadmaps
13 78 (4.84%) Scrum
14 76 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
15 75 (4.66%) Project Management
16 71 (4.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 70 (4.35%) Decision-Making
18 68 (4.22%) Full Stack Development
19 67 (4.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 212 (13.16%) Java
2 211 (13.10%) Python
3 156 (9.68%) SQL
4 101 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 50 (3.10%) PowerShell
6 47 (2.92%) C#
7 41 (2.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (2.42%) Bash
9 25 (1.55%) Go
10 19 (1.18%) PHP
11 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.62%) Ruby
11 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.56%) C++
13 7 (0.43%) ABAP
13 7 (0.43%) C
13 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.37%) Perl
15 4 (0.25%) COBOL
15 4 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1,611 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 149 (9.25%) DV Cleared
3 82 (5.09%) Degree
4 42 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.18%) PMP
8 18 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
10 13 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 7 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 6 (0.37%) CISM
14 6 (0.37%) CISSP
14 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.17%) QA
2 42 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.30%) PMO
5 18 (1.12%) SLA
6 15 (0.93%) NIST
7 14 (0.87%) NCSC
8 10 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.56%) GDPR
10 5 (0.31%) 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 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.062%) IFRS
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 128 (7.95%) Docker
2 46 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.62%) vSphere
7 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) UAG
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.062%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 177 (10.99%) Terraform
2 166 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 99 (6.15%) Ansible
4 24 (1.49%) Grafana
4 24 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.99%) Puppet
7 15 (0.93%) Packer
8 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.68%) Consul
9 11 (0.68%) SCCM
10 9 (0.56%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.56%) VxRail
11 8 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.43%) Nagios
13 6 (0.37%) Kibana
13 6 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 156 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.83%) Oracle
3 45 (2.79%) SAP
4 43 (2.67%) VMware
5 40 (2.48%) Cisco
6 30 (1.86%) Sparx
7 29 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.49%) Splunk
9 19 (1.18%) NetApp
10 18 (1.12%) IBM
10 18 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 16 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.87%) Apple
12 14 (0.87%) F5
12 14 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.81%) Informatica
13 13 (0.81%) Juniper
13 13 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.74%) Foundry
14 12 (0.74%) Google