SC Cleared Contracts in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 4 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 822 1,013 960
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.07% 18.09% 12.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.97% 49.80% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 724 695
10th Percentile £400 £300 £363
25th Percentile £476 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% -2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 64 32
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.68 £19.52
25th Percentile £26.50 £54.38 £35.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.78 £54.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +15.23% +28.18%
75th Percentile £68.28 £73.72 £65.36
90th Percentile £84.45 £78.16 £82.73
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,420 2,034 2,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.36% 36.32% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,331 1,565
10th Percentile £334 £300 £313
25th Percentile £449 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 132 82
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.62 £18.53
25th Percentile £25.70 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +32.85% +7.83%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £54.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.68 £67.30
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 the South East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire -1 396 £550 +5.26% 105
Thames Valley -1 351 £590 +20.72% 121
Berkshire -1 235 £605 +7.32% 77
Buckinghamshire 0 113 £500 +8.47% 27
Surrey +14 46 £625 +7.76% 18
West Sussex -18 15 £550 -4.35% 12
Kent +7 9 £294 +1.38% 2
Oxfordshire +7 3 £650 +45.25% 17
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.31%) Confluence
3 18 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.49%) Apache
4 4 (0.49%) SAS
5 3 (0.36%) CICS
5 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.09%) Simulink
5 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 20 (2.43%) SAP EWM
2 13 (1.58%) SAP QM
3 8 (0.97%) Primavera
3 8 (0.97%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 124 (15.09%) Azure
2 78 (9.49%) AWS
3 31 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (3.04%) OpenShift
5 23 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (2.07%) Azure Storage
8 16 (1.95%) OCI
9 14 (1.70%) Power Platform
10 13 (1.58%) GitHub
11 12 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (0.73%) Boomi
13 6 (0.73%) IaaS
14 5 (0.61%) GCP
14 5 (0.61%) Serverless
15 3 (0.36%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.36%) PaaS
15 3 (0.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.25%) Firewall
2 61 (7.42%) DNS
3 51 (6.20%) DHCP
4 42 (5.11%) SAN
5 39 (4.74%) SSL
6 30 (3.65%) WAN
7 20 (2.43%) Network Security
7 20 (2.43%) VPN
8 19 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.70%) BGP
9 14 (1.70%) Wireless
10 12 (1.46%) LAN
10 12 (1.46%) MPLS
11 10 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (0.97%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.73%) Internet
13 6 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
13 6 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.58%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.46%) MySQL
6 11 (1.34%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.61%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.49%) Metadata
10 3 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.36%) DB2
10 3 (0.36%) IDMS
11 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.24%) Lumira
11 2 (0.24%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 45 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.50%) Git
3 35 (4.26%) GitLab
4 31 (3.77%) JIRA
5 26 (3.16%) Selenium
6 25 (3.04%) Cucumber
6 25 (3.04%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.92%) REST Assured
8 14 (1.70%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.61%) ClearCase
11 5 (0.61%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.36%) GoogleTest
13 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
15 1 (0.12%) JMeter
15 1 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 131 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 92 (11.19%) Public Sector
3 60 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (5.96%) Aerospace
5 38 (4.62%) Military
6 34 (4.14%) Finance
7 23 (2.80%) Law
8 14 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.58%) Police
10 12 (1.46%) Electronics
11 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Aviation
14 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.36%) Billing
16 2 (0.24%) Advertising
16 2 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Publishing
17 1 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (12.41%) Architect
2 98 (11.92%) Developer
3 75 (9.12%) Consultant
4 60 (7.30%) Senior
5 49 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (5.35%) Analyst
7 43 (5.23%) SAP Consultant
8 40 (4.87%) Network Engineer
9 34 (4.14%) Support Specialist
10 31 (3.77%) Active Directory Support
11 27 (3.28%) Active Directory Specialist
11 27 (3.28%) Azure Specialist
12 25 (3.04%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (2.80%) Network Architect
14 23 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.43%) Java Engineer
15 20 (2.43%) Project Manager
15 20 (2.43%) Python Developer
16 16 (1.95%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.01%) REST
2 30 (3.65%) ARM Templates
2 30 (3.65%) Web Services
3 25 (3.04%) Java EE
4 21 (2.55%) .NET
5 20 (2.43%) HTML
6 14 (1.70%) ASP.NET
7 13 (1.58%) Kafka
8 12 (1.46%) Flash
9 10 (1.22%) CSS
10 9 (1.09%) Node.js
11 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.61%) Keycloak
11 5 (0.61%) LDAP
11 5 (0.61%) SAP Basis
12 4 (0.49%) React
12 4 (0.49%) SOAP
12 4 (0.49%) Spring
12 4 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.88%) PKI
2 25 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
6 17 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.34%) Clustering
9 8 (0.97%) Driving Licence
9 8 (0.97%) Replication
10 7 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.85%) FPGA
11 6 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.73%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.73%) PMI
11 6 (0.73%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.36%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 132 (16.06%) Linux
2 97 (11.80%) Windows
3 55 (6.69%) Windows Server
4 35 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (2.68%) Windows 10
6 22 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.95%) Unix
9 14 (1.70%) Ubuntu
9 14 (1.70%) Windows XP
10 12 (1.46%) AIX
11 10 (1.22%) Debian
12 8 (0.97%) VMS
12 8 (0.97%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.36%) zOS
14 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (18.00%) Agile
2 109 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (12.77%) DevOps
4 78 (9.49%) Software Engineering
5 74 (9.00%) ITIL
6 62 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (6.81%) Performance Tuning
8 54 (6.57%) Containerisation
8 54 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (6.20%) Test Automation
10 49 (5.96%) Project Management
11 44 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (5.23%) Scrum
13 38 (4.62%) Decision-Making
13 38 (4.62%) Migration
14 37 (4.50%) Configuration Management
14 37 (4.50%) Service Management
14 37 (4.50%) Threat Modelling
15 35 (4.26%) Software Architecture
16 34 (4.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (8.64%) PowerShell
2 55 (6.69%) Java
3 53 (6.45%) Python
4 44 (5.35%) SQL
5 41 (4.99%) C#
6 25 (3.04%) C++
7 21 (2.55%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.31%) Bash
9 18 (2.19%) VB
9 18 (2.19%) VBScript
10 17 (2.07%) Bicep
10 17 (2.07%) C
11 16 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.58%) PHP
14 9 (1.09%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.61%) Go
16 3 (0.36%) Ada
16 3 (0.36%) REXX
16 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 822 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 186 (22.63%) DV Cleared
3 92 (11.19%) Degree
4 33 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (3.89%) CCNP
6 28 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.68%) CCNA
8 18 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.34%) MCSE
12 9 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.97%) JNCIS
13 8 (0.97%) MCSA
14 5 (0.61%) ISEB
14 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.61%) PMP
15 4 (0.49%) HND
15 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.49%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.31%) SLA
2 9 (1.09%) PMO
2 9 (1.09%) QA
3 8 (0.97%) NIST
4 7 (0.85%) NCSC
5 6 (0.73%) GDPR
6 5 (0.61%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.36%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.36%) RMADS
8 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.24%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.80%) Docker
3 23 (2.80%) vSphere
4 22 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.73%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.12%) LXC
9 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.12%) vCloud
9 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
9 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (8.64%) Ansible
2 67 (8.15%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.87%) Terraform
4 39 (4.74%) SCCM
5 37 (4.50%) WSUS
6 34 (4.14%) SCOM
7 22 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.31%) vCenter Server
9 15 (1.82%) Grafana
9 15 (1.82%) Istio
10 14 (1.70%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (1.70%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.46%) Podman
12 11 (1.34%) Argo
12 11 (1.34%) Kibana
12 11 (1.34%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.97%) Packer
13 8 (0.97%) vRealize
Vendors
1 136 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.44%) VMware
3 66 (8.03%) Cisco
4 61 (7.42%) Oracle
5 59 (7.18%) SAP
6 53 (6.45%) Juniper
7 45 (5.47%) Red Hat
8 27 (3.28%) IBM
9 25 (3.04%) Dell
9 25 (3.04%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.55%) HP
11 20 (2.43%) SolarWinds
12 19 (2.31%) F5
12 19 (2.31%) Veeam
13 18 (2.19%) EMC
14 15 (1.82%) 3PAR
14 15 (1.82%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.82%) Symantec
15 14 (1.70%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (1.70%) ServiceNow