SC Cleared Contracts in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 773 1,101 892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 24.46% 31.79% 24.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.92% 60.39% 60.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 843 597
10th Percentile £300 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +11.90% +9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £713 £734 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 68 65
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.50 £49.60
25th Percentile £57.33 £55.94 £54.84
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +0.38% +40.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.15
90th Percentile £81.36 £90.00 £75.00
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 West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,760 1,823 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.70% 52.64% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,342 1,037
10th Percentile £360 £400 £325
25th Percentile £465 £484 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +10.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £733 £680
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 140 91
10th Percentile £22.05 £39.55 £42.33
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.01 £52.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% +40.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.44 £68.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.29 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire -1 292 £525 -8.70% 48
Bristol 0 255 £575 -4.17% 91
Devon +6 74 £465 -22.50% 32
Gloucestershire -6 66 £500 -9.09% 29
Dorset 0 34 £575 +9.52% 18
Somerset -4 24 £578 -14.44% 22
Cornwall - 1 - -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 49 (6.34%) Confluence
2 29 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.78%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) Simulink
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.29%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (10.22%) Azure
2 50 (6.47%) AWS
2 50 (6.47%) Power Platform
3 29 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (2.07%) Power Automate
5 14 (1.81%) GitHub
6 12 (1.55%) GCP
6 12 (1.55%) PaaS
7 10 (1.29%) PowerApps
8 9 (1.16%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.03%) SaaS
10 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (0.78%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Storage
12 5 (0.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.75%) Firewall
2 26 (3.36%) WAN
3 18 (2.33%) DNS
4 14 (1.81%) LAN
5 12 (1.55%) 4G
6 11 (1.42%) DHCP
6 11 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.29%) Internet
7 10 (1.29%) SDH
7 10 (1.29%) VoIP
7 10 (1.29%) VSAN
8 9 (1.16%) Network Security
9 7 (0.91%) 3G
9 7 (0.91%) Skype
9 7 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.78%) HTTP
10 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.65%) 5G
11 5 (0.65%) Intranet
12 4 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.75%) Power BI
3 13 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (1.03%) Tableau
7 5 (0.65%) Triplestore
8 4 (0.52%) Biml
8 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.26%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.26%) MySQL
11 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.13%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 70 (9.06%) JIRA
2 34 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.62%) Bitbucket
3 28 (3.62%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (3.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (1.29%) GitLab
6 3 (0.39%) Git
6 3 (0.39%) Selenium
6 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) JUnit
7 2 (0.26%) Snyk
8 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Checkstyle
8 1 (0.13%) ERwin
8 1 (0.13%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 105 (13.58%) Telecoms
4 84 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.76%) Finance
6 50 (6.47%) Aerospace
7 45 (5.82%) Manufacturing
8 38 (4.92%) Military
9 34 (4.40%) Electronics
10 31 (4.01%) Marketing
11 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.55%) Police
13 11 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Publishing
16 7 (0.91%) Legal
17 5 (0.65%) Aeronautics
17 5 (0.65%) Aviation
17 5 (0.65%) Law
18 4 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 187 (24.19%) Architect
2 98 (12.68%) Lead
3 68 (8.80%) Lead Architect
4 58 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (6.60%) Developer
6 48 (6.21%) Project Manager
7 44 (5.69%) Senior
8 42 (5.43%) Analyst
9 38 (4.92%) Network Architect
9 38 (4.92%) Systems Architect
10 34 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (3.49%) Support Engineer
12 26 (3.36%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.23%) Network Engineer
13 25 (3.23%) Service Manager
14 24 (3.10%) Data Engineer
15 23 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
15 23 (2.98%) Service Analyst
15 23 (2.98%) Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.85%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.75%) .NET
2 25 (3.23%) .NET Core
3 13 (1.68%) REST
4 11 (1.42%) CSS
5 7 (0.91%) React
5 7 (0.91%) XML
6 6 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (0.78%) HTML
6 6 (0.78%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.65%) Apache Jena
7 5 (0.65%) Flash
7 5 (0.65%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.65%) Kafka
7 5 (0.65%) PostGIS
7 5 (0.65%) SPFx
7 5 (0.65%) Spring
8 4 (0.52%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.39%) Qt
9 3 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.27%) Data Centre
2 31 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.98%) PKI
4 22 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.59%) Private Cloud
6 18 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.94%) CMDB
9 13 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.55%) ARM Cortex
11 10 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.16%) Blog
12 9 (1.16%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.16%) Replication
13 8 (1.03%) CESG
13 8 (1.03%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
16 5 (0.65%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 79 (10.22%) Linux
2 73 (9.44%) Windows
3 24 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.55%) FreeRTOS
6 10 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.26%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (18.50%) Agile
2 115 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (14.49%) ITIL
4 94 (12.16%) Project Management
5 77 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
7 65 (8.41%) Service Management
8 59 (7.63%) DevOps
9 56 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (6.60%) Configuration Management
11 50 (6.47%) ArchiMate
12 47 (6.08%) Strategic Thinking
13 46 (5.95%) Change Management
14 45 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 43 (5.56%) Migration
15 43 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
16 42 (5.43%) CI/CD
17 40 (5.17%) ITSM
17 40 (5.17%) Programme Management
18 39 (5.05%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (7.12%) PowerShell
2 51 (6.60%) Python
3 43 (5.56%) SQL
4 26 (3.36%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.98%) C
6 18 (2.33%) Java
7 12 (1.55%) C#
7 12 (1.55%) Embedded C
8 11 (1.42%) C++
9 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.78%) Ada
11 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.52%) Bash
12 4 (0.52%) Bicep
13 3 (0.39%) R
14 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) Fortran
15 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 773 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.01%) DV Cleared
3 85 (11.00%) Degree
4 37 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.36%) CISSP
6 25 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (2.72%) CISM
8 17 (2.20%) CCNA
8 17 (2.20%) CCNP
8 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (1.42%) MCSE
12 10 (1.29%) CEH
12 10 (1.29%) HND
13 9 (1.16%) CISA
13 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.03%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.14%) SLA
2 29 (3.75%) JSP 440
3 27 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.49%) QA
4 24 (3.10%) NIST
5 20 (2.59%) PMO
6 17 (2.20%) NCSC
7 11 (1.42%) GDPR
7 11 (1.42%) HIPAA
8 9 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.03%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.91%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.65%) RMADS
12 4 (0.52%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.39%) MISRA
14 2 (0.26%) COBIT
14 2 (0.26%) GRC
15 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 52 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 51 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.72%) vSphere
4 18 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 16 (2.07%) Docker
6 10 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.39%) Firmware
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (4.40%) Ansible
2 25 (3.23%) PowerCLI
3 22 (2.85%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 14 (1.81%) SCCM
6 12 (1.55%) Terraform
7 6 (0.78%) OPNET
8 5 (0.65%) SCOM
9 4 (0.52%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 4 (0.52%) VxRail
10 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) WSUS
11 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.26%) Argo
11 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) Autotask
12 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 83 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.31%) VMware
3 50 (6.47%) SAP
4 37 (4.79%) Atlassian
4 37 (4.79%) Cisco
5 28 (3.62%) IBM
6 24 (3.10%) Dell
7 23 (2.98%) Remedy
8 22 (2.85%) HP
9 19 (2.46%) Juniper
9 19 (2.46%) Oracle
10 15 (1.94%) Nokia
10 15 (1.94%) Sparx
11 13 (1.68%) Google
12 12 (1.55%) Lauterbach
12 12 (1.55%) Micro Focus
13 10 (1.29%) Splunk
14 9 (1.16%) BT
15 6 (0.78%) BMC
15 6 (0.78%) Red Hat