SC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2,806 3,679 3,361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.82% 15.99% 11.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.90% 48.88% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 2,610 2,298
10th Percentile £313 £338 £359
25th Percentile £437 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +11.94%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £702 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 300 222
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.06 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £25.75 £24.37
Median hourly rate £55.80 £57.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +6.48% +35.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.25 £70.00
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,404 7,527 8,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.48% 32.71% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,028 5,210
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £422 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 598 524
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.11
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East 0 822 £559 +9.56% 316
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
Scotland +19 219 £500 +9.89% 74
East of England -5 156 £348 -30.50% 65
East Midlands +3 97 £545 -0.91% 38
Yorkshire -4 87 £525 -12.50% 33
Wales -7 44 £600 +9.09% 23
North East -10 26 £450 -20.53% 18
Northern Ireland +11 8 £525 +5.00% 18
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 130 (4.63%) Confluence
2 92 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 79 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.36%) Apache
4 10 (0.36%) SAS
5 9 (0.32%) CICS
6 6 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.11%) CMS
7 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.071%) nginx
8 2 (0.071%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.036%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.036%) Traefik
Applications
1 106 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.46%) Simulink
6 11 (0.39%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.25%) Revit
8 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.036%) CATIA
11 1 (0.036%) Stata
11 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (0.71%) SAP EWM
3 16 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.46%) SAP QM
6 12 (0.43%) Primavera
6 12 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.11%) Maximo
10 3 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
10 3 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
10 3 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Financials
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 1 (0.036%) CA PPM
12 1 (0.036%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 290 (10.33%) Azure
2 211 (7.52%) AWS
3 103 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 46 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 35 (1.25%) OpenShift
7 32 (1.14%) GitHub
8 28 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 25 (0.89%) OCI
10 24 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (0.82%) GCP
11 23 (0.82%) PaaS
12 22 (0.78%) Azure Storage
13 21 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (0.75%) Amazon S3
13 21 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 21 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (0.71%) SaaS
15 17 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (6.59%) Firewall
2 104 (3.71%) DNS
3 103 (3.67%) WAN
4 88 (3.14%) VPN
5 80 (2.85%) DHCP
6 58 (2.07%) SAN
7 48 (1.71%) BGP
7 48 (1.71%) MPLS
8 47 (1.67%) LAN
9 46 (1.64%) IPsec
10 45 (1.60%) Network Security
10 45 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.57%) SSL
12 39 (1.39%) Wireless
13 35 (1.25%) TCP/IP
14 30 (1.07%) OSPF
15 27 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
17 25 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
18 21 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.46%) Power BI
4 38 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 33 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.14%) MySQL
7 28 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 18 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
11 13 (0.46%) SAP BW
12 12 (0.43%) Metadata
13 11 (0.39%) DB2
14 10 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.32%) IDMS
15 9 (0.32%) Tableau
16 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 194 (6.91%) JIRA
2 107 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 100 (3.56%) Git
4 66 (2.35%) GitLab
5 63 (2.25%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.57%) PVCS
6 44 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
7 42 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 38 (1.35%) Selenium
9 30 (1.07%) Cucumber
10 28 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (0.86%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.57%) JUnit
14 11 (0.39%) JMeter
15 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.25%) Eclipse
16 7 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
17 6 (0.21%) webpack
18 5 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 546 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 498 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 223 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (5.95%) Aerospace
5 162 (5.77%) Finance
6 143 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 96 (3.42%) Electronics
8 94 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 87 (3.10%) Military
10 55 (1.96%) Marketing
11 46 (1.64%) Legal
12 33 (1.18%) Police
13 30 (1.07%) Law
13 30 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.78%) Retail
16 19 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (0.57%) Local Government
18 12 (0.43%) Aviation
19 11 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 436 (15.54%) Architect
2 253 (9.02%) Developer
3 246 (8.77%) Analyst
4 200 (7.13%) Senior
5 181 (6.45%) Lead
6 172 (6.13%) Consultant
7 136 (4.85%) Network Engineer
8 117 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 115 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 85 (3.03%) Lead Architect
12 82 (2.92%) Service Analyst
13 81 (2.89%) Service Desk Analyst
14 73 (2.60%) Network Architect
14 73 (2.60%) Support Engineer
15 69 (2.46%) Software Engineer
16 65 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (2.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
18 52 (1.85%) Programmer
18 52 (1.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.67%) REST
2 63 (2.25%) Web Services
3 62 (2.21%) .NET
4 48 (1.71%) Node.js
5 40 (1.43%) Spring
6 37 (1.32%) HTML
7 35 (1.25%) React
8 34 (1.21%) ARM Templates
9 31 (1.10%) Spring Boot
10 30 (1.07%) CSS
11 29 (1.03%) .NET Core
12 25 (0.89%) Java EE
13 23 (0.82%) JPA
14 22 (0.78%) Kafka
15 21 (0.75%) Hibernate
16 17 (0.61%) Flash
17 14 (0.50%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.50%) XML
18 13 (0.46%) .NET Framework
18 13 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (4.03%) PKI
2 86 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 68 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 40 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 38 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 36 (1.28%) Analogue Electronics
8 31 (1.10%) CMDB
9 29 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.00%) Clustering
10 28 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 25 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 25 (0.89%) Private Cloud
12 24 (0.86%) Cloud Native
13 23 (0.82%) Mainframe
14 22 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (0.78%) Operational Technology
15 19 (0.68%) Driving Licence
16 17 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 361 (12.87%) Windows
2 313 (11.15%) Linux
3 126 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.60%) Windows 7
7 39 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 34 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (1.14%) Unix
10 32 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.10%) Android
12 23 (0.82%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.61%) AIX
14 16 (0.57%) Windows XP
15 15 (0.53%) Debian
15 15 (0.53%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.46%) Windows Vista
17 12 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
18 11 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (16.96%) Agile
2 368 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
3 299 (10.66%) ITIL
4 262 (9.34%) DevOps
5 238 (8.48%) Project Management
6 225 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 194 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
8 185 (6.59%) Service Management
8 185 (6.59%) Software Engineering
9 159 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 150 (5.35%) Customer Service
11 142 (5.06%) CI/CD
12 135 (4.81%) Configuration Management
13 124 (4.42%) Risk Management
14 118 (4.21%) Decision-Making
15 117 (4.17%) Mentoring
16 116 (4.13%) ITSM
17 113 (4.03%) Migration
17 113 (4.03%) Scrum
18 98 (3.49%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 175 (6.24%) Python
2 166 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 130 (4.63%) Java
4 128 (4.56%) SQL
5 95 (3.39%) C
6 77 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 73 (2.60%) C#
8 70 (2.49%) PL/SQL
9 67 (2.39%) C++
10 39 (1.39%) Bash
11 23 (0.82%) Bicep
12 22 (0.78%) MATLAB
13 20 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 19 (0.68%) VB
15 18 (0.64%) VBScript
16 15 (0.53%) Ada
16 15 (0.53%) Embedded C
16 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,806 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 380 (13.54%) DV Cleared
3 236 (8.41%) Degree
4 126 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 94 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
6 69 (2.46%) CCNP
7 63 (2.25%) CCNA
8 61 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (1.64%) CISSP
10 34 (1.21%) CISM
11 32 (1.14%) MCSA
12 29 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 28 (1.00%) A+ Certification
14 27 (0.96%) MCSE
15 26 (0.93%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.78%) PMP
17 20 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
18 18 (0.64%) CEH
18 18 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.71%) SLA
2 70 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (2.49%) NIST
3 61 (2.17%) QA
4 44 (1.57%) PMO
5 31 (1.10%) JSP 440
6 30 (1.07%) NCSC
7 28 (1.00%) GDPR
8 27 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
9 24 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 21 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.50%) Def Stans
12 13 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 10 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.29%) RMADS
16 6 (0.21%) COBIT
17 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 256 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 117 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (2.53%) Docker
4 46 (1.64%) vSphere
5 45 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 34 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (1.03%) VMware NSX
8 25 (0.89%) Firmware
9 20 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.32%) KVM
11 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.11%) iptables
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.036%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 142 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 134 (4.78%) Ansible
3 88 (3.14%) SCCM
4 81 (2.89%) Terraform
5 48 (1.71%) vCenter Server
6 47 (1.67%) WSUS
7 42 (1.50%) SCOM
8 36 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.25%) Grafana
10 32 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.89%) PowerCLI
12 23 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
13 22 (0.78%) NetBackup
14 19 (0.68%) Prometheus
15 18 (0.64%) Kibana
16 17 (0.61%) VxRail
17 16 (0.57%) Istio
18 13 (0.46%) Argo
18 13 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
18 13 (0.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 429 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 213 (7.59%) VMware
3 168 (5.99%) Cisco
4 148 (5.27%) SAP
5 113 (4.03%) Oracle
6 107 (3.81%) Juniper
7 76 (2.71%) Atlassian
8 73 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 68 (2.42%) IBM
10 62 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.96%) Dell
12 54 (1.92%) HP
13 49 (1.75%) Palo Alto
14 47 (1.67%) Citrix
15 44 (1.57%) SolarWinds
16 31 (1.10%) Google
17 29 (1.03%) EMC
18 28 (1.00%) Remedy
19 24 (0.86%) F5
20 22 (0.78%) Veeam