SC Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 10 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1,687 3,147 3,850
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.43% 12.77% 8.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.90% 50.42% 43.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 2,234 2,794
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 161 135
10th Percentile £13.99 £24.50 £26.08
25th Percentile £25.06 £54.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +20.10% +9.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £82.50 £66.90
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,932 6,241 8,772
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 25.33% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 4,218 6,182
10th Percentile £335 £381 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 255 225
10th Percentile £14.79 £19.10 £20.54
25th Percentile £24.06 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +25.83%
75th Percentile £68.52 £71.63 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

SC Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

SC Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

SC Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 69 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 66 (3.91%) Confluence
3 58 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.95%) nginx
5 12 (0.71%) Apache
6 8 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2003
6 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.41%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) CICS
8 6 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.47%) Trello
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.24%) Revit
7 4 (0.24%) Sketch
8 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) Teamcenter
2 10 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.36%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.18%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 330 (19.56%) AWS
2 267 (15.83%) Azure
3 100 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (3.26%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.02%) GitHub
6 42 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.25%) Entra ID
8 36 (2.13%) GCP
9 34 (2.02%) SaaS
10 33 (1.96%) PaaS
11 29 (1.72%) Serverless
12 28 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.20%) Firewall
2 33 (1.96%) Network Security
3 30 (1.78%) DNS
4 26 (1.54%) DHCP
5 25 (1.48%) WAN
6 23 (1.36%) SSL
7 21 (1.24%) VPN
8 20 (1.19%) SAN
9 18 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.77%) 4G
10 13 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.71%) BGP
11 12 (0.71%) OSPF
12 11 (0.65%) SNMP
13 10 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (0.59%) IPsec
13 10 (0.59%) Skype
14 9 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.84%) Power BI
4 29 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 22 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (0.83%) Oracle Database 11g
9 13 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.71%) DB2
10 12 (0.71%) MySQL
11 11 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.59%) Siebel EIM
13 9 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.47%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 121 (7.17%) JIRA
2 67 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.50%) Git
4 40 (2.37%) Selenium
5 39 (2.31%) GitLab
6 34 (2.02%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.84%) PVCS
8 23 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.95%) JMeter
10 16 (0.95%) JUnit
11 14 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.77%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.59%) Maven
13 10 (0.59%) TestNG
14 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.53%) SoapUI
15 8 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.47%) Postman
15 8 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
General
1 397 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 291 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 136 (8.06%) Finance
4 115 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (4.45%) Telecoms
6 35 (2.07%) Military
7 32 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (1.60%) Law
8 27 (1.60%) Police
9 26 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 26 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 25 (1.48%) Banking
10 25 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (1.36%) Electronics
12 22 (1.30%) Marketing
13 16 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.95%) Legal
14 13 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.59%) Publishing
16 7 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 308 (18.26%) Architect
2 201 (11.91%) Developer
3 155 (9.19%) Senior
4 116 (6.88%) Consultant
5 115 (6.82%) Lead
6 98 (5.81%) Analyst
7 95 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 87 (5.16%) Project Manager
9 78 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
10 57 (3.38%) Technical Architect
11 42 (2.49%) Java Developer
12 41 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
13 39 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (2.19%) Security Architect
14 37 (2.19%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.13%) Lead Architect
16 34 (2.02%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (2.02%) Network Architect
16 34 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 33 (1.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.02%) Web Services
2 48 (2.85%) REST
3 41 (2.43%) ARM Templates
4 40 (2.37%) .NET
5 37 (2.19%) CSS
5 37 (2.19%) HTML
6 32 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 29 (1.72%) RESTful
8 28 (1.66%) Spring
9 24 (1.42%) Node.js
10 20 (1.19%) React
11 16 (0.95%) Kafka
12 15 (0.89%) Sass
13 14 (0.83%) Laravel
13 14 (0.83%) OpenID
13 14 (0.83%) WebSockets
14 13 (0.77%) SAML
15 12 (0.71%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.71%) GraphQL
15 12 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 57 (3.38%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.20%) PKI
2 54 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (2.25%) Onboarding
4 32 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 25 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (1.30%) CMDB
7 20 (1.19%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.13%) Mainframe
8 19 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.01%) Product Ownership
10 13 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.59%) Taxonomies
12 9 (0.53%) Replication
13 8 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.47%) Clustering
13 8 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 124 (7.35%) Windows
2 123 (7.29%) Linux
3 42 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.13%) Unix
4 19 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.71%) Debian
7 12 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.71%) Windows 7
8 11 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.36%) Android
11 6 (0.36%) zOS
12 4 (0.24%) Solaris
13 3 (0.18%) AIX
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (18.91%) Agile
2 225 (13.34%) DevOps
3 150 (8.89%) ITIL
4 148 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
5 139 (8.24%) Service Management
6 129 (7.65%) Project Management
7 125 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 121 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (6.34%) Analytics
9 107 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
10 104 (6.16%) Migration
11 89 (5.28%) Test Automation
12 86 (5.10%) Change Management
12 86 (5.10%) Configuration Management
13 84 (4.98%) Software Engineering
14 76 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
15 71 (4.21%) Decision-Making
16 65 (3.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 64 (3.79%) Risk Management
18 63 (3.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 162 (9.60%) Python
2 125 (7.41%) SQL
3 120 (7.11%) Java
4 84 (4.98%) PowerShell
5 74 (4.39%) JavaScript
6 61 (3.62%) PL/SQL
7 59 (3.50%) C#
8 40 (2.37%) C
9 28 (1.66%) Bash
10 22 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.24%) Bicep
11 21 (1.24%) C++
12 19 (1.13%) VB
13 18 (1.07%) VBScript
14 14 (0.83%) Go
14 14 (0.83%) PHP
15 11 (0.65%) ABAP
15 11 (0.65%) COBOL
16 8 (0.47%) Perl
16 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,687 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 158 (9.37%) Degree
4 111 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.72%) CISSP
6 28 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 26 (1.54%) PMP
8 22 (1.30%) CISM
9 21 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.19%) CCNP
10 20 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.77%) CCNA
13 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.65%) CISA
14 11 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
14 11 (0.65%) ISEB
15 9 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.67%) QA
2 44 (2.61%) NCSC
3 42 (2.49%) SLA
4 38 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.07%) NIST
6 30 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.42%) PMO
8 8 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
9 7 (0.41%) COBIT
9 7 (0.41%) GDPR
10 5 (0.30%) GRC
10 5 (0.30%) RMADS
11 4 (0.24%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.12%) ISO17020
System Software
1 119 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 83 (4.92%) Docker
3 27 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.59%) Firmware
6 9 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) KVM
9 2 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) XenApp
9 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.059%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.059%) Snort
10 1 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.059%) UAG
Systems Management
1 126 (7.47%) Terraform
2 119 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 78 (4.62%) Ansible
4 31 (1.84%) SCCM
5 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (1.19%) Grafana
8 18 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.07%) SCOM
8 18 (1.07%) WSUS
9 16 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.53%) Puppet
13 8 (0.47%) Podman
14 7 (0.41%) Packer
15 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
15 6 (0.36%) Kibana
16 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 5 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 236 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.98%) Oracle
3 82 (4.86%) SAP
4 46 (2.73%) VMware
5 41 (2.43%) Splunk
6 39 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.25%) Cisco
8 30 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 26 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.24%) IBM
12 18 (1.07%) NetApp
13 16 (0.95%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.89%) Google
15 14 (0.83%) Siebel
16 13 (0.77%) Citrix
16 13 (0.77%) Juniper
16 13 (0.77%) Sparx
17 12 (0.71%) Remedy
18 11 (0.65%) HP