SC Cleared Contracts in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 169 148 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.64% 6.31% 8.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.85% 29.48% 39.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 99 183
10th Percentile £418 £418 £413
25th Percentile £463 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £755 £738
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.72 - £18.22
25th Percentile £34.24 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £44.40 £20.82 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year +113.28% +7.56% -
75th Percentile £55.46 £21.41 £20.39
90th Percentile £61.53 - £20.87
London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -60.00% +23.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 485 502 771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.78% 21.40% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 313 466
10th Percentile £358 £363 £325
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £694
90th Percentile £763 £775 £818
London median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £25.04 £20.22 £17.31
25th Percentile £26.57 £20.29 £18.56
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%
75th Percentile £57.96 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £35.38 £68.75
London median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +25.58%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
City of London +1 149 £550 +4.76% 144
West End of London +7 7 £615 -15.17% 4
City of Westminster - 7 £650 -
Camden - 1 £580 -
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 10 (5.92%) Confluence
2 3 (1.78%) Apache
2 3 (1.78%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.59%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.59%) Camunda
4 1 (0.59%) Documentum
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) MTS
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) SPSS
3 1 (0.59%) Stata
3 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.18%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.18%) SAP HCM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.59%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.59%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.54%) AWS
2 24 (14.20%) Azure
3 13 (7.69%) Serverless
4 12 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.14%) GCP
7 7 (4.14%) OCI
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.55%) GitHub
9 5 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.69%) Firewall
2 7 (4.14%) VPN
3 6 (3.55%) Network Security
4 5 (2.96%) DNS
5 4 (2.37%) WAN
6 3 (1.78%) BGP
6 3 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.78%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.78%) OSPF
6 3 (1.78%) SAN
7 2 (1.18%) HTTP
7 2 (1.18%) LAN
7 2 (1.18%) MPLS
7 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.59%) IPsec
8 1 (0.59%) SSH
8 1 (0.59%) SSL
8 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.10%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.73%) Power BI
5 7 (4.14%) Redis
6 6 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.96%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.78%) MySQL
9 3 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.18%) Tableau
11 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 13 (7.69%) JIRA
2 11 (6.51%) Git
3 7 (4.14%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.96%) GitLab
6 3 (1.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.18%) JUnit
7 2 (1.18%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.59%) Gatling
8 1 (0.59%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.59%) RStudio
8 1 (0.59%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.59%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 31 (18.34%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Finance
4 17 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Military
6 6 (3.55%) Police
7 5 (2.96%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.96%) Law
8 3 (1.78%) Banking
8 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (18.93%) Architect
2 29 (17.16%) Developer
3 15 (8.88%) Analyst
3 15 (8.88%) Senior
4 13 (7.69%) Lead
5 12 (7.10%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.10%) Security Architect
6 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 7 (4.14%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.55%) Change Manager
10 5 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.96%) JavaScript Engineer
10 5 (2.96%) Network Architect
10 5 (2.96%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.96%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.37%) Consultant
11 4 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (1.78%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.65%) React
2 15 (8.88%) Kafka
3 12 (7.10%) Spring
3 12 (7.10%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.92%) Node.js
5 8 (4.73%) HTML
6 7 (4.14%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (3.55%) CSS
8 5 (2.96%) REST
8 5 (2.96%) XML
9 4 (2.37%) OAuth
10 3 (1.78%) JSON
10 3 (1.78%) OpenID
10 3 (1.78%) SAML
10 3 (1.78%) Web Services
10 3 (1.78%) XSLT
11 2 (1.18%) ADO
11 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.18%) Visualforce
12 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.96%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (2.37%) PKI
4 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.18%) Clustering
5 2 (1.18%) CMDB
5 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.59%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.59%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.88%) Linux
2 11 (6.51%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) AIX
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.67%) Agile
2 31 (18.34%) DevOps
3 25 (14.79%) Microservices
4 21 (12.43%) CI/CD
5 20 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (8.28%) Project Management
8 13 (7.69%) Analytics
8 13 (7.69%) Migration
9 12 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (7.10%) SOLID
9 12 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (6.51%) API Development
10 11 (6.51%) Clean Code
10 11 (6.51%) ITIL
10 11 (6.51%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.92%) Cloud Security
11 10 (5.92%) Data Protection
11 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (5.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.38%) Java
2 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
3 23 (13.61%) Python
3 23 (13.61%) SQL
4 8 (4.73%) Bash
5 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.37%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.18%) C#
8 2 (1.18%) Groovy
8 2 (1.18%) Ruby
8 2 (1.18%) Scala
9 1 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) Go
9 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.59%) Perl
9 1 (0.59%) R
9 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.65%) Degree
3 9 (5.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.55%) CISSP
6 4 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.78%) CCNP
7 3 (1.78%) CISM
7 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) OCP
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CCIE
8 2 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.18%) VCAP
8 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) GDPR
1 6 (3.55%) NIST
2 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.78%) PMO
3 3 (1.78%) QA
3 3 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (7.10%) Docker
2 6 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.06%) Terraform
3 8 (4.73%) Ansible
4 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.78%) Grafana
4 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.78%) Puppet
5 2 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
5 2 (1.18%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.59%) CASB
6 1 (0.59%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.59%) Istio
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.59%) Nessus
6 1 (0.59%) Packer
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (8.88%) Oracle
2 13 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.73%) Cisco
4 5 (2.96%) Databricks
4 5 (2.96%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.96%) SAP
5 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.78%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.78%) F5
6 3 (1.78%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.78%) Google
6 3 (1.78%) Juniper
6 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.78%) UiPath
6 3 (1.78%) VMware
7 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.18%) Dell
7 2 (1.18%) IBM
7 2 (1.18%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.18%) Veritas
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