SC Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 32 53
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 225 189 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.49% 7.01% 4.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.54% 32.81% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 120 112
10th Percentile £200 £348 £184
25th Percentile £325 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 14
10th Percentile £12.50 £21.34 £21.00
25th Percentile £13.18 £21.47 £23.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.67 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year +107.66% -53.22% +230.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £40.35 £54.38
90th Percentile - £51.56 £55.95
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £58.59 £54.00
% change year-on-year -17.12% +8.50% +35.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 555 576 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.89% 21.36% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 378 353
10th Percentile £181 £166 £209
25th Percentile £313 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £560
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 21
10th Percentile £12.42 £12.62 £20.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -60.25% +111.11%
75th Percentile £40.94 £31.01 £55.84
90th Percentile £63.20 £60.82 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Glasgow +2 77 £550 +22.22% 20
Edinburgh +76 69 £340 -6.21% 25
South Lanarkshire 0 56 £550 +22.22% 1
Renfrewshire 0 17 £225 -56.73%
Highlands - 3 - -
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 55 (24.44%) Confluence
2 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (11.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (4.44%) Azure
2 9 (4.00%) Power Automate
2 9 (4.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (4.00%) PowerApps
3 8 (3.56%) Entra ID
4 4 (1.78%) AWS
4 4 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.89%) OCI
6 1 (0.44%) IaaS
6 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.22%) VPN
2 22 (9.78%) DHCP
2 22 (9.78%) DNS
3 9 (4.00%) VoIP
4 4 (1.78%) Firewall
5 3 (1.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.00%) Power BI
2 4 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.33%) Metadata
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Big Data
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (31.56%) JIRA
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.44%) Gatling
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) JMeter
3 1 (0.44%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 35 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.89%) Finance
5 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.67%) Electronics
5 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.67%) Marketing
5 6 (2.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.33%) Police
6 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.89%) Legal
7 2 (0.89%) Military
8 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 23 (10.22%) Infrastructure Support
3 20 (8.89%) Senior
4 18 (8.00%) Product Manager
5 17 (7.56%) Analyst
5 17 (7.56%) Desktop Engineer
6 16 (7.11%) Desktop Support
6 16 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Exchange Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Linux Support
8 11 (4.89%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 10 (4.44%) Architect
10 9 (4.00%) Consultant
10 9 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.22%) WebRTC
2 3 (1.33%) LDAP
2 3 (1.33%) REST
2 3 (1.33%) Web Services
3 2 (0.89%) RESTful
4 1 (0.44%) CSS
4 1 (0.44%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.44%) HTML
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.44%) Clustering
2 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.56%) iPhone
3 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.78%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.33%) PKI
6 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) CMDB
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.44%) iPad
8 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Windows
2 31 (13.78%) Windows 10
3 26 (11.56%) Linux
4 15 (6.67%) Windows 7
5 14 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (5.78%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.11%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.67%) Solaris
9 3 (1.33%) Android
10 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.56%) Agile
2 29 (12.89%) Break/Fix
3 25 (11.11%) ITIL
4 24 (10.67%) Customer Service
5 23 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (9.33%) Project Management
6 21 (9.33%) Service Delivery
7 19 (8.44%) Roadmaps
8 18 (8.00%) Epics
8 18 (8.00%) User Research
9 17 (7.56%) Risk Management
9 17 (7.56%) User Stories
10 15 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (6.67%) High Availability
11 14 (6.22%) Analytics
12 13 (5.78%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (5.33%) Problem Management
14 11 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (4.89%) Service Management
14 11 (4.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.67%) SQL
3 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
3 4 (1.78%) Python
4 3 (1.33%) Ada
4 3 (1.33%) Bash
4 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.89%) Java
5 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 225 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.22%) DV Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) Degree
4 15 (6.67%) A+ Certification
5 6 (2.67%) MCP
5 6 (2.67%) MCSE
5 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.67%) RHCE
6 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.33%) CGEIT
7 3 (1.33%) CISA
7 3 (1.33%) CISM
7 3 (1.33%) CISSP
7 3 (1.33%) CRISC
7 3 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) SLA
2 7 (3.11%) PMO
3 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.22%) NIST
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (21.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.11%) KVM
3 4 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.33%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.33%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (12.44%) SCCM
2 9 (4.00%) WSUS
3 7 (3.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.78%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.33%) Terraform
6 3 (1.33%) vMotion
7 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.44%) Ansible
8 1 (0.44%) Nagios
8 1 (0.44%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.11%) Atlassian
3 19 (8.44%) Cisco
4 17 (7.56%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.00%) HP
6 8 (3.56%) Citrix
6 8 (3.56%) Oracle
7 7 (3.11%) VMware
8 6 (2.67%) Apple
8 6 (2.67%) Samsung
8 6 (2.67%) SAP
9 4 (1.78%) McAfee
10 3 (1.33%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.89%) Adobe