BC Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 170 208
Rank change year-on-year +41 +38 -54
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 0.087% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 0.30% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £590 £538
% change year-on-year +1.69% +9.77% -0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £32.50
Median hourly rate £13.75 £13.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -62.86% +84.21%
75th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.50 £22.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year -26.67% -28.00% +30.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

BC 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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 902 997 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.97% 28.79% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 633 679
10th Percentile £227 £250 £213
25th Percentile £325 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 77 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.00 £11.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.50 £13.73
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £43.13 £26.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing BC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
West Midlands +35 6 £600 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) ADSL
2 3 (50.00%) PSTN
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) DWDM
4 1 (16.67%) SDH
4 1 (16.67%) SONET
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (50.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Change Control
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Order Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) CRM
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (50.00%) Data Entry
3 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (33.33%) CASP
3 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (33.33%) GCED
3 2 (33.33%) GIAC
3 2 (33.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
2 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) BT
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Openreach
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) TippingPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Trend Micro