SC Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 255 206 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.14% 9.23% 7.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.91% 34.62% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 139 195
10th Percentile £298 £375 £377
25th Percentile £358 £531 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £505
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +16.34% +12.22%
75th Percentile £575 £680 £582
90th Percentile £672 £700 £652
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £13.44 £18.29 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% - -
75th Percentile £20.00 £59.63 -
90th Percentile £29.75 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +22.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 639 595 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.94% 26.67% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 355 507
10th Percentile £296 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £629 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 10
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.18
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.31 £13.13
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +13.04% +7.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £20.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £54.98 £39.73
% change year-on-year -27.25% +38.40% +10.03%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Shropshire +3 84 £513 -5.09% 6
Birmingham +12 79 £375 -42.31% 38
Warwickshire +21 47 £630 -1.56% 14
Staffordshire -3 12 £400 +10.03% 20
Solihull -1 10 £325 -7.14% 10
Herefordshire -19 5 £544 -16.35%
Worcestershire -13 3 £600 -7.69% 8
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.75%) CICS
2 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.75%) SAS
3 5 (1.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) Revit
4 1 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.71%) Azure
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.39%) IaaS
5 1 (0.39%) PaaS
5 1 (0.39%) SaaS
5 1 (0.39%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.33%) MPLS
2 30 (11.76%) WAN
3 28 (10.98%) Firewall
3 28 (10.98%) IPsec
4 19 (7.45%) BGP
5 8 (3.14%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.75%) LAN
6 7 (2.75%) NX-OS
7 6 (2.35%) Network Security
8 5 (1.96%) Internet
8 5 (1.96%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.57%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.18%) ADSL
10 3 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.18%) Junos
10 3 (1.18%) PSTN
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.78%) SDH
11 2 (0.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.27%) MySQL
2 15 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.53%) DB2
4 7 (2.75%) IDMS
5 6 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.57%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.39%) Metadata
8 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.39%) MS Access
8 1 (0.39%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (16.47%) PVCS
1 42 (16.47%) Visual Studio
2 30 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (17.25%) Public Sector
2 16 (6.27%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.71%) Legal
4 9 (3.53%) Finance
5 8 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.39%) Games
9 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.39%) Military
9 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (19.22%) Programmer
2 46 (18.04%) C Programmer
3 36 (14.12%) Analyst
4 33 (12.94%) Architect
5 27 (10.59%) SOC Analyst
6 23 (9.02%) Network Engineer
7 14 (5.49%) Network Architect
8 13 (5.10%) Consultant
9 11 (4.31%) Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Lead
10 9 (3.53%) Senior
10 9 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.14%) IBM Mainframe Developer
11 8 (3.14%) Mainframe Developer
12 6 (2.35%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (2.35%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.35%) Network Support
12 6 (2.35%) Test Analyst
13 5 (1.96%) Security Consultant
13 5 (1.96%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.14%) YAML
2 6 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.96%) LDAP
4 2 (0.78%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.31%) Cloud Native
1 11 (4.31%) PKI
2 10 (3.92%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.92%) Mainframe
3 8 (3.14%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (2.75%) SCADA
5 5 (1.96%) Replication
5 5 (1.96%) Taxonomies
6 4 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.33%) Linux
2 29 (11.37%) Windows
3 16 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.31%) Mac OS X
5 7 (2.75%) zOS
6 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.78%) Unix
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (11.76%) Agile
2 27 (10.59%) SIEM
3 26 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (9.80%) Configuration Management
5 23 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (9.02%) Requirements Gathering
6 21 (8.24%) Validation
7 20 (7.84%) Incident Management
7 20 (7.84%) Scrum
7 20 (7.84%) Software Engineering
8 19 (7.45%) Analytics
8 19 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (7.06%) Data Analytics
10 17 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
10 17 (6.67%) ETL
11 16 (6.27%) Data Extraction
11 16 (6.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (5.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 14 (5.49%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.61%) C
2 43 (16.86%) PL/SQL
3 13 (5.10%) C++
3 13 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.53%) COBOL
5 7 (2.75%) CLIST
5 7 (2.75%) REXX
5 7 (2.75%) SELCOPY
6 4 (1.57%) SQL
7 3 (1.18%) R
8 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.39%) ProC
9 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 255 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.71%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.14%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) BC Cleared
5 6 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.35%) CISSP
6 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.96%) OSCP
7 4 (1.57%) CCNA
7 4 (1.57%) CCNP
7 4 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CASP
9 2 (0.78%) CEH
9 2 (0.78%) GCED
9 2 (0.78%) GIAC
9 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (4.31%) GDPR
1 11 (4.31%) HIPAA
1 11 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (4.31%) NIST
2 4 (1.57%) QA
2 4 (1.57%) SLA
3 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 3 (1.18%) ISO17020
4 2 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) GPG13
System Software
1 25 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.53%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.53%) vSphere
5 4 (1.57%) VMFS
5 4 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.18%) iptables
7 1 (0.39%) Docker
7 1 (0.39%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (5.88%) Grafana
2 10 (3.92%) Ansible
2 10 (3.92%) Terraform
3 9 (3.53%) Progress Chef
4 8 (3.14%) Puppet
4 8 (3.14%) Salt
5 7 (2.75%) CSIRT
6 6 (2.35%) Kibana
6 6 (2.35%) logstash
7 4 (1.57%) SCCM
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.18%) VxRail
9 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (12.55%) VMware
2 31 (12.16%) Juniper
3 24 (9.41%) Microsoft
4 19 (7.45%) Cisco
5 18 (7.06%) Denodo
6 16 (6.27%) Red Hat
6 16 (6.27%) Talend
7 10 (3.92%) IBM
8 7 (2.75%) CA
8 7 (2.75%) Oracle
8 7 (2.75%) Syncsort
9 6 (2.35%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.96%) SAP
11 4 (1.57%) LogRhythm
12 3 (1.18%) BT
12 3 (1.18%) Openreach
12 3 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.78%) Citrix
13 2 (0.78%) TippingPoint
13 2 (0.78%) Trend Micro