SC Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 247 220 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.05% 11.40% 10.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.49% 40.74% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 144 274
10th Percentile £375 £321 £400
25th Percentile £461 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +5.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £635 £607 £545
90th Percentile £688 £688 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% +8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% - -
England median hourly rate £58.05 £56.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.75% -5.85% +33.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 610 540 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.22% 27.99% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 333 565
10th Percentile £334 £300 £235
25th Percentile £426 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £560
90th Percentile £725 £700 £625
England median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% - +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 29 3
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.70 -
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +42.27% +49.23%
75th Percentile £46.88 £67.50 £26.38
90th Percentile £55.35 £71.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +61.49%

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 October 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
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 October 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
Warwickshire +11 83 £607 +27.79% 5
Shropshire +4 50 £481 +0.10% 9
Birmingham -17 41 £600 +31.15% 21
Solihull +13 24 £447 -0.67% 6
Herefordshire +1 24 £612 -9.33% 8
Staffordshire -8 8 £450 -10.00% 18
Worcestershire -13 3 £475 -20.83% 5
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 (3.64%) SAS
2 7 (2.83%) Confluence
3 5 (2.02%) IIS
4 4 (1.62%) Apache
4 4 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Appian
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.62%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.21%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.98%) Azure
2 19 (7.69%) AWS
3 16 (6.48%) SaaS
4 15 (6.07%) IaaS
4 15 (6.07%) PaaS
5 11 (4.45%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.64%) GCP
7 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.62%) Amazon Neptune
9 4 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.81%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.81%) GitHub
11 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.81%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.31%) Firewall
2 16 (6.48%) Network Security
2 16 (6.48%) SD-WAN
3 10 (4.05%) VLAN
4 9 (3.64%) NX-OS
5 8 (3.24%) WAN
6 5 (2.02%) BGP
6 5 (2.02%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.02%) LAN
6 5 (2.02%) VPN
7 4 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.62%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.21%) MPLS
8 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.21%) WLAN
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.81%) DNS
9 2 (0.81%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.48%) MySQL
2 12 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (4.05%) Power BI
4 8 (3.24%) Hadoop
4 8 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.83%) Pentaho
5 7 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.02%) Big Data
7 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.62%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.62%) Impala
8 4 (1.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.93%) Git
2 12 (4.86%) JIRA
3 11 (4.45%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.83%) GitLab
5 6 (2.43%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.81%) Postman
8 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
General
1 35 (14.17%) Public Sector
2 28 (11.34%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.50%) Finance
4 13 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.64%) Electronics
6 9 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.64%) Marketing
7 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.43%) Legal
8 4 (1.62%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (21.86%) Architect
2 28 (11.34%) Consultant
3 18 (7.29%) Data Engineer
3 18 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (6.07%) Network Engineer
5 14 (5.67%) Network Architect
6 13 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Lead
8 10 (4.05%) Analyst
8 10 (4.05%) Senior
9 9 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Administrator
10 8 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Developer
10 8 (3.24%) IAM Consultant
11 7 (2.83%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.43%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (2.43%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.29%) YAML
2 9 (3.64%) LDAP
3 7 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.62%) Django
4 4 (1.62%) Flask
4 4 (1.62%) PySpark
5 3 (1.21%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.81%) .NET
6 2 (0.81%) CSS
6 2 (0.81%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.81%) HTML
6 2 (0.81%) React
6 2 (0.81%) RESTful
6 2 (0.81%) SAML
7 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.40%) Express.js
7 1 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.40%) Node.js
7 1 (0.40%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.10%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.24%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.24%) PKI
3 7 (2.83%) SCADA
4 6 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (2.02%) Replication
5 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.62%) Handset
6 4 (1.62%) IoT
6 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.62%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.81%) Windows
2 34 (13.77%) Linux
3 23 (9.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.86%) Android
5 10 (4.05%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.05%) Unix
6 6 (2.43%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.21%) AIX
8 3 (1.21%) Solaris
8 3 (1.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.81%) zOS
10 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (16.60%) DevOps
2 31 (12.55%) Agile
3 25 (10.12%) Configuration Management
4 24 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (8.91%) ETL
6 21 (8.50%) Analytics
6 21 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (8.50%) Scrum
7 20 (8.10%) Validation
8 19 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (7.29%) Incident Response
10 17 (6.88%) Data Analytics
10 17 (6.88%) Software Engineering
10 17 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (6.48%) Mentoring
11 16 (6.48%) Test Automation
12 15 (6.07%) Containerisation
12 15 (6.07%) Non-Functional Testing
13 14 (5.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.29%) Python
2 16 (6.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.86%) SQL
4 9 (3.64%) Java
5 7 (2.83%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.02%) ABAP
6 5 (2.02%) Perl
6 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.62%) HiveQL
7 4 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.62%) R
7 4 (1.62%) Scala
8 2 (0.81%) Groovy
8 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.81%) Natural
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 247 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (4.45%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.24%) Degree
4 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.02%) CISSP
5 5 (2.02%) OSCP
6 4 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.62%) CCA
6 4 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.81%) CCIE
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CCNA
9 1 (0.40%) CCNP
9 1 (0.40%) OCP
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.43%) NIST
2 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.21%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.21%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.81%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 18 (7.29%) Docker
4 13 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.64%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.64%) vSphere
6 6 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.02%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 4 (1.62%) HDFS
8 4 (1.62%) VMFS
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 38 (15.38%) Ansible
2 32 (12.96%) Terraform
3 19 (7.69%) Grafana
4 17 (6.88%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.86%) SCCM
6 11 (4.45%) AirWatch
7 10 (4.05%) Puppet
8 9 (3.64%) CSIRT
8 9 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.64%) Salt
9 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.02%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.62%) Kibana
11 4 (1.62%) logstash
12 3 (1.21%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.81%) VxRail
14 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 51 (20.65%) VMware
2 45 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.91%) Cisco
4 20 (8.10%) Red Hat
5 18 (7.29%) Oracle
5 18 (7.29%) SAP
6 17 (6.88%) Talend
7 12 (4.86%) Apple
7 12 (4.86%) Denodo
7 12 (4.86%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.64%) Samsung
9 7 (2.83%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.83%) IBM
9 7 (2.83%) Informatica
9 7 (2.83%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.02%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.62%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.62%) Databricks
11 4 (1.62%) Dell
11 4 (1.62%) Juniper