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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 188 238 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.22% 12.20% 10.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.24% 38.83% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 178 199
10th Percentile £325 £284 £360
25th Percentile £450 £328 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +6.93%
75th Percentile £689 £550 £650
90th Percentile £708 £636 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.44 £14.43
Median hourly rate £35.00 £14.00 £37.85
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -63.01% -49.53%
75th Percentile - £20.00 £63.88
90th Percentile £39.18 £29.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £49.11 £57.50
% change year-on-year +22.17% -14.59% +14.12%

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 425 613 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.15% 31.42% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 387 425
10th Percentile £150 £263 £291
25th Percentile £318 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.24 £13.91
Median hourly rate £28.18 £27.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +36.25% +18.41%
75th Percentile £35.00 £42.81 £26.75
90th Percentile £39.14 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +42.86%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 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
Warwickshire +31 58 £551 +4.95% 9
Birmingham -4 46 £595 +58.67% 39
Shropshire -1 45 £510 -4.54% 4
Herefordshire +12 11 £700 +30.23%
Worcestershire +3 10 £700 +18.64% 7
Solihull +13 6 £420 +29.23%
Wolverhampton - 3 £348 - 1
Coventry +15 2 - - 1
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 11 (5.85%) Confluence
1 11 (5.85%) SAS
2 4 (2.13%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.53%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.21%) Azure
2 29 (15.43%) AWS
3 13 (6.91%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.85%) SaaS
5 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.72%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.19%) GCP
8 6 (3.19%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.66%) IaaS
9 5 (2.66%) PaaS
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.60%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.60%) Route 53
12 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.79%) VPN
1 9 (4.79%) WAN
2 7 (3.72%) Firewall
3 6 (3.19%) IPsec
4 5 (2.66%) BGP
4 5 (2.66%) MPLS
4 5 (2.66%) Network Security
5 4 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.13%) VLAN
6 3 (1.60%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.06%) LAN
7 2 (1.06%) MQTT
7 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.53%) Junos
8 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.53%) SDH
8 1 (0.53%) SSL
8 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.26%) RDBMS
3 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.72%) Pentaho
4 7 (3.72%) Power BI
5 5 (2.66%) MySQL
5 5 (2.66%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.13%) Apache Hive
6 4 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.13%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.13%) Impala
7 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.06%) Big Data
8 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) JIRA
2 15 (7.98%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.45%) GitLab
4 10 (5.32%) Git
5 6 (3.19%) JUnit
6 5 (2.66%) MSI
7 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.13%) Mockito
8 3 (1.60%) Maven
9 2 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (1.06%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.53%) JBehave
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
10 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.72%) Legal
4 3 (1.60%) Finance
5 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.06%) Military
5 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.53%) Law
6 1 (0.53%) Local Government
6 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (21.81%) Architect
2 21 (11.17%) Data Engineer
3 15 (7.98%) Analyst
4 13 (6.91%) Security Architect
5 12 (6.38%) Developer
6 8 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Test Analyst
7 7 (3.72%) Administrator
7 7 (3.72%) Senior
7 7 (3.72%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) Applications Architect
8 6 (3.19%) Data Analyst
8 6 (3.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 4 (2.13%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.72%) Web Services
2 6 (3.19%) Hibernate
2 6 (3.19%) REST
2 6 (3.19%) Spring
2 6 (3.19%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.66%) SailPoint
3 5 (2.66%) Software Packaging
4 4 (2.13%) HTML
4 4 (2.13%) LDAP
4 4 (2.13%) PySpark
4 4 (2.13%) SOAP
4 4 (2.13%) YAML
5 3 (1.60%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.60%) Apache Axis
5 3 (1.60%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.60%) JPA
5 3 (1.60%) jQuery
5 3 (1.60%) WireMock
6 2 (1.06%) RESTful
6 2 (1.06%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.32%) Onboarding
1 10 (5.32%) PKI
2 9 (4.79%) SCADA
3 7 (3.72%) CSOC
3 7 (3.72%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.72%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.13%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.13%) Handset
4 4 (2.13%) IoT
5 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) CCTV
7 1 (0.53%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.09%) Windows
2 22 (11.70%) Linux
3 11 (5.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.32%) VMS
5 7 (3.72%) Unix
5 7 (3.72%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.19%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.09%) Agile
2 27 (14.36%) DevOps
3 24 (12.77%) CI/CD
4 22 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (8.51%) Migration
6 15 (7.98%) ITSM
7 14 (7.45%) Software Engineering
7 14 (7.45%) Test Automation
8 13 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (6.91%) ETL
8 13 (6.91%) SIEM
9 12 (6.38%) Analytics
9 12 (6.38%) Microservices
9 12 (6.38%) Network Monitoring
10 11 (5.85%) Project Management
10 11 (5.85%) Scrum
10 11 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (5.32%) ITIL
11 10 (5.32%) Service Management
11 10 (5.32%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.36%) Python
2 18 (9.57%) SQL
3 15 (7.98%) Java
3 15 (7.98%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.66%) Bash
6 4 (2.13%) C#
6 4 (2.13%) HiveQL
6 4 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.60%) Ruby
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.06%) ABAP
8 2 (1.06%) Go
8 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.06%) Perl
8 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 188 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.79%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.66%) CISSP
5 5 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (2.66%) Degree
6 3 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) CISA
7 2 (1.06%) CISM
7 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) GIAC
7 2 (1.06%) ISACA
7 2 (1.06%) SANS
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) NCSC
4 3 (1.60%) PMO
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) GRC
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.53%) PERC
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (10.11%) Docker
2 14 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.13%) HDFS
4 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) KVM
5 1 (0.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (16.49%) Ansible
2 23 (12.23%) Terraform
3 15 (7.98%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.79%) Grafana
5 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.60%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.60%) Opsview
6 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.53%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.53%) logstash
7 1 (0.53%) Nessus
7 1 (0.53%) QRadar
7 1 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.53%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (0.53%) WSUS
7 1 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.57%) VMware
3 15 (7.98%) Cisco
3 15 (7.98%) Oracle
4 14 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.38%) Dell
5 12 (6.38%) Palo Alto
5 12 (6.38%) SolarWinds
6 11 (5.85%) Talend
7 9 (4.79%) Denodo
7 9 (4.79%) HP
7 9 (4.79%) Red Hat
7 9 (4.79%) SAP
7 9 (4.79%) Splunk
8 8 (4.26%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.72%) F5
9 7 (3.72%) Foundry
9 7 (3.72%) Informatica
10 6 (3.19%) Broadcom
10 6 (3.19%) Dynatrace