SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 91 69 51
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.98% 12.48% 7.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.05% 40.59% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 29
10th Percentile £388 £150 -
25th Percentile £425 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -29.13%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £600
90th Percentile £575 £600 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -7.00% -2.53% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 2
10th Percentile £15.83 £18.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £65.00 - £13.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +37.24% +5.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £13.94
90th Percentile - - £13.98
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £18.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% +4.83% -34.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 202 170 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.15% 30.74% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 116 87
10th Percentile £213 £150 £263
25th Percentile £374 £263 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £492
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.90% -6.38%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £600
90th Percentile £665 £600 £718
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -6.20% -3.66% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 8
10th Percentile £16.03 £18.65 £13.78
25th Percentile £22.17 - £18.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -22.39% +31.42%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.58 £51.56
90th Percentile - £49.10 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +75.00% -12.96% +33.59%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.10%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.10%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) AWS
2 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 16 (17.58%) GitHub
3 15 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (12.09%) GCP
5 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.49%) AWS KMS
6 5 (5.49%) OCI
7 4 (4.40%) Route 53
8 3 (3.30%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.20%) LAN
1 2 (2.20%) WAN
2 1 (1.10%) DNS
2 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.40%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.10%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.58%) Git
3 15 (16.48%) JUnit
4 14 (15.38%) GitLab
5 12 (13.19%) JIRA
6 11 (12.09%) Cucumber
6 11 (12.09%) JMeter
6 11 (12.09%) Selenium
6 11 (12.09%) WebDriver
7 5 (5.49%) Mockito
8 4 (4.40%) Maven
8 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.10%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.10%) Gatling
9 1 (1.10%) jMock
General
1 24 (26.37%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Finance
3 5 (5.49%) Legal
3 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Military
5 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Consultant
2 15 (16.48%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Tester
6 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Automation Tester
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Tester
9 6 (6.59%) Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Analyst
10 5 (5.49%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Security Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Lead
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.40%) SOC Analyst
11 4 (4.40%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.88%) Spring
2 11 (12.09%) WireMock
3 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.59%) Node.js
5 5 (5.49%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (5.49%) REST
5 5 (5.49%) Web Services
6 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.40%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.40%) JPA
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (4.40%) SOAP
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Batch
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Integration
7 3 (3.30%) Django
8 2 (2.20%) Kafka
8 2 (2.20%) RESTful
9 1 (1.10%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.10%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Photography
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.26%) Agile
2 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (24.18%) Microservices
4 19 (20.88%) TDD
5 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (19.78%) Validation
6 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (17.58%) DevOps
7 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
8 14 (15.38%) BDD
9 13 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (12.09%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (12.09%) Load Testing
10 11 (12.09%) Observability
10 11 (12.09%) Test Strategy
11 10 (10.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (9.89%) Containerisation
13 8 (8.79%) Data Validation
13 8 (8.79%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.29%) Java
2 9 (9.89%) SQL
3 6 (6.59%) Python
4 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) ABAP
5 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.40%) CISSP
3 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.20%) CISM
4 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) CCIE
4 1 (1.10%) CCNP
4 1 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) NIST
2 5 (5.49%) GRC
2 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 3 (3.30%) NCSC
4 3 (3.30%) PMO
5 2 (2.20%) GDPR
6 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.10%) P3O
6 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (24.18%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.40%) vSphere
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) Grafana
2 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.48%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.69%) Terraform
5 5 (5.49%) Ansible
6 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) VMware
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) SAP
3 5 (5.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (4.40%) Veeam
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) Canon
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco
6 1 (1.10%) Databricks
6 1 (1.10%) Dell
6 1 (1.10%) HP
6 1 (1.10%) Infor
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.10%) Zscaler