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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 98 93 44
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.14% 14.49% 6.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.36% 42.47% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 23
10th Percentile £411 £263 £380
25th Percentile £456 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £585 £500 £641
90th Percentile £700 £616 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 0
10th Percentile £16.01 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% -46.09% -46.15%

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 226 219 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.68% 34.11% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 140 86
10th Percentile £228 £243 £165
25th Percentile £387 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £630
90th Percentile £700 £638 £758
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £531
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.75% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 6
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £20.88
25th Percentile £21.56 - £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -50.42% -41.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £51.88
90th Percentile - £44.85 £54.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £27.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -21.21% +12.90%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 2 (2.04%) Apache
1 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.02%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.02%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.45%) AWS
2 6 (6.12%) GitHub
3 5 (5.10%) Azure
3 5 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (5.10%) OCI
4 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.04%) Serverless
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) VSAN
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.02%) LAN
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Metadata
3 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.02%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) GitLab
1 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.06%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 2 (2.04%) JUnit
3 2 (2.04%) Mockito
4 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) Gatling
4 1 (1.02%) JMeter
4 1 (1.02%) Maven
4 1 (1.02%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.02%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (26.53%) Public Sector
2 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.10%) Finance
3 5 (5.10%) Military
4 4 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.02%) Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.41%) Consultant
2 18 (18.37%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) Architect
4 13 (13.27%) Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Security Consultant
6 9 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Technical Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead
11 4 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch Consultant
11 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) SOC Analyst
11 4 (4.08%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) Spring
2 8 (8.16%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.12%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) Terraform
4 4 (4.08%) Node.js
4 4 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.06%) Django
6 2 (2.04%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.04%) REST
6 2 (2.04%) Web Services
7 1 (1.02%) CSS
7 1 (1.02%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.02%) HTML
7 1 (1.02%) JAX-RS
7 1 (1.02%) JPA
7 1 (1.02%) Mustache
7 1 (1.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.02%) SOAP
7 1 (1.02%) Spring Batch
7 1 (1.02%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Photography
5 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) AIX
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
1 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (23.47%) Agile
3 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
3 15 (15.31%) TDD
4 13 (13.27%) DevOps
5 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
7 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (10.20%) Microservices
8 9 (9.18%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 6 (6.12%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (6.12%) Migration
10 6 (6.12%) Risk Management
10 6 (6.12%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.12%) SIAM
10 6 (6.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Java
2 9 (9.18%) Kotlin
2 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (6.12%) Python
4 4 (4.08%) SQL
5 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 98 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.06%) CISSP
4 2 (2.04%) CISM
5 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) NIST
2 8 (8.16%) NCSC
3 6 (6.12%) GRC
4 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.08%) QA
5 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.06%) GDPR
5 3 (3.06%) PMO
5 3 (3.06%) SLA
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.02%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Docker
2 8 (8.16%) VMware NSX
2 8 (8.16%) vSphere
3 4 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.12%) Grafana
3 5 (5.10%) Ansible
3 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.02%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) VMware
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) Veeam
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) Trend Micro