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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 92 86 45
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.11% 14.36% 6.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.19% 43.43% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 22
10th Percentile £409 £190 £274
25th Percentile £452 £363 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +3.45%
75th Percentile £583 £508 £669
90th Percentile £700 £622 £709
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 0
10th Percentile £15.75 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
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 -
% change year-on-year +234.58% - -

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 213 198 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.41% 33.06% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 133 86
10th Percentile £210 £150 £209
25th Percentile £405 £275 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £636
90th Percentile £700 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -5.30% -6.41% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 6
10th Percentile £14.99 - £20.88
25th Percentile £21.23 - £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -50.42% -30.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £51.88
90th Percentile - £47.40 £54.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -29.41% +54.55%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 (2.17%) Apache
1 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) Confluence
1 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.09%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.09%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.09%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) AWS
2 7 (7.61%) GitHub
3 6 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (5.43%) Azure
4 5 (5.43%) OCI
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.26%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.17%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.17%) Route 53
7 2 (2.17%) Serverless
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) VSAN
2 2 (2.17%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.17%) LAN
2 2 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.17%) Metadata
3 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.09%) JasperReports
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.78%) GitLab
3 5 (5.43%) Git
4 4 (4.35%) JUnit
5 3 (3.26%) JIRA
5 3 (3.26%) Mockito
6 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.17%) JMeter
6 2 (2.17%) Maven
6 2 (2.17%) Selenium
6 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.17%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.09%) Gatling
General
1 25 (27.17%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.43%) Finance
3 5 (5.43%) Military
4 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.09%) Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Consultant
2 15 (16.30%) Senior
3 13 (14.13%) Developer
4 12 (13.04%) Architect
5 9 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Security Consultant
8 6 (6.52%) Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.35%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Lead
10 4 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (4.35%) VMware Consultant
11 3 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) Spring
2 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
2 7 (7.61%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Node.js
4 4 (4.35%) Kafka
4 4 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.26%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.26%) Django
5 3 (3.26%) REST
5 3 (3.26%) Web Services
6 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.17%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.17%) JPA
6 2 (2.17%) SOAP
6 2 (2.17%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Spring Integration
6 2 (2.17%) WireMock
7 1 (1.09%) Playwright
7 1 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.09%) Photography
3 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
1 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.09%) AIX
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Agile
2 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (15.22%) DevOps
4 13 (14.13%) TDD
5 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.87%) Microservices
7 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
7 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.70%) Validation
9 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.61%) Test Automation
9 7 (7.61%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (6.52%) Scrum
11 5 (5.43%) Incident Management
11 5 (5.43%) Migration
11 5 (5.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.48%) Java
2 6 (6.52%) Python
2 6 (6.52%) SQL
3 5 (5.43%) Kotlin
3 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.09%) ABAP
5 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.26%) CISSP
4 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.17%) CISM
5 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) CCIE
5 1 (1.09%) CCNP
5 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) NIST
2 5 (5.43%) NCSC
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.35%) GRC
3 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 3 (3.26%) PMO
4 3 (3.26%) SLA
5 2 (2.17%) GDPR
6 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.09%) P3O
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Docker
2 7 (7.61%) VMware NSX
2 7 (7.61%) vSphere
3 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.70%) Grafana
3 6 (6.52%) Ansible
3 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.09%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) VMware
2 7 (7.61%) SAP
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle
4 4 (4.35%) Veeam
5 2 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Databricks
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) Infor
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Trend Micro