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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 95 54 98
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.49% 8.74% 12.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.98% 34.39% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 37 68
10th Percentile £263 £411 £280
25th Percentile £395 £525 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £689 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.06% +72.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £595 £700 £502
90th Percentile £634 - £615
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -6.36% +22.22% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 11
10th Percentile £17.39 - £42.50
25th Percentile £18.20 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £18.40 - £65.00
75th Percentile £18.87 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.17 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -42.39% -46.15% +71.72%

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 198 157 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.94% 25.40% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 109 139
10th Percentile £240 £160 £245
25th Percentile £400 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +23.53% -11.46%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £640
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +8.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 20
10th Percentile £15.62 £34.55 £21.55
25th Percentile £16.30 £42.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% - +233.33%
75th Percentile £18.87 £53.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.58 £55.83 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -34.93% -7.94% +61.54%

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 7 February 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
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 10 (10.53%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) nginx
3 2 (2.11%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) Azure
2 14 (14.74%) AWS
3 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.47%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (9.47%) AWS KMS
4 9 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.37%) Route 53
7 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.11%) IaaS
9 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.16%) VPN
2 18 (18.95%) WAN
3 17 (17.89%) BGP
3 17 (17.89%) MPLS
4 16 (16.84%) Firewall
4 16 (16.84%) IPsec
5 11 (11.58%) DNS
6 9 (9.47%) SMTP
7 7 (7.37%) FTP
7 7 (7.37%) HTTP
7 7 (7.37%) SSH
8 5 (5.26%) IMAP
8 5 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (4.21%) Unified Communications
10 3 (3.16%) NX-OS
11 2 (2.11%) DKIM
11 2 (2.11%) Junos
11 2 (2.11%) SSL
11 2 (2.11%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.11%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (1.05%) Power BI
5 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.63%) JIRA
3 7 (7.37%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.11%) DbUnit
4 2 (2.11%) GitLab
4 2 (2.11%) jMock
4 2 (2.11%) JUnit
4 2 (2.11%) Maven
4 2 (2.11%) Mockito
4 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.05%) Selenium
5 1 (1.05%) TestDirector
General
1 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.37%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.37%) Legal
4 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.05%) Finance
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (12.63%) Analyst
1 12 (12.63%) Support Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
2 10 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) WAN Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior
6 6 (6.32%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Developer
8 4 (4.21%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) LDAP
2 4 (4.21%) REST
3 3 (3.16%) Middleware
4 2 (2.11%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.11%) JPA
4 2 (2.11%) Node.js
4 2 (2.11%) PowerMock
4 2 (2.11%) SOAP
4 2 (2.11%) Spring
4 2 (2.11%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.11%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Spring Integration
4 2 (2.11%) Web Services
5 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.05%) RFC 2544
5 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) PKI
2 9 (9.47%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.37%) Replication
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Handset
5 3 (3.16%) SCADA
5 3 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Linux
2 16 (16.84%) Windows
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (7.37%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.37%) VMS
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.11%) CentOS
6 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.16%) DevOps
2 18 (18.95%) CI/CD
3 12 (12.63%) Load Balancing
4 10 (10.53%) Agile
4 10 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
6 7 (7.37%) Change Management
6 7 (7.37%) Configuration Management
6 7 (7.37%) Network Design
6 7 (7.37%) Patch Management
6 7 (7.37%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (7.37%) SIEM
7 6 (6.32%) Containerisation
7 6 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.26%) Threat Detection
9 4 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.21%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.11%) Python
2 14 (14.74%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.47%) SQL
4 7 (7.37%) Groovy
5 6 (6.32%) Bash
6 4 (4.21%) Java
7 2 (2.11%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.05%) R
8 1 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 95 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 7 (7.37%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.16%) CISSP
8 1 (1.05%) CCNA
8 1 (1.05%) CCNP
8 1 (1.05%) CEH
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CISM
8 1 (1.05%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.05%) GCIH
8 1 (1.05%) GIAC
8 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.21%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) NCSC
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) Docker
2 9 (9.47%) Postfix
3 7 (7.37%) DFS Replication
4 5 (5.26%) Dovecot
4 5 (5.26%) Squid
5 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Terraform
2 9 (9.47%) Grafana
3 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.26%) Nessus
5 5 (5.26%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.16%) Ansible
6 3 (3.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.05%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Juniper
2 13 (13.68%) Cisco
3 11 (11.58%) ServiceNow
4 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.37%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (6.32%) CyberArk
7 5 (5.26%) Splunk
7 5 (5.26%) VMware
8 3 (3.16%) Broadcom
8 3 (3.16%) F5
8 3 (3.16%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.11%) Tenable
10 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.05%) Foundry
10 1 (1.05%) IBM
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle