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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 86 45 82
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.30% 8.86% 10.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.51% 31.69% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 56
10th Percentile £380 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £279 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £388
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +48.39% -38.00%
75th Percentile £575 £692 £495
90th Percentile £619 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.48% +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £17.98 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £14.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £27.58 £14.00
% change year-on-year +128.94% +96.98% -49.09%

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 181 142 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.57% 27.95% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 102 115
10th Percentile £268 £148 £263
25th Percentile £407 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £512 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +20.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £646 £550
90th Percentile £633 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £472 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -5.60% +6.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 13
10th Percentile £14.95 £24.31 £13.40
25th Percentile £16.70 £33.01 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% +92.31% +55.22%
75th Percentile £19.67 £55.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.70 £50.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £22.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +133.33% -21.05% +50.00%

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 May 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 May 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 16 (18.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.16%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.16%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.07%) AWS
2 19 (22.09%) Azure
3 12 (13.95%) GitHub
4 11 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (11.63%) Amazon S3
5 10 (11.63%) GCP
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (10.47%) AWS KMS
7 7 (8.14%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (8.14%) Route 53
8 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.49%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.33%) IaaS
10 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.33%) OCI
10 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
2 4 (4.65%) WAN
3 3 (3.49%) BGP
3 3 (3.49%) LAN
3 3 (3.49%) MPLS
3 3 (3.49%) NX-OS
3 3 (3.49%) VPN
4 2 (2.33%) DKIM
4 2 (2.33%) DMARC
4 2 (2.33%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.33%) OSPF
4 2 (2.33%) SMTP
4 2 (2.33%) VLAN
4 2 (2.33%) X.25
5 1 (1.16%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.16%) IPsec
5 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.16%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
2 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 17 (19.77%) JUnit
4 15 (17.44%) JIRA
5 10 (11.63%) Cucumber
5 10 (11.63%) JMeter
5 10 (11.63%) Selenium
5 10 (11.63%) WebDriver
6 9 (10.47%) GitLab
7 7 (8.14%) Maven
7 7 (8.14%) Mockito
7 7 (8.14%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.65%) DbUnit
8 4 (4.65%) jMock
9 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 28 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.58%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Legal
4 6 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.12%) Architect
2 11 (12.79%) Tester
3 10 (11.63%) Developer
3 10 (11.63%) Senior
4 9 (10.47%) Analyst
4 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 8 (9.30%) Automation Tester
5 8 (9.30%) Consultant
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Tester
7 4 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) CyberArk Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Systems Tester
9 2 (2.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.93%) Spring
2 10 (11.63%) WireMock
3 8 (9.30%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.14%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.14%) Hibernate
4 7 (8.14%) JPA
4 7 (8.14%) Node.js
4 7 (8.14%) REST
4 7 (8.14%) SOAP
4 7 (8.14%) Spring Batch
4 7 (8.14%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (8.14%) Spring Integration
4 7 (8.14%) Web Services
5 4 (4.65%) PowerMock
6 3 (3.49%) Middleware
7 2 (2.33%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.33%) LDAP
7 2 (2.33%) RESTful
7 2 (2.33%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.49%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.49%) SCADA
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Photography
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.12%) Linux
2 9 (10.47%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.33%) CentOS
4 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.16%) Unix
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Agile
2 22 (25.58%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.93%) Microservices
4 17 (19.77%) DevOps
4 17 (19.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (19.77%) TDD
5 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (17.44%) Validation
7 12 (13.95%) BDD
7 12 (13.95%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
8 11 (12.79%) Observability
8 11 (12.79%) Test Automation
9 10 (11.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 10 (11.63%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (11.63%) Load Testing
9 10 (11.63%) Test Strategy
10 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.14%) Scrum
11 7 (8.14%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.79%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Java
3 8 (9.30%) Python
4 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.16%) Bicep
7 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.49%) CCNP
3 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.49%) CISSP
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) CCNA
4 2 (2.33%) CISM
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.16%) CCIE
5 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.14%) NIST
2 3 (3.49%) GRC
2 3 (3.49%) PMO
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) NCSC
3 2 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) P3O
System Software
1 19 (22.09%) Docker
2 6 (6.98%) Postfix
2 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Grafana
2 14 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.79%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.65%) Terraform
5 3 (3.49%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.33%) Ansible
7 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) VMware
2 7 (8.14%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco
4 4 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.65%) SAP
4 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.49%) Broadcom
5 3 (3.49%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.49%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Tenable
7 1 (1.16%) Canon
7 1 (1.16%) Dell
7 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.16%) Foundry
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) Juniper
7 1 (1.16%) Zscaler