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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 84 75 48
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.41% 13.11% 6.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.21% 43.10% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 27
10th Percentile £405 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £325 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £616
90th Percentile £585 £613 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -7.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 2
10th Percentile £54.69 £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 199 174 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.28% 30.42% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 118 86
10th Percentile £212 £150 £256
25th Percentile £371 £263 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £545 £569 £636
90th Percentile £688 £624 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% -4.67% -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 9
10th Percentile £17.34 £18.65 £13.85
25th Percentile £31.10 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.77% +41.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.58 £52.50
90th Percentile - £49.10 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +75.00% -11.58% +31.51%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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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 8 (9.52%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.19%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.19%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) AWS
2 12 (14.29%) GitHub
3 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 11 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (8.33%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.76%) OCI
7 3 (3.57%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.57%) Route 53
7 3 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.38%) Serverless
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.38%) LAN
1 2 (2.38%) WAN
2 1 (1.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
2 1 (1.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.19%) JasperReports
4 1 (1.19%) Power BI
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.19%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.10%) Git
2 11 (13.10%) GitLab
3 10 (11.90%) JUnit
4 8 (9.52%) JIRA
5 7 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 7 (8.33%) JMeter
5 7 (8.33%) Selenium
5 7 (8.33%) WebDriver
6 4 (4.76%) Mockito
7 3 (3.57%) Maven
7 3 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.19%) Gatling
General
1 22 (26.19%) Public Sector
2 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Finance
4 4 (4.76%) Legal
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Military
5 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Consultant
2 13 (15.48%) Senior
3 11 (13.10%) Developer
4 9 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Analyst
6 6 (7.14%) Security Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Tester
7 5 (5.95%) Automation Tester
7 5 (5.95%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Automation Tester
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Tester
8 4 (4.76%) Lead
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) VMware Consultant
9 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) Spring
2 7 (8.33%) WireMock
3 6 (7.14%) Terraform
4 5 (5.95%) Node.js
4 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (4.76%) REST
5 4 (4.76%) Web Services
6 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.57%) Django
6 3 (3.57%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.57%) JPA
6 3 (3.57%) SOAP
6 3 (3.57%) Spring Batch
6 3 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (3.57%) Spring Integration
7 2 (2.38%) Kafka
8 1 (1.19%) JAX-RS
8 1 (1.19%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Photography
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
1 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.33%) Agile
2 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
2 17 (20.24%) Microservices
3 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 15 (17.86%) TDD
4 14 (16.67%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) Validation
6 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (13.10%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (11.90%) BDD
9 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (8.33%) Load Testing
9 7 (8.33%) Observability
9 7 (8.33%) Test Strategy
10 6 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Java
2 6 (7.14%) Python
2 6 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (3.57%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.19%) ABAP
5 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.76%) CISSP
3 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) CCIE
4 1 (1.19%) CCNP
4 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) NIST
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) GRC
2 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.76%) NCSC
3 4 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) PMO
5 2 (2.38%) GDPR
5 2 (2.38%) SLA
6 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.19%) P3O
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
2 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Grafana
1 14 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.95%) Ansible
4 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) VMware
2 7 (8.33%) SAP
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Veeam
5 3 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) Infor
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.19%) Zscaler