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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 90 82 43
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.90% 14.02% 6.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.45% 44.81% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 58 21
10th Percentile £416 £185 £263
25th Percentile £438 £344 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £580 £500 £675
90th Percentile £700 £605 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £472 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -7.91% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 1
10th Percentile £54.69 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +39.78% -79.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £24.25
% change year-on-year +234.58% -22.19% -62.69%

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 212 183 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.32% 31.28% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 125 80
10th Percentile £211 £150 £208
25th Percentile £392 £282 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £616 £752
West Midlands median daily rate £473 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.40% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 7
10th Percentile £14.73 - £17.60
25th Percentile £25.11 - £20.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.77% -52.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £21.73 £51.25
90th Percentile - £48.25 £54.40
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +75.00% -12.96% +25.33%

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 3 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 3 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 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.11%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.11%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.11%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 10 (11.11%) GitHub
3 9 (10.00%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (5.56%) GCP
4 5 (5.56%) OCI
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.22%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.22%) Route 53
7 2 (2.22%) Serverless
8 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.22%) LAN
1 2 (2.22%) WAN
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
2 1 (1.11%) VSAN
2 1 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.22%) Metadata
3 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.11%) JasperReports
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
4 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.11%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.33%) GitLab
3 8 (8.89%) Git
4 7 (7.78%) JUnit
5 6 (6.67%) JIRA
6 5 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.56%) JMeter
6 5 (5.56%) Selenium
6 5 (5.56%) WebDriver
7 3 (3.33%) Mockito
8 2 (2.22%) Maven
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.11%) Gatling
General
1 24 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.56%) Finance
3 5 (5.56%) Military
4 4 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) Consultant
2 16 (17.78%) Senior
3 13 (14.44%) Developer
4 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 9 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Security Consultant
7 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Analyst
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.44%) Lead
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Automation Tester
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Tester
10 4 (4.44%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Tester
10 4 (4.44%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Spring
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 6 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.56%) WireMock
5 4 (4.44%) Kafka
5 4 (4.44%) Node.js
5 4 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.33%) Django
6 3 (3.33%) REST
6 3 (3.33%) Web Services
7 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.22%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.22%) JPA
7 2 (2.22%) SOAP
7 2 (2.22%) Spring Batch
7 2 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Spring Integration
8 1 (1.11%) PySpark
8 1 (1.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Photography
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) AIX
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
1 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Agile
2 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (15.56%) Microservices
3 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (15.56%) TDD
4 13 (14.44%) DevOps
5 11 (12.22%) Validation
6 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 10 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (8.89%) BDD
7 8 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
8 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 5 (5.56%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (7.78%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) SQL
4 5 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.11%) ABAP
7 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 90 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.22%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) CCIE
5 1 (1.11%) CCNP
5 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) NIST
2 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.56%) NCSC
3 4 (4.44%) GRC
3 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) PMO
5 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.11%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 5 (5.56%) vSphere
4 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.22%) Grafana
3 9 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.67%) Ansible
5 4 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.11%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) VMware
2 7 (7.78%) SAP
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) Veeam
5 2 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Infor
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.11%) Zscaler