SC Cleared Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 47 89 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.00% 11.51% 6.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.06% 39.91% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 63 41
10th Percentile £150 £263 £388
25th Percentile £301 £295 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £625
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -40.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £697 £475 £700
90th Percentile £700 £668 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.05% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +5.77% -
75th Percentile - £14.00 £17.34
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £37.85
% change year-on-year +96.98% -63.01% -

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 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (4.26%) IaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.13%) OCI
4 1 (2.13%) PaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) iSCSI
2 2 (4.26%) IPsec
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) ATM
3 1 (2.13%) BGP
3 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) Frame Relay
3 1 (2.13%) MPLS
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) SDH
3 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.13%) VoIP
3 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) Metadata
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) MSI
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Architect
2 3 (6.38%) Analyst
2 3 (6.38%) Consultant
2 3 (6.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (4.26%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (4.26%) Incident Responder
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (4.26%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (4.26%) Security Analyst
3 2 (4.26%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (4.26%) Senior
3 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (2.13%) Lead
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 1 (2.13%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.13%) CSS
2 1 (2.13%) EntireX
2 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
2 1 (2.13%) Kafka
2 1 (2.13%) NumPy
2 1 (2.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Driving Licence
1 7 (14.89%) SCADA
2 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Windows 10
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
4 3 (6.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.02%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (12.77%) Agile
2 6 (12.77%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (10.64%) Migration
4 4 (8.51%) Data Analysis
4 4 (8.51%) Project Management
4 4 (8.51%) Software Delivery
4 4 (8.51%) Software Deployment
4 4 (8.51%) Software Distribution
5 3 (6.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.38%) Decision-Making
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.38%) Incident Response
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (6.38%) Security Architecture
5 3 (6.38%) Service Management
5 3 (6.38%) Storage Management
5 3 (6.38%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Groovy
4 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) R
5 1 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) GDPR
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Ansible
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.13%) logstash
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) QRadar
3 1 (2.13%) SCCM
3 1 (2.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) VMware
2 8 (17.02%) Dell
2 8 (17.02%) HP
3 7 (14.89%) Foundry
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.64%) SolarWinds
5 4 (8.51%) Tanium
6 3 (6.38%) Broadcom
7 2 (4.26%) Apple
7 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.13%) Cisco
8 1 (2.13%) Databricks
8 1 (2.13%) IBM
8 1 (2.13%) Juniper
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle
8 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.13%) Software AG
8 1 (2.13%) webMethods