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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 93 73 79
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.02% 12.87% 10.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.97% 40.33% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 48
10th Percentile £393 £150 -
25th Percentile £425 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -44.00%
75th Percentile £538 £649 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £611
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.73 £13.40
25th Percentile £41.15 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +34.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £14.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% +34.79% -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 198 181 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.34% 31.92% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 126 106
10th Percentile £215 £150 £263
25th Percentile £395 £266 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% -17.07%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £569
90th Percentile £655 £697 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 14
10th Percentile £16.09 - £14.00
25th Percentile £19.34 - £21.52
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.42% +55.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.15 £28.75
90th Percentile - £52.50 £54.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +5.26% +19.16%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 (17.20%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.08%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.08%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.08%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.08%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.48%) AWS
2 19 (20.43%) Azure
3 16 (17.20%) GitHub
4 15 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (11.83%) GCP
7 10 (10.75%) AWS KMS
8 8 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (8.60%) Route 53
9 6 (6.45%) OCI
10 5 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (2.15%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) WAN
2 3 (3.23%) BGP
2 3 (3.23%) LAN
2 3 (3.23%) MPLS
2 3 (3.23%) VPN
3 2 (2.15%) Firewall
3 2 (2.15%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.15%) OSPF
3 2 (2.15%) VLAN
4 1 (1.08%) DNS
4 1 (1.08%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.08%) IPsec
4 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.51%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.08%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.08%) Metadata
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.08%) Power BI
5 1 (1.08%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.58%) Git
3 19 (20.43%) JUnit
4 15 (16.13%) JIRA
5 14 (15.05%) GitLab
6 11 (11.83%) Cucumber
6 11 (11.83%) JMeter
6 11 (11.83%) Selenium
6 11 (11.83%) WebDriver
7 9 (9.68%) Mockito
8 8 (8.60%) Maven
8 8 (8.60%) SonarQube
9 4 (4.30%) DbUnit
9 4 (4.30%) jMock
10 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.08%) Gatling
General
1 33 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.38%) Finance
3 5 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Legal
5 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Military
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.20%) Consultant
1 16 (17.20%) Developer
2 14 (15.05%) Java Developer
2 14 (15.05%) Senior
3 11 (11.83%) Tester
4 9 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Architect
5 8 (8.60%) Automation Tester
6 7 (7.53%) Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Tester
7 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.30%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.30%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.30%) VMware Consultant
9 3 (3.23%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) Spring
2 11 (11.83%) WireMock
3 10 (10.75%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (9.68%) Node.js
5 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
5 8 (8.60%) Hibernate
5 8 (8.60%) JPA
5 8 (8.60%) REST
5 8 (8.60%) SOAP
5 8 (8.60%) Spring Batch
5 8 (8.60%) Spring Cloud
5 8 (8.60%) Spring Integration
5 8 (8.60%) Web Services
6 4 (4.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (4.30%) PowerMock
7 3 (3.23%) RESTful
8 2 (2.15%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.15%) RFC 2544
9 1 (1.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.68%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.15%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Photography
6 1 (1.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Agile
2 26 (27.96%) CI/CD
3 25 (26.88%) Microservices
4 22 (23.66%) TDD
5 21 (22.58%) DevOps
6 20 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (19.35%) Validation
8 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (17.20%) BDD
9 16 (17.20%) Test Automation
10 13 (13.98%) Containerisation
10 13 (13.98%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (11.83%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (11.83%) Load Testing
11 11 (11.83%) Observability
11 11 (11.83%) Test Strategy
12 10 (10.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.68%) Scrum
14 8 (8.60%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) Java
2 12 (12.90%) SQL
3 4 (4.30%) Python
4 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
5 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) R
5 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (4.30%) CISSP
3 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.23%) CCNP
4 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.15%) CCNA
4 2 (2.15%) CISM
4 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.08%) CCIE
5 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) NIST
2 5 (5.38%) NCSC
3 4 (4.30%) GRC
3 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.30%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.15%) GDPR
5 2 (2.15%) PMO
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) P3O
6 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (26.88%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) Postfix
3 4 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.30%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (24.73%) Grafana
2 17 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.53%) Terraform
5 5 (5.38%) Ansible
6 4 (4.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (8.60%) VMware
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) SAP
4 4 (4.30%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.30%) Veeam
5 3 (3.23%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Canon
7 1 (1.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.08%) Dell
7 1 (1.08%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) HP
7 1 (1.08%) Infor
7 1 (1.08%) Juniper
7 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.08%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.08%) Zscaler