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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 95 65 57
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.34% 11.93% 8.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.57% 38.46% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 32
10th Percentile £391 £150 -
25th Percentile £425 £276 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -29.13%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £600
90th Percentile £575 £594 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -6.20% -1.48% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £15.83 £18.80 £13.40
25th Percentile £65.00 - £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 204 169 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.20% 31.01% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 116 83
10th Percentile £213 £150 £263
25th Percentile £379 £254 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £619
90th Percentile £659 £602 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £498 £519
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.14% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 9
10th Percentile £16.03 £18.62 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.23 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -16.13% +21.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £49.95 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year +75.00% -6.69% +16.91%

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 7 August 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (1.05%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.05%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.05%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.74%) AWS
2 17 (17.89%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) GitHub
4 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
5 11 (11.58%) GCP
6 9 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (8.42%) AWS KMS
8 7 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.32%) OCI
9 6 (6.32%) Route 53
10 5 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.16%) Serverless
11 3 (3.16%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) WAN
2 2 (2.11%) BGP
2 2 (2.11%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.11%) LAN
2 2 (2.11%) MPLS
2 2 (2.11%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) IPsec
3 1 (1.05%) OSPF
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) VLAN
3 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (6.32%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.05%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.05%) Power BI
5 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.05%) Git
3 17 (17.89%) JUnit
4 14 (14.74%) GitLab
4 14 (14.74%) JIRA
5 11 (11.58%) Cucumber
5 11 (11.58%) JMeter
5 11 (11.58%) Selenium
5 11 (11.58%) WebDriver
6 7 (7.37%) Mockito
7 6 (6.32%) Maven
7 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.11%) DbUnit
8 2 (2.11%) jMock
9 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.05%) Gatling
General
1 27 (28.42%) Public Sector
2 21 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Legal
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Consultant
2 15 (15.79%) Developer
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Tester
6 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Automation Tester
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Tester
9 6 (6.32%) Analyst
10 5 (5.26%) Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Lead
10 5 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Security Consultant
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.21%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Spring
2 11 (11.58%) WireMock
3 9 (9.47%) Spring Boot
4 8 (8.42%) Node.js
5 7 (7.37%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (7.37%) REST
5 7 (7.37%) Web Services
6 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.32%) Hibernate
6 6 (6.32%) JPA
6 6 (6.32%) SOAP
6 6 (6.32%) Spring Batch
6 6 (6.32%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (6.32%) Spring Integration
7 4 (4.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (3.16%) Django
8 3 (3.16%) RESTful
9 2 (2.11%) Bootstrap
9 2 (2.11%) Kafka
9 2 (2.11%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Photography
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Agile
2 25 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 24 (25.26%) Microservices
4 21 (22.11%) TDD
5 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (18.95%) Validation
7 17 (17.89%) DevOps
8 16 (16.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (16.84%) Test Automation
9 14 (14.74%) BDD
10 13 (13.68%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (11.58%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.58%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (11.58%) Load Testing
11 11 (11.58%) Observability
11 11 (11.58%) Test Strategy
12 10 (10.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.47%) Scrum
14 8 (8.42%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) Java
2 11 (11.58%) SQL
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.11%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.05%) ABAP
5 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.21%) CISSP
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.11%) CCNP
4 2 (2.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.05%) CCIE
5 1 (1.05%) CCNA
5 1 (1.05%) Degree
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) NIST
2 5 (5.26%) GRC
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.21%) NCSC
3 4 (4.21%) QA
4 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.11%) GDPR
5 2 (2.11%) PMO
6 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.05%) P3O
6 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (25.26%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.21%) vSphere
4 2 (2.11%) Postfix
5 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Grafana
2 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.37%) Terraform
5 5 (5.26%) Ansible
6 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) VMware
2 6 (6.32%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Oracle
2 6 (6.32%) SAP
3 4 (4.21%) Veeam
4 3 (3.16%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco
5 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) Canon
6 1 (1.05%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) Dell
6 1 (1.05%) HP
6 1 (1.05%) Infor
6 1 (1.05%) Juniper
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.05%) Zscaler