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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 67 79 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.69% 10.18% 9.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.85% 41.15% 37.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 50 47
10th Percentile £150 - £395
25th Percentile £381 £263 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £625
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -44.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £669 £489 £700
90th Percentile £700 £604 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £492 £575
% change year-on-year +1.73% -14.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.40 -
25th Percentile £18.78 £13.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.79% +7.69% -
75th Percentile - - £17.34
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £14.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +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 164 192 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.06% 24.74% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 104 110
10th Percentile £149 £263 £250
25th Percentile £278 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £516
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -16.46% +14.72%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £652
90th Percentile £700 £675 £701
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 12
10th Percentile £18.76 £14.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +55.22% -16.25%
75th Percentile £46.13 £28.75 £22.67
90th Percentile £54.45 £50.75 £34.28
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year +5.26% +40.03% +40.36%

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 3 July 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 9 (13.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) AWS
2 11 (16.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (16.42%) Amazon S3
3 10 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (13.43%) AWS KMS
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon Glacier
5 6 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.97%) Azure
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.48%) Route 53
8 2 (2.99%) IaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.49%) GitHub
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.49%) OCI
9 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.49%) PaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) DNS
3 6 (8.96%) FTP
3 6 (8.96%) HTTP
3 6 (8.96%) SMTP
3 6 (8.96%) SSH
4 4 (5.97%) IPsec
4 4 (5.97%) VPN
5 3 (4.48%) BGP
5 3 (4.48%) iSCSI
5 3 (4.48%) MPLS
5 3 (4.48%) WAN
6 1 (1.49%) ATM
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.49%) Frame Relay
6 1 (1.49%) Junos
6 1 (1.49%) Network Security
6 1 (1.49%) SDH
6 1 (1.49%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) JIRA
2 10 (14.93%) Git
2 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.96%) Vagrant
4 4 (5.97%) Maven
4 4 (5.97%) MSI
5 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (4.48%) DbUnit
5 3 (4.48%) jMock
5 3 (4.48%) JUnit
5 3 (4.48%) Mockito
5 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.99%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.49%) GitLab
7 1 (1.49%) Postman
7 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (32.84%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Electronics
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.99%) Marketing
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Military
6 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (11.94%) Architect
2 6 (8.96%) Developer
2 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (8.96%) Java Developer
3 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (5.97%) IT Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Administrator
6 2 (2.99%) Consultant
6 2 (2.99%) DBA
6 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (2.99%) JIRA Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Network Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared DBA
6 2 (2.99%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (5.97%) REST
1 4 (5.97%) SOAP
1 4 (5.97%) Software Packaging
1 4 (5.97%) Spring
1 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
1 4 (5.97%) Web Services
2 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.48%) Bootstrap
2 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
2 3 (4.48%) JPA
2 3 (4.48%) PowerMock
2 3 (4.48%) RESTful
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Batch
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Integration
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) EntireX
3 1 (1.49%) Kafka
3 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Driving Licence
2 7 (10.45%) SCADA
3 6 (8.96%) Replication
4 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.48%) PKI
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Windows
2 17 (25.37%) Linux
3 9 (13.43%) VMS
3 9 (13.43%) Windows 10
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.99%) Unix
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.42%) DevOps
2 10 (14.93%) Agile
3 8 (11.94%) Cloud Security
3 8 (11.94%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (10.45%) Change Management
5 6 (8.96%) Configuration Management
5 6 (8.96%) Patch Management
5 6 (8.96%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.46%) Containerisation
6 5 (7.46%) Data Analysis
6 5 (7.46%) Project Management
7 4 (5.97%) ITSM
7 4 (5.97%) Load Balancing
7 4 (5.97%) Microservices
7 4 (5.97%) Scrum
7 4 (5.97%) Service Management
7 4 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) PowerShell
2 15 (22.39%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) Java
4 8 (11.94%) Groovy
5 7 (10.45%) SQL
6 6 (8.96%) Bash
6 6 (8.96%) Perl
7 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 67 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.99%) OCP
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.49%) CITP
5 1 (1.49%) CPIM
5 1 (1.49%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.49%) GDPR
1 1 (1.49%) QA
1 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
1 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.96%) DFS Replication
3 3 (4.48%) Postfix
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Prometheus
2 10 (14.93%) Grafana
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 7 (10.45%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Data Guard
4 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.49%) logstash
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) QRadar
5 1 (1.49%) SCCM
5 1 (1.49%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) VMware
2 8 (11.94%) Dell
2 8 (11.94%) HP
2 8 (11.94%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.45%) Foundry
4 5 (7.46%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.46%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.97%) Juniper
5 4 (5.97%) Tanium
6 3 (4.48%) Broadcom
6 3 (4.48%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco
7 2 (2.99%) IBM
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) Apple
8 1 (1.49%) Commvault
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) webMethods