SC Cleared Contracts in Herefordshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 2 19 4
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 11 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 50.00% 8.00% 43.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.75% 12.50% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile £603 £516 -
25th Percentile - £522 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -17.31% +44.44%
75th Percentile £900 £547 £700
90th Percentile - £549 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.05% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £37.85
% change year-on-year +96.98% -63.01% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16 32 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 72.73% 64.00% 71.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 22
10th Percentile £383 £528 £513
25th Percentile £497 £544 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £634 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -2.50% +31.31%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £697
90th Percentile £900 £853 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
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 Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Herefordshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Herefordshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Herefordshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ledbury - 8 £750 - 1
Hereford +16 3 £225 -58.14% 1
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) React
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Go
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NCSC
1 3 (27.27%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) HP