SC Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 38 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 66.67% 46.15% 41.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.08% 50.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 7
10th Percentile £563 £575 £520
25th Percentile £619 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -9.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £750 £635 £706
90th Percentile £850 £685 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £553 £523
% change year-on-year -6.24% +5.84% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £21.68 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% -46.15% -

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 52 48 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 91.23% 92.31% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 10
10th Percentile £525 £531 £491
25th Percentile £600 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £612 £613
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -0.08% +22.50%
75th Percentile - £685 £716
90th Percentile £830 £775 £726
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.37% +2.38% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £21.68 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% - -
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +1.45% +42.27%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Herefordshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SC Cleared

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 4 November 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 -1 31 £700 +14.38%
Hereford +5 7 - - 4
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (71.05%) Azure
2 23 (60.53%) GitHub
3 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (18.42%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (18.42%) Serverless
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Stack
6 2 (5.26%) IaaS
6 2 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.42%) Redis
3 6 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Backend Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Python Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.53%) IT Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (10.53%) React Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
8 1 (2.63%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.63%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) YAML
2 7 (18.42%) FastAPI
2 7 (18.42%) Flask
2 7 (18.42%) GraphQL
2 7 (18.42%) gRPC
2 7 (18.42%) REST
2 7 (18.42%) WebSockets
3 6 (15.79%) Kafka
3 6 (15.79%) Keycloak
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js
4 4 (10.53%) React
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Android
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) DevOps
2 25 (65.79%) Containerisation
3 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
4 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (28.95%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (26.32%) DevSecOps
6 10 (26.32%) Regulatory Compliance
6 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.05%) Microservices
8 6 (15.79%) Batch Processing
8 6 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (15.79%) DataOps
8 6 (15.79%) ETL
9 5 (13.16%) Migration
9 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.16%) Workflow
9 5 (13.16%) Workflow Management
10 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Go
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (55.26%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (26.32%) Terraform
3 7 (18.42%) Grafana
3 7 (18.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco