SC Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 238 351 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.43% 12.73% 10.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.20% 39.04% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 235 248
10th Percentile £200 £263 £360
25th Percentile £400 £343 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -10.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £613 £561 £638
90th Percentile £700 £642 £700
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 19
10th Percentile £18.51 £12.75 £11.64
25th Percentile £19.23 £14.00 £11.80
Median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -3.40% +3.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.13 £40.25
90th Percentile £54.59 £51.91 £66.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £57.63
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.24% +10.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 564 899 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.47% 32.61% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 556 615
10th Percentile £150 £230 £253
25th Percentile £272 £325 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.21% +15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 71 76
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.00 £14.30
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.65 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +32.35% -6.88%
75th Percentile £31.38 £43.13 £26.64
90th Percentile £59.00 £56.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -4 175 £525 +16.67% 97
East Midlands 0 63 £475 -12.84% 42
SC Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (4.62%) Confluence
2 4 (1.68%) Apache
3 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.84%) SAS
4 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.42%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EP
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Primavera
1 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.61%) Azure
2 25 (10.50%) AWS
3 9 (3.78%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.36%) SaaS
5 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.52%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.68%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.68%) Route 53
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.26%) GCP
9 3 (1.26%) IaaS
9 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.84%) PaaS
11 1 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.88%) Firewall
2 12 (5.04%) IPsec
3 11 (4.62%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (4.62%) WAN
4 8 (3.36%) VPN
5 6 (2.52%) BGP
5 6 (2.52%) DNS
5 6 (2.52%) MPLS
6 5 (2.10%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.10%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (1.68%) HSRP
7 4 (1.68%) LAN
7 4 (1.68%) OSPF
7 4 (1.68%) VLAN
8 3 (1.26%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.26%) Network Security
9 2 (0.84%) SAN
9 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.10%) Big Data
3 5 (2.10%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.10%) RDBMS
3 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.26%) Power BI
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.42%) Flink
7 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) JIRA
2 13 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.20%) Git
3 10 (4.20%) GitLab
4 7 (2.94%) JUnit
4 7 (2.94%) Maven
5 5 (2.10%) Mockito
5 5 (2.10%) MSI
6 2 (0.84%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.42%) JBehave
7 1 (0.42%) jMock
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 64 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 11 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.94%) Finance
5 6 (2.52%) Law
6 4 (1.68%) Legal
7 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Military
8 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.42%) Automotive
9 1 (0.42%) Electronics
9 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (19.75%) Architect
2 18 (7.56%) Analyst
3 16 (6.72%) Developer
4 11 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (4.62%) Consultant
4 11 (4.62%) Data Engineer
4 11 (4.62%) Network Architect
5 10 (4.20%) Support Engineer
6 9 (3.78%) Security Architect
6 9 (3.78%) Senior
7 8 (3.36%) Administrator
7 8 (3.36%) IT Engineer
8 7 (2.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (2.94%) Applications Architect
8 7 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.94%) Engagement Manager
8 7 (2.94%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.52%) Network Engineer
9 6 (2.52%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.36%) REST
1 8 (3.36%) Web Services
2 7 (2.94%) Hibernate
2 7 (2.94%) Spring
2 7 (2.94%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.52%) SOAP
4 5 (2.10%) SailPoint
4 5 (2.10%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.68%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (1.68%) HTML
5 4 (1.68%) JPA
5 4 (1.68%) PySpark
6 3 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.26%) Apache Axis
6 3 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.26%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.26%) jQuery
6 3 (1.26%) RESTful
6 3 (1.26%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.26%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.46%) SCADA
2 11 (4.62%) Driving Licence
2 11 (4.62%) PKI
3 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.94%) CSOC
6 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.10%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.10%) IoT
8 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.42%) CCTV
10 1 (0.42%) FPGA
10 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.42%) PMI
10 1 (0.42%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.59%) Windows
2 26 (10.92%) Linux
3 17 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 11 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.20%) VMS
6 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.68%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.68%) Windows Vista
8 3 (1.26%) Unix
9 2 (0.84%) Debian
9 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (17.65%) Agile
2 34 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (9.66%) DevOps
4 20 (8.40%) Migration
5 19 (7.98%) CI/CD
6 17 (7.14%) Project Management
7 16 (6.72%) Break/Fix
8 15 (6.30%) ITIL
8 15 (6.30%) Microservices
9 13 (5.46%) SIEM
10 11 (4.62%) Analytics
10 11 (4.62%) ITSM
10 11 (4.62%) Network Monitoring
10 11 (4.62%) Project Delivery
10 11 (4.62%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (4.20%) Software Delivery
11 10 (4.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (3.78%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (3.78%) Privileged Access Management
12 9 (3.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.34%) Python
2 18 (7.56%) SQL
3 17 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 14 (5.88%) Java
5 6 (2.52%) Bash
5 6 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.10%) C#
7 3 (1.26%) Ruby
7 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.84%) ABAP
8 2 (0.84%) Go
8 2 (0.84%) Groovy
8 2 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.84%) Perl
8 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.84%) Scala
8 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 238 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.04%) DV Cleared
3 7 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.52%) Degree
5 5 (2.10%) CCNP
5 5 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.10%) CISSP
5 5 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.84%) CISA
8 2 (0.84%) CISM
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.84%) GIAC
8 2 (0.84%) ISACA
8 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.84%) PMP
8 2 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.36%) QA
2 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) NCSC
4 3 (1.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) PMBOK
System Software
1 27 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 19 (7.98%) Docker
4 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.84%) Postfix
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (9.24%) Ansible
2 20 (8.40%) Terraform
3 15 (6.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.52%) SCCM
5 4 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.26%) Grafana
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.26%) Opsview
6 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.84%) Podman
7 2 (0.84%) SCOM
8 1 (0.42%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.42%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.42%) logstash
8 1 (0.42%) Nessus
8 1 (0.42%) QRadar
8 1 (0.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.42%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (13.03%) VMware
2 25 (10.50%) Cisco
3 22 (9.24%) SolarWinds
4 19 (7.98%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.14%) F5
6 15 (6.30%) Dell
7 14 (5.88%) HP
7 14 (5.88%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.62%) Juniper
8 11 (4.62%) SAP
9 9 (3.78%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.78%) Splunk
10 8 (3.36%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.36%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.94%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.94%) Foundry
12 6 (2.52%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.52%) Oracle
12 6 (2.52%) Tanium
13 5 (2.10%) Denodo