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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 256 357 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.58% 12.83% 9.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.83% 39.93% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 230 207
10th Percentile £200 £269 £363
25th Percentile £413 £358 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £555
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -8.87% +11.00%
75th Percentile £588 £587 £674
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £12.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.69 £20.00 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -7.71% +8.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.80 £40.25
90th Percentile £43.78 £51.91 £60.90
England median hourly rate £32.00 £48.56 £57.50
% change year-on-year -34.10% -15.55% +10.05%

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 612 894 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.07% 32.12% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 567 564
10th Percentile £153 £252 £313
25th Percentile £300 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 73 52
10th Percentile £15.49 £13.25 £10.54
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +23.25% -
75th Percentile £35.69 £42.50 £36.37
90th Percentile £52.25 £58.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +37.47%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -3 191 £525 +5.00% 598
East Midlands -2 65 £475 -10.80% 417
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
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 12 (4.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.17%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.78%) SAS
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.39%) SAP EP
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Primavera
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.28%) Azure
2 33 (12.89%) AWS
3 12 (4.69%) Amazon S3
4 11 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (3.52%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.13%) SaaS
7 7 (2.73%) AWS KMS
7 7 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.34%) GCP
8 6 (2.34%) Route 53
8 6 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.78%) IaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (0.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) Firewall
2 12 (4.69%) IPsec
3 10 (3.91%) WAN
4 8 (3.13%) DNS
4 8 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (3.13%) VPN
5 7 (2.73%) MPLS
6 6 (2.34%) BGP
7 5 (1.95%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (1.95%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (1.56%) HSRP
8 4 (1.56%) LAN
8 4 (1.56%) OSPF
8 4 (1.56%) VLAN
9 3 (1.17%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.78%) SAN
10 2 (0.78%) SDH
10 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.95%) Big Data
6 5 (1.95%) Power BI
7 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.39%) Flink
10 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.39%) Metadata
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.39%) MySQL
10 1 (0.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (9.77%) JIRA
2 21 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.42%) Git
4 14 (5.47%) GitLab
5 12 (4.69%) Maven
6 11 (4.30%) JUnit
7 9 (3.52%) Mockito
8 6 (2.34%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.95%) MSI
10 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.17%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.17%) jMock
11 2 (0.78%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.39%) Chocolatey
12 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.39%) JBehave
12 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.11%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.13%) Finance
5 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Law
7 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.78%) Military
8 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.39%) Automotive
8 1 (0.39%) Legal
8 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (15.23%) Architect
2 21 (8.20%) Analyst
3 20 (7.81%) Developer
4 12 (4.69%) Consultant
4 12 (4.69%) Java Developer
4 12 (4.69%) Support Engineer
5 11 (4.30%) Administrator
5 11 (4.30%) Data Engineer
6 10 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.13%) Senior
9 7 (2.73%) Applications Architect
9 7 (2.73%) Engagement Manager
9 7 (2.73%) IT Engineer
9 7 (2.73%) Network Architect
9 7 (2.73%) OAT Analyst
10 6 (2.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (2.34%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.08%) REST
2 12 (4.69%) Spring
2 12 (4.69%) Spring Boot
2 12 (4.69%) Web Services
3 11 (4.30%) SOAP
4 9 (3.52%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (3.52%) Hibernate
5 8 (3.13%) JPA
6 7 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.73%) Bootstrap
7 6 (2.34%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) RESTful
8 5 (1.95%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.95%) Software Packaging
8 5 (1.95%) Spring Batch
8 5 (1.95%) Spring Integration
9 4 (1.56%) PySpark
10 3 (1.17%) Apache Axis
10 3 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) SCADA
2 13 (5.08%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.30%) PKI
4 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.73%) CSOC
7 5 (1.95%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.95%) IoT
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.39%) CCTV
11 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.39%) PMI
11 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.48%) Windows
2 34 (13.28%) Linux
3 16 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.30%) VMS
6 5 (1.95%) Unix
6 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.56%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.56%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.78%) Android
8 2 (0.78%) Debian
8 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (18.75%) Agile
2 42 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (11.33%) DevOps
4 20 (7.81%) CI/CD
4 20 (7.81%) Microservices
5 19 (7.42%) Project Management
6 18 (7.03%) ITIL
6 18 (7.03%) Migration
7 16 (6.25%) Containerisation
8 15 (5.86%) Scrum
9 14 (5.47%) Project Delivery
9 14 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.08%) Break/Fix
11 12 (4.69%) Analytics
11 12 (4.69%) ITSM
11 12 (4.69%) Network Monitoring
11 12 (4.69%) SIEM
11 12 (4.69%) TDD
12 11 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (4.30%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.72%) Python
2 23 (8.98%) Java
3 22 (8.59%) SQL
4 21 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.73%) Bash
6 5 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.56%) C#
8 3 (1.17%) Groovy
8 3 (1.17%) Perl
8 3 (1.17%) Ruby
9 2 (0.78%) ABAP
9 2 (0.78%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 256 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.69%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.73%) Degree
5 5 (1.95%) CCNP
5 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.95%) CISSP
5 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.78%) CISA
8 2 (0.78%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) GIAC
8 2 (0.78%) ISACA
8 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.78%) PMP
8 2 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) NCSC
4 3 (1.17%) PMO
4 3 (1.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) PMBOK
System Software
1 27 (10.55%) Docker
1 27 (10.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (8.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.34%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.56%) Postfix
5 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (8.98%) Ansible
1 23 (8.98%) Terraform
2 17 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.52%) Grafana
5 6 (2.34%) SCCM
6 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.17%) Opsview
6 3 (1.17%) Podman
6 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.78%) SCOM
8 1 (0.39%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.39%) logstash
8 1 (0.39%) Nessus
8 1 (0.39%) QRadar
8 1 (0.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.39%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (12.11%) VMware
2 26 (10.16%) Cisco
3 19 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.42%) SolarWinds
4 17 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.25%) Dell
5 16 (6.25%) HP
6 14 (5.47%) F5
7 11 (4.30%) Juniper
7 11 (4.30%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.91%) SAP
8 10 (3.91%) Splunk
9 8 (3.13%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.13%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.73%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.73%) Broadcom
10 7 (2.73%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.73%) Foundry
11 6 (2.34%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.34%) Tanium