SC Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 347 347 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.65% 10.06% 6.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.68% 35.37% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 244 225
10th Percentile £263 £360 £290
25th Percentile £333 £457 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £540 £499
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +8.22% +24.75%
75th Percentile £561 £633 £545
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
England median daily rate £535 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.73% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.64 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.00 £11.80 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.71 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £28.13 £40.25 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £48.56 £59.20 £52.50
% change year-on-year -17.97% +12.75% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 897 981 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.69% 28.43% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 626 671
10th Percentile £229 £250 £213
25th Percentile £325 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 75 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.32 £11.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.75 £13.73
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +18.91%
75th Percentile £43.13 £26.81 £23.69
90th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +11 247 £450 -16.67% 68
East Midlands +6 100 £533 +1.43% 21
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 15 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.02%) CICS
3 7 (2.02%) SAS
4 3 (0.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Revit
4 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Primavera
2 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (8.65%) Azure
2 11 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 11 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (2.88%) AWS
4 6 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.15%) OCI
6 3 (0.86%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.58%) GCP
7 2 (0.58%) IaaS
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.29%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.29%) PaaS
8 1 (0.29%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.29%) SaaS
8 1 (0.29%) Serverless
8 1 (0.29%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.24%) MPLS
2 38 (10.95%) WAN
3 36 (10.37%) Firewall
4 34 (9.80%) IPsec
5 25 (7.20%) BGP
6 13 (3.75%) SAN
7 12 (3.46%) Network Security
8 9 (2.59%) LAN
8 9 (2.59%) VPN
9 6 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.44%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.15%) ADSL
11 4 (1.15%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.15%) Internet
11 4 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.15%) Junos
11 4 (1.15%) PSTN
11 4 (1.15%) Wireless
12 3 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.46%) MySQL
2 10 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.59%) DB2
4 7 (2.02%) IDMS
5 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.15%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.58%) MS Access
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (12.10%) PVCS
1 42 (12.10%) Visual Studio
2 17 (4.90%) Git
3 4 (1.15%) JIRA
3 4 (1.15%) JMeter
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) Selenium
4 2 (0.58%) TestRail
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (17.87%) Public Sector
2 45 (12.97%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.05%) Finance
4 20 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.46%) Legal
5 12 (3.46%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.73%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.44%) Electronics
7 5 (1.44%) Marketing
8 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (15.56%) Analyst
2 49 (14.12%) Programmer
3 46 (13.26%) C Programmer
4 34 (9.80%) Network Engineer
5 26 (7.49%) Architect
6 25 (7.20%) SOC Analyst
7 22 (6.34%) Consultant
8 21 (6.05%) Developer
9 18 (5.19%) Senior
10 11 (3.17%) Test Analyst
11 10 (2.88%) Network Architect
12 9 (2.59%) Administrator
12 9 (2.59%) IT Engineer
12 9 (2.59%) WAN Engineer
13 8 (2.31%) IBM Mainframe Developer
13 8 (2.31%) Mainframe Developer
13 8 (2.31%) SOC Engineer
13 8 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.02%) IT Technician
14 7 (2.02%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.86%) CSS
2 3 (0.86%) HTML
2 3 (0.86%) LDAP
3 2 (0.58%) CSS3
3 2 (0.58%) Laravel
3 2 (0.58%) Regular Expression
3 2 (0.58%) SOAP
3 2 (0.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (0.58%) XML
3 2 (0.58%) Yii
4 1 (0.29%) .NET
4 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.29%) JSON
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.29%) REST
4 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.03%) PKI
1 14 (4.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.88%) Mainframe
4 9 (2.59%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.31%) IBM Mainframe
6 7 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.44%) Digital Media
8 5 (1.44%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.15%) HP Storage
10 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.86%) CMDB
10 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.71%) Windows
2 39 (11.24%) Linux
3 20 (5.76%) Windows 7
4 15 (4.32%) Windows Vista
5 10 (2.88%) Mac OS X
6 9 (2.59%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.02%) zOS
9 6 (1.73%) Windows Server
10 5 (1.44%) AIX
10 5 (1.44%) Debian
10 5 (1.44%) Solaris
11 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.86%) Unix
12 2 (0.58%) VMS
12 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.29%) Android
13 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (10.95%) SIEM
3 36 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (8.93%) Agile
5 26 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (6.34%) Analytics
7 21 (6.05%) Incident Management
8 20 (5.76%) Security Operations
9 19 (5.48%) Customer Service
9 19 (5.48%) ITIL
10 18 (5.19%) Configuration Management
10 18 (5.19%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (5.19%) Scrum
10 18 (5.19%) Software Engineering
11 16 (4.61%) Computer Science
11 16 (4.61%) Data Analytics
11 16 (4.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 16 (4.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (4.03%) Cloud Security
12 14 (4.03%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (14.41%) C
2 42 (12.10%) PL/SQL
3 15 (4.32%) C++
4 14 (4.03%) SQL
5 11 (3.17%) Python
6 9 (2.59%) COBOL
7 7 (2.02%) CLIST
7 7 (2.02%) REXX
7 7 (2.02%) SELCOPY
8 6 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.86%) Bash
10 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.86%) R
10 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) C#
12 1 (0.29%) Java
12 1 (0.29%) ProC
Qualifications
1 347 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.20%) DV Cleared
3 19 (5.48%) Degree
4 15 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (4.32%) CISSP
5 13 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.73%) BC Cleared
11 5 (1.44%) CCNA
11 5 (1.44%) CCNP
12 3 (0.86%) GIAC
13 2 (0.58%) CEH
13 2 (0.58%) CISM
13 2 (0.58%) GSEC
13 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.58%) JNCIS
13 2 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.17%) NIST
2 11 (3.17%) SLA
3 10 (2.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (2.88%) GDPR
3 10 (2.88%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.02%) QA
5 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 5 (1.44%) ISO17020
6 2 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.58%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.58%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.29%) GPG13
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 20 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.44%) Docker
3 5 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.86%) iptables
5 2 (0.58%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
6 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.88%) Ansible
1 10 (2.88%) Grafana
2 8 (2.31%) SCCM
3 6 (1.73%) Kibana
3 6 (1.73%) logstash
4 5 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (1.44%) NetBackup
4 5 (1.44%) Terraform
5 4 (1.15%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.58%) SCOM
6 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.58%) VxRail
7 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.53%) Juniper
3 18 (5.19%) Cisco
3 18 (5.19%) VMware
4 15 (4.32%) Oracle
5 13 (3.75%) Denodo
6 12 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.17%) SAP
8 10 (2.88%) IBM
8 10 (2.88%) Talend
9 7 (2.02%) F5
9 7 (2.02%) Syncsort
10 6 (1.73%) HP
10 6 (1.73%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.44%) Brocade
11 5 (1.44%) EMC
11 5 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.15%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.15%) Splunk