SC Cleared Contracts in Shropshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 38 81 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 29.23% 60.45% 46.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 71.70% 90.00% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 60 64
10th Percentile £450 £357 £420
25th Percentile £489 £360 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £507 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -6.11% -
75th Percentile £540 £537 -
90th Percentile £582 £538 £558
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.05% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £37.85
% change year-on-year +96.98% -63.01% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 53 90 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 40.77% 67.16% 50.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 68 65
10th Percentile £368 £350 £420
25th Percentile £450 £360 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £501 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -7.27% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £536 -
90th Percentile £552 £538 £558
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -74.55% +323.08%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Shropshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Shropshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Shropshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Shropshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford -3 30 £514 +1.36% 17
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (23.68%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) SAS
2 2 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.63%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.63%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP CRM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) SaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.16%) Big Data
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) JIRA
2 8 (21.05%) GitLab
3 6 (15.79%) Git
4 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) JBehave
6 1 (2.63%) Selenium
6 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Test Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Denodo Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) ABAP Developer
7 1 (2.63%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) QA Tester
7 1 (2.63%) SAP Architect
7 1 (2.63%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) SAP PI Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) SAP Technical Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (5.26%) SAP PI
1 2 (5.26%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.63%) SOAP
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.53%) PKI
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Agile Project Management
4 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
4 7 (18.42%) Project Management
4 7 (18.42%) Software Testing
5 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Observability
5 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.16%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.53%) Migration
7 4 (10.53%) Software Delivery
8 3 (7.89%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (7.89%) Cost Reduction
8 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
9 2 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (5.26%) ABAP
3 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Opsview
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Dynatrace
2 5 (13.16%) Denodo
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Talend
4 3 (7.89%) PagerDuty
4 3 (7.89%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Ariba
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft