SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 6 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 13.95% 34.48% 11.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.00% 66.67% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £356 £289 £416
25th Percentile £422 £358 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -8.57% -5.91%
75th Percentile £622 £433 £447
90th Percentile £625 £440 £449
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -4.13% +9.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 15 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 34.88% 51.72% 48.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 4
10th Percentile £401 £313 £304
25th Percentile £411 £333 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £365 £431
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -15.36% +20.63%
75th Percentile £628 £425 £445
90th Percentile £1,133 £438 £448
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Solihull

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Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Solihull over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Solihull

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Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Route 53
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) IMAP
2 1 (16.67%) Junos
2 1 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Support
2 2 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Case Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Dovecot
1 1 (16.67%) Postfix
1 1 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow