SC Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 211 289 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.64% 13.98% 10.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.97% 41.76% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 199 159
10th Percentile £313 £298 £360
25th Percentile £425 £358 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £624 £579 £675
90th Percentile £700 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.78 - £16.36
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.79% -49.09% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £43.13
90th Percentile £40.29 £31.30 £60.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £57.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -9.23% +6.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 491 692 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.74% 33.48% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 430 374
10th Percentile £155 £290 £313
25th Percentile £325 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £701 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 35 17
10th Percentile £18.73 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +37.65% +42.79%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.08
90th Percentile £51.00 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +35.80%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Birmingham +2 68 £500 +42.86% 53
Warwickshire -4 50 £500 -20.63% 8
Shropshire -2 44 £512 +5.57% 28
Herefordshire +17 17 £800 +39.13% 6
Solihull +1 14 £450 +5.63% 4
Worcestershire +16 13 £700 -6.67% 10
Wolverhampton - 3 £336 - 5
Coventry - 2 - - 13
Staffordshire -3 1 £495 +28.77% 36
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 19 (9.00%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) Apache
2 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.47%) SAP EP
5 1 (0.47%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.64%) AWS
1 33 (15.64%) Azure
2 17 (8.06%) Amazon S3
3 16 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (5.69%) AWS KMS
6 9 (4.27%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.79%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.79%) SaaS
7 8 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.84%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.84%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.84%) Route 53
9 6 (2.84%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (2.37%) IaaS
11 4 (1.90%) GCP
11 4 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.11%) Firewall
2 9 (4.27%) VPN
2 9 (4.27%) WAN
3 8 (3.79%) IPsec
3 8 (3.79%) MPLS
3 8 (3.79%) SMTP
4 7 (3.32%) BGP
4 7 (3.32%) DNS
5 6 (2.84%) FTP
5 6 (2.84%) HTTP
5 6 (2.84%) SSH
6 5 (2.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.42%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.95%) IMAP
8 2 (0.95%) LAN
8 2 (0.95%) Network Security
8 2 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.95%) SDH
9 1 (0.47%) ATM
9 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.84%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.37%) Big Data
6 5 (2.37%) Power BI
7 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) Flink
9 1 (0.47%) Metadata
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.47%) MySQL
9 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (15.64%) JIRA
2 26 (12.32%) Git
3 24 (11.37%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.16%) GitLab
5 12 (5.69%) Maven
6 9 (4.27%) JUnit
7 8 (3.79%) Vagrant
8 7 (3.32%) Mockito
9 6 (2.84%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.37%) MSI
11 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.90%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.90%) jMock
11 4 (1.90%) PVCS
12 2 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
13 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.47%) JBehave
13 1 (0.47%) Postman
13 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.96%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.37%) Finance
5 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.42%) Marketing
6 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.95%) Electronics
6 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.95%) Military
6 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.47%) Automotive
7 1 (0.47%) Legal
7 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (11.85%) Architect
2 19 (9.00%) Developer
3 16 (7.58%) Analyst
4 14 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.69%) Java Developer
6 9 (4.27%) Administrator
6 9 (4.27%) Data Engineer
7 8 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (3.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (3.79%) Senior
7 8 (3.79%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.32%) Applications Architect
8 7 (3.32%) Engagement Manager
8 7 (3.32%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.32%) OAT Analyst
9 6 (2.84%) Security Architect
10 5 (2.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (2.37%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.69%) REST
1 12 (5.69%) SOAP
2 11 (5.21%) Spring
2 11 (5.21%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.74%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (4.74%) Web Services
4 9 (4.27%) JPA
5 8 (3.79%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.79%) Bootstrap
6 7 (3.32%) Hibernate
6 7 (3.32%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) RESTful
7 6 (2.84%) Spring Batch
7 6 (2.84%) Spring Integration
8 5 (2.37%) SailPoint
8 5 (2.37%) Software Packaging
8 5 (2.37%) XML
9 4 (1.90%) PowerMock
9 4 (1.90%) PySpark
10 3 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.06%) SCADA
2 13 (6.16%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.69%) PKI
4 10 (4.74%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.84%) IoT
5 6 (2.84%) Replication
6 5 (2.37%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.42%) CSOC
8 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) CCTV
10 1 (0.47%) PMI
10 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.43%) Windows
2 34 (16.11%) Linux
3 14 (6.64%) VMS
4 9 (4.27%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.79%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.84%) Unix
8 5 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.42%) Android
10 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.27%) Agile
2 36 (17.06%) DevOps
3 33 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (9.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (9.00%) Containerisation
5 17 (8.06%) Microservices
6 16 (7.58%) Project Management
7 15 (7.11%) ITIL
8 14 (6.64%) Migration
8 14 (6.64%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (6.64%) Scrum
9 13 (6.16%) Analytics
10 12 (5.69%) Cloud Security
11 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (5.21%) Privileged Access Management
11 11 (5.21%) Project Delivery
11 11 (5.21%) Risk Management
11 11 (5.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (4.74%) Configuration Management
12 10 (4.74%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.22%) Python
2 27 (12.80%) Java
3 26 (12.32%) PowerShell
4 25 (11.85%) SQL
5 10 (4.74%) Groovy
6 8 (3.79%) Bash
7 7 (3.32%) Perl
8 5 (2.37%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.90%) C#
10 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.42%) Ruby
11 2 (0.95%) Go
11 2 (0.95%) Scala
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) ABAP
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 211 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.64%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.32%) Degree
5 5 (2.37%) CISSP
5 5 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.95%) CISA
8 2 (0.95%) CISM
8 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.95%) GIAC
8 2 (0.95%) ISACA
8 2 (0.95%) OCP
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.32%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.42%) NCSC
4 3 (1.42%) PMO
4 3 (1.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) PMBOK
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Docker
2 21 (9.95%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.32%) Postfix
5 6 (2.84%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.95%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.95%) Squid
6 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (12.80%) Terraform
2 20 (9.48%) Ansible
3 18 (8.53%) Prometheus
4 17 (8.06%) Grafana
5 14 (6.64%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.42%) Nessus
7 3 (1.42%) Opsview
7 3 (1.42%) Podman
8 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.47%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.47%) logstash
9 1 (0.47%) QRadar
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
9 1 (0.47%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 20 (9.48%) ServiceNow
2 15 (7.11%) Cisco
2 15 (7.11%) VMware
3 14 (6.64%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.21%) Dell
4 11 (5.21%) HP
5 9 (4.27%) SAP
6 8 (3.79%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.79%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.79%) Juniper
6 8 (3.79%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.32%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.32%) Foundry
8 6 (2.84%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.84%) Oracle
8 6 (2.84%) Tanium
9 5 (2.37%) Denodo
9 5 (2.37%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.37%) Splunk
10 4 (1.90%) Broadcom