BC Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 137 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.12% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £590 £538
% change year-on-year +1.69% +9.77% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £13.75 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -44.00% -20.00% +30.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

BC 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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 619 663 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.24% 27.21% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 411 513
10th Percentile £263 £305 £277
25th Percentile £358 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +13.51% +14.20%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £652
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.30 £11.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.91 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +15.74% +9.23%
75th Percentile £49.38 £26.75 £20.51
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £23.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.00 £36.46
% change year-on-year -23.08% +42.64% -5.31%

BC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in the West Midlands

BC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in the West Midlands

BC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in the West Midlands

BC 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 BC Cleared within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +18 6 £600 -
BC Cleared
England

BC 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) ADSL
2 3 (50.00%) PSTN
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) DWDM
4 1 (16.67%) SDH
4 1 (16.67%) SONET
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (50.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Change Control
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Order Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) CRM
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (50.00%) Data Entry
3 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (33.33%) CASP
3 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (33.33%) GCED
3 2 (33.33%) GIAC
3 2 (33.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
2 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) BT
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Openreach
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) TippingPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Trend Micro