SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 11 24 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 7.80% 31.17% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.31% 41.38% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 1
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £594 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £700 -
90th Percentile £685 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £515 £534
% change year-on-year -7.77% -3.47% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% -46.09% -46.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26 58 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 18.44% 75.32% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 51 29
10th Percentile £504 - £510
25th Percentile £563 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £613
90th Percentile - £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -6.00% -7.06% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.57
25th Percentile £28.64 - £30.48
Median hourly rate £73.75 £82.00 £44.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% +84.33% -40.69%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £60.99
90th Percentile - - £69.40
West Midlands median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +46.53% -22.58% +40.91%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Worcestershire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Malvern +2 10 £650 +4.00% 8
Worcester -4 2 £575 -17.86% 1
SC Cleared
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) PetaLinux
General
1 4 (36.36%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
1 1 (9.09%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) FPGA
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Verilog
1 1 (9.09%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (63.64%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Data Security
6 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Embedded Software Development
6 1 (9.09%) ETL Development
6 1 (9.09%) FPGA Design
6 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (9.09%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Xilinx