SC Cleared Contracts 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 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 8 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 9 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 19.57% 8.00% 24.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.03% 26.09% 63.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £670 £560 £448
25th Percentile - £570 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £595 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.46% +21.78%
75th Percentile £900 £659 £675
90th Percentile - £713 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.05% +8.50%

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 29 23 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 63.04% 30.67% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 35
10th Percentile £145 £496 £413
25th Percentile £330 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +38.82%
75th Percentile £700 £581 £650
90th Percentile £880 £617 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% - -
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile £56.45 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Worcestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Worcestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Worcestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Worcestershire

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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 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
Worcester - 8 £750 - 12
Malvern 0 7 £800 +34.45%
SC Cleared
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) API Design
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NCSC
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft