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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 21 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 15.11% 20.00% 6.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.18% 34.48% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile £525 £548 £558
25th Percentile £540 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +18.64% -5.60%
75th Percentile £690 £875 £610
90th Percentile £750 £900 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £525 £492
% change year-on-year -10.67% +6.82% -16.34%
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 £27.58 £14.00
% change year-on-year +128.94% +96.98% -49.09%

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 55 29 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 39.57% 58.00% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 23
10th Percentile £363 £145 £470
25th Percentile £525 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £575
90th Percentile £733 £860 £608
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -6.20% +3.09% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £16.09 £25.63
25th Percentile £72.50 £17.40 £32.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.13 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +313.68% -60.80% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £34.10 £62.19
90th Percentile £79.75 £62.84 £69.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year +86.30% -1.12% +46.15%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 20 £675 -10.00%
Worcester +2 3 £550 -26.67%
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
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 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) 4G
1 1 (4.76%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Redis
3 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) PetaLinux
General
1 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
2 2 (9.52%) Electronics
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Backend Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Python Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) FastAPI
1 4 (19.05%) Flask
1 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
1 4 (19.05%) gRPC
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) WebSockets
2 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 3 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.76%) NumPy
3 1 (4.76%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.76%) SciPy
3 1 (4.76%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) FPGA
3 2 (9.52%) Verilog
3 2 (9.52%) VHDL
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) MicroBlaze
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Batch Processing
5 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (14.29%) DataOps
5 3 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (9.52%) FPGA Design
7 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
7 1 (4.76%) Data Science
7 1 (4.76%) Event-Driven
7 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.76%) Prototyping
7 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Go
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) C
5 2 (9.52%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.76%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) QinetiQ
2 1 (4.76%) Xilinx