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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 18 7
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 27 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 33.33% 1.12% 13.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.26% 2.78% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 1 9
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £700 - £650
90th Percentile - - £691
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.47% -3.00% +10.00%

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 61 36 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 75.31% 40.45% 49.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 30 31
10th Percentile - £511 £413
25th Percentile £525 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £691 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £23.57 £28.70
25th Percentile - £30.48 £45.13
Median hourly rate £82.00 £44.49 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.33% -40.69% -
75th Percentile - £60.99 £77.50
90th Percentile - £69.40 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.09 £38.75 £27.25
% change year-on-year -24.93% +42.20% +36.25%

SC Cleared
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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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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
Malvern - 20 £650 -
Worcester - 12 £700 - 9
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
4 2 (7.41%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (11.11%) Redis
2 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.70%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) FPGA Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) JIRA Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) ETL Developer
6 1 (3.70%) React Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) YAML
2 3 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 3 (11.11%) Flask
2 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 3 (11.11%) gRPC
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) WebSockets
3 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
1 5 (18.52%) FPGA
1 5 (18.52%) VHDL
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (37.04%) DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 6 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Digital Signal Processing
6 5 (18.52%) FPGA Design
6 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
6 5 (18.52%) Signal Processing
7 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
7 4 (14.81%) Coaching
7 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
7 4 (14.81%) Data Management
7 4 (14.81%) ITIL
7 4 (14.81%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (14.81%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) MATLAB
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) Go
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Firmware
3 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) SCCM
4 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Kibana
5 2 (7.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Xilinx
3 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.41%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) IBM