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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 41 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 26.80% 20.00% 8.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.41% 31.03% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 9 6
10th Percentile - £670 £560
25th Percentile £525 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £595
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +17.65% -8.46%
75th Percentile £738 £900 £659
90th Percentile £750 - £713
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £537 £450
% change year-on-year -10.06% +19.33% -16.67%
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 £59.50 £27.58 £14.00
% change year-on-year +115.76% +96.98% -63.01%

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 74 29 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 48.37% 64.44% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 23 20
10th Percentile £463 £145 £496
25th Percentile £525 £330 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.56%
75th Percentile £735 £700 £581
90th Percentile £738 £880 £617
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.80% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +313.68% -19.42% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - £23.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.64 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year -5.48% -1.12% +50.00%

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

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 26 April 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 April 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 40 £675 -15.63%
Worcester +4 7 £550 -26.67% 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 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 9 (21.95%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) 4G
1 1 (2.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.07%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (9.76%) Redis
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.44%) PetaLinux
General
1 9 (21.95%) Aeronautics
2 4 (9.76%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.88%) Electronics
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (21.95%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Test Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Backend Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.44%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Kafka
1 7 (17.07%) Keycloak
2 4 (9.76%) FastAPI
2 4 (9.76%) Flask
2 4 (9.76%) GraphQL
2 4 (9.76%) gRPC
2 4 (9.76%) REST
2 4 (9.76%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.44%) NumPy
3 1 (2.44%) PostGIS
3 1 (2.44%) SciPy
3 1 (2.44%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) FPGA
4 2 (4.88%) Verilog
4 2 (4.88%) VHDL
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.44%) MicroBlaze
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.88%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) DevOps
2 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
3 7 (17.07%) Agile
3 7 (17.07%) Batch Processing
3 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.07%) Data Engineering
3 7 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (17.07%) DataOps
3 7 (17.07%) ETL
4 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
4 6 (14.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
5 5 (12.20%) Change Control
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
5 5 (12.20%) Microservices
6 3 (7.32%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (7.32%) Incident Response
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Go
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) C
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) Azure Certification
3 5 (12.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (12.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) QinetiQ
3 1 (2.44%) Xilinx