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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 13 1 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 25.00% 1.09% 25.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.94% 3.03% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 19
10th Percentile £530 - £438
25th Percentile - - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +29.73%
75th Percentile £900 - £675
90th Percentile - - £691
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £492 £575
% change year-on-year +1.73% -14.52% +15.00%

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 31 33 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 59.62% 35.87% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 41
10th Percentile £402 £489 £413
25th Percentile £525 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -6.78% +47.50%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £613
90th Percentile £900 £613 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +264.44% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year +5.26% +40.03% +40.36%

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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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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +6 11 £800 +6.67% 4
Worcester - 10 £850 - 16
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 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) IaaS
3 3 (23.08%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Stack
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
6 2 (15.38%) API Design
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
1 3 (23.08%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) VMware