SC Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 335 323 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.45% 9.85% 7.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.00% 35.57% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 221 247
10th Percentile £263 £363 £327
25th Percentile £350 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £554
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.84 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +9.18% +5.26%
75th Percentile £31.25 £40.25 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £60.05 £37.50
England median hourly rate £48.56 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -15.55% +9.52% +22.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 859 908 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.92% 27.68% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 582 679
10th Percentile £230 £271 £200
25th Percentile £325 £404 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £550
90th Percentile £684 £700 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 58 36
10th Percentile £13.20 £10.75 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.64 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -1.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £42.50 £33.50 £25.47
90th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
% change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +10 237 £450 -21.23% 88
East Midlands +3 97 £545 -0.91% 38
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.09%) CICS
3 7 (2.09%) SAS
4 3 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
Applications
1 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Revit
4 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Primavera
2 1 (0.30%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.57%) Azure
2 11 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.49%) AWS
6 4 (1.19%) OCI
7 3 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.60%) IaaS
8 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.30%) PaaS
9 1 (0.30%) SaaS
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
9 1 (0.30%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.15%) MPLS
2 33 (9.85%) WAN
3 31 (9.25%) Firewall
4 28 (8.36%) IPsec
5 19 (5.67%) BGP
6 12 (3.58%) SAN
7 10 (2.99%) LAN
8 8 (2.39%) Network Security
9 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.79%) VPN
10 5 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.49%) Internet
11 4 (1.19%) ADSL
11 4 (1.19%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.19%) PSTN
11 4 (1.19%) Wireless
12 3 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.90%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.07%) MySQL
2 16 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.69%) DB2
4 7 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.09%) IDMS
5 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.19%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.60%) MS Access
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Big Data
9 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) Metadata
9 1 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.30%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (12.54%) PVCS
1 42 (12.54%) Visual Studio
2 23 (6.87%) Git
3 5 (1.49%) JIRA
3 5 (1.49%) JMeter
4 2 (0.60%) Selenium
4 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.60%) TestRail
4 2 (0.60%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
General
1 61 (18.21%) Public Sector
2 42 (12.54%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.27%) Finance
4 17 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.58%) Legal
6 11 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.19%) Electronics
8 4 (1.19%) Marketing
8 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (16.12%) Analyst
2 49 (14.63%) Programmer
3 46 (13.73%) C Programmer
4 30 (8.96%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.06%) Architect
6 26 (7.76%) SOC Analyst
7 21 (6.27%) Consultant
8 18 (5.37%) Developer
8 18 (5.37%) Senior
9 11 (3.28%) Test Analyst
10 10 (2.99%) Administrator
10 10 (2.99%) Network Architect
11 8 (2.39%) IBM Mainframe Developer
11 8 (2.39%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.39%) Lead
11 8 (2.39%) Mainframe Developer
11 8 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.09%) IT Technician
13 6 (1.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (1.79%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.90%) LDAP
2 3 (0.90%) SOAP
2 3 (0.90%) Web Services
2 3 (0.90%) XML
3 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.30%) .NET
4 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.30%) CSS
4 1 (0.30%) Flask
4 1 (0.30%) HTML
4 1 (0.30%) JSON
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.30%) pytest
4 1 (0.30%) React
4 1 (0.30%) REST
4 1 (0.30%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.99%) Mainframe
2 9 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.39%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (2.39%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.79%) PKI
6 5 (1.49%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.49%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.19%) CMDB
7 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.19%) HP Storage
7 4 (1.19%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.42%) Windows
2 39 (11.64%) Linux
3 18 (5.37%) Windows 7
4 13 (3.88%) Windows Vista
5 10 (2.99%) Mac OS X
6 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.09%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.09%) zOS
8 5 (1.49%) AIX
8 5 (1.49%) Debian
8 5 (1.49%) Solaris
9 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.90%) Unix
10 2 (0.60%) VMS
10 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.30%) Android
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (11.34%) Agile
2 34 (10.15%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (8.96%) SIEM
4 28 (8.36%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (7.46%) Software Engineering
7 24 (7.16%) Requirements Gathering
8 23 (6.87%) Configuration Management
9 21 (6.27%) Scrum
10 20 (5.97%) Analytics
10 20 (5.97%) Incident Management
11 19 (5.67%) Customer Service
11 19 (5.67%) Data Analytics
12 18 (5.37%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (5.37%) Dashboard Development
12 18 (5.37%) ETL
12 18 (5.37%) ITIL
13 17 (5.07%) Data Extraction
14 16 (4.78%) Process Improvement
14 16 (4.78%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 50 (14.93%) C
2 43 (12.84%) PL/SQL
3 15 (4.48%) C++
3 15 (4.48%) SQL
4 12 (3.58%) Python
5 9 (2.69%) COBOL
6 7 (2.09%) CLIST
6 7 (2.09%) REXX
6 7 (2.09%) SELCOPY
7 5 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.90%) Bash
8 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.90%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.90%) R
9 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) ProC
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) VB
10 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 335 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.16%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (3.58%) Degree
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.09%) CISSP
8 6 (1.79%) BC Cleared
9 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.49%) CCNA
9 5 (1.49%) CCNP
9 5 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.90%) GIAC
12 2 (0.60%) CEH
12 2 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.60%) GSEC
12 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.60%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.28%) NIST
2 11 (3.28%) SLA
3 10 (2.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (2.99%) GDPR
3 10 (2.99%) HIPAA
4 8 (2.39%) QA
5 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 5 (1.49%) ISO17020
6 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.60%) PMO
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.30%) GPG13
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.90%) iptables
5 2 (0.60%) Docker
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
5 2 (0.60%) XenApp
5 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 16 (4.78%) Grafana
2 8 (2.39%) Ansible
3 7 (2.09%) Kibana
4 6 (1.79%) logstash
4 6 (1.79%) SCCM
5 5 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (1.19%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.19%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.60%) SCOM
7 2 (0.60%) Terraform
7 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.60%) VxRail
8 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.15%) Juniper
3 19 (5.67%) Cisco
3 19 (5.67%) Denodo
4 18 (5.37%) Oracle
4 18 (5.37%) VMware
5 17 (5.07%) Talend
6 11 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.99%) IBM
7 10 (2.99%) SAP
8 7 (2.09%) Syncsort
9 6 (1.79%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.49%) Brocade
10 5 (1.49%) EMC
10 5 (1.49%) F5
10 5 (1.49%) HP
10 5 (1.49%) LogRhythm
11 4 (1.19%) Citrix
11 4 (1.19%) Computacenter
11 4 (1.19%) Symantec