SC Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 280 204 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.71% 9.22% 7.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.94% 34.75% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 137 196
10th Percentile £299 £375 £370
25th Percentile £358 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.62% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £680 £576
90th Percentile £671 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £13.55 £12.50 -
25th Percentile - £18.29 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% - -
75th Percentile £22.00 £59.63 -
90th Percentile £31.30 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £51.43
% change year-on-year -13.04% +11.81% +21.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 684 587 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 26.53% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 355 506
10th Percentile £298 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £563
90th Percentile £693 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +37.93% -9.38%
75th Percentile £46.88 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £20.86
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Shropshire +4 94 £505 -6.48% 7
Birmingham +11 79 £375 -40.00% 40
Warwickshire +22 52 £630 +7.23% 12
Solihull +8 24 £447 +27.71% 7
Staffordshire -7 8 £369 +1.45% 26
Herefordshire -19 5 £544 -16.35% 1
Worcestershire -16 2 £650 +4.00% 6
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.50%) CICS
2 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.50%) SAS
3 5 (1.79%) IIS
4 2 (0.71%) CMS
4 2 (0.71%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Revit
3 1 (0.36%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.36%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.29%) Azure
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.07%) AWS
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.36%) IaaS
6 1 (0.36%) PaaS
6 1 (0.36%) SaaS
6 1 (0.36%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.79%) MPLS
2 29 (10.36%) WAN
3 28 (10.00%) IPsec
4 26 (9.29%) Firewall
5 20 (7.14%) BGP
6 10 (3.57%) SD-WAN
7 9 (3.21%) NX-OS
8 7 (2.50%) LAN
9 5 (1.79%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.79%) Network Security
10 4 (1.43%) Internet
10 4 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.07%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.07%) Junos
12 2 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.71%) SAN
12 2 (0.71%) VLAN
12 2 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.50%) MySQL
2 20 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.21%) DB2
4 7 (2.50%) IDMS
5 6 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.43%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.71%) Adabas
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.36%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (15.00%) PVCS
1 42 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 35 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
General
1 45 (16.07%) Public Sector
2 15 (5.36%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.57%) Finance
3 10 (3.57%) Legal
4 7 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.50%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.71%) Electronics
6 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.71%) Marketing
6 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.36%) Aeronautics
7 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.36%) Games
7 1 (0.36%) Military
7 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (17.50%) Programmer
2 46 (16.43%) C Programmer
3 44 (15.71%) Architect
4 35 (12.50%) Analyst
5 26 (9.29%) SOC Analyst
6 23 (8.21%) Network Engineer
7 18 (6.43%) Consultant
8 16 (5.71%) Network Architect
8 16 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.64%) Developer
10 12 (4.29%) Lead
11 10 (3.57%) Senior
12 8 (2.86%) IBM Mainframe Developer
12 8 (2.86%) Mainframe Developer
13 7 (2.50%) IAM Consultant
13 7 (2.50%) Network Support
14 6 (2.14%) 2nd Line Support
14 6 (2.14%) Data Analyst
14 6 (2.14%) Test Analyst
15 5 (1.79%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.86%) YAML
2 6 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.79%) LDAP
4 2 (0.71%) Django
4 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.71%) Flask
5 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.36%) Next.js
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.36%) React
5 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.36%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.36%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.93%) Cloud Native
1 11 (3.93%) Data Centre
1 11 (3.93%) PKI
2 10 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 8 (2.86%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (2.50%) SCADA
5 5 (1.79%) Replication
6 4 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.43%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.50%) Linux
2 31 (11.07%) Windows
3 16 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.57%) Android
4 10 (3.57%) Mac OS X
5 9 (3.21%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.21%) zOS
6 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) Unix
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (12.50%) Agile
2 30 (10.71%) Configuration Management
3 28 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 26 (9.29%) Scrum
5 25 (8.93%) SIEM
5 25 (8.93%) Software Engineering
6 24 (8.57%) Analytics
6 24 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (8.21%) Data Analytics
8 22 (7.86%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (7.86%) Dashboard Development
8 22 (7.86%) ETL
9 21 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (7.50%) Data Extraction
10 20 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (7.14%) Validation
11 18 (6.43%) Incident Management
11 18 (6.43%) Test Strategy
12 16 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (5.36%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.86%) C
2 43 (15.36%) PL/SQL
3 13 (4.64%) C++
3 13 (4.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.21%) COBOL
5 7 (2.50%) CLIST
5 7 (2.50%) REXX
5 7 (2.50%) SELCOPY
6 4 (1.43%) SQL
7 3 (1.07%) R
8 2 (0.71%) Groovy
8 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.71%) Natural
8 2 (0.71%) Python
9 1 (0.36%) ABAP
9 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.36%) ProC
9 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 280 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.57%) Degree
5 6 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.14%) CISSP
6 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.79%) OSCP
7 4 (1.43%) BC Cleared
7 4 (1.43%) CCNA
7 4 (1.43%) CCNP
8 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CEH
9 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) PMP
9 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (3.57%) GDPR
1 10 (3.57%) HIPAA
1 10 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.57%) NIST
2 3 (1.07%) SLA
3 2 (0.71%) PMO
3 2 (0.71%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.36%) GPG13
System Software
1 26 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.93%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.93%) vSphere
4 4 (1.43%) VMFS
4 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.07%) Docker
5 3 (1.07%) iptables
6 1 (0.36%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (7.50%) Grafana
2 14 (5.00%) SCCM
3 12 (4.29%) Ansible
3 12 (4.29%) Terraform
4 9 (3.21%) AirWatch
4 9 (3.21%) CSIRT
4 9 (3.21%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.86%) Puppet
5 8 (2.86%) Salt
6 6 (2.14%) Kibana
6 6 (2.14%) logstash
7 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.07%) VxRail
8 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.71%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (12.50%) VMware
2 32 (11.43%) Juniper
3 31 (11.07%) Microsoft
4 23 (8.21%) Denodo
5 22 (7.86%) Talend
6 19 (6.79%) Cisco
7 16 (5.71%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.93%) Apple
9 10 (3.57%) CA
9 10 (3.57%) IBM
10 8 (2.86%) SAP
11 7 (2.50%) Oracle
11 7 (2.50%) Samsung
11 7 (2.50%) Syncsort
12 6 (2.14%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.07%) LogRhythm
14 2 (0.71%) F5
14 2 (0.71%) Openreach
14 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.71%) Software AG