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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 364 304 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.73% 9.39% 8.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.82% 34.70% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 203 270
10th Percentile £269 £361 £341
25th Percentile £358 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.49% +13.00% +20.87%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £550
90th Percentile £660 £702 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.73
25th Percentile £14.14 £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 £61.75 £37.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year -13.04% +13.08% +19.65%

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 914 876 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.96% 27.05% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 563 705
10th Percentile £254 £313 £206
25th Percentile £325 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +8.43%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £686 £700 £638
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 50 35
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.81 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.70 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £38.96 £24.63
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 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
West Midlands +15 260 £492 -16.34% 103
East Midlands +3 103 £523 -9.13% 25
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 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.92%) CICS
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.92%) SAS
3 5 (1.37%) IIS
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 14 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Revit
4 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (5.77%) Azure
2 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.10%) AWS
5 4 (1.10%) OCI
6 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.55%) IaaS
7 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.27%) PaaS
8 1 (0.27%) SaaS
8 1 (0.27%) Serverless
8 1 (0.27%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.34%) MPLS
2 32 (8.79%) Firewall
2 32 (8.79%) WAN
3 28 (7.69%) IPsec
4 19 (5.22%) BGP
5 10 (2.75%) SAN
6 9 (2.47%) LAN
7 8 (2.20%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.92%) NX-OS
9 6 (1.65%) Network Security
9 6 (1.65%) VPN
10 5 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.37%) Internet
10 5 (1.37%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.10%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.10%) PSTN
11 4 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.82%) ADSL
12 3 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.22%) MySQL
2 18 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.47%) DB2
4 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.92%) IDMS
5 6 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.10%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (11.54%) PVCS
1 42 (11.54%) Visual Studio
2 33 (9.07%) Git
3 5 (1.37%) JIRA
3 5 (1.37%) JMeter
4 4 (1.10%) GitLab
5 2 (0.55%) Selenium
5 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.55%) TestRail
5 2 (0.55%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 60 (16.48%) Public Sector
2 37 (10.16%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.32%) Finance
4 15 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.30%) Legal
7 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.65%) Electronics
8 6 (1.65%) Marketing
9 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.27%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (13.74%) Analyst
2 49 (13.46%) Programmer
3 46 (12.64%) Architect
3 46 (12.64%) C Programmer
4 32 (8.79%) Network Engineer
5 26 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
6 25 (6.87%) Consultant
7 18 (4.95%) Network Architect
8 17 (4.67%) Developer
8 17 (4.67%) Senior
9 13 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.30%) Lead
11 11 (3.02%) Test Analyst
12 10 (2.75%) Administrator
12 10 (2.75%) IT Engineer
13 8 (2.20%) IBM Mainframe Developer
13 8 (2.20%) Mainframe Developer
14 7 (1.92%) IAM Consultant
14 7 (1.92%) IT Technician
14 7 (1.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.20%) LDAP
1 8 (2.20%) YAML
2 6 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.10%) Web Services
4 3 (0.82%) SOAP
4 3 (0.82%) XML
5 1 (0.27%) .NET
5 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.27%) CSS
5 1 (0.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.27%) Flask
5 1 (0.27%) HTML
5 1 (0.27%) JSON
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.27%) pytest
5 1 (0.27%) React
5 1 (0.27%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.27%) REST
5 1 (0.27%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.30%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.02%) PKI
3 10 (2.75%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.75%) Mainframe
4 9 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.20%) IBM Mainframe
5 8 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (1.92%) SCADA
7 6 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.37%) Replication
9 4 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.10%) HP Storage
9 4 (1.10%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.78%) Windows
2 53 (14.56%) Linux
3 25 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (5.77%) Windows 7
5 16 (4.40%) Windows Vista
6 10 (2.75%) Mac OS X
7 7 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.92%) zOS
8 6 (1.65%) Android
8 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.37%) AIX
9 5 (1.37%) Solaris
9 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.82%) Debian
10 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.55%) Unix
11 2 (0.55%) VMS
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.27%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (10.44%) Agile
2 32 (8.79%) Configuration Management
3 28 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (7.42%) Software Engineering
5 26 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
5 26 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (6.87%) SIEM
7 24 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (6.32%) Scrum
9 22 (6.04%) Analytics
10 21 (5.77%) Data Analytics
10 21 (5.77%) Validation
11 20 (5.49%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (5.49%) Dashboard Development
11 20 (5.49%) ETL
12 19 (5.22%) Data Extraction
13 18 (4.95%) Customer Service
13 18 (4.95%) Incident Management
13 18 (4.95%) Test Strategy
14 16 (4.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.74%) C
2 43 (11.81%) PL/SQL
3 17 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.85%) SQL
5 13 (3.57%) C++
6 9 (2.47%) COBOL
7 7 (1.92%) CLIST
7 7 (1.92%) Python
7 7 (1.92%) REXX
7 7 (1.92%) SELCOPY
8 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.82%) Bash
9 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.82%) R
10 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.27%) ProC
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.27%) VB
11 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 364 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.59%) DV Cleared
3 15 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (3.30%) Degree
5 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.92%) CISSP
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.37%) BC Cleared
7 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) OSCP
8 4 (1.10%) CCNA
8 4 (1.10%) CCNP
9 3 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.55%) CCIE
10 2 (0.55%) CEH
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.02%) SLA
3 10 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (2.75%) GDPR
3 10 (2.75%) HIPAA
3 10 (2.75%) NIST
4 5 (1.37%) QA
5 2 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.27%) GPG13
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 27 (7.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.47%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.47%) vSphere
5 7 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.37%) Docker
7 4 (1.10%) VMFS
7 4 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.82%) iptables
9 2 (0.55%) Firmware
9 2 (0.55%) XenApp
9 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (5.22%) Ansible
2 18 (4.95%) Grafana
3 11 (3.02%) Terraform
4 10 (2.75%) SCCM
5 9 (2.47%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.20%) Puppet
6 8 (2.20%) Salt
7 7 (1.92%) CSIRT
7 7 (1.92%) Kibana
8 6 (1.65%) logstash
9 5 (1.37%) AirWatch
9 5 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.10%) HP Data Protector
10 4 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.82%) VxRail
12 2 (0.55%) SCOM
12 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.99%) VMware
3 33 (9.07%) Juniper
4 27 (7.42%) Cisco
4 27 (7.42%) Red Hat
5 21 (5.77%) Denodo
6 19 (5.22%) Talend
7 18 (4.95%) Oracle
8 12 (3.30%) SAP
9 10 (2.75%) CA
9 10 (2.75%) IBM
10 7 (1.92%) Apple
10 7 (1.92%) F5
10 7 (1.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.92%) Syncsort
11 6 (1.65%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.37%) Brocade
12 5 (1.37%) EMC
12 5 (1.37%) HP
13 4 (1.10%) Computacenter