Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 112 63 119
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.36% 11.95% 15.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.22% 45.99% 55.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 51 81
10th Percentile £271 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +73.33% -36.17%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £494
90th Percentile £624 - £663
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £537 £450
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.33% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £17.75 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £18.60 - £14.00
90th Percentile £23.58 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £26.76 £14.00
% change year-on-year +135.97% +91.11% -26.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

Security 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 186 137 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.53% 26.00% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 102 129
10th Percentile £260 £148 £263
25th Percentile £403 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £505 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +26.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £608
West Midlands median daily rate £482 £498 £456
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.04% -13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £14.28 £21.66 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.09 £26.38 £16.08
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% +51.92% +40.54%
75th Percentile £19.34 £54.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.15 £57.05 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.46 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% -1.12% +42.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 17 (15.18%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) SAS
3 2 (1.79%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.89%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.89%) AWS
2 28 (25.00%) Azure
3 13 (11.61%) GitHub
4 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.93%) GCP
5 10 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (8.04%) AWS KMS
7 7 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (6.25%) Route 53
8 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) VPN
2 6 (5.36%) WAN
3 5 (4.46%) BGP
3 5 (4.46%) Firewall
3 5 (4.46%) MPLS
4 4 (3.57%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.68%) IPsec
5 3 (2.68%) LAN
5 3 (2.68%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.79%) DKIM
6 2 (1.79%) DMARC
6 2 (1.79%) DNS
6 2 (1.79%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.79%) OSPF
6 2 (1.79%) SMTP
6 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.79%) VLAN
6 2 (1.79%) X.25
7 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.04%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.79%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.79%) Power BI
4 2 (1.79%) Tableau
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.89%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.89%) Metadata
5 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Git
1 20 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.07%) JIRA
2 18 (16.07%) JUnit
3 13 (11.61%) Selenium
4 11 (9.82%) Cucumber
4 11 (9.82%) JMeter
5 10 (8.93%) GitLab
5 10 (8.93%) WebDriver
6 7 (6.25%) Maven
6 7 (6.25%) Mockito
6 7 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.57%) DbUnit
7 4 (3.57%) jMock
8 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.79%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.89%) Gatling
9 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Legal
4 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Military
5 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.79%) Finance
7 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.39%) Senior
2 13 (11.61%) Analyst
2 13 (11.61%) Architect
2 13 (11.61%) Developer
3 12 (10.71%) Tester
4 9 (8.04%) Automation Tester
4 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (6.25%) Senior Tester
6 6 (5.36%) Consultant
7 5 (4.46%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Test Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.68%) Field Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.68%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.96%) Spring
2 11 (9.82%) REST
3 10 (8.93%) WireMock
4 9 (8.04%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 7 (6.25%) JPA
6 7 (6.25%) Node.js
6 7 (6.25%) SOAP
6 7 (6.25%) Spring Batch
6 7 (6.25%) Spring Integration
6 7 (6.25%) Web Services
7 4 (3.57%) PowerMock
8 3 (2.68%) Middleware
9 2 (1.79%) Bootstrap
9 2 (1.79%) Kafka
9 2 (1.79%) LDAP
9 2 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (5.36%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.68%) Handset
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) PKI
5 3 (2.68%) SCADA
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.79%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.79%) Replication
6 2 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.50%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Windows
3 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.79%) CentOS
4 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.00%) Agile
2 27 (24.11%) CI/CD
3 21 (18.75%) DevOps
4 19 (16.96%) Microservices
5 18 (16.07%) TDD
6 17 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (14.29%) Validation
8 15 (13.39%) Containerisation
9 14 (12.50%) BDD
9 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.50%) Observability
10 13 (11.61%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.71%) Test Strategy
12 10 (8.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 10 (8.93%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (8.93%) Load Testing
12 10 (8.93%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (8.04%) Performance Testing
14 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.50%) Python
2 13 (11.61%) SQL
3 12 (10.71%) Java
4 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.89%) Bicep
7 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.89%) R
7 1 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 95 (84.82%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.68%) CCNP
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.79%) CCNA
6 2 (1.79%) CISSP
6 2 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) CCIE
7 1 (0.89%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.36%) NIST
2 5 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.57%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) PMO
5 2 (1.79%) GRC
5 2 (1.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (19.64%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Postfix
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.89%) etcd
5 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.07%) Grafana
3 12 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.36%) Terraform
5 3 (2.68%) Ansible
5 3 (2.68%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.89%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) Cisco
2 7 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.25%) VMware
3 6 (5.36%) Splunk
4 4 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.57%) SAP
5 3 (2.68%) Broadcom
5 3 (2.68%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.68%) Dell
5 3 (2.68%) Juniper
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.79%) Google
6 2 (1.79%) Isilon
6 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.79%) Tenable
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry
7 1 (0.89%) HP
7 1 (0.89%) Infor