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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 16 2
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 +39
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 140 65 135
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 20.03% 8.92% 17.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.22% 41.40% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 30 76
10th Percentile £260 £398 £325
25th Percentile £325 £467 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £458
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.15% +5.17%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £611
90th Percentile £613 £754 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile - £28.58 £60.50
25th Percentile - £33.11 £62.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £41.31 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.32% -36.44% -
75th Percentile - £49.61 £67.50
90th Percentile £22.17 £54.19 £68.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.69% -46.15% +242.11%

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 218 157 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.19% 21.54% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 95 138
10th Percentile £228 £165 £263
25th Percentile £325 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £595
90th Percentile £619 £740 £691
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £529 £525
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £23.03 £43.75
25th Percentile - £26.42 £60.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £39.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.23% -39.23% -
75th Percentile - £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £24.25 £54.88 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.08 £33.93 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.10% -3.06% +44.33%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 22 (15.71%) Confluence
2 9 (6.43%) nginx
3 2 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.29%) AWS
2 28 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 27 (19.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 27 (19.29%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
4 25 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (17.14%) AWS KMS
6 20 (14.29%) Azure
7 12 (8.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (7.86%) Route 53
9 10 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.43%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.43%) GCP
10 2 (1.43%) GitHub
10 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.43%) Serverless
11 1 (0.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.86%) Firewall
2 29 (20.71%) VPN
3 27 (19.29%) DNS
4 23 (16.43%) SMTP
4 23 (16.43%) WAN
5 22 (15.71%) BGP
5 22 (15.71%) IPsec
5 22 (15.71%) MPLS
6 21 (15.00%) FTP
6 21 (15.00%) HTTP
6 21 (15.00%) SSH
7 9 (6.43%) IMAP
7 9 (6.43%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.57%) Junos
10 4 (2.86%) SSL
11 3 (2.14%) Network Security
11 3 (2.14%) NX-OS
11 3 (2.14%) Unified Communications
11 3 (2.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.43%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.43%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) GIS
5 1 (0.71%) Metadata
5 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (21.43%) Git
1 30 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.86%) JIRA
3 21 (15.00%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.57%) GitLab
5 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.43%) DbUnit
5 2 (1.43%) jMock
5 2 (1.43%) JUnit
5 2 (1.43%) Maven
5 2 (1.43%) Mockito
5 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.71%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.71%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) TestDirector
General
1 55 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Legal
5 4 (2.86%) Finance
5 4 (2.86%) Military
6 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.43%) Electronics
7 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.57%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (12.86%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (12.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Analyst
7 13 (9.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
8 12 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Network Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior
10 8 (5.71%) SOC Analyst
11 7 (5.00%) Consultant
11 7 (5.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.86%) LDAP
2 6 (4.29%) REST
3 3 (2.14%) RESTful
3 3 (2.14%) Web Services
4 2 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.43%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.43%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.43%) JPA
4 2 (1.43%) PowerMock
4 2 (1.43%) SOAP
4 2 (1.43%) Spring
4 2 (1.43%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.43%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (1.43%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.71%) PySpark
5 1 (0.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.71%) PKI
1 22 (15.71%) Replication
2 15 (10.71%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Handset
4 3 (2.14%) SCADA
4 3 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Linux
2 30 (21.43%) Windows
3 21 (15.00%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (15.00%) VMS
4 11 (7.86%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.43%) CentOS
6 2 (1.43%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.43%) Unix
7 1 (0.71%) Android
7 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) DevOps
2 24 (17.14%) Change Management
3 22 (15.71%) CI/CD
3 22 (15.71%) Cloud Security
4 21 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 21 (15.00%) Patch Management
4 21 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (12.86%) Load Balancing
6 15 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.57%) Break/Fix
7 12 (8.57%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (7.86%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (7.14%) Network Design
10 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (5.71%) Agile
11 8 (5.71%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.71%) High Availability
11 8 (5.71%) SIEM
12 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (5.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.43%) Python
2 26 (18.57%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.00%) Groovy
4 17 (12.14%) SQL
5 16 (11.43%) Java
6 12 (8.57%) Perl
7 8 (5.71%) Bash
8 2 (1.43%) Go
8 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (79.29%) SC Cleared
2 23 (16.43%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.00%) Degree
4 11 (7.86%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.43%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.14%) CISSP
7 3 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.43%) OCP
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CEH
9 1 (0.71%) CISM
9 1 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CPIM
9 1 (0.71%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.71%) GCIH
9 1 (0.71%) GIAC
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.14%) NIST
3 2 (1.43%) QA
3 2 (1.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (24.29%) Docker
2 21 (15.00%) DFS Replication
3 16 (11.43%) Active Directory
4 13 (9.29%) Postfix
5 9 (6.43%) Dovecot
5 9 (6.43%) Squid
6 6 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.14%) vSphere
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.71%) Snort
Systems Management
1 33 (23.57%) Terraform
2 24 (17.14%) Grafana
2 24 (17.14%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.43%) Nessus
3 9 (6.43%) Proxmox
4 7 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.57%) Ansible
6 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.43%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Juniper
2 24 (17.14%) ServiceNow
3 22 (15.71%) Cisco
4 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.86%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (7.86%) VMware
6 5 (3.57%) F5
6 5 (3.57%) Splunk
7 4 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.14%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.43%) Google
9 2 (1.43%) IBM
9 2 (1.43%) Oracle
9 2 (1.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.71%) Foundry
10 1 (0.71%) Isilon