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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 100 74 104
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.95% 14.77% 14.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.64% 50.34% 56.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 63
10th Percentile £378 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +43.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £517
90th Percentile £634 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -10.48% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 4
10th Percentile £16.33 £23.61 -
25th Percentile £18.20 £31.26 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £44.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% +220.00% +5.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.25 £14.00
90th Percentile - £50.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £40.32 £14.00
% change year-on-year +56.58% +188.02% -32.38%

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 183 147 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.04% 29.34% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 104 106
10th Percentile £213 £148 £263
25th Percentile £384 £262 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £505 £431
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +17.16% -17.86%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £550
90th Percentile £634 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -6.20% +3.09% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 14
10th Percentile £14.95 £26.16 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.70 £37.63 £15.81
Median hourly rate £18.40 £47.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -60.85% +85.59% +51.19%
75th Percentile £22.17 £54.13 £28.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.05 £48.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year +86.30% -1.12% +46.15%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 (17.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) AWS
2 23 (23.00%) Azure
3 16 (16.00%) GitHub
4 12 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 10 (10.00%) GCP
7 8 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (8.00%) Route 53
8 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (4.00%) OCI
9 4 (4.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.00%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) WAN
2 5 (5.00%) BGP
3 4 (4.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) OSPF
4 3 (3.00%) LAN
4 3 (3.00%) MPLS
4 3 (3.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.00%) WLAN
5 2 (2.00%) BIG-IP
5 2 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.00%) VLAN
5 2 (2.00%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.00%) X.25
6 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.00%) IPsec
6 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Power BI
5 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.00%) JasperReports
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.00%) Git
3 19 (19.00%) JUnit
4 16 (16.00%) JIRA
5 15 (15.00%) GitLab
5 15 (15.00%) Selenium
6 11 (11.00%) Cucumber
6 11 (11.00%) JMeter
7 10 (10.00%) WebDriver
8 8 (8.00%) Maven
8 8 (8.00%) Mockito
8 8 (8.00%) SonarQube
9 5 (5.00%) REST Assured
9 5 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (4.00%) DbUnit
10 4 (4.00%) jMock
11 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.00%) Gatling
12 1 (1.00%) Postman
12 1 (1.00%) TestNG
General
1 37 (37.00%) Public Sector
2 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.00%) Finance
6 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.00%) Senior
2 12 (12.00%) Architect
2 12 (12.00%) Developer
2 12 (12.00%) Tester
3 11 (11.00%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.00%) Consultant
5 9 (9.00%) Analyst
5 9 (9.00%) Automation Tester
6 7 (7.00%) Lead
6 7 (7.00%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (7.00%) Senior Tester
7 6 (6.00%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.00%) Spring
2 11 (11.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
3 10 (10.00%) WireMock
4 8 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (8.00%) Hibernate
4 8 (8.00%) JPA
4 8 (8.00%) Node.js
4 8 (8.00%) REST
4 8 (8.00%) SOAP
4 8 (8.00%) Spring Batch
4 8 (8.00%) Spring Integration
4 8 (8.00%) Web Services
5 5 (5.00%) Kafka
6 4 (4.00%) Playwright
6 4 (4.00%) PowerMock
7 2 (2.00%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.00%) RESTful
7 2 (2.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.00%) CMDB
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Photography
7 1 (1.00%) PKI
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Agile
2 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
3 28 (28.00%) DevOps
4 23 (23.00%) Microservices
5 21 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (19.00%) TDD
7 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (17.00%) Validation
8 16 (16.00%) BDD
8 16 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 15 (15.00%) Observability
10 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (14.00%) Test Strategy
11 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
11 13 (13.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (13.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (10.00%) Load Testing
13 10 (10.00%) Performance Testing
14 9 (9.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.00%) Java
2 13 (13.00%) SQL
3 9 (9.00%) Python
4 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.00%) Bash
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
6 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.00%) R
6 1 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (81.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.00%) CCNP
3 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.00%) CISSP
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.00%) CCNA
4 2 (2.00%) CISM
4 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.00%) CCIE
5 1 (1.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.00%) NIST
2 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) GRC
2 3 (3.00%) PMO
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) P3O
4 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) Postfix
4 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.00%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.00%) vSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.00%) etcd
5 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Grafana
2 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.00%) Terraform
5 5 (5.00%) Ansible
6 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.00%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (7.00%) VMware
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.00%) Splunk
4 4 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle
5 3 (3.00%) Veeam
6 2 (2.00%) Arista
6 2 (2.00%) Aruba
6 2 (2.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.00%) F5
6 2 (2.00%) Google
6 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.00%) Canon
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) Planon
7 1 (1.00%) Zscaler