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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +37
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 140 67 130
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 20.53% 9.42% 16.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.93% 42.95% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 30 70
10th Percentile £260 £398 £325
25th Percentile £325 £467 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £621
90th Percentile £608 £754 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £20.05 £49.61 £67.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £54.19 £68.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.69% -46.15% -

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 219 156 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.11% 21.94% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 93 133
10th Percentile £243 £165 £259
25th Percentile £325 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £595
90th Percentile £619 £762 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% +1.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 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 £44.00 £54.88 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +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 17 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 17 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 2 (1.43%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.43%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.43%) Revit
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.71%) AWS
2 29 (20.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 29 (20.71%) Amazon S3
3 28 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
4 25 (17.86%) AWS KMS
4 25 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (14.29%) Azure
6 12 (8.57%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.57%) Route 53
7 10 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.43%) GCP
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub
9 2 (1.43%) Serverless
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 33 (23.57%) Firewall
2 29 (20.71%) VPN
3 28 (20.00%) DNS
4 23 (16.43%) WAN
5 22 (15.71%) BGP
5 22 (15.71%) IPsec
5 22 (15.71%) MPLS
5 22 (15.71%) SMTP
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%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (2.14%) Network Security
11 3 (2.14%) Unified Communications
11 3 (2.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.43%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) GIS
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (22.14%) Git
1 31 (22.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.57%) JIRA
3 21 (15.00%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.57%) GitLab
5 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.14%) DbUnit
5 3 (2.14%) jMock
5 3 (2.14%) JUnit
5 3 (2.14%) Maven
5 3 (2.14%) Mockito
5 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.71%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.71%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) TestDirector
General
1 56 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 34 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.29%) Legal
5 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Finance
7 3 (2.14%) Military
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 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 13 (9.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Analyst
7 12 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (7.14%) Senior
9 9 (6.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Developer
10 8 (5.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Network Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Consultant
11 7 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) LDAP
2 7 (5.00%) REST
3 4 (2.86%) RESTful
3 4 (2.86%) Web Services
4 3 (2.14%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.14%) Bootstrap
4 3 (2.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (2.14%) JPA
4 3 (2.14%) PowerMock
4 3 (2.14%) SOAP
4 3 (2.14%) Spring
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Batch
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Integration
5 2 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
6 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%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.14%) Handset
4 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) SCADA
5 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Linux
2 30 (21.43%) Windows
3 21 (15.00%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (15.00%) VMS
4 10 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.43%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.14%) DevOps
2 23 (16.43%) Change Management
2 23 (16.43%) Cloud Security
3 22 (15.71%) CI/CD
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%) Containerisation
9 10 (7.14%) Network Design
10 9 (6.43%) Agile
10 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (5.71%) High Availability
12 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (5.00%) ITIL
12 7 (5.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.71%) Python
2 26 (18.57%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.00%) Groovy
4 17 (12.14%) Java
4 17 (12.14%) SQL
5 12 (8.57%) Perl
6 8 (5.71%) Bash
7 2 (1.43%) Go
7 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.71%) Ruby
8 1 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (78.57%) SC Cleared
2 24 (17.14%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Degree
4 11 (7.86%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.29%) 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
8 2 (1.43%) RIBA
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.71%) CISM
9 1 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.71%) GCIH
9 1 (0.71%) GIAC
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
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%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (25.00%) 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 26 (18.57%) Grafana
2 26 (18.57%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.43%) Nessus
3 9 (6.43%) Proxmox
4 8 (5.71%) 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 12 (8.57%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.86%) VMware
6 5 (3.57%) F5
7 4 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.86%) Splunk
8 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.14%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.43%) Google
9 2 (1.43%) IBM
9 2 (1.43%) Oracle
9 2 (1.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.71%) Commvault
10 1 (0.71%) Dell
10 1 (0.71%) Salesforce