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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 106 109 71
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.76% 18.83% 10.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.22% 62.64% 48.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 76 28
10th Percentile £411 £225 £263
25th Percentile £425 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -15.56% -0.44%
75th Percentile £585 £591 £675
90th Percentile £705 £638 £724
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -8.74% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 3
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.40
25th Percentile £39.23 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +34.79% -78.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £20.34
90th Percentile - £41.49 £24.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% -14.23% -66.15%

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 203 174 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.53% 30.05% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 119 82
10th Percentile £212 £150 £213
25th Percentile £384 £269 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £656
90th Percentile £705 £622 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 9
10th Percentile £14.73 - £13.85
25th Percentile £25.11 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.77% -59.81%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.58 £52.50
90th Percentile - £49.10 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year +75.00% -6.69% +16.91%

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

Security Cleared
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 27 August 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 27 August 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 6 (5.66%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.94%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.94%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.94%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.94%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.94%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.94%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.13%) AWS
2 15 (14.15%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) GitHub
4 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (7.55%) OCI
6 5 (4.72%) GCP
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.77%) SaaS
7 4 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.89%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.89%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) WAN
2 4 (3.77%) WLAN
3 3 (2.83%) BGP
3 3 (2.83%) BIG-IP
3 3 (2.83%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (2.83%) Firewall
3 3 (2.83%) OSPF
3 3 (2.83%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.83%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.89%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.89%) LAN
5 1 (0.94%) DNS
5 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.55%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.89%) Metadata
4 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.89%) Power BI
5 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.94%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.94%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.98%) GitLab
2 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.55%) Git
3 8 (7.55%) Selenium
4 7 (6.60%) JUnit
5 6 (5.66%) JIRA
6 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.72%) JMeter
6 5 (4.72%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.83%) Mockito
7 3 (2.83%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.83%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.89%) Gatling
8 2 (1.89%) Maven
8 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (27.36%) Public Sector
2 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Legal
4 6 (5.66%) Military
5 5 (4.72%) Finance
6 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Senior
2 19 (17.92%) Consultant
3 11 (10.38%) Developer
4 10 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Analyst
5 9 (8.49%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.49%) Lead
6 8 (7.55%) Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.66%) SOC Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) VMware Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) Automation Tester
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Automation Tester
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) Spring
2 11 (10.38%) Terraform
3 8 (7.55%) Kafka
4 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.72%) WireMock
6 4 (3.77%) Node.js
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.77%) Playwright
7 3 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.83%) Django
7 3 (2.83%) REST
7 3 (2.83%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.83%) Web Services
8 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.89%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.89%) JPA
8 2 (1.89%) SOAP
8 2 (1.89%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.89%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.60%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.94%) CMDB
4 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.94%) IoT
4 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Photography
4 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) PropTech
4 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.94%) AIX
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.36%) Agile
2 23 (21.70%) DevOps
3 22 (20.75%) CI/CD
4 19 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (16.04%) Microservices
7 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (12.26%) Test Automation
9 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.32%) TDD
9 12 (11.32%) Validation
10 11 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.43%) BDD
11 10 (9.43%) Observability
11 10 (9.43%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (8.49%) Coaching
12 9 (8.49%) Data Protection
12 9 (8.49%) Roadmaps
12 9 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.55%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.15%) Java
2 10 (9.43%) Python
3 5 (4.72%) SQL
4 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.94%) ABAP
6 1 (0.94%) Bash
6 1 (0.94%) Bicep
6 1 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 84 (79.25%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.77%) CISSP
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.89%) CISM
4 2 (1.89%) Degree
4 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CCIE
5 1 (0.94%) CCNP
5 1 (0.94%) GCIH
5 1 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) NIST
2 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.72%) NCSC
4 4 (3.77%) GRC
4 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.77%) QA
4 4 (3.77%) SLA
5 3 (2.83%) GDPR
5 3 (2.83%) PMO
6 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.94%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.94%) P3O
7 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (17.92%) Docker
2 7 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.94%) etcd
4 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.26%) Grafana
3 12 (11.32%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.43%) Ansible
5 5 (4.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.94%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.94%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) VMware
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.60%) SAP
4 6 (5.66%) Oracle
5 5 (4.72%) Veeam
6 4 (3.77%) Splunk
7 3 (2.83%) Arista
7 3 (2.83%) Aruba
7 3 (2.83%) F5
7 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.94%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco
9 1 (0.94%) Databricks
9 1 (0.94%) Infor
9 1 (0.94%) Remedy
9 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.94%) Trend Micro