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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 120 129 66
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.64% 20.09% 9.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.10% 58.90% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 84 25
10th Percentile £408 £263 £385
25th Percentile £457 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -20.83% +17.65%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £675
90th Percentile £718 £632 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -8.65% -9.57% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile £13.45 - £28.58
25th Percentile £16.01 - £33.11
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% -54.32% -36.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £49.61
90th Percentile - £36.46 £54.19
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% -46.09% -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 226 219 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.68% 34.11% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 140 86
10th Percentile £228 £243 £165
25th Percentile £387 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £630
90th Percentile £700 £638 £758
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £531
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.75% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 6
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £20.88
25th Percentile £21.56 - £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -50.42% -41.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £51.88
90th Percentile - £44.85 £54.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £27.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -21.21% +12.90%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 2 (1.67%) Apache
1 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.83%) SAS
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.83%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.83%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.83%) Revit
1 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.83%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (9.17%) Azure
3 10 (8.33%) GitHub
4 8 (6.67%) OCI
5 6 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.33%) SaaS
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.67%) Serverless
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) VSAN
1 4 (3.33%) WAN
2 3 (2.50%) BGP
2 3 (2.50%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) OSPF
2 3 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.50%) VXLAN
2 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.50%) WLAN
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.67%) Metadata
4 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.83%) Power BI
5 1 (0.83%) PowerCenter
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) GitLab
2 12 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.33%) Selenium
4 3 (2.50%) Git
4 3 (2.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.50%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (1.67%) Gatling
5 2 (1.67%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.67%) Mockito
6 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (28.33%) Public Sector
2 23 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.67%) Military
4 7 (5.83%) Legal
5 6 (5.00%) Finance
6 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Senior
2 22 (18.33%) Consultant
3 15 (12.50%) Architect
4 13 (10.83%) Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Analyst
5 10 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Lead
6 9 (7.50%) Security Consultant
6 9 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.17%) Spring
2 10 (8.33%) Terraform
3 9 (7.50%) Kafka
3 9 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.33%) Node.js
4 4 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.33%) Playwright
5 3 (2.50%) Django
6 2 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.67%) REST
6 2 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Web Services
7 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.83%) JAX-RS
7 1 (0.83%) Mustache
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.83%) PySpark
7 1 (0.83%) React
7 1 (0.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Photography
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) PropTech
6 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) AIX
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (20.83%) Agile
3 21 (17.50%) DevOps
4 18 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 15 (12.50%) TDD
7 14 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (10.83%) Microservices
8 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 10 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (7.50%) Coaching
11 9 (7.50%) Incident Management
11 9 (7.50%) Test Automation
12 8 (6.67%) Risk Management
12 8 (6.67%) Service Management
13 7 (5.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.83%) Java
2 10 (8.33%) Python
3 9 (7.50%) Kotlin
3 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (4.17%) SQL
5 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.83%) ABAP
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) Bicep
6 1 (0.83%) Go
6 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 98 (81.67%) SC Cleared
2 10 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (1.67%) CISM
4 2 (1.67%) Degree
4 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) GCIH
5 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) NIST
2 8 (6.67%) NCSC
3 6 (5.00%) GRC
4 5 (4.17%) SLA
5 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.33%) GDPR
5 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.33%) QA
6 3 (2.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.83%) P3O
7 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) VMware NSX
2 9 (7.50%) vSphere
3 5 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Ansible
3 8 (6.67%) Grafana
4 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) VMware
2 9 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle
4 5 (4.17%) Veeam
5 3 (2.50%) Arista
5 3 (2.50%) Aruba
5 3 (2.50%) F5
5 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.50%) SAP
5 3 (2.50%) Splunk
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.83%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.83%) Remedy
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro