Security Cleared Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 65 122 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.45% 15.78% 10.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.10% 54.71% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 81 51
10th Percentile £150 £263 £375
25th Percentile £406 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -37.50% +39.53%
75th Percentile £700 £538 £700
90th Percentile - £675 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +5.77% -
75th Percentile - £14.00 £17.34
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +96.98% -26.32% +1.33%

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 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.23%) IIS
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) IaaS
4 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.08%) OCI
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.54%) PaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) BGP
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
1 3 (4.62%) IPsec
1 3 (4.62%) iSCSI
1 3 (4.62%) MPLS
1 3 (4.62%) VPN
1 3 (4.62%) WAN
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Frame Relay
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.54%) VLAN
3 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.08%) Metadata
4 2 (3.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.54%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) Power BI
5 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
1 5 (7.69%) MSI
2 3 (4.62%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.92%) Legal
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Military
6 1 (1.54%) Police
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Architect
2 6 (9.23%) Support Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Analyst
4 4 (6.15%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
4 4 (6.15%) Senior
5 3 (4.62%) Applications Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Applications Support
5 3 (4.62%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Consultant
6 2 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.08%) Applications Development Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.08%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.08%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) HTML
2 6 (9.23%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) Middleware
3 5 (7.69%) Software Packaging
4 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.54%) CSS
5 1 (1.54%) EntireX
5 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.54%) Kafka
5 1 (1.54%) LDAP
5 1 (1.54%) NumPy
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) OpenID
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.54%) Pandas
5 1 (1.54%) SAML
5 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) SCADA
2 7 (10.77%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) PKI
3 2 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) Windows
2 9 (13.85%) Windows 10
3 6 (9.23%) Linux
4 3 (4.62%) VMS
5 1 (1.54%) CentOS
5 1 (1.54%) Debian
5 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Agile
2 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 9 (13.85%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (13.85%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (12.31%) Service Management
6 7 (10.77%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (10.77%) Project Management
7 6 (9.23%) Migration
7 6 (9.23%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (7.69%) DevOps
8 5 (7.69%) ITIL
8 5 (7.69%) Software Delivery
8 5 (7.69%) Software Deployment
8 5 (7.69%) Software Distribution
9 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis
9 4 (6.15%) ETL
9 4 (6.15%) Time Management
10 3 (4.62%) Change Management
10 3 (4.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.00%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) SQL
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) Bash
6 4 (6.15%) C#
7 3 (4.62%) Groovy
8 2 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.54%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.54%) Java
9 1 (1.54%) R
9 1 (1.54%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (72.31%) SC Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CCIE
6 1 (1.54%) CCNP
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CITP
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) OCP
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Ansible
2 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.62%) Terraform
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.54%) logstash
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.54%) Nessus
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Puppet
5 1 (1.54%) QRadar
5 1 (1.54%) SCCM
5 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) VMware
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.31%) Dell
3 8 (12.31%) HP
4 7 (10.77%) Foundry
5 5 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 5 (7.69%) Tanium
6 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.62%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.08%) Apple
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Juniper
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle
8 1 (1.54%) Google
8 1 (1.54%) IBM
8 1 (1.54%) SAP
8 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.54%) Software AG
8 1 (1.54%) Sophos
8 1 (1.54%) webMethods