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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 14 3
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 143 66 131
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 20.94% 9.14% 16.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.41% 42.58% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 29 71
10th Percentile £262 £395 £325
25th Percentile £353 £465 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £547 £700 £632
90th Percentile £602 £758 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.65% +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 222 155 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.50% 21.47% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 90 131
10th Percentile £243 £165 £258
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £600
90th Percentile £638 £765 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -2.09% +0.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £20.95 £43.75
25th Percentile - £23.41 £60.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% -55.38% -
75th Percentile - £51.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.00 £54.40 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £34.75
% change year-on-year -27.03% -0.82% +43.30%

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 14 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 14 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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 9 (6.29%) nginx
3 2 (1.40%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.40%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.40%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.40%) Revit
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.87%) AWS
2 30 (20.98%) Amazon S3
3 29 (20.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 29 (20.28%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (17.48%) Amazon ELB
4 25 (17.48%) AWS KMS
4 25 (17.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 21 (14.69%) Azure
6 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (8.39%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (8.39%) Route 53
8 10 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.40%) GCP
10 2 (1.40%) GitHub
10 2 (1.40%) Serverless
11 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.98%) Firewall
2 29 (20.28%) VPN
3 28 (19.58%) DNS
4 23 (16.08%) WAN
5 22 (15.38%) BGP
5 22 (15.38%) IPsec
5 22 (15.38%) MPLS
6 21 (14.69%) FTP
6 21 (14.69%) HTTP
6 21 (14.69%) SMTP
6 21 (14.69%) SSH
7 9 (6.29%) IMAP
7 9 (6.29%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.50%) Junos
10 4 (2.80%) SSL
11 3 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (2.10%) Network Security
11 3 (2.10%) Unified Communications
11 3 (2.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.48%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.40%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.70%) GIS
6 1 (0.70%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (22.38%) Git
1 32 (22.38%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.18%) JIRA
3 21 (14.69%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.50%) GitLab
5 4 (2.80%) Maven
6 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.10%) DbUnit
6 3 (2.10%) jMock
6 3 (2.10%) JUnit
6 3 (2.10%) Mockito
6 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.70%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.70%) Selenium
7 1 (0.70%) TestDirector
General
1 60 (41.96%) Public Sector
2 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.20%) Finance
4 6 (4.20%) Legal
5 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.80%) Military
7 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.40%) Electronics
8 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.40%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (19.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.29%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (12.59%) Support Engineer
4 17 (11.89%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (11.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (11.19%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Analyst
7 12 (8.39%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (8.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Senior
9 9 (6.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Developer
9 9 (6.29%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Consultant
10 8 (5.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.29%) LDAP
2 8 (5.59%) REST
3 5 (3.50%) Web Services
4 4 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (2.80%) RESTful
4 4 (2.80%) SOAP
4 4 (2.80%) Spring
4 4 (2.80%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.10%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.10%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.10%) JPA
5 3 (2.10%) PowerMock
5 3 (2.10%) Spring Batch
5 3 (2.10%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.38%) PKI
1 22 (15.38%) Replication
2 15 (10.49%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.80%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.10%) Handset
5 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.38%) Linux
2 29 (20.28%) Windows
3 21 (14.69%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (14.69%) VMS
4 9 (6.29%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.40%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.40%) Unix
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.87%) DevOps
2 23 (16.08%) Change Management
2 23 (16.08%) Cloud Security
3 21 (14.69%) CI/CD
3 21 (14.69%) Configuration Management
3 21 (14.69%) Patch Management
3 21 (14.69%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (11.89%) Load Balancing
5 16 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (8.39%) Break/Fix
6 12 (8.39%) Knowledge Transfer
7 11 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (6.99%) Agile
8 10 (6.99%) Containerisation
8 10 (6.99%) Network Design
9 9 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (4.90%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (4.90%) High Availability
10 7 (4.90%) ITIL
10 7 (4.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.78%) Python
2 25 (17.48%) PowerShell
3 21 (14.69%) Groovy
4 18 (12.59%) Java
5 17 (11.89%) SQL
6 12 (8.39%) Perl
7 7 (4.90%) Bash
8 2 (1.40%) Go
8 2 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) Bicep
9 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (77.62%) SC Cleared
2 24 (16.78%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 11 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.99%) AWS Certification
6 9 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.10%) CISSP
7 3 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.40%) OCP
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.40%) RIBA
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.70%) CISM
9 1 (0.70%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.70%) GIAC
9 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.40%) NIST
2 2 (1.40%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (25.17%) Docker
2 21 (14.69%) DFS Replication
3 16 (11.19%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.39%) Postfix
5 9 (6.29%) Dovecot
5 9 (6.29%) Squid
6 6 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.10%) vSphere
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.70%) Snort
Systems Management
1 33 (23.08%) Terraform
2 26 (18.18%) Grafana
2 26 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.29%) Nessus
3 9 (6.29%) Proxmox
4 8 (5.59%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.50%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) Juniper
2 24 (16.78%) ServiceNow
3 19 (13.29%) Cisco
4 13 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 12 (8.39%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (5.59%) VMware
7 5 (3.50%) F5
8 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.80%) Splunk
9 3 (2.10%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.10%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.40%) Google
10 2 (1.40%) IBM
10 2 (1.40%) Oracle
10 2 (1.40%) SAP
11 1 (0.70%) Commvault
11 1 (0.70%) Dell
11 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.70%) Salesforce