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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 15 1
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +49
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 119 66 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.67% 9.18% 17.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.41% 43.42% 62.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 24 64
10th Percentile £250 £383 £296
25th Percentile £319 £467 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.63% +20.11%
75th Percentile £589 £700 £688
90th Percentile £638 £750 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -9.51% +4.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 9
10th Percentile - £28.58 £36.50
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 - £49.61 £67.50
90th Percentile £36.46 £54.19 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £45.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.75% -29.62% -

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 197 152 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.56% 21.14% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 85 119
10th Percentile £150 £209 £261
25th Percentile £283 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £619
90th Percentile £638 £759 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 12
10th Percentile £17.66 £20.88 £13.78
25th Percentile - £22.33 £17.32
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% -41.44% +225.00%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £45.70 £54.88 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £38.75 £27.25
% change year-on-year -27.28% +42.20% +36.25%

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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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 19 September 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 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 (21.01%) Confluence
2 9 (7.56%) nginx
3 2 (1.68%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.68%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.68%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.68%) Revit
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.41%) AWS
2 29 (24.37%) Amazon S3
3 28 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 28 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (20.17%) Amazon ELB
4 24 (20.17%) AWS KMS
4 24 (20.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (11.76%) Azure
6 12 (10.08%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (10.08%) Route 53
7 10 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.52%) IaaS
10 1 (0.84%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.84%) GitHub
10 1 (0.84%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.84%) PaaS
10 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.53%) Firewall
2 25 (21.01%) DNS
3 21 (17.65%) FTP
3 21 (17.65%) HTTP
3 21 (17.65%) SMTP
3 21 (17.65%) SSH
4 17 (14.29%) VPN
5 16 (13.45%) WAN
6 15 (12.61%) BGP
6 15 (12.61%) MPLS
7 14 (11.76%) IPsec
8 9 (7.56%) IMAP
8 9 (7.56%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (4.20%) Junos
10 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
10 4 (3.36%) VoIP
11 3 (2.52%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (2.52%) Network Security
11 3 (2.52%) SSL
12 2 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.01%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.68%) Tableau
6 1 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (23.53%) Git
1 28 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 27 (22.69%) JIRA
3 21 (17.65%) Vagrant
4 4 (3.36%) Maven
5 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.52%) DbUnit
5 3 (2.52%) jMock
5 3 (2.52%) JUnit
5 3 (2.52%) Mockito
5 3 (2.52%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.68%) GitLab
7 1 (0.84%) Postman
7 1 (0.84%) TestDirector
General
1 53 (44.54%) Public Sector
2 32 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.04%) Finance
5 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Legal
6 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
7 2 (1.68%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (15.13%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Network Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Senior
7 9 (7.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Analyst
9 7 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.20%) IT Manager
11 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) LDAP
2 6 (5.04%) Web Services
3 5 (4.20%) .NET
4 4 (3.36%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (3.36%) REST
4 4 (3.36%) SOAP
4 4 (3.36%) Spring
4 4 (3.36%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.52%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.52%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.52%) JPA
5 3 (2.52%) PowerMock
5 3 (2.52%) RESTful
5 3 (2.52%) Spring Batch
5 3 (2.52%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.68%) HTML
6 2 (1.68%) Middleware
7 1 (0.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.65%) Replication
2 17 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 14 (11.76%) PKI
4 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.05%) Windows
2 30 (25.21%) Linux
3 21 (17.65%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (17.65%) VMS
4 9 (7.56%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.20%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.68%) Unix
7 1 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.89%) DevOps
2 24 (20.17%) Change Management
3 23 (19.33%) Cloud Security
4 21 (17.65%) Configuration Management
4 21 (17.65%) Patch Management
4 21 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (11.76%) Load Balancing
6 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.92%) CI/CD
8 12 (10.08%) Break/Fix
9 11 (9.24%) Agile
10 10 (8.40%) ITIL
11 8 (6.72%) Project Delivery
12 7 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (5.88%) Containerisation
12 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (5.88%) Service Management
13 6 (5.04%) Network Design
14 5 (4.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.53%) Python
2 26 (21.85%) PowerShell
3 24 (20.17%) Groovy
4 21 (17.65%) SQL
5 19 (15.97%) Java
6 12 (10.08%) Perl
7 5 (4.20%) Bash
8 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.68%) C#
9 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.84%) Bicep
10 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (71.43%) SC Cleared
2 23 (19.33%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.76%) Degree
4 10 (8.40%) AWS Certification
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.52%) CISSP
7 3 (2.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.52%) OCP
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.68%) RIBA
8 2 (1.68%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.84%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.84%) CISM
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) CPIM
9 1 (0.84%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.84%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.68%) NIST
1 2 (1.68%) SLA
2 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (0.84%) QA
2 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (26.05%) Docker
2 21 (17.65%) DFS Replication
3 17 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 12 (10.08%) Postfix
5 9 (7.56%) Dovecot
5 9 (7.56%) Squid
6 7 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.36%) vSphere
8 2 (1.68%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.84%) Snort
Systems Management
1 27 (22.69%) Grafana
1 27 (22.69%) Terraform
2 25 (21.01%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.56%) Nessus
3 9 (7.56%) Proxmox
4 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.52%) Ansible
6 2 (1.68%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) ServiceNow
2 22 (18.49%) Juniper
3 17 (14.29%) Cisco
4 12 (10.08%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (6.72%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.88%) VMware
7 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
8 5 (4.20%) Dell
8 5 (4.20%) HP
9 3 (2.52%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.52%) F5
9 3 (2.52%) IBM
9 3 (2.52%) Oracle
9 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.68%) SAP
11 1 (0.84%) Commvault
11 1 (0.84%) Meraki
11 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.84%) Software AG
11 1 (0.84%) webMethods