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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 104 107 75
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.65% 18.71% 10.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.26% 61.49% 51.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 75 33
10th Percentile £396 £176 £263
25th Percentile £425 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -9.48%
75th Percentile £545 £594 £675
90th Percentile £674 £638 £710
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £515 £536
% change year-on-year -8.93% -3.96% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.40
25th Percentile £65.00 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +34.79% +7.69%
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% -20.00%

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 199 174 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.28% 30.42% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 118 86
10th Percentile £212 £150 £256
25th Percentile £371 £263 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £545 £569 £636
90th Percentile £688 £624 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% -4.67% -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 9
10th Percentile £17.34 £18.65 £13.85
25th Percentile £31.10 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.77% +41.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.58 £52.50
90th Percentile - £49.10 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +75.00% -11.58% +31.51%

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 21 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 21 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 8 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.96%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.96%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.96%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (0.96%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.96%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.96%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.96%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) AWS
2 16 (15.38%) Azure
2 16 (15.38%) GitHub
3 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (6.73%) GCP
4 7 (6.73%) OCI
5 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.85%) SaaS
6 4 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.88%) Route 53
7 3 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) WAN
2 4 (3.85%) WLAN
3 3 (2.88%) BGP
3 3 (2.88%) BIG-IP
3 3 (2.88%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) OSPF
3 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.88%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.92%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (0.96%) DNS
5 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.92%) Metadata
4 2 (1.92%) Power BI
4 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.96%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.96%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.31%) GitLab
3 11 (10.58%) Git
4 10 (9.62%) JUnit
4 10 (9.62%) Selenium
5 8 (7.69%) JIRA
6 7 (6.73%) Cucumber
6 7 (6.73%) JMeter
6 7 (6.73%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.85%) Mockito
8 3 (2.88%) Maven
8 3 (2.88%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.88%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) Gatling
10 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (28.85%) Public Sector
2 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.77%) Legal
4 5 (4.81%) Finance
4 5 (4.81%) Military
5 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Senior
2 18 (17.31%) Consultant
3 11 (10.58%) Developer
4 10 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (6.73%) Architect
8 6 (5.77%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Tester
9 5 (4.81%) Automation Tester
9 5 (4.81%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Automation Tester
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Tester
9 5 (4.81%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) VMware Consultant
10 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.46%) Spring
2 10 (9.62%) Terraform
3 7 (6.73%) WireMock
4 6 (5.77%) Kafka
4 6 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.81%) Node.js
6 4 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.85%) Playwright
6 4 (3.85%) REST
6 4 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (3.85%) Web Services
7 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.88%) Django
7 3 (2.88%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.88%) JPA
7 3 (2.88%) SOAP
7 3 (2.88%) Spring Batch
7 3 (2.88%) Spring Integration
8 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) CMDB
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.96%) IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Photography
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) PropTech
6 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Agile
2 25 (24.04%) CI/CD
3 24 (23.08%) DevOps
4 21 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (19.23%) Microservices
6 18 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (14.42%) TDD
8 15 (14.42%) Test Automation
9 14 (13.46%) Validation
10 12 (11.54%) BDD
10 12 (11.54%) Observability
11 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.58%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (9.62%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (9.62%) Test Strategy
13 9 (8.65%) Coaching
13 9 (8.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (8.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.42%) Java
2 10 (9.62%) Python
3 6 (5.77%) SQL
4 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.96%) ABAP
6 1 (0.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.96%) Bicep
6 1 (0.96%) Go
6 1 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 84 (80.77%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.85%) CISSP
4 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.92%) CISM
4 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) CCIE
5 1 (0.96%) CCNP
5 1 (0.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) NIST
2 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.81%) GRC
3 5 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.85%) NCSC
4 4 (3.85%) QA
5 3 (2.88%) PMO
5 3 (2.88%) SLA
6 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.92%) GDPR
7 1 (0.96%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.96%) P3O
7 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Docker
2 7 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.81%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.81%) vSphere
4 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) etcd
4 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Grafana
3 14 (13.46%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.65%) Ansible
5 5 (4.81%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.96%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) VMware
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) SAP
3 5 (4.81%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) Veeam
4 3 (2.88%) Arista
4 3 (2.88%) Aruba
4 3 (2.88%) F5
4 3 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.88%) Splunk
5 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.96%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco
6 1 (0.96%) Databricks
6 1 (0.96%) Infor
6 1 (0.96%) Planon
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.96%) Trend Micro