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 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 98 64 109
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.68% 12.57% 14.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.75% 45.71% 55.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 47 70
10th Percentile £380 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £384 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% -31.91%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £538
90th Percentile £631 - £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £537 £480
% change year-on-year -11.64% +11.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £17.98 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £14.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £27.58 £14.00
% change year-on-year +128.94% +96.98% -26.32%

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 179 140 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.50% 27.50% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 100 114
10th Percentile £237 £148 £263
25th Percentile £397 £198 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £512 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +20.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £556 £642 £547
90th Percentile £634 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -14.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 13
10th Percentile £14.95 £24.31 £13.40
25th Percentile £16.70 £33.01 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% +92.31% +55.22%
75th Percentile £19.67 £55.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.70 £50.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £25.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +110.00% -12.28% +50.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 17 (17.35%) Confluence
2 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.02%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.67%) AWS
2 24 (24.49%) Azure
3 15 (15.31%) GitHub
4 11 (11.22%) Amazon S3
4 11 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.20%) GCP
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (9.18%) AWS KMS
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (7.14%) Route 53
8 4 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.06%) OCI
9 3 (3.06%) SaaS
9 3 (3.06%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) WAN
2 4 (4.08%) BGP
3 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 3 (3.06%) LAN
3 3 (3.06%) MPLS
3 3 (3.06%) OSPF
3 3 (3.06%) VPN
4 2 (2.04%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.04%) VLAN
4 2 (2.04%) WLAN
4 2 (2.04%) X.25
5 1 (1.02%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.02%) IPsec
5 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.02%) SMTP
5 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.04%) Power BI
4 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.04%) Tableau
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.02%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 19 (19.39%) Git
3 18 (18.37%) JUnit
4 16 (16.33%) JIRA
5 13 (13.27%) Selenium
6 12 (12.24%) GitLab
7 11 (11.22%) Cucumber
7 11 (11.22%) JMeter
8 10 (10.20%) WebDriver
9 7 (7.14%) Maven
9 7 (7.14%) Mockito
9 7 (7.14%) SonarQube
10 4 (4.08%) DbUnit
10 4 (4.08%) jMock
11 3 (3.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.06%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (2.04%) Gatling
13 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
13 1 (1.02%) Postman
General
1 34 (34.69%) Public Sector
2 33 (33.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Legal
5 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Military
6 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Finance
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (14.29%) Senior
2 13 (13.27%) Architect
3 12 (12.24%) Tester
4 11 (11.22%) Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Automation Tester
6 9 (9.18%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Consultant
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Tester
9 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 4 (4.08%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Data Consultant
11 3 (3.06%) SAP Consultant
11 3 (3.06%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.06%) SOC Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.06%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.41%) Spring
2 10 (10.20%) Spring Boot
2 10 (10.20%) WireMock
3 9 (9.18%) Spring Cloud
4 8 (8.16%) REST
5 7 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 7 (7.14%) JPA
5 7 (7.14%) Node.js
5 7 (7.14%) SOAP
5 7 (7.14%) Spring Batch
5 7 (7.14%) Spring Integration
5 7 (7.14%) Web Services
6 4 (4.08%) PowerMock
7 3 (3.06%) Kafka
8 2 (2.04%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.04%) Middleware
8 2 (2.04%) RESTful
8 2 (2.04%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) CMDB
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Photography
6 1 (1.02%) PKI
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.24%) Linux
2 10 (10.20%) Windows
3 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) CentOS
4 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.59%) Agile
2 25 (25.51%) CI/CD
3 23 (23.47%) DevOps
4 20 (20.41%) Microservices
5 18 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (18.37%) TDD
6 17 (17.35%) Validation
7 15 (15.31%) Observability
8 14 (14.29%) BDD
8 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.24%) Test Strategy
9 12 (12.24%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (11.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 11 (11.22%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.20%) Load Testing
11 10 (10.20%) Performance Testing
12 9 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) Java
1 13 (13.27%) SQL
2 10 (10.20%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.04%) Bash
4 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.02%) Bicep
5 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.02%) R
5 1 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (82.65%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.06%) CCNP
3 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.06%) CISSP
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) CCNA
4 2 (2.04%) CISM
4 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.02%) CCIE
5 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.12%) NIST
2 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.06%) GRC
3 3 (3.06%) PMO
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) NCSC
5 1 (1.02%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (22.45%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Postfix
3 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) etcd
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.41%) Grafana
2 17 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.12%) Terraform
5 4 (4.08%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.02%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (7.14%) Splunk
3 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.10%) VMware
5 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.08%) SAP
6 3 (3.06%) Cisco
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.04%) Dell
7 2 (2.04%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.04%) Tenable
8 1 (1.02%) Canon
8 1 (1.02%) Databricks
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.02%) Planon
8 1 (1.02%) Zscaler