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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 120 114 111
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.93% 19.96% 14.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.11% 61.96% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 81 57
10th Percentile £393 £200 -
25th Percentile £425 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +33.47% -35.34%
75th Percentile £544 £648 £538
90th Percentile £640 £700 £668
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £510 £519
% change year-on-year -8.00% -1.73% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 3
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.83 £13.40
25th Percentile £41.15 - £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 - -
90th Percentile - £44.85 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £14.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% +34.79% -32.38%

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 203 184 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.88% 32.22% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 128 105
10th Percentile £221 £150 £263
25th Percentile £398 £263 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -17.68%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £550
90th Percentile £654 £696 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £502
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.28% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 13
10th Percentile £16.21 - £14.00
25th Percentile £20.28 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.42% +55.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £33.72 £28.75
90th Percentile - £51.65 £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £29.44
% change year-on-year +75.00% +1.92% +50.16%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 (14.17%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.83%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.83%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.83%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.83%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) AWS
2 25 (20.83%) Azure
3 21 (17.50%) GitHub
4 16 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (11.67%) Amazon S3
6 11 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (9.17%) GCP
7 10 (8.33%) AWS KMS
8 9 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (7.50%) OCI
9 8 (6.67%) Route 53
10 6 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.33%) SaaS
12 4 (3.33%) Serverless
13 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) WAN
2 6 (5.00%) BGP
3 5 (4.17%) Firewall
3 5 (4.17%) OSPF
4 4 (3.33%) WLAN
5 3 (2.50%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (2.50%) LAN
5 3 (2.50%) MPLS
5 3 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.50%) VPN
5 3 (2.50%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.67%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.67%) VLAN
7 1 (0.83%) DNS
7 1 (0.83%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.83%) IPsec
7 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.67%) Power BI
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) JasperReports
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (25.83%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.33%) Git
2 22 (18.33%) GitLab
3 20 (16.67%) JUnit
4 17 (14.17%) JIRA
5 16 (13.33%) Selenium
6 12 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 12 (10.00%) JMeter
7 11 (9.17%) WebDriver
8 9 (7.50%) Mockito
9 8 (6.67%) Maven
9 8 (6.67%) SonarQube
10 5 (4.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (3.33%) DbUnit
11 4 (3.33%) jMock
12 3 (2.50%) Gatling
13 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
14 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 45 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.00%) Legal
4 5 (4.17%) Finance
4 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Military
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.33%) Senior
2 18 (15.00%) Consultant
3 17 (14.17%) Developer
4 15 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 12 (10.00%) Tester
6 10 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Automation Tester
8 8 (6.67%) Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Lead
9 7 (5.83%) Senior Automation Tester
9 7 (5.83%) Senior Tester
9 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Security Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.83%) Spring
2 13 (10.83%) Spring Boot
3 11 (9.17%) WireMock
4 10 (8.33%) Node.js
4 10 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (7.50%) REST
5 9 (7.50%) Web Services
6 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 8 (6.67%) JPA
6 8 (6.67%) SOAP
6 8 (6.67%) Spring Batch
6 8 (6.67%) Spring Integration
7 7 (5.83%) Kafka
8 5 (4.17%) Playwright
9 4 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (3.33%) PowerMock
10 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) CMDB
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Photography
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Agile
2 37 (30.83%) CI/CD
3 34 (28.33%) DevOps
4 30 (25.00%) Microservices
5 25 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (20.00%) TDD
7 21 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.67%) BDD
8 20 (16.67%) Validation
9 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (14.17%) Observability
11 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.50%) Test Strategy
13 14 (11.67%) End-to-End Testing
14 13 (10.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 13 (10.83%) Workshop Facilitation
15 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (9.17%) Performance Tuning
16 11 (9.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.33%) Java
2 13 (10.83%) SQL
3 11 (9.17%) Python
4 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.83%) ABAP
5 1 (0.83%) Bash
5 1 (0.83%) Bicep
5 1 (0.83%) Go
5 1 (0.83%) R
5 1 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (80.83%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.33%) CISSP
4 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.50%) CCNP
4 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) CCNA
5 2 (1.67%) CISM
5 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.83%) CCIE
6 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) NIST
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) NCSC
2 5 (4.17%) QA
3 4 (3.33%) GRC
3 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.83%) P3O
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (26.67%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.17%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.17%) vSphere
4 4 (3.33%) Postfix
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.83%) etcd
5 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (21.67%) Grafana
2 23 (19.17%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.83%) Prometheus
4 12 (10.00%) Terraform
5 10 (8.33%) Ansible
6 5 (4.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.83%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (7.50%) VMware
2 8 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Oracle
4 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.17%) SAP
4 5 (4.17%) Splunk
4 5 (4.17%) Veeam
5 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.50%) Arista
6 3 (2.50%) Aruba
6 3 (2.50%) Cisco
6 3 (2.50%) F5
6 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.67%) Google
7 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) Infor
8 1 (0.83%) Juniper
8 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro