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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 115 63 134
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.31% 11.69% 17.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.50% 47.37% 54.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 46 89
10th Percentile £263 £403 £263
25th Percentile £400 £483 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £689 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.61% +72.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £475
90th Percentile £619 - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £551 £450
% change year-on-year -10.16% +22.44% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 7
10th Percentile £16.21 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.98 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +32.21% -16.93%
75th Percentile £18.67 - £67.50
90th Percentile £23.11 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% +59.09% +10.82%

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 200 133 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.15% 24.68% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 95 144
10th Percentile £222 £163 £258
25th Percentile £390 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £541 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +27.34% -13.27%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £631 £700 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -4.10% +13.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 17
10th Percentile £14.95 £20.61 £13.70
25th Percentile £16.30 £23.76 £22.33
Median hourly rate £18.40 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +11.54% +48.57%
75th Percentile £18.74 £40.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £23.86 £47.80 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £27.25
% change year-on-year -15.25% -13.39% +36.25%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 14 (12.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) SAS
2 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.74%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.35%) AWS
2 26 (22.61%) Azure
3 13 (11.30%) Amazon S3
4 11 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.70%) AWS KMS
5 10 (8.70%) GitHub
6 8 (6.96%) GCP
7 7 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.09%) Route 53
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.61%) Serverless
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.78%) VPN
2 12 (10.43%) BGP
2 12 (10.43%) MPLS
2 12 (10.43%) WAN
3 10 (8.70%) Firewall
3 10 (8.70%) IPsec
4 5 (4.35%) DNS
5 4 (3.48%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.48%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.61%) NX-OS
6 3 (2.61%) SMTP
7 2 (1.74%) DKIM
7 2 (1.74%) DMARC
7 2 (1.74%) LAN
7 2 (1.74%) Network Security
7 2 (1.74%) OSPF
7 2 (1.74%) SSL
7 2 (1.74%) VLAN
7 2 (1.74%) X.25
8 1 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.74%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.74%) Power BI
5 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.74%) Tableau
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.87%) GIS
6 1 (0.87%) Metadata
6 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Git
1 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.04%) JIRA
3 13 (11.30%) JUnit
4 9 (7.83%) GitLab
4 9 (7.83%) Selenium
5 7 (6.09%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.09%) JMeter
6 6 (5.22%) Maven
6 6 (5.22%) Mockito
6 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.22%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.48%) DbUnit
7 4 (3.48%) jMock
8 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.74%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.87%) Gatling
9 1 (0.87%) Postman
General
1 40 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 36 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Legal
4 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Military
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Finance
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (13.91%) Analyst
2 11 (9.57%) Architect
2 11 (9.57%) Developer
2 11 (9.57%) Senior
3 8 (6.96%) Java Developer
3 8 (6.96%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (6.96%) Tester
4 7 (6.09%) Consultant
4 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (5.22%) WAN Engineer
6 5 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 5 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Designer
8 3 (2.61%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Spring
2 11 (9.57%) REST
3 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.09%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (6.09%) Web Services
5 6 (5.22%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.22%) Hibernate
5 6 (5.22%) JPA
5 6 (5.22%) Node.js
5 6 (5.22%) SOAP
5 6 (5.22%) Spring Batch
5 6 (5.22%) Spring Integration
5 6 (5.22%) WireMock
6 4 (3.48%) PowerMock
7 3 (2.61%) LDAP
7 3 (2.61%) Middleware
7 3 (2.61%) RESTful
8 2 (1.74%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.74%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.70%) PKI
3 7 (6.09%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.61%) Handset
6 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 3 (2.61%) SCADA
6 3 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.74%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.78%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Windows
3 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.87%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.35%) CI/CD
2 25 (21.74%) Agile
3 24 (20.87%) DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
4 15 (13.04%) Microservices
5 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (11.30%) TDD
6 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.43%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (8.70%) BDD
7 10 (8.70%) Validation
8 9 (7.83%) Test Automation
9 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.96%) Observability
9 8 (6.96%) SIEM
9 8 (6.96%) Test Strategy
10 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (6.09%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (6.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) Python
2 12 (10.43%) SQL
3 11 (9.57%) Java
4 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.22%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) Go
6 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) Groovy
7 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (82.61%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) CCNA
6 2 (1.74%) CCNP
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.35%) NIST
3 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) NCSC
4 3 (2.61%) QA
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) GRC
5 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Docker
2 7 (6.09%) Postfix
3 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.87%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.87%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (13.04%) Grafana
1 15 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.57%) Terraform
3 9 (7.83%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.61%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.87%) Nessus
7 1 (0.87%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) Cisco
2 10 (8.70%) Juniper
3 8 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.96%) Splunk
4 7 (6.09%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (5.22%) CyberArk
6 5 (4.35%) VMware
7 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.61%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.61%) Dell
8 3 (2.61%) F5
8 3 (2.61%) Google
8 3 (2.61%) Oracle
9 2 (1.74%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.74%) Isilon
9 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.74%) Tenable
10 1 (0.87%) Foundry