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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 13 3
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +35
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 138 68 131
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 18.88% 9.39% 17.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.16% 42.24% 55.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 35 77
10th Percentile £258 £404 £340
25th Percentile £307 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £465
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +29.03% +4.49%
75th Percentile £547 £700 £606
90th Percentile £615 £750 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -5.54% +4.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile - £28.58 £60.50
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 £22.17 £54.19 £68.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.69% -46.15% +242.11%

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 222 161 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.37% 22.24% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 102 142
10th Percentile £213 £165 £263
25th Percentile £325 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £595
90th Percentile £619 £736 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £23.54 £43.75
25th Percentile - £27.28 £60.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.72 £54.40 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.11% - +44.33%

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 9 December 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 9 December 2025.

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 20 (14.49%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.46%) AWS
2 24 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 23 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 23 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 21 (15.22%) Azure
5 20 (14.49%) AWS KMS
6 12 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (7.25%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (6.52%) Route 53
9 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.17%) GitHub
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.45%) GCP
10 2 (1.45%) IaaS
10 2 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.45%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (21.74%) Firewall
2 29 (21.01%) VPN
3 25 (18.12%) DNS
4 23 (16.67%) WAN
5 22 (15.94%) BGP
5 22 (15.94%) IPsec
5 22 (15.94%) MPLS
6 21 (15.22%) SMTP
7 19 (13.77%) FTP
7 19 (13.77%) HTTP
7 19 (13.77%) SSH
8 9 (6.52%) IMAP
8 9 (6.52%) OpenLDAP
9 7 (5.07%) TCP/IP
10 5 (3.62%) Junos
11 4 (2.90%) SSL
11 4 (2.90%) Unified Communications
12 3 (2.17%) Network Security
12 3 (2.17%) NX-OS
12 3 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.45%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.72%) GIS
5 1 (0.72%) Metadata
5 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (18.84%) Git
1 26 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.67%) JIRA
3 19 (13.77%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.72%) TestDirector
General
1 52 (37.68%) Public Sector
2 39 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.52%) Legal
3 9 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Military
6 4 (2.90%) Finance
6 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.45%) Electronics
7 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (13.04%) Analyst
3 18 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (12.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 12 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Senior
8 9 (6.52%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (6.52%) WAN Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Consultant
11 4 (2.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.97%) LDAP
2 5 (3.62%) REST
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.72%) Middleware
3 1 (0.72%) PySpark
3 1 (0.72%) pytest
3 1 (0.72%) RESTful
3 1 (0.72%) Web Services
3 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) PKI
2 21 (15.22%) Replication
3 15 (10.87%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.17%) Handset
5 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.17%) SCADA
5 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.74%) Linux
2 28 (20.29%) Windows
3 19 (13.77%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (13.77%) VMS
4 11 (7.97%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.45%) CentOS
6 2 (1.45%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.91%) DevOps
2 22 (15.94%) Change Management
2 22 (15.94%) CI/CD
3 20 (14.49%) Cloud Security
4 19 (13.77%) Configuration Management
4 19 (13.77%) Patch Management
4 19 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (13.04%) Load Balancing
6 15 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.42%) Knowledge Transfer
8 12 (8.70%) Break/Fix
9 11 (7.97%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (7.25%) Network Design
11 9 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (5.80%) Agile
12 8 (5.80%) High Availability
12 8 (5.80%) ITSM
12 8 (5.80%) SIEM
13 7 (5.07%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (4.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.36%) Python
2 24 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.77%) Groovy
4 15 (10.87%) SQL
5 11 (7.97%) Java
6 10 (7.25%) Perl
7 8 (5.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.45%) Go
8 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (80.43%) SC Cleared
2 19 (13.77%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) Degree
4 11 (7.97%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.52%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.17%) CISSP
7 3 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.45%) OCP
8 2 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CEH
9 1 (0.72%) CISM
9 1 (0.72%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CPIM
9 1 (0.72%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.72%) GCIH
9 1 (0.72%) GIAC
9 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (21.74%) Docker
2 19 (13.77%) DFS Replication
3 14 (10.14%) Active Directory
4 11 (7.97%) Postfix
5 9 (6.52%) Dovecot
5 9 (6.52%) Squid
6 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.72%) Snort
Systems Management
1 31 (22.46%) Terraform
2 20 (14.49%) Grafana
2 20 (14.49%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.52%) Nessus
3 9 (6.52%) Proxmox
4 7 (5.07%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.62%) Ansible
6 3 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.45%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.72%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Juniper
2 23 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 21 (15.22%) Cisco
4 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (5.80%) VMware
7 5 (3.62%) F5
7 5 (3.62%) Splunk
8 4 (2.90%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.90%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.90%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.17%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.45%) Dell
10 2 (1.45%) Google
10 2 (1.45%) IBM
10 2 (1.45%) Isilon
10 2 (1.45%) Oracle
10 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.45%) SAP
10 2 (1.45%) Tenable