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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 110 61 117
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.24% 11.82% 15.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.45% 46.21% 53.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 49 80
10th Percentile £271 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £688 £375
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +83.33% -34.07%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £505
90th Percentile £624 - £663
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £545 £450
% change year-on-year -10.09% +21.11% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £17.75 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £18.60 - £14.00
90th Percentile £23.58 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £18.51 £14.00
% change year-on-year +183.63% +32.21% -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 179 132 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.91% 25.58% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 99 130
10th Percentile £259 £148 £262
25th Percentile £400 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £632 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £492 £450
% change year-on-year -1.32% +9.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 14
10th Percentile £13.94 £20.61 £13.48
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.76 £16.08
Median hourly rate £18.40 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +11.54% +40.54%
75th Percentile £19.51 £40.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.29 £47.80 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £24.09 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.40% -15.47% +42.50%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 (15.45%) Confluence
2 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) SAS
3 2 (1.82%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.91%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.36%) AWS
1 29 (26.36%) Azure
2 13 (11.82%) GitHub
3 11 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (9.09%) GCP
4 10 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.18%) AWS KMS
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (6.36%) Route 53
7 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.73%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.82%) IaaS
9 2 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) VPN
2 7 (6.36%) WAN
3 6 (5.45%) BGP
3 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 6 (5.45%) MPLS
4 4 (3.64%) IPsec
4 4 (3.64%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.73%) LAN
5 3 (2.73%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.82%) DKIM
6 2 (1.82%) DMARC
6 2 (1.82%) DNS
6 2 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.82%) OSPF
6 2 (1.82%) SMTP
6 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.82%) VLAN
6 2 (1.82%) X.25
7 1 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.36%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.82%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.82%) Power BI
4 2 (1.82%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.91%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.91%) Metadata
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Git
2 20 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.36%) JIRA
3 18 (16.36%) JUnit
4 13 (11.82%) Selenium
5 11 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 11 (10.00%) JMeter
6 10 (9.09%) GitLab
6 10 (9.09%) WebDriver
7 7 (6.36%) Maven
7 7 (6.36%) Mockito
7 7 (6.36%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.64%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.64%) jMock
9 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.82%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.91%) Gatling
10 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 41 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 36 (32.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Legal
5 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Military
6 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.91%) Finance
7 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.64%) Senior
2 13 (11.82%) Analyst
2 13 (11.82%) Developer
3 12 (10.91%) Architect
3 12 (10.91%) Tester
4 9 (8.18%) Automation Tester
4 9 (8.18%) Java Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (6.36%) Senior Tester
6 6 (5.45%) Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Test Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.73%) Field Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.27%) Spring
2 11 (10.00%) REST
3 10 (9.09%) WireMock
4 9 (8.18%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.27%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (6.36%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.36%) Hibernate
6 7 (6.36%) JPA
6 7 (6.36%) Node.js
6 7 (6.36%) SOAP
6 7 (6.36%) Spring Batch
6 7 (6.36%) Spring Integration
6 7 (6.36%) Web Services
7 4 (3.64%) PowerMock
8 3 (2.73%) Middleware
9 2 (1.82%) Kafka
9 2 (1.82%) LDAP
9 2 (1.82%) RESTful
9 2 (1.82%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (5.45%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.64%) PKI
6 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.73%) Handset
6 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.73%) SCADA
7 2 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.82%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.82%) Replication
7 2 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.91%) CMDB
8 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.73%) Linux
2 13 (11.82%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.82%) CentOS
4 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.36%) Agile
2 28 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 22 (20.00%) DevOps
4 19 (17.27%) Microservices
5 18 (16.36%) TDD
6 16 (14.55%) Validation
7 15 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (12.73%) BDD
8 14 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.73%) Observability
9 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (10.91%) Test Strategy
11 10 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (9.09%) Load Testing
12 9 (8.18%) Performance Testing
12 9 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (7.27%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.64%) Python
2 13 (11.82%) SQL
3 12 (10.91%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
7 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.91%) R
7 1 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (84.55%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.73%) CCNP
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Degree
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.82%) CCNA
6 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.91%) CCIE
7 1 (0.91%) CISSP
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.55%) NIST
3 3 (2.73%) NCSC
3 3 (2.73%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) Postfix
3 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.73%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.91%) etcd
6 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.36%) Grafana
3 12 (10.91%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.36%) Terraform
5 3 (2.73%) Ansible
5 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.91%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Cisco
2 7 (6.36%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.45%) Splunk
3 6 (5.45%) VMware
4 4 (3.64%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.64%) Juniper
4 4 (3.64%) SAP
5 3 (2.73%) Broadcom
5 3 (2.73%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.73%) Dell
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
6 2 (1.82%) Google
6 2 (1.82%) Isilon
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) Tenable
7 1 (0.91%) Foundry
7 1 (0.91%) HP
7 1 (0.91%) Infor