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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 110 66 119
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.69% 12.77% 15.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.82% 47.83% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 79
10th Percentile £354 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £414 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £609 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +52.25% -32.63%
75th Percentile £597 £700 £538
90th Percentile £634 - £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £537 £469
% change year-on-year -11.55% +14.50% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £16.33 - -
25th Percentile £18.20 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £23.58 - £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 187 138 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.87% 26.69% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 99 129
10th Percentile £258 £148 £263
25th Percentile £405 £195 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +20.00% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £670 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £643
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 13
10th Percentile £15.29 £21.66 £13.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% +51.92% +55.22%
75th Percentile £20.90 £54.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.05 £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 7 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 7 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 (15.45%) Confluence
2 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
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 Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.91%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.09%) AWS
2 29 (26.36%) Azure
3 14 (12.73%) GitHub
4 11 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 11 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.09%) GCP
6 9 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (8.18%) AWS KMS
7 7 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (6.36%) Route 53
8 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.73%) OCI
9 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.45%) Firewall
1 6 (5.45%) WAN
2 5 (4.55%) BGP
2 5 (4.55%) VPN
3 4 (3.64%) MPLS
4 3 (2.73%) LAN
4 3 (2.73%) NX-OS
4 3 (2.73%) OSPF
5 2 (1.82%) DKIM
5 2 (1.82%) DMARC
5 2 (1.82%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.82%) IPsec
5 2 (1.82%) SMTP
5 2 (1.82%) VLAN
5 2 (1.82%) WLAN
5 2 (1.82%) X.25
6 1 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.91%) DNS
6 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
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%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.27%) Git
3 18 (16.36%) JUnit
4 17 (15.45%) JIRA
5 12 (10.91%) Selenium
6 11 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 11 (10.00%) GitLab
6 11 (10.00%) JMeter
7 10 (9.09%) WebDriver
8 7 (6.36%) Maven
8 7 (6.36%) Mockito
8 7 (6.36%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.64%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.64%) jMock
10 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.82%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.91%) Gatling
11 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 37 (33.64%) Public Sector
2 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Legal
5 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Military
6 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.82%) Finance
7 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Senior
2 14 (12.73%) Architect
3 13 (11.82%) Analyst
4 12 (10.91%) Developer
4 12 (10.91%) Tester
5 9 (8.18%) Automation Tester
5 9 (8.18%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Consultant
6 7 (6.36%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (6.36%) Senior Tester
7 4 (3.64%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.64%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.64%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.73%) CyberArk Architect
8 3 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.73%) Lead
8 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.27%) Spring
2 10 (9.09%) WireMock
3 9 (8.18%) REST
3 9 (8.18%) Spring Boot
4 8 (7.27%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (6.36%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.36%) Hibernate
5 7 (6.36%) JPA
5 7 (6.36%) Node.js
5 7 (6.36%) SOAP
5 7 (6.36%) Spring Batch
5 7 (6.36%) Spring Integration
5 7 (6.36%) Web Services
6 4 (3.64%) PowerMock
7 3 (2.73%) Middleware
8 2 (1.82%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.82%) Kafka
8 2 (1.82%) LDAP
8 2 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) SCADA
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.82%) PKI
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.73%) Linux
2 12 (10.91%) 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 28 (25.45%) Agile
2 27 (24.55%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.91%) DevOps
4 19 (17.27%) Microservices
5 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (16.36%) TDD
6 17 (15.45%) Validation
7 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.73%) BDD
8 14 (12.73%) Observability
9 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
9 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.00%) Test Strategy
12 10 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 10 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (9.09%) Load Testing
13 9 (8.18%) Performance Testing
13 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) Python
2 13 (11.82%) SQL
3 12 (10.91%) Java
4 7 (6.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.73%) 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 92 (83.64%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.73%) CCNP
3 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.73%) CISSP
3 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CCNA
4 2 (1.82%) CISM
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.91%) CCIE
5 1 (0.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.36%) NIST
2 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) GRC
3 3 (2.73%) PMO
3 3 (2.73%) QA
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) NCSC
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) P3O
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 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.91%) etcd
5 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Grafana
2 18 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.82%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.27%) Terraform
5 5 (4.55%) Ansible
6 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.91%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.27%) VMware
3 7 (6.36%) Cisco
3 7 (6.36%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.45%) Splunk
5 4 (3.64%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.64%) SAP
6 3 (2.73%) Broadcom
6 3 (2.73%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.73%) Dell
6 3 (2.73%) Oracle
7 2 (1.82%) Google
7 2 (1.82%) Isilon
7 2 (1.82%) Juniper
7 2 (1.82%) Tenable
8 1 (0.91%) Aruba
8 1 (0.91%) F5
8 1 (0.91%) Foundry
8 1 (0.91%) Infor