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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 97 72 107
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.60% 13.93% 14.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.89% 48.98% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 55 68
10th Percentile £380 £150 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +43.75% -32.63%
75th Percentile £575 £697 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £472 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -10.10% +8.25% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £17.98 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +34.62% +5.77%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £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% -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 180 147 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.67% 28.43% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 107 110
10th Percentile £213 £148 £263
25th Percentile £384 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £514 £431
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +19.19% -16.87%
75th Percentile £541 £639 £550
90th Percentile £634 £700 £664
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 14
10th Percentile £14.95 £24.31 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.70 £33.01 £15.81
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% +97.43% +51.19%
75th Percentile £19.67 £55.75 £28.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.70 £48.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £25.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +110.00% -8.26% +39.74%

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 19 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 19 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 (17.53%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.03%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 24 (24.74%) Azure
3 16 (16.49%) GitHub
4 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
4 11 (11.34%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.31%) GCP
6 9 (9.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (9.28%) AWS KMS
7 7 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (7.22%) Route 53
8 4 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.09%) OCI
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (2.06%) IaaS
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) BGP
3 3 (3.09%) Firewall
3 3 (3.09%) LAN
3 3 (3.09%) MPLS
3 3 (3.09%) OSPF
3 3 (3.09%) VPN
4 2 (2.06%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.06%) VLAN
4 2 (2.06%) WLAN
4 2 (2.06%) X.25
5 1 (1.03%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.03%) IPsec
5 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.06%) Tableau
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.03%) JasperReports
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Jenkins
2 19 (19.59%) Git
3 18 (18.56%) JUnit
4 16 (16.49%) JIRA
5 14 (14.43%) Selenium
6 13 (13.40%) GitLab
7 11 (11.34%) Cucumber
7 11 (11.34%) JMeter
8 10 (10.31%) WebDriver
9 7 (7.22%) Maven
9 7 (7.22%) Mockito
9 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
10 4 (4.12%) DbUnit
10 4 (4.12%) jMock
10 4 (4.12%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.12%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.06%) Gatling
12 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 36 (37.11%) Public Sector
2 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Legal
4 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Military
5 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Finance
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (15.46%) Senior
2 12 (12.37%) Architect
2 12 (12.37%) Tester
3 10 (10.31%) Analyst
3 10 (10.31%) Developer
4 9 (9.28%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.28%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Consultant
6 7 (7.22%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (7.22%) Senior Tester
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.62%) Spring
2 10 (10.31%) Spring Boot
2 10 (10.31%) WireMock
3 9 (9.28%) Spring Cloud
4 8 (8.25%) REST
5 7 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (7.22%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.22%) Hibernate
5 7 (7.22%) JPA
5 7 (7.22%) Node.js
5 7 (7.22%) SOAP
5 7 (7.22%) Spring Batch
5 7 (7.22%) Spring Integration
5 7 (7.22%) Web Services
6 4 (4.12%) Kafka
6 4 (4.12%) PowerMock
7 3 (3.09%) Playwright
8 2 (2.06%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.06%) RESTful
8 2 (2.06%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.22%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.12%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.06%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Photography
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) Agile
2 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.74%) DevOps
4 21 (21.65%) Microservices
5 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (18.56%) TDD
7 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (17.53%) Validation
8 15 (15.46%) BDD
8 15 (15.46%) Observability
8 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.40%) Test Strategy
10 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (12.37%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (12.37%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (10.31%) Load Testing
11 10 (10.31%) Performance Testing
12 8 (8.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.43%) Java
2 13 (13.40%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) Python
4 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.03%) Bash
6 1 (1.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.03%) R
6 1 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 78 (80.41%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.09%) CCNP
3 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.09%) CISSP
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) CCNA
4 2 (2.06%) CISM
4 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) CCIE
5 1 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.19%) NIST
2 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.09%) GRC
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
4 2 (2.06%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) P3O
5 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (23.71%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Postfix
3 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.03%) etcd
4 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.62%) Grafana
2 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.19%) Terraform
5 4 (4.12%) Ansible
6 1 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.03%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (7.22%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) Splunk
3 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.15%) VMware
4 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.12%) SAP
5 3 (3.09%) Cisco
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.06%) Dell
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Arista
7 1 (1.03%) Canon
7 1 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.03%) Tenable
7 1 (1.03%) Zscaler