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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +36
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 135 65 128
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 20.00% 9.03% 16.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.09% 42.48% 59.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 28 65
10th Percentile £263 £393 £288
25th Percentile £363 £471 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £465
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +29.03% +3.91%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £650
90th Percentile £600 £761 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% +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 £36.46 £54.19 £68.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% -46.15% -

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 221 153 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.74% 21.25% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 88 123
10th Percentile £248 £165 £255
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £546 £678 £603
90th Percentile £614 £765 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.92% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £20.88 £43.75
25th Percentile - £22.33 £60.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% -41.44% -
75th Percentile - £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.03 £54.88 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +1.45% +42.27%

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 November 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 7 November 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 22 (16.30%) Confluence
2 9 (6.67%) nginx
3 2 (1.48%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.48%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.48%) Revit
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.93%) AWS
2 30 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 29 (21.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 29 (21.48%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (18.52%) Amazon ELB
4 25 (18.52%) AWS KMS
4 25 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (12.59%) Azure
6 12 (8.89%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.89%) Route 53
7 10 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.48%) GCP
9 2 (1.48%) GitHub
9 2 (1.48%) Serverless
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.22%) Firewall
2 27 (20.00%) DNS
2 27 (20.00%) VPN
3 22 (16.30%) WAN
4 21 (15.56%) BGP
4 21 (15.56%) FTP
4 21 (15.56%) HTTP
4 21 (15.56%) IPsec
4 21 (15.56%) MPLS
4 21 (15.56%) SMTP
4 21 (15.56%) SSH
5 9 (6.67%) IMAP
5 9 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (4.44%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.70%) Junos
8 4 (2.96%) SSL
9 3 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (2.22%) Network Security
9 3 (2.22%) Unified Communications
9 3 (2.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.74%) GIS
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (23.70%) Git
1 32 (23.70%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.52%) JIRA
3 21 (15.56%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.70%) GitLab
5 4 (2.96%) Maven
6 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.22%) DbUnit
6 3 (2.22%) jMock
6 3 (2.22%) JUnit
6 3 (2.22%) Mockito
6 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) TestDirector
General
1 57 (42.22%) Public Sector
2 35 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.44%) Finance
5 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Legal
6 4 (2.96%) Military
7 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.48%) Electronics
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (12.59%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (12.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 17 (12.59%) Support Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 12 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) Analyst
7 9 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Senior
8 8 (5.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Consultant
8 8 (5.93%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) WAN Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Developer
9 7 (5.19%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) LDAP
2 7 (5.19%) REST
3 5 (3.70%) Web Services
4 4 (2.96%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (2.96%) RESTful
4 4 (2.96%) SOAP
4 4 (2.96%) Spring
4 4 (2.96%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.22%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.22%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.22%) JPA
5 3 (2.22%) PowerMock
5 3 (2.22%) Spring Batch
5 3 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) PKI
1 21 (15.56%) Replication
2 15 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.22%) Handset
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.70%) Linux
2 28 (20.74%) Windows
3 21 (15.56%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (15.56%) VMS
4 9 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.48%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.67%) DevOps
2 23 (17.04%) Change Management
2 23 (17.04%) Cloud Security
3 21 (15.56%) Configuration Management
3 21 (15.56%) Patch Management
3 21 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 17 (12.59%) Load Balancing
6 14 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.89%) Break/Fix
8 11 (8.15%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (7.41%) Agile
9 10 (7.41%) Containerisation
9 10 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
9 10 (7.41%) Network Design
10 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.19%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.19%) High Availability
11 7 (5.19%) ITIL
11 7 (5.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.70%) Python
2 25 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.56%) Groovy
4 18 (13.33%) Java
5 17 (12.59%) SQL
6 12 (8.89%) Perl
7 7 (5.19%) Bash
8 2 (1.48%) Go
8 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (76.30%) SC Cleared
2 26 (19.26%) DV Cleared
3 15 (11.11%) Degree
4 11 (8.15%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.41%) AWS Certification
6 9 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.22%) CISSP
7 3 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.48%) OCP
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.48%) RIBA
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.74%) CISM
9 1 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.74%) GCIH
9 1 (0.74%) GIAC
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.48%) NIST
2 2 (1.48%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (26.67%) Docker
2 21 (15.56%) DFS Replication
3 16 (11.85%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.89%) Postfix
5 9 (6.67%) Dovecot
5 9 (6.67%) Squid
6 7 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.96%) vSphere
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.74%) Snort
Systems Management
1 32 (23.70%) Terraform
2 26 (19.26%) Grafana
2 26 (19.26%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.67%) Nessus
3 9 (6.67%) Proxmox
4 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.96%) Ansible
6 2 (1.48%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.74%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (20.74%) Juniper
2 23 (17.04%) ServiceNow
3 19 (14.07%) Cisco
4 12 (8.89%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.93%) VMware
6 5 (3.70%) F5
7 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.96%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.96%) Splunk
8 3 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.22%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.48%) Google
9 2 (1.48%) IBM
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle
9 2 (1.48%) SAP
10 1 (0.74%) Commvault
10 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce