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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 111 101 81
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.17% 18.26% 11.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.95% 59.41% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 38
10th Percentile £379 £159 £263
25th Percentile £425 £281 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +8.57% -24.57%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £628 £605 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -8.93% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 3
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.40
25th Percentile £40.55 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +34.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £20.34
90th Percentile - £41.49 £24.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +234.58% -14.23% -20.00%

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 202 170 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.15% 30.74% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 116 87
10th Percentile £213 £150 £263
25th Percentile £374 £263 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £492
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.90% -6.38%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £600
90th Percentile £665 £600 £718
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -6.20% -3.66% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 8
10th Percentile £16.03 £18.65 £13.78
25th Percentile £22.17 - £18.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -22.39% +31.42%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.58 £51.56
90th Percentile - £49.10 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +75.00% -12.96% +33.59%

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

Security Cleared
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 13 August 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 13 August 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 12 (10.81%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.90%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.90%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.90%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.90%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.90%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.90%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.90%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.14%) AWS
2 21 (18.92%) Azure
3 20 (18.02%) GitHub
4 16 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (9.91%) GCP
6 8 (7.21%) OCI
7 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.50%) AWS KMS
9 4 (3.60%) Route 53
9 4 (3.60%) SaaS
9 4 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.70%) Serverless
10 3 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) WAN
2 4 (3.60%) WLAN
3 3 (2.70%) BGP
3 3 (2.70%) BIG-IP
3 3 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.70%) OSPF
3 3 (2.70%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.70%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.80%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.80%) LAN
5 1 (0.90%) DNS
5 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.80%) Metadata
4 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.90%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.90%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.90%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.92%) GitLab
3 16 (14.41%) Git
4 15 (13.51%) JUnit
5 14 (12.61%) Selenium
6 12 (10.81%) JIRA
7 11 (9.91%) Cucumber
7 11 (9.91%) JMeter
7 11 (9.91%) WebDriver
8 5 (4.50%) Mockito
9 4 (3.60%) Maven
9 4 (3.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.70%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.70%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.80%) Gatling
12 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.90%) DbUnit
12 1 (0.90%) jMock
12 1 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (28.83%) Public Sector
2 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.31%) Legal
4 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.50%) Finance
5 5 (4.50%) Military
5 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.90%) Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (20.72%) Senior
2 18 (16.22%) Consultant
3 13 (11.71%) Developer
4 11 (9.91%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.01%) Tester
6 8 (7.21%) Automation Tester
6 8 (7.21%) Lead
7 7 (6.31%) Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (6.31%) Senior Tester
8 6 (5.41%) Architect
9 5 (4.50%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.50%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.50%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) VMware Consultant
10 4 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.02%) Spring
2 11 (9.91%) WireMock
3 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.41%) Kafka
4 6 (5.41%) Node.js
5 5 (4.50%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (4.50%) REST
5 5 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (4.50%) Web Services
6 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.60%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.60%) JPA
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.60%) Playwright
6 4 (3.60%) SOAP
6 4 (3.60%) Spring Batch
6 4 (3.60%) Spring Integration
7 3 (2.70%) Django
8 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.90%) CMDB
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.90%) Photography
7 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) PropTech
7 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.53%) Agile
2 31 (27.93%) CI/CD
3 26 (23.42%) DevOps
4 25 (22.52%) Microservices
5 24 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.12%) TDD
6 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
6 19 (17.12%) Validation
7 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.41%) BDD
9 16 (14.41%) Observability
10 14 (12.61%) End-to-End Testing
10 14 (12.61%) Test Strategy
11 13 (11.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (11.71%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
13 11 (9.91%) Load Testing
14 10 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.41%) Java
2 10 (9.01%) Python
3 9 (8.11%) SQL
4 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.90%) ABAP
5 1 (0.90%) Bash
5 1 (0.90%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) Go
5 1 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (81.98%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.60%) CISSP
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.80%) CISM
4 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) CCIE
5 1 (0.90%) CCNP
5 1 (0.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) NIST
2 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) GRC
2 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.60%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) NCSC
4 3 (2.70%) PMO
5 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.90%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.90%) P3O
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (24.32%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.50%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.50%) vSphere
4 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.90%) etcd
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.92%) Grafana
3 18 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 11 (9.91%) Terraform
5 9 (8.11%) Ansible
6 5 (4.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) VMware
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.41%) Oracle
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
4 5 (4.50%) Veeam
5 4 (3.60%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.70%) Arista
6 3 (2.70%) Aruba
6 3 (2.70%) F5
6 3 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.70%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) Dell
8 1 (0.90%) HP
8 1 (0.90%) Infor
8 1 (0.90%) Trend Micro