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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 115 61 116
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.97% 11.69% 15.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.90% 47.29% 53.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 49 79
10th Percentile £263 £158 £263
25th Percentile £425 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £688 £375
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +83.33% -36.17%
75th Percentile £578 £700 £484
90th Percentile £619 - £643
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -10.91% +22.22% -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 £39.14 £18.51 £14.00
% change year-on-year +111.43% +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 192 129 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.65% 24.71% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 98 130
10th Percentile £263 £148 £262
25th Percentile £400 £214 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £505 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +22.42% -17.50%
75th Percentile £556 £689 £538
90th Percentile £619 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £494 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% +9.78% -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 £25.08 £24.09 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.09% -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 4 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 4 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 (14.78%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) SAS
3 2 (1.74%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.87%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.09%) AWS
1 30 (26.09%) Azure
2 14 (12.17%) GitHub
3 12 (10.43%) GCP
4 11 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.83%) AWS KMS
7 8 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.22%) Route 53
9 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.61%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.61%) Serverless
10 3 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) VPN
2 9 (7.83%) WAN
3 8 (6.96%) BGP
3 8 (6.96%) MPLS
4 6 (5.22%) Firewall
4 6 (5.22%) IPsec
5 4 (3.48%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.61%) LAN
6 3 (2.61%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.74%) DKIM
7 2 (1.74%) DMARC
7 2 (1.74%) DNS
7 2 (1.74%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.74%) OSPF
7 2 (1.74%) SMTP
7 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.74%) VLAN
7 2 (1.74%) X.25
8 1 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.22%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.74%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.74%) Power BI
4 2 (1.74%) Tableau
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.87%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.87%) Metadata
5 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (18.26%) Git
1 21 (18.26%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.65%) JIRA
3 17 (14.78%) JUnit
4 13 (11.30%) Selenium
5 11 (9.57%) Cucumber
5 11 (9.57%) GitLab
5 11 (9.57%) JMeter
6 10 (8.70%) WebDriver
7 6 (5.22%) Maven
7 6 (5.22%) Mockito
7 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.48%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.48%) jMock
9 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.74%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.87%) Gatling
10 1 (0.87%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.87%) Postman
General
1 42 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 38 (33.04%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.09%) Legal
5 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Military
7 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.74%) Finance
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (12.17%) Senior
2 12 (10.43%) Analyst
2 12 (10.43%) Architect
2 12 (10.43%) Developer
2 12 (10.43%) Tester
3 9 (7.83%) Automation Tester
4 8 (6.96%) Java Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Consultant
5 7 (6.09%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (6.09%) Senior Tester
6 5 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Lead
7 4 (3.48%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) WAN Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (2.61%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.61%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) Spring
2 11 (9.57%) REST
3 10 (8.70%) WireMock
4 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.09%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (6.09%) Web Services
6 6 (5.22%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.22%) Hibernate
6 6 (5.22%) JPA
6 6 (5.22%) Node.js
6 6 (5.22%) SOAP
6 6 (5.22%) Spring Batch
6 6 (5.22%) Spring Integration
7 4 (3.48%) PowerMock
8 3 (2.61%) Middleware
8 3 (2.61%) RESTful
9 2 (1.74%) Bootstrap
9 2 (1.74%) Kafka
9 2 (1.74%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (5.22%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.22%) PKI
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.61%) Handset
6 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) SCADA
7 2 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.74%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Windows
3 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.74%) CentOS
4 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.22%) Agile
1 29 (25.22%) CI/CD
2 22 (19.13%) DevOps
3 19 (16.52%) Microservices
4 17 (14.78%) TDD
5 16 (13.91%) Containerisation
5 16 (13.91%) Validation
6 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (12.17%) BDD
7 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (12.17%) Observability
8 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
9 12 (10.43%) Test Strategy
10 10 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 10 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (8.70%) Load Testing
11 9 (7.83%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (7.83%) Performance Testing
11 9 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.78%) Python
2 12 (10.43%) SQL
3 11 (9.57%) Java
4 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.48%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) Go
6 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Ruby
7 1 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 97 (84.35%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.48%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) CCNP
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) CCNA
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) CCIE
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.35%) NIST
3 3 (2.61%) NCSC
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) GRC
4 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Postfix
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.61%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.87%) etcd
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.65%) Grafana
3 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.83%) Terraform
5 3 (2.61%) Ansible
5 3 (2.61%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.87%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Cisco
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.09%) Splunk
3 7 (6.09%) VMware
4 6 (5.22%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (5.22%) Juniper
5 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.48%) SAP
6 3 (2.61%) Broadcom
6 3 (2.61%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.61%) Dell
6 3 (2.61%) Google
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle
7 2 (1.74%) Isilon
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.74%) Tenable
8 1 (0.87%) Foundry
8 1 (0.87%) HP
8 1 (0.87%) Infor