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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 128 57 118
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 17.49% 8.27% 16.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.81% 36.54% 53.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 32 68
10th Percentile £257 £415 £325
25th Percentile £301 £503 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £606 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +34.72% -
75th Percentile £525 £700 £595
90th Percentile £613 £750 £683
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -8.77% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile £18.40 £28.58 £42.50
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 £22.17 £54.19 £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.26 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -36.41% -46.15% +242.11%

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 214 156 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.23% 22.64% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 104 129
10th Percentile £213 £165 £262
25th Percentile £325 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £447
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +17.58% -10.70%
75th Percentile £545 £656 £588
90th Percentile £619 £734 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -1.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £16.23 £23.54 £20.13
25th Percentile £17.58 £27.28 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +225.00%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.36 £54.40 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £30.75 £34.75
% change year-on-year -30.21% -11.51% +73.75%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 17 (13.28%) Confluence
2 9 (7.03%) nginx
3 2 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.66%) AWS
2 22 (17.19%) Amazon S3
3 21 (16.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (16.41%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (16.41%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (16.41%) Azure
3 21 (16.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (14.06%) AWS KMS
5 12 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (7.03%) Route 53
8 8 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.56%) GCP
10 2 (1.56%) GitHub
10 2 (1.56%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.56%) Serverless
11 1 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (22.66%) VPN
2 28 (21.88%) Firewall
3 23 (17.97%) DNS
3 23 (17.97%) WAN
4 22 (17.19%) BGP
4 22 (17.19%) IPsec
4 22 (17.19%) MPLS
5 19 (14.84%) SMTP
6 17 (13.28%) FTP
6 17 (13.28%) HTTP
6 17 (13.28%) SSH
7 9 (7.03%) IMAP
7 9 (7.03%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (5.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.91%) Junos
10 4 (3.13%) SSL
10 4 (3.13%) Unified Communications
11 3 (2.34%) Network Security
11 3 (2.34%) NX-OS
11 3 (2.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.28%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.56%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.78%) GIS
5 1 (0.78%) Metadata
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Power BI
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
1 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.84%) JIRA
3 17 (13.28%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) TestDirector
General
1 46 (35.94%) Public Sector
2 38 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.03%) Legal
3 9 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Military
5 2 (1.56%) Finance
5 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.78%) Banking
6 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.84%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (14.06%) Analyst
3 18 (14.06%) Support Engineer
4 17 (13.28%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (13.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (10.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Senior
8 9 (7.03%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (7.03%) WAN Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Consultant
11 6 (4.69%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.59%) LDAP
2 5 (3.91%) REST
3 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) Middleware
3 1 (0.78%) PySpark
3 1 (0.78%) pytest
3 1 (0.78%) RESTful
3 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.19%) PKI
2 19 (14.84%) Replication
3 14 (10.94%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.34%) Handset
5 3 (2.34%) SCADA
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.09%) Linux
1 27 (21.09%) Windows
2 17 (13.28%) Amazon Linux
2 17 (13.28%) VMS
3 11 (8.59%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.56%) CentOS
5 2 (1.56%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.44%) DevOps
2 22 (17.19%) CI/CD
3 20 (15.63%) Change Management
4 18 (14.06%) Cloud Security
4 18 (14.06%) Load Balancing
5 17 (13.28%) Configuration Management
5 17 (13.28%) Patch Management
5 17 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.16%) Knowledge Transfer
8 10 (7.81%) Break/Fix
8 10 (7.81%) Network Design
8 10 (7.81%) SIEM
9 9 (7.03%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.25%) ITSM
11 7 (5.47%) Agile
11 7 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.47%) Threat Detection
12 6 (4.69%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.56%) Python
2 22 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 17 (13.28%) Groovy
4 12 (9.38%) SQL
5 8 (6.25%) Java
5 8 (6.25%) Perl
6 7 (5.47%) Bash
7 2 (1.56%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.78%) Ruby
8 1 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (81.25%) SC Cleared
2 14 (10.94%) Degree
2 14 (10.94%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.03%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.34%) CISSP
6 3 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.78%) CEH
7 1 (0.78%) CISM
7 1 (0.78%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) CPIM
7 1 (0.78%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.78%) GCIH
7 1 (0.78%) GIAC
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.34%) NIST
3 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (21.09%) Docker
2 17 (13.28%) DFS Replication
3 12 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.59%) Postfix
5 9 (7.03%) Dovecot
5 9 (7.03%) Squid
6 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.34%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.78%) Snort
8 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (21.88%) Terraform
2 18 (14.06%) Grafana
2 18 (14.06%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.03%) Nessus
3 9 (7.03%) Proxmox
4 6 (4.69%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.91%) Ansible
6 3 (2.34%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (17.97%) Juniper
2 21 (16.41%) ServiceNow
3 17 (13.28%) Cisco
4 15 (11.72%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.03%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (5.47%) Splunk
6 7 (5.47%) VMware
7 5 (3.91%) F5
8 4 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.13%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.34%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.56%) Dell
10 2 (1.56%) Google
10 2 (1.56%) IBM
10 2 (1.56%) Isilon
10 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.56%) Tenable
11 1 (0.78%) Databricks
11 1 (0.78%) Fortinet