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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 116 97 88
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.62% 17.80% 12.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.86% 57.40% 59.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 41
10th Percentile £384 £156 £263
25th Percentile £425 £275 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -22.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £609 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -8.54% -2.32% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.48
25th Percentile £40.55 - £13.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.96% +34.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.17
90th Percentile - £44.00 £22.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £22.01 £18.00
% change year-on-year +186.85% +22.28% -34.55%

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 204 169 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.20% 31.01% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 116 83
10th Percentile £213 £150 £263
25th Percentile £379 £254 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £619
90th Percentile £659 £602 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £498 £519
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.14% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 9
10th Percentile £16.03 £18.62 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.23 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -16.13% +21.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £49.95 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year +75.00% -6.69% +16.91%

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 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 7 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 14 (12.07%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.86%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.86%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.86%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.86%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.86%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.86%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.86%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.86%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.21%) AWS
2 22 (18.97%) Azure
3 20 (17.24%) GitHub
4 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.48%) GCP
6 9 (7.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.76%) OCI
7 8 (6.90%) AWS KMS
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (5.17%) Route 53
9 6 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.45%) SaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Serverless
11 3 (2.59%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) WAN
2 5 (4.31%) BGP
3 4 (3.45%) Firewall
3 4 (3.45%) OSPF
3 4 (3.45%) WLAN
4 3 (2.59%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.59%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.59%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.72%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.72%) LAN
5 2 (1.72%) MPLS
5 2 (1.72%) VPN
6 1 (0.86%) DNS
6 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.86%) IPsec
6 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.72%) Power BI
4 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.86%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.86%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 27 (23.28%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.10%) GitLab
3 20 (17.24%) Git
4 17 (14.66%) JUnit
5 14 (12.07%) JIRA
5 14 (12.07%) Selenium
6 11 (9.48%) Cucumber
6 11 (9.48%) JMeter
6 11 (9.48%) WebDriver
7 7 (6.03%) Mockito
8 6 (5.17%) Maven
8 6 (5.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.59%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.59%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.72%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.72%) Gatling
10 2 (1.72%) jMock
11 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 27 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Legal
4 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Finance
6 4 (3.45%) Military
7 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (18.97%) Senior
2 19 (16.38%) Consultant
3 15 (12.93%) Developer
4 13 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Tester
6 9 (7.76%) Lead
7 8 (6.90%) Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) Automation Tester
8 7 (6.03%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (6.03%) Senior Tester
9 5 (4.31%) Architect
9 5 (4.31%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.31%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.97%) Spring
2 11 (9.48%) WireMock
3 10 (8.62%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.90%) Node.js
5 7 (6.03%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (6.03%) REST
5 7 (6.03%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (6.03%) Web Services
6 6 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.17%) Hibernate
6 6 (5.17%) JPA
6 6 (5.17%) Kafka
6 6 (5.17%) SOAP
6 6 (5.17%) Spring Batch
6 6 (5.17%) Spring Integration
7 4 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (3.45%) Playwright
8 3 (2.59%) Django
8 3 (2.59%) RESTful
9 2 (1.72%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.62%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.86%) CMDB
8 1 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) Photography
8 1 (0.86%) PKI
8 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) PropTech
8 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
1 3 (2.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.62%) Agile
2 33 (28.45%) CI/CD
3 27 (23.28%) DevOps
3 27 (23.28%) Microservices
4 25 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (18.10%) TDD
6 19 (16.38%) Test Automation
6 19 (16.38%) Validation
7 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.79%) BDD
8 16 (13.79%) Observability
9 14 (12.07%) End-to-End Testing
9 14 (12.07%) Test Strategy
10 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
11 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.48%) Load Testing
13 10 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.52%) Java
2 11 (9.48%) SQL
3 10 (8.62%) Python
4 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.86%) ABAP
5 1 (0.86%) Bash
5 1 (0.86%) Bicep
5 1 (0.86%) Go
5 1 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (81.90%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.45%) CISSP
4 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.72%) CCNP
5 2 (1.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CCIE
6 1 (0.86%) CCNA
6 1 (0.86%) Degree
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) NIST
2 5 (4.31%) GRC
2 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) NCSC
3 4 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (1.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.86%) P3O
5 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.31%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.31%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.31%) vSphere
4 2 (1.72%) Postfix
5 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.86%) etcd
5 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (19.83%) Grafana
2 22 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 18 (15.52%) Prometheus
4 11 (9.48%) Terraform
5 9 (7.76%) Ansible
6 5 (4.31%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.86%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) VMware
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (5.17%) SAP
5 5 (4.31%) Veeam
6 3 (2.59%) Arista
6 3 (2.59%) Aruba
6 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.59%) F5
6 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.72%) Cisco
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.86%) Dell
8 1 (0.86%) HP
8 1 (0.86%) Juniper
8 1 (0.86%) Trend Micro