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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 113 62 133
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.22% 11.90% 17.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.25% 48.44% 54.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 46 88
10th Percentile £263 £403 £263
25th Percentile £400 £483 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £689 £388
Median % change year-on-year -29.97% +77.81% -26.19%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £475
90th Percentile £619 - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £551 £450
% change year-on-year -10.62% +22.44% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 7
10th Percentile £16.09 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.75 - £13.63
Median hourly rate £18.40 £18.51 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +32.21% -16.93%
75th Percentile £18.60 - £67.50
90th Percentile £23.58 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.04 £35.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -34.18% +22.81% +43.56%

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 194 128 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.69% 24.57% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 94 142
10th Percentile £258 £160 £258
25th Percentile £380 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £546 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +32.26% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £689 £534
90th Percentile £619 £700 £634
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £507 £450
% change year-on-year -3.69% +12.77% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 17
10th Percentile £14.61 £20.61 £13.70
25th Percentile £16.30 £23.76 £22.33
Median hourly rate £18.40 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +11.54% +48.57%
75th Percentile £18.60 £40.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £24.01 £47.80 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.73 £23.60 £28.50
% change year-on-year -12.16% -17.19% +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 10 March 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 10 March 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 (12.39%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) SAS
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.77%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.89%) AWS
2 26 (23.01%) Azure
3 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
3 11 (9.73%) GitHub
4 9 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (7.96%) AWS KMS
4 9 (7.96%) GCP
5 8 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (5.31%) Route 53
7 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.65%) Serverless
9 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) VPN
2 12 (10.62%) BGP
2 12 (10.62%) MPLS
2 12 (10.62%) WAN
3 10 (8.85%) IPsec
4 8 (7.08%) Firewall
5 4 (3.54%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.65%) DNS
6 3 (2.65%) NX-OS
6 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.77%) DKIM
7 2 (1.77%) DMARC
7 2 (1.77%) LAN
7 2 (1.77%) OSPF
7 2 (1.77%) SMTP
7 2 (1.77%) VLAN
7 2 (1.77%) X.25
8 1 (0.88%) Network Security
8 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.31%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.77%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.77%) Power BI
4 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.77%) Tableau
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.88%) GIS
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Git
1 19 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.27%) JIRA
3 14 (12.39%) JUnit
4 10 (8.85%) Selenium
5 9 (7.96%) GitLab
6 8 (7.08%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.08%) JMeter
7 7 (6.19%) WebDriver
8 6 (5.31%) Maven
8 6 (5.31%) Mockito
8 6 (5.31%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.54%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.54%) jMock
10 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.77%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.88%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 39 (34.51%) Public Sector
2 36 (31.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Legal
4 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.54%) Military
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Finance
7 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.16%) Analyst
2 11 (9.73%) Architect
2 11 (9.73%) Developer
2 11 (9.73%) Senior
3 9 (7.96%) Tester
4 8 (7.08%) Java Developer
4 8 (7.08%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (6.19%) Consultant
5 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Automation Tester
6 6 (5.31%) WAN Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (3.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Senior Automation Tester
7 4 (3.54%) Senior Tester
7 4 (3.54%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) Spring
2 11 (9.73%) REST
3 8 (7.08%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.19%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (6.19%) Web Services
4 7 (6.19%) WireMock
5 6 (5.31%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (5.31%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.31%) Hibernate
5 6 (5.31%) JPA
5 6 (5.31%) Node.js
5 6 (5.31%) SOAP
5 6 (5.31%) Spring Batch
5 6 (5.31%) Spring Integration
6 4 (3.54%) PowerMock
7 3 (2.65%) Middleware
7 3 (2.65%) RESTful
8 2 (1.77%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.77%) LDAP
8 2 (1.77%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.85%) PKI
3 6 (5.31%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.65%) Handset
6 3 (2.65%) SCADA
6 3 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.77%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Replication
7 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.16%) Linux
2 12 (10.62%) Windows
3 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.77%) CentOS
4 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) CI/CD
2 26 (23.01%) Agile
3 22 (19.47%) DevOps
4 16 (14.16%) Microservices
5 15 (13.27%) Containerisation
6 14 (12.39%) TDD
7 13 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (10.62%) Knowledge Transfer
9 11 (9.73%) BDD
9 11 (9.73%) Validation
10 10 (8.85%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.96%) Observability
11 9 (7.96%) Test Strategy
12 8 (7.08%) SIEM
13 7 (6.19%) End-to-End Testing
13 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (6.19%) Load Testing
13 7 (6.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.93%) Python
2 11 (9.73%) Java
2 11 (9.73%) SQL
3 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.42%) Bash
5 2 (1.77%) Go
5 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (83.19%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.54%) Degree
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) CCNA
5 2 (1.77%) CCNP
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.77%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) NCSC
4 3 (2.65%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (17.70%) Docker
2 6 (5.31%) Postfix
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.65%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (14.16%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.27%) Grafana
3 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.96%) Terraform
4 3 (2.65%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.77%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 11 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Cisco
2 10 (8.85%) Juniper
3 8 (7.08%) Splunk
4 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.31%) CyberArk
5 6 (5.31%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (4.42%) VMware
7 4 (3.54%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.65%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.65%) Dell
8 3 (2.65%) Google
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle
9 2 (1.77%) F5
9 2 (1.77%) Isilon
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.77%) Tenable
10 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.88%) Foundry
10 1 (0.88%) HP