Security Cleared Contracts 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 72 107 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.85% 14.50% 12.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.65% 55.15% 51.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 68 53
10th Percentile £150 £263 £375
25th Percentile £413 £324 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -33.33% +39.53%
75th Percentile £697 £538 £700
90th Percentile £700 £675 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +8.25% -11.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +5.77% -
75th Percentile - £14.00 £17.34
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year +96.98% -32.38% +59.27%

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 148 194 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.46% 26.29% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 110 98
10th Percentile £148 £263 £231
25th Percentile £262 £325 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £431 £519
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -16.87% +15.28%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £647
90th Percentile £700 £664 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £536
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.38% +12.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 18
10th Percentile £24.31 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £33.01 £15.81 £12.70
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.33 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +97.43% +51.19% -16.25%
75th Percentile £55.75 £28.31 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.70 £48.00 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £27.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -8.26% +39.74% +12.85%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) IIS
2 4 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.11%) AWS
2 6 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.78%) IaaS
3 2 (2.78%) OCI
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.39%) GCP
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) BGP
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
1 3 (4.17%) IPsec
1 3 (4.17%) iSCSI
1 3 (4.17%) MPLS
1 3 (4.17%) VPN
1 3 (4.17%) WAN
2 2 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.39%) DHCP
3 1 (1.39%) DNS
3 1 (1.39%) Frame Relay
3 1 (1.39%) HTTP
3 1 (1.39%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.39%) SSL
3 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.39%) VLAN
3 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.78%) Metadata
3 2 (2.78%) Tableau
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.39%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
1 5 (6.94%) MSI
2 3 (4.17%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.11%) Legal
4 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Finance
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Police
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (6.94%) Analyst
2 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
2 5 (6.94%) Senior
2 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
3 4 (5.56%) Consultant
3 4 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 3 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (4.17%) Applications Manager
4 3 (4.17%) Developer
4 3 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (2.78%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (2.78%) Applications Development Manager
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (2.78%) Incident Analyst
5 2 (2.78%) Lead Architect
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (2.78%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) .NET
1 6 (8.33%) HTML
2 5 (6.94%) Middleware
2 5 (6.94%) Software Packaging
3 3 (4.17%) Web Services
4 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.39%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.39%) CSS
5 1 (1.39%) EntireX
5 1 (1.39%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.39%) LDAP
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth
5 1 (1.39%) OpenID
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.39%) REST
5 1 (1.39%) SAML
5 1 (1.39%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) Spring
5 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) SCADA
2 7 (9.72%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.78%) PKI
5 2 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 6 (8.33%) Linux
4 3 (4.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) CentOS
5 1 (1.39%) Debian
5 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Agile
2 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 9 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (11.11%) Project Management
4 8 (11.11%) Service Management
5 7 (9.72%) Performance Metrics
6 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (6.94%) ITIL
7 5 (6.94%) PRINCE2
7 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (6.94%) Software Delivery
7 5 (6.94%) Software Deployment
7 5 (6.94%) Software Distribution
8 4 (5.56%) Data Analysis
8 4 (5.56%) DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Line Management
8 4 (5.56%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.67%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) SQL
4 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.94%) Bash
6 4 (5.56%) C#
7 3 (4.17%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) Java
8 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (69.44%) SC Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.78%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CCIE
7 1 (1.39%) CCNP
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CITP
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.39%) OCP
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) Docker
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.17%) Terraform
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.39%) logstash
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.39%) Nessus
5 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Puppet
5 1 (1.39%) QRadar
5 1 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (1.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) VMware
2 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) Dell
3 8 (11.11%) HP
4 7 (9.72%) Foundry
5 5 (6.94%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.94%) Tanium
6 4 (5.56%) Cisco
6 4 (5.56%) Juniper
7 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.17%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.78%) Apple
8 2 (2.78%) Oracle
9 1 (1.39%) IBM
9 1 (1.39%) Meraki
9 1 (1.39%) SAP
9 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.39%) Software AG
9 1 (1.39%) Sophos
9 1 (1.39%) webMethods