Security Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Security Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 290 517 525
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.18% 18.79% 15.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.33% 57.70% 54.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 330 357
10th Percentile £200 £290 £328
25th Percentile £409 £361 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +9.09%
75th Percentile £639 £585 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 32
10th Percentile £18.46 £12.75 £11.08
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £12.33
Median hourly rate £24.50 £17.86 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +37.18% -13.74% +3.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.06 £59.38
90th Percentile £62.00 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.52 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.46% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 565 896 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.57% 32.57% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 555 616
10th Percentile £150 £227 £254
25th Percentile £275 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £516
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.71% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 71 76
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.00 £14.30
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.65 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +32.35% -6.88%
75th Percentile £31.38 £43.13 £26.64
90th Percentile £59.00 £56.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -2 221 £537 +19.33% 136
East Midlands -3 69 £475 -13.64% 61
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (4.48%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) Apache
3 6 (2.07%) IIS
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (0.69%) Primavera
1 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.72%) Azure
2 30 (10.34%) AWS
3 10 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 9 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.10%) SaaS
5 8 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.72%) AWS KMS
8 5 (1.72%) IaaS
8 5 (1.72%) Route 53
9 4 (1.38%) GCP
9 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.03%) PaaS
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.55%) Firewall
2 17 (5.86%) IPsec
2 17 (5.86%) WAN
3 14 (4.83%) VPN
4 12 (4.14%) MPLS
5 11 (3.79%) BGP
5 11 (3.79%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (2.41%) DNS
7 6 (2.07%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (1.72%) LAN
8 5 (1.72%) OSPF
8 5 (1.72%) VLAN
9 4 (1.38%) HSRP
9 4 (1.38%) Network Security
10 3 (1.03%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.03%) SAN
11 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.07%) Big Data
3 6 (2.07%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.03%) MySQL
5 3 (1.03%) Power BI
6 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.69%) Tableau
7 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.34%) Flink
7 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.24%) JIRA
2 15 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.48%) Git
4 10 (3.45%) GitLab
5 9 (3.10%) Maven
6 8 (2.76%) JUnit
7 6 (2.07%) Mockito
7 6 (2.07%) MSI
8 3 (1.03%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.69%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.69%) jMock
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.34%) JBehave
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 19 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.14%) Legal
5 9 (3.10%) Finance
6 6 (2.07%) Law
7 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Military
8 2 (0.69%) Police
8 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.34%) Automotive
9 1 (0.34%) Electronics
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (17.59%) Architect
2 22 (7.59%) Analyst
3 20 (6.90%) Developer
4 18 (6.21%) Support Engineer
5 15 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (4.48%) Data Engineer
6 13 (4.48%) Senior
7 12 (4.14%) Consultant
7 12 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (3.79%) Network Architect
8 11 (3.79%) Network Engineer
8 11 (3.79%) Security Architect
9 10 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (3.45%) Administrator
9 10 (3.45%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.76%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.41%) Applications Architect
11 7 (2.41%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.14%) HTML
1 12 (4.14%) Web Services
2 10 (3.45%) REST
3 8 (2.76%) Hibernate
3 8 (2.76%) Spring
3 8 (2.76%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.41%) .NET
4 7 (2.41%) Middleware
4 7 (2.41%) SOAP
5 6 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (2.07%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (1.72%) JPA
6 5 (1.72%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.38%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.38%) PySpark
7 4 (1.38%) RESTful
7 4 (1.38%) Spring Batch
7 4 (1.38%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.52%) PKI
2 14 (4.83%) SCADA
3 11 (3.79%) Driving Licence
4 10 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.10%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.41%) CSOC
8 6 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.72%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.72%) IoT
10 4 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.38%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.69%) Replication
12 2 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
13 1 (0.34%) CCTV
13 1 (0.34%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.62%) Windows
2 32 (11.03%) Linux
3 17 (5.86%) Windows 10
4 12 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.45%) VMS
6 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.38%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.38%) Windows Vista
8 3 (1.03%) Debian
8 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.03%) Unix
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (17.59%) Agile
2 49 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (11.03%) DevOps
4 23 (7.93%) Migration
5 22 (7.59%) ITIL
5 22 (7.59%) Project Management
6 19 (6.55%) CI/CD
7 16 (5.52%) Break/Fix
7 16 (5.52%) Microservices
8 14 (4.83%) Analytics
8 14 (4.83%) Containerisation
8 14 (4.83%) Decision-Making
9 13 (4.48%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (4.48%) SIEM
10 12 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (4.14%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (4.14%) Service Management
10 12 (4.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (3.79%) Project Delivery
11 11 (3.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.03%) Python
1 32 (11.03%) SQL
2 25 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.86%) Java
3 17 (5.86%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.76%) C#
5 7 (2.41%) Bash
6 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.03%) Groovy
7 3 (1.03%) Ruby
7 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.69%) ABAP
8 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.69%) Go
8 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.69%) Perl
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) R
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (82.07%) SC Cleared
2 32 (11.03%) DV Cleared
3 15 (5.17%) Degree
4 10 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.07%) CCNP
6 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.72%) CISSP
7 5 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.03%) OCP
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.69%) CISA
10 2 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.69%) GIAC
10 2 (0.69%) ISACA
10 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.79%) QA
2 6 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.07%) SLA
3 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (9.66%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.59%) Docker
4 9 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.03%) Postfix
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (8.62%) Ansible
2 22 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.24%) Terraform
4 7 (2.41%) SCCM
5 6 (2.07%) Grafana
6 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.38%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.03%) logstash
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.03%) Opsview
8 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.69%) Kibana
9 2 (0.69%) Nessus
9 2 (0.69%) SCOM
9 2 (0.69%) SELinux
10 1 (0.34%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.34%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (12.07%) VMware
2 30 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.66%) Cisco
4 22 (7.59%) SolarWinds
5 17 (5.86%) F5
6 16 (5.52%) Dell
6 16 (5.52%) Juniper
7 14 (4.83%) HP
7 14 (4.83%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.14%) Oracle
9 11 (3.79%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.45%) SAP
11 9 (3.10%) Splunk
12 8 (2.76%) Broadcom
12 8 (2.76%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.76%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.41%) Foundry
13 7 (2.41%) Tanium
14 6 (2.07%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.07%) Dynatrace