Security Cleared Contracts in Shropshire

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 40 85 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 24.39% 69.11% 49.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.73% 96.59% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 62 29
10th Percentile £401 £339 £465
25th Percentile £435 £358 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £466 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -13.66% +6.93%
75th Percentile £539 £519 £553
90th Percentile £589 £538 £576
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -6.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +79.64% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £14.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year +34.79% -32.38% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 55 88 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 33.54% 71.54% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 34
10th Percentile £375 £336 £465
25th Percentile £403 £358 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £548
90th Percentile £552 £538 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £503 £540
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.81% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.61% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.37 £20.71
% change year-on-year -1.22% +46.68% +3.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Shropshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Shropshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Shropshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Shropshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Shropshire

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Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Telford -3 34 £513 +9.11% 18
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West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.50%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.50%) SAP EP
3 1 (2.50%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) SaaS
3 5 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Big Data
1 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 8 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (10.00%) PVCS
4 3 (7.50%) Git
5 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.50%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.50%) JBehave
6 1 (2.50%) Selenium
6 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Engagement Manager
2 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.00%) DBA
5 2 (5.00%) Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Designer
6 1 (2.50%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) JIRA Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) SAP PI
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
2 2 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
2 10 (25.00%) DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) Analytics
3 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.50%) Agile Project Management
4 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
4 7 (17.50%) Project Management
5 6 (15.00%) Observability
5 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.00%) Software Delivery
6 4 (10.00%) Statistics
7 3 (7.50%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (7.50%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (7.50%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.50%) Workflow
8 2 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) ABAP
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) Korn
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (95.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.00%) OCP
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Ansible
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Opsview
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Dynatrace
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) OneLogin
3 3 (7.50%) PagerDuty
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Ariba
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) KANA
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Trillium
5 1 (2.50%) webMethods