Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 5 15 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.47% 11.54% 26.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 44.12% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 35
10th Percentile £251 £351 £410
25th Percentile £341 £374 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% -20.45% +57.71%
75th Percentile £568 £507 £588
90th Percentile £610 £653 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.61
25th Percentile - - £18.35
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £45.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.75% -29.62% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20 34 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 33.90% 26.15% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 43
10th Percentile £110 £298 £405
25th Percentile £148 £365 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% -22.73% +51.72%
75th Percentile £526 £476 £588
90th Percentile £620 £600 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile - £34.66 £15.47
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.76 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.22 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% +66.15% -
75th Percentile £40.25 £41.30 £28.75
90th Percentile £40.85 £42.77 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.09 £38.75 £27.25
% change year-on-year -24.93% +42.20% +36.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Security Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Stoke-on-Trent -1 2 £560 +28.00% 20
Tamworth - 1 - - 1
Stafford - 1 £190 - 3
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West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Development Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Application Security
1 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Development
1 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (20.00%) Data Security
1 1 (20.00%) Key Management
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (20.00%) Siemens
1 1 (20.00%) Wonderware