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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7 0 23
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 8.43% - 21.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.00% - 56.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 16
10th Percentile £303 - £298
25th Percentile £306 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.15%
75th Percentile £350 - £434
90th Percentile £421 - £500
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £545 £450
% change year-on-year -10.09% +21.11% -16.67%

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 13 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 24.10% 20.31% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 22
10th Percentile £300 - £277
25th Percentile £302 £140 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £145 £375
Median % change year-on-year +137.07% -61.33% -17.58%
75th Percentile £415 £150 £461
90th Percentile £457 £159 £568
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -1.02% +8.89% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £26.98
25th Percentile £26.25 £35.75 £32.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -8.75% +64.95%
75th Percentile £28.75 £37.25 £49.69
90th Percentile - - £60.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year -10.75% -1.12% +42.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend 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 12 April 2026.

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 12 April 2026. 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 - 4 £325 - 11
Lichfield - 3 £350 -
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West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Kong
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DocumentDB
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Pega Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SignalR
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (28.57%) Information Security
1 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) RBAC
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Pega