Security Cleared Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.28% 5.74% 18.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.09% 25.93% 72.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 20
10th Percentile £505 £298 £311
25th Percentile £523 £313 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £384 £444
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% -13.47% +0.12%
75th Percentile £603 £415 £606
90th Percentile £624 £498 £635
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -6.77% +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 £25.15 £14.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +79.64% -41.91% +85.40%

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 22 27 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 36.07% 22.13% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 29
10th Percentile - £191 £323
25th Percentile £140 £225 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £299 £475
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% -37.05% +26.67%
75th Percentile £160 £395 £575
90th Percentile £590 £436 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £34.63 £13.61
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.67 £18.35
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +45.45% +96.43%
75th Percentile £37.31 £49.69 £28.75
90th Percentile £39.23 £60.38 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year +5.26% +40.03% +40.36%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

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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 2 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
Stoke-on-Trent -2 2 £560 +45.68% 38
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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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Development Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (50.00%) Data Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat