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 22 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	15	8	7
Rank change year-on-year	-7	-1	-6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared	13	7	13
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire	6.84%	11.11%	10.48%
As % of the Qualifications category	31.71%	36.84%	41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	4	7
10^th Percentile	£416	£238	£374
25^th Percentile	£431	£310	£381
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£463	£423	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+9.47%	-6.11%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£532	£533	£538
90^th Percentile	£570	£596	£670
West Midlands median daily rate	£475	£520	£575
% change year-on-year	-8.57%	-9.65%	+6.98%

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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	41	19	31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire	21.58%	30.16%	25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	6	10
10^th Percentile	£140	£195	£331
25^th Percentile	£294	£238	£374
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£400	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+18.75%	-5.88%	-15.00%
75^th Percentile	£748	£486	£476
90^th Percentile	£944	£568	£618
West Midlands median daily rate	£470	£513	£538
% change year-on-year	-8.29%	-4.65%	+2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	9	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	£34.66
25^th Percentile	£19.11	£29.00	£35.76
Median hourly rate	£19.95	£30.00	£38.22
Median % change year-on-year	-33.50%	-21.50%	+66.15%
75^th Percentile	£20.79	£40.25	£41.30
90^th Percentile	-	£40.85	£42.77
West Midlands median hourly rate	£30.92	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+22.92%	-28.14%	+12.90%

Security Cleared 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 Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Security Cleared Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Staffordshire

Security Cleared Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Security Cleared 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 22 October 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	-2	4	£463	-17.41%	1
Stafford	-6	1	-	-	2
Security Cleared West Midlands

Security Cleared Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Security Cleared also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Staffordshire region with a requirement for Security Cleared.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SC Cleared	84.6%	11
2	Oracle	69.2%	9
3	Oracle Fusion	61.5%	8
4	Stakeholder Management	38.5%	5
5	Mentoring	30.8%	4
6	JIRA	23.1%	3
6	Microsoft	23.1%	3
6	REST	23.1%	3
6	SQL	23.1%	3
10	Acceptance Criteria	15.4%	2
10	Business Intelligence	15.4%	2
10	Continuous Improvement	15.4%	2
10	Cutover Planning	15.4%	2
10	Data Analysis	15.4%	2
10	Data Cleansing	15.4%	2
10	Data Extraction	15.4%	2
10	Data Mapping	15.4%	2
10	Data Migration	15.4%	2
10	Data Quality	15.4%	2
10	Defect Management	15.4%	2
10	ERP	15.4%	2
10	Error Analysis	15.4%	2
10	ETL	15.4%	2
10	Integration Patterns	15.4%	2
10	Kalman Filter	15.4%	2
10	Microsoft Excel	15.4%	2
10	Migration	15.4%	2
10	Oracle BI Publisher	15.4%	2
10	Oracle Reports	15.4%	2
10	PL/SQL	15.4%	2

Security Cleared Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SC Cleared	84.6%	11
2	ACCA	7.7%	1
2	CCAB	7.7%	1
2	CIMA	7.7%	1