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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 9 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 10.11% 1.67% 7.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.14% 5.56% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £303 - £289
25th Percentile £325 £493 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £369
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +34.21% +1.45%
75th Percentile £456 £498 £410
90th Percentile £532 - £482
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -10.67% +1.16% -6.06%

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 28 18 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 31.46% 30.00% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 11
10th Percentile £174 - £200
25th Percentile £300 £140 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £150 £300
Median % change year-on-year +173.33% -50.00% -36.84%
75th Percentile £449 £153 £389
90th Percentile £656 £464 £420
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £34.63
25th Percentile £26.25 £29.00 £35.67
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £28.75 £37.50 £49.69
90th Percentile - £40.95 £60.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +74.16% +5.77% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +3 6 £400 -19.19% 2
Lichfield - 2 - -
Stafford - 1 - - 4
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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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP MDG
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Boomi
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Pega Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
2 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) BAPI
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) BCP
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ACCA
2 1 (11.11%) CCAB
2 1 (11.11%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 22301
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Pega
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow