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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 6 0 24
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 7.32% - 23.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.58% - 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 18
10th Percentile £310 - £317
25th Percentile £324 - £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.59%
75th Percentile £380 - £475
90th Percentile £433 - £523
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £551 £448
% change year-on-year -10.71% +22.99% -17.04%

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 19 12 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 23.17% 17.65% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 26
10th Percentile £220 - £287
25th Percentile £300 £140 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £150 £399
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -62.38% +8.72%
75th Percentile £415 - £494
90th Percentile £461 £202 £606
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £35.75 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +20.66% +24.74%
75th Percentile £28.75 £37.25 £42.50
90th Percentile - - £55.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.80 £28.50
% change year-on-year -1.56% -23.51% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 £338 - 6
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Kong
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DocumentDB
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Pega Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SignalR
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Pega