Security Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 221 382 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.41% 19.68% 14.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.00% 60.25% 54.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 252 238
10th Percentile £278 £300 £355
25th Percentile £434 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £660 £553 £646
90th Percentile £700 £661 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £18.32 £13.25 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.58 £14.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.98% -26.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £55.49 £18.00 £48.42
90th Percentile £71.00 £28.20 £66.00
England median hourly rate £55.52 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.46% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 417 634 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.96% 32.66% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 401 394
10th Percentile £150 £263 £313
25th Percentile £298 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham -5 66 £615 +64.00% 57
Warwickshire +33 58 £513 -8.89% 16
Shropshire -2 40 £520 +1.36% 7
Worcestershire 0 17 £700 +27.27% 11
Herefordshire +1 14 £700 +8.53% 7
Solihull +1 11 £420 +12.00% 2
Coventry +10 4 £523 +4.50% 6
Wolverhampton - 4 £336 - 3
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.88%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) Apache
3 6 (2.71%) IIS
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.90%) SAS
5 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.45%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.45%) SAP EP
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.03%) Azure
2 27 (12.22%) AWS
3 10 (4.52%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.07%) SaaS
5 8 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.26%) AWS KMS
8 5 (2.26%) IaaS
8 5 (2.26%) Route 53
9 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.36%) GCP
10 3 (1.36%) PaaS
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.79%) WAN
2 14 (6.33%) VPN
3 12 (5.43%) IPsec
3 12 (5.43%) MPLS
4 11 (4.98%) BGP
5 9 (4.07%) Firewall
6 5 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.36%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.36%) LAN
7 3 (1.36%) Network Security
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.90%) SSL
9 1 (0.45%) ATM
9 1 (0.45%) DHCP
9 1 (0.45%) DNS
9 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.45%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) OSPF
9 1 (0.45%) SDH
9 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.71%) Big Data
4 6 (2.71%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.26%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.36%) MySQL
6 3 (1.36%) Power BI
7 2 (0.90%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (9.50%) JIRA
2 14 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.43%) Git
4 10 (4.52%) GitLab
5 8 (3.62%) JUnit
5 8 (3.62%) Maven
6 6 (2.71%) Mockito
6 6 (2.71%) MSI
7 3 (1.36%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.90%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.90%) jMock
8 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) JBehave
9 1 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 72 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.74%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.43%) Legal
5 4 (1.81%) Finance
6 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.45%) Automotive
7 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.45%) Law
7 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Police
7 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (14.93%) Architect
2 20 (9.05%) Analyst
3 16 (7.24%) Developer
3 16 (7.24%) Support Engineer
4 13 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 12 (5.43%) Senior
6 11 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (4.98%) Security Architect
7 10 (4.52%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) Administrator
9 8 (3.62%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.17%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 7 (3.17%) Applications Architect
10 7 (3.17%) Engagement Manager
10 7 (3.17%) Network Support
10 7 (3.17%) Network Support Engineer
10 7 (3.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) Web Services
2 11 (4.98%) HTML
3 8 (3.62%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.62%) REST
3 8 (3.62%) Spring
3 8 (3.62%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.17%) Middleware
5 6 (2.71%) .NET
5 6 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (2.71%) SOAP
5 6 (2.71%) Software Packaging
6 5 (2.26%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (2.26%) JPA
6 5 (2.26%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.81%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.81%) PySpark
7 4 (1.81%) RESTful
7 4 (1.81%) Spring Batch
7 4 (1.81%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.24%) PKI
2 14 (6.33%) SCADA
3 9 (4.07%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.07%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.17%) CSOC
4 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.26%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.26%) IoT
7 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.90%) Replication
8 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.74%) Windows
2 28 (12.67%) Linux
3 12 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.52%) VMS
5 9 (4.07%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.17%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.36%) Unix
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
9 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (20.36%) Agile
2 40 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (13.57%) DevOps
4 18 (8.14%) Project Management
5 17 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 17 (7.69%) ITIL
5 17 (7.69%) Migration
6 15 (6.79%) Microservices
7 13 (5.88%) Analytics
7 13 (5.88%) Containerisation
7 13 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 13 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (5.88%) SIEM
8 12 (5.43%) Network Monitoring
9 11 (4.98%) ITSM
9 11 (4.98%) Service Management
9 11 (4.98%) Software Delivery
9 11 (4.98%) Software Engineering
10 10 (4.52%) Incident Management
10 10 (4.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.03%) SQL
2 28 (12.67%) Python
3 23 (10.41%) PowerShell
4 17 (7.69%) Java
5 16 (7.24%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.17%) C#
7 6 (2.71%) Bash
8 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.36%) Groovy
9 3 (1.36%) Ruby
9 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.90%) ABAP
10 2 (0.90%) Go
10 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.90%) Perl
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (79.19%) SC Cleared
2 29 (13.12%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.88%) Degree
4 9 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.26%) CISSP
6 5 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) OCP
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.90%) CCNP
8 2 (0.90%) CISA
8 2 (0.90%) CISM
8 2 (0.90%) GIAC
8 2 (0.90%) RHCE
8 2 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.07%) QA
2 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.26%) SLA
4 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.36%) NCSC
5 3 (1.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.50%) Active Directory
2 20 (9.05%) Docker
3 18 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.36%) Postfix
4 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.45%) Firmware
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (10.86%) Ansible
2 20 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.05%) Terraform
3 6 (2.71%) Grafana
4 5 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.81%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.36%) logstash
6 3 (1.36%) Opsview
6 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.90%) Kibana
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.90%) Nessus
7 2 (0.90%) SCCM
7 2 (0.90%) SELinux
8 1 (0.45%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.45%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) QRadar
8 1 (0.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.45%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.50%) VMware
3 18 (8.14%) Cisco
4 13 (5.88%) Dell
4 13 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.43%) SolarWinds
6 11 (4.98%) HP
6 11 (4.98%) Juniper
6 11 (4.98%) Oracle
7 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 9 (4.07%) Splunk
8 8 (3.62%) Broadcom
8 8 (3.62%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.62%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.62%) SAP
9 7 (3.17%) F5
9 7 (3.17%) Foundry
9 7 (3.17%) Tanium
10 6 (2.71%) Denodo
10 6 (2.71%) Dynatrace