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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 245 391 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.41% 20.10% 13.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.96% 61.19% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 253 194
10th Percentile £300 £309 £356
25th Percentile £425 £363 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £553
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.79% +10.50%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £18.40 £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.81 £15.50
Median hourly rate £40.32 £14.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +188.02% -32.38% +59.27%
75th Percentile £54.38 £25.88 £43.13
90th Percentile £66.60 £48.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.20% -5.83% +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 454 639 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 32.85% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 409 356
10th Percentile £150 £296 £313
25th Percentile £315 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £629
90th Percentile £689 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 37 28
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £11.70
25th Percentile £18.51 £21.25 £13.31
Median hourly rate £30.29 £28.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +46.15% +13.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £57.70 £58.75 £60.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +38.36%

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

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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 2 June 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 2 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

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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 2 June 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 +1 75 £575 +43.75% 235
Warwickshire +3 62 £500 -20.50% 20
Shropshire -2 42 £514 +0.27% 291
Worcestershire 0 20 £650 +18.18% 146
Solihull 0 17 £423 +12.67% 13
Herefordshire +1 15 £700 +9.48% 9
Wolverhampton - 4 £336 - 135
Coventry - 3 £575 - 140
Staffordshire -6 1 £495 +23.75% 190
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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 14 (5.71%) Confluence
2 7 (2.86%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) IIS
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.41%) SAP EP
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.82%) Revit
1 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.29%) AWS
1 35 (14.29%) Azure
2 13 (5.31%) Amazon S3
3 12 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.27%) AWS KMS
5 8 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.27%) SaaS
6 7 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.86%) Route 53
6 7 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.45%) GCP
8 5 (2.04%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.22%) IaaS
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) VPN
1 13 (5.31%) WAN
2 12 (4.90%) MPLS
3 11 (4.49%) BGP
3 11 (4.49%) IPsec
4 10 (4.08%) Firewall
5 5 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (1.63%) DNS
7 3 (1.22%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.22%) LAN
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.82%) HTTP
8 2 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.82%) Network Security
8 2 (0.82%) SDH
8 2 (0.82%) SSL
8 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.41%) OSPF
9 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.67%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.45%) Big Data
8 5 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.04%) Power BI
9 3 (1.22%) MySQL
9 3 (1.22%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.82%) Metadata
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.82%) Tableau
11 1 (0.41%) Flink
11 1 (0.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (10.61%) JIRA
2 22 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.16%) Git
4 14 (5.71%) GitLab
5 13 (5.31%) Maven
6 12 (4.90%) JUnit
7 10 (4.08%) Mockito
8 6 (2.45%) MSI
8 6 (2.45%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.63%) DbUnit
9 4 (1.63%) jMock
10 3 (1.22%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.41%) JBehave
11 1 (0.41%) Selenium
11 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.86%) Legal
5 6 (2.45%) Finance
6 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.22%) Military
8 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.41%) Automotive
9 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (11.43%) Architect
2 21 (8.57%) Developer
3 18 (7.35%) Analyst
4 16 (6.53%) Senior
5 14 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (5.71%) Support Engineer
6 13 (5.31%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.90%) Administrator
7 12 (4.90%) Data Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (3.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) Network Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Applications Architect
9 7 (2.86%) Consultant
9 7 (2.86%) Network Support
9 7 (2.86%) Network Support Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Project Manager
9 7 (2.86%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.12%) Web Services
2 13 (5.31%) REST
2 13 (5.31%) Spring
2 13 (5.31%) Spring Boot
3 11 (4.49%) SOAP
4 10 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (4.08%) Hibernate
5 9 (3.67%) JPA
6 8 (3.27%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.27%) Bootstrap
7 7 (2.86%) HTML
7 7 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (2.45%) RESTful
8 6 (2.45%) Software Packaging
8 6 (2.45%) Spring Batch
8 6 (2.45%) Spring Integration
9 5 (2.04%) .NET
9 5 (2.04%) Middleware
9 5 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) SCADA
2 15 (6.12%) PKI
3 12 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.08%) Driving Licence
5 9 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.86%) CSOC
6 7 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.04%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.04%) IoT
8 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.22%) Replication
9 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.55%) Windows
2 37 (15.10%) Linux
3 13 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.49%) VMS
5 9 (3.67%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.67%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.04%) Unix
6 5 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.82%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Debian
9 1 (0.41%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.22%) Agile
2 46 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (14.29%) DevOps
4 21 (8.57%) Containerisation
4 21 (8.57%) ITIL
4 21 (8.57%) Project Management
5 20 (8.16%) Microservices
6 19 (7.76%) CI/CD
7 16 (6.53%) Scrum
8 15 (6.12%) Migration
9 14 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (5.31%) Analytics
10 13 (5.31%) Network Monitoring
10 13 (5.31%) Service Management
10 13 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.31%) TDD
11 12 (4.90%) ITSM
11 12 (4.90%) SIEM
11 12 (4.90%) Software Engineering
11 12 (4.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.06%) SQL
2 30 (12.24%) Python
3 25 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 24 (9.80%) Java
5 12 (4.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.27%) Bash
7 6 (2.45%) C#
8 4 (1.63%) Groovy
8 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.22%) Perl
9 3 (1.22%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) ABAP
10 2 (0.82%) Go
10 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 192 (78.37%) SC Cleared
2 36 (14.69%) DV Cleared
3 16 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (6.53%) Degree
4 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.04%) CISSP
6 5 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) OCP
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.82%) CCNA
9 2 (0.82%) CCNP
9 2 (0.82%) CISA
9 2 (0.82%) GIAC
9 2 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.49%) QA
2 7 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.45%) SLA
4 5 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.22%) NCSC
5 3 (1.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (11.84%) Docker
2 22 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.04%) Postfix
5 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.41%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (10.20%) Ansible
2 22 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.98%) Terraform
3 13 (5.31%) Grafana
4 12 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.22%) logstash
5 3 (1.22%) Opsview
5 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.82%) Kibana
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.82%) Nessus
6 2 (0.82%) Podman
6 2 (0.82%) Puppet
6 2 (0.82%) SCCM
6 2 (0.82%) SELinux
7 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.41%) QRadar
7 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) Microsoft
1 23 (9.39%) VMware
2 22 (8.98%) Cisco
3 16 (6.53%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.71%) Dell
5 13 (5.31%) HP
5 13 (5.31%) Juniper
6 12 (4.90%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.49%) Red Hat
8 10 (4.08%) Splunk
9 9 (3.67%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.67%) Oracle
9 9 (3.67%) SAP
10 8 (3.27%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.27%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.86%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.86%) F5
11 7 (2.86%) Foundry
11 7 (2.86%) Tanium