Security Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 400 309 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.24% 13.88% 9.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.44% 52.20% 48.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 191 240
10th Percentile £311 £356 £356
25th Percentile £363 £488 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 1
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £20.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% +59.27% -13.33%
75th Percentile £25.88 £43.13 -
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.84% +20.00% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 651 592 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.95% 26.59% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 354 510
10th Percentile £298 £313 £268
25th Percentile £363 £414 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £567
90th Percentile £679 £700 £650
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 10
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.18
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.31 £13.13
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +13.04% +7.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £20.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024. 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 +4 104 £400 -32.63% 57
Shropshire +3 87 £510 -5.56% 11
Solihull +5 61 £375 +7.14% 13
Warwickshire +20 56 £627 +9.12% 15
Herefordshire -1 38 £634 -2.50% 6
Worcestershire 0 24 £550 -8.33% 11
Staffordshire -7 8 £369 +1.45% 34
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 9 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.00%) CMS
3 7 (1.75%) CICS
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.75%) SAS
4 5 (1.25%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Revit
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (4.50%) Azure
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (0.50%) AWS
4 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (0.50%) IaaS
4 2 (0.50%) OCI
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.25%) PaaS
5 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.25%) SaaS
5 1 (0.25%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 81 (20.25%) WAN
2 79 (19.75%) MPLS
3 73 (18.25%) IPsec
4 64 (16.00%) BGP
5 48 (12.00%) Junos
6 45 (11.25%) VPN
7 29 (7.25%) Firewall
8 25 (6.25%) Network Security
9 20 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 15 (3.75%) SD-WAN
11 13 (3.25%) LAN
12 12 (3.00%) DNS
13 8 (2.00%) TCP/IP
14 7 (1.75%) DHCP
14 7 (1.75%) NX-OS
15 6 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
16 5 (1.25%) Internet
16 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
17 4 (1.00%) Ethernet
17 4 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.50%) MySQL
2 17 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 17 (4.25%) Big Data
3 9 (2.25%) DB2
4 8 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.75%) IDMS
6 6 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) Metadata
9 1 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.25%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (10.50%) PVCS
1 42 (10.50%) Visual Studio
2 34 (8.50%) Git
3 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 67 (16.75%) Public Sector
2 34 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (6.75%) Social Skills
4 20 (5.00%) Finance
5 14 (3.50%) Legal
6 10 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.75%) Games
8 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.75%) Military
8 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Electronics
9 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Marketing
9 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.25%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (12.75%) Analyst
2 49 (12.25%) Programmer
3 46 (11.50%) C Programmer
4 42 (10.50%) Architect
5 34 (8.50%) SOC Analyst
6 33 (8.25%) Network Engineer
7 32 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) Network Support
9 24 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support
10 23 (5.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 18 (4.50%) Consultant
11 18 (4.50%) Network Architect
12 14 (3.50%) Lead
12 14 (3.50%) Senior
13 13 (3.25%) Developer
13 13 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.00%) 2nd Line Support
14 12 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.75%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (2.50%) YAML
3 8 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.25%) LDAP
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.50%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.25%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.00%) PKI
2 33 (8.25%) Cyber Defence
3 21 (5.25%) Distributed Applications
3 21 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.75%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.50%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 8 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
8 7 (1.75%) SCADA
9 6 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.25%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.25%) Replication
11 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.00%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.75%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (17.00%) Windows
2 66 (16.50%) Linux
3 23 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.50%) Unix
5 21 (5.25%) Android
5 21 (5.25%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.50%) Mac OS X
7 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.75%) zOS
8 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (15.75%) SIEM
3 41 (10.25%) Load Balancing
4 38 (9.50%) Security Operations
5 37 (9.25%) Analytics
6 33 (8.25%) Agile
7 32 (8.00%) Software Engineering
8 30 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 29 (7.25%) Configuration Management
10 27 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (6.00%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (6.00%) DevOps
11 24 (6.00%) Incident Management
11 24 (6.00%) Information Security
11 24 (6.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (5.75%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (5.75%) Validation
13 22 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (5.50%) Network Design
13 22 (5.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.50%) C
2 43 (10.75%) PL/SQL
3 17 (4.25%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.25%) C++
5 12 (3.00%) SQL
6 9 (2.25%) COBOL
7 7 (1.75%) C#
7 7 (1.75%) CLIST
7 7 (1.75%) Java
7 7 (1.75%) REXX
7 7 (1.75%) SELCOPY
8 4 (1.00%) R
9 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.50%) Python
10 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.25%) ProC
10 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 260 (65.00%) SC Cleared
2 70 (17.50%) DV Cleared
3 24 (6.00%) Degree
4 18 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.50%) CCNP
8 9 (2.25%) CCNA
9 6 (1.50%) CISSP
10 5 (1.25%) BC Cleared
10 5 (1.25%) JNCIS
10 5 (1.25%) OSCP
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CEH
13 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.50%) PMP
13 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.00%) NIST
2 17 (4.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (2.75%) QA
4 10 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.50%) GDPR
4 10 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.00%) SLA
6 5 (1.25%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.25%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GPG13
System Software
1 32 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.50%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.25%) vSphere
5 5 (1.25%) iptables
6 4 (1.00%) VMFS
7 1 (0.25%) Docker
7 1 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.50%) SCCM
2 17 (4.25%) Grafana
3 14 (3.50%) Ansible
3 14 (3.50%) Terraform
4 11 (2.75%) Progress Chef
5 10 (2.50%) Puppet
5 10 (2.50%) Salt
6 8 (2.00%) Kibana
6 8 (2.00%) logstash
7 7 (1.75%) CSIRT
7 7 (1.75%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.25%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (19.75%) Juniper
2 41 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.25%) VMware
3 34 (8.50%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.75%) Cisco
5 20 (5.00%) Denodo
6 18 (4.50%) Talend
7 10 (2.50%) CA
7 10 (2.50%) IBM
7 10 (2.50%) Oracle
8 8 (2.00%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.75%) Apple
9 7 (1.75%) LogRhythm
9 7 (1.75%) SAP
9 7 (1.75%) Syncsort
10 5 (1.25%) Darktrace
10 5 (1.25%) FireEye
10 5 (1.25%) Splunk
10 5 (1.25%) Veeam
11 4 (1.00%) Samsung