SC Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 399 401 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.14% 4.52% 3.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.96% 11.33% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 240 234 161
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,377 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,438 £46,250 £38,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.97% -11.48%
75th Percentile £62,200 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

SC 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,078 3,539 3,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.26% 39.91% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,892 1,246 1,771
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +2 262 £55,000 -8.33% 87
East Midlands -9 137 £47,250 -10.00% 36
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 28 (7.02%) ArcGIS
1 28 (7.02%) GeoServer
2 15 (3.76%) IIS
3 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 4 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (1.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.50%) Simulink
3 5 (1.25%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.00%) EPLAN
4 4 (1.00%) Sketch
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 117 (29.32%) Azure
2 66 (16.54%) AWS
3 19 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.01%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.01%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.50%) GCP
8 6 (1.50%) Miro
9 5 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.00%) dbt
10 4 (1.00%) Figma
10 4 (1.00%) Heroku
10 4 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (15.04%) WAN
2 52 (13.03%) Firewall
3 34 (8.52%) SD-WAN
4 28 (7.02%) MPLS
5 27 (6.77%) IPsec
6 20 (5.01%) Wireless
7 14 (3.51%) DNS
8 13 (3.26%) BGP
9 12 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.51%) Network Security
11 7 (1.75%) LAN
12 6 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (1.50%) DHCP
12 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.25%) VSAN
14 4 (1.00%) SAN
14 4 (1.00%) SSL
14 4 (1.00%) VPN
15 3 (0.75%) 3GPP
15 3 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.02%) GIS
1 28 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
1 28 (7.02%) QGIS
2 24 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.25%) Power BI
3 5 (1.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.01%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (3.01%) GitLab
3 11 (2.76%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.50%) Git
5 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) Appium
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) JUnit
6 1 (0.25%) PVCS
6 1 (0.25%) Selenium
6 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.25%) TestNG
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (7.27%) Finance
4 19 (4.76%) Retail
5 17 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.51%) Military
6 14 (3.51%) Police
7 12 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.26%) Electronics
10 4 (1.00%) Legal
11 3 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Turkish Language
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 101 (25.31%) Senior
2 63 (15.79%) Network Engineer
3 48 (12.03%) Architect
4 39 (9.77%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.27%) Developer
5 33 (8.27%) Lead
6 32 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (6.02%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (5.76%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 11 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (2.76%) Senior Network Engineer
11 11 (2.76%) WAN Engineer
12 10 (2.51%) Analyst
12 10 (2.51%) IP Architect
13 8 (2.01%) Designer
14 7 (1.75%) Server Support
14 7 (1.75%) Vulnerability Researcher
14 7 (1.75%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.27%) .NET
1 37 (9.27%) React
2 28 (7.02%) Leaflet
2 28 (7.02%) OpenLayers
2 28 (7.02%) PostGIS
3 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
4 24 (6.02%) CSS
5 15 (3.76%) REST
5 15 (3.76%) WebRTC
6 12 (3.01%) 802.1X
7 9 (2.26%) RESTful
7 9 (2.26%) SOAP
8 7 (1.75%) HTML
9 6 (1.50%) Django
9 6 (1.50%) Node.js
10 5 (1.25%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.00%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.75%) Express.js
12 3 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.76%) Clustering
4 13 (3.26%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.51%) Operational Technology
7 9 (2.26%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.75%) CMDB
9 7 (1.75%) PKI
10 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.25%) SCADA
11 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.00%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.00%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.75%) IBM Mainframe
13 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.02%) Windows
2 22 (5.51%) Windows Server
3 21 (5.26%) Linux
4 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.00%) Android
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.75%) zOS
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.82%) Agile
2 79 (19.80%) Actionable Insight
3 71 (17.79%) DevOps
4 65 (16.29%) Software Engineering
5 54 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (10.53%) ITIL
8 40 (10.03%) Project Management
9 34 (8.52%) Validation
10 33 (8.27%) Mentoring
10 33 (8.27%) Systems Engineering
11 28 (7.02%) Change Management
11 28 (7.02%) Project Delivery
11 28 (7.02%) Service Management
11 28 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (7.02%) Web Development
12 26 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
14 22 (5.51%) Load Balancing
15 20 (5.01%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.54%) JavaScript
1 58 (14.54%) Python
2 22 (5.51%) C#
3 19 (4.76%) SQL
4 17 (4.26%) MATLAB
5 15 (3.76%) Java
5 15 (3.76%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.01%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.25%) C
8 3 (0.75%) C++
9 2 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.25%) R
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 399 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.29%) Degree
3 41 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (5.01%) CCNA
6 16 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.76%) CCNP
8 12 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.01%) CCSA
11 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.25%) HND
13 5 (1.25%) MCSA
14 4 (1.00%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.26%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 8 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.25%) NIST
4 5 (1.25%) NIST 800
4 5 (1.25%) WCAG
5 4 (1.00%) PMO
5 4 (1.00%) SLA
6 3 (0.75%) COBIT
6 3 (0.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 26 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.01%) vSphere
4 7 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.00%) Docker
5 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.26%) SCCM
2 7 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.50%) SCOM
4 5 (1.25%) Terraform
4 5 (1.25%) VxRail
5 4 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 3 (0.75%) Nagios
6 3 (0.75%) OpenView
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.03%) Cisco
3 46 (11.53%) Juniper
4 39 (9.77%) VMware
5 28 (7.02%) ESRI
6 22 (5.51%) CheckPoint
7 15 (3.76%) Aruba
8 13 (3.26%) Meraki
9 12 (3.01%) Dell
9 12 (3.01%) Fortinet
10 11 (2.76%) Oracle
11 9 (2.26%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.75%) HP
12 7 (1.75%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.25%) EMC
13 5 (1.25%) IFS
14 4 (1.00%) F5
14 4 (1.00%) Sparx
15 3 (0.75%) Databricks
15 3 (0.75%) Infoblox