SC Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 67 69 106
Rank change year-on-year +2 +37 -54
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 262 261 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.35% 4.30% 2.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.77% 10.48% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 210 201 85
10th Percentile £26,700 £35,375 £32,200
25th Percentile £43,227 £46,214 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £62,425 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,051 2,491 2,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.24% 41.01% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 964 1,250
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,575 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.30% -3.61%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -18 123 £52,500 -16.00% 41
Warwickshire +55 39 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Staffordshire -27 37 £55,000 +27.17% 21
Solihull +11 22 £60,000 - 3
Worcestershire -19 18 £55,000 -6.38% 8
Herefordshire +1 7 £50,000 +19.05% 1
Shropshire -19 6 £60,000 - 1
Coventry +25 2 £43,072 -21.69% 3
SC Cleared
England

SC 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 15 (5.73%) IIS
2 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.53%) Appian
4 4 (1.53%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.91%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.53%) EPLAN
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.24%) Azure
2 27 (10.31%) AWS
3 19 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.29%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.53%) dbt
9 4 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (0.76%) GitHub
10 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.76%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 60 (22.90%) WAN
2 50 (19.08%) Firewall
3 34 (12.98%) SD-WAN
4 28 (10.69%) MPLS
5 27 (10.31%) IPsec
6 20 (7.63%) Wireless
7 12 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.44%) BGP
8 9 (3.44%) Network Security
9 8 (3.05%) DNS
10 7 (2.67%) LAN
11 6 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (1.91%) VSAN
13 4 (1.53%) DHCP
13 4 (1.53%) SAN
13 4 (1.53%) VPN
14 3 (1.15%) 3GPP
14 3 (1.15%) 5G
14 3 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
14 3 (1.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.15%) Power BI
3 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.82%) GitLab
2 2 (0.76%) Git
2 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.38%) Appium
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) JUnit
3 1 (0.38%) PVCS
3 1 (0.38%) Selenium
3 1 (0.38%) TestNG
3 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (12.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (11.83%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.40%) Finance
4 17 (6.49%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.34%) Police
5 14 (5.34%) Retail
6 10 (3.82%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Electronics
9 3 (1.15%) Military
9 3 (1.15%) Turkish Language
10 2 (0.76%) Local Government
10 2 (0.76%) Welsh Language
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (24.05%) Network Engineer
2 54 (20.61%) Senior
3 26 (9.92%) Developer
4 22 (8.40%) Architect
5 19 (7.25%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.49%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (5.73%) Lead
8 13 (4.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 11 (4.20%) Senior Network Engineer
9 11 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.20%) WAN Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) IP Architect
11 7 (2.67%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (2.67%) Server Support
11 7 (2.67%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Technical Manager
11 7 (2.67%) Vulnerability Researcher
11 7 (2.67%) Windows Server Support
12 6 (2.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.73%) REST
1 15 (5.73%) WebRTC
2 12 (4.58%) 802.1X
3 11 (4.20%) .NET
4 9 (3.44%) React
4 9 (3.44%) RESTful
4 9 (3.44%) SOAP
5 2 (0.76%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.76%) Django
5 2 (0.76%) Node.js
5 2 (0.76%) RSS
6 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.38%) Kafka
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.38%) Spring
6 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.92%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.11%) Virtual Team
3 15 (5.73%) Clustering
4 13 (4.96%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.82%) Operational Technology
6 9 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.44%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.67%) CMDB
9 5 (1.91%) PKI
9 5 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.91%) SCADA
10 4 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.76%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.31%) Windows
2 20 (7.63%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.05%) Linux
4 4 (1.53%) Android
4 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (20.23%) Agile
2 50 (19.08%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (13.74%) ITIL
4 33 (12.60%) Software Engineering
5 31 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (11.07%) Mentoring
7 28 (10.69%) DevOps
8 27 (10.31%) Project Delivery
9 24 (9.16%) Project Management
10 23 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (8.78%) Validation
11 20 (7.63%) Change Management
11 20 (7.63%) Configuration Management
12 19 (7.25%) Service Management
13 18 (6.87%) Load Balancing
13 18 (6.87%) Systems Engineering
14 17 (6.49%) Customer Requirements
15 16 (6.11%) Customer Service
16 15 (5.73%) CI/CD
16 15 (5.73%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.87%) SQL
2 17 (6.49%) Python
3 15 (5.73%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.82%) Java
4 10 (3.82%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.53%) C
7 2 (0.76%) Bash
7 2 (0.76%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 262 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.74%) DV Cleared
3 34 (12.98%) Degree
4 23 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (6.87%) CCNA
6 15 (5.73%) CCNP
7 9 (3.44%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.05%) CCSA
9 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.91%) HND
10 5 (1.91%) MCSA
11 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.76%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.76%) CCDA
13 2 (0.76%) CCIE
13 2 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.96%) Def Stans
2 8 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (3.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.91%) NIST
3 5 (1.91%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) PMO
6 2 (0.76%) QA
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (9.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.82%) vSphere
4 7 (2.67%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.15%) Docker
6 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (4.58%) SCCM
2 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.29%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.91%) VxRail
5 4 (1.53%) SCOM
6 3 (1.15%) Nagios
7 2 (0.76%) Ansible
7 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Terraform
8 1 (0.38%) Grafana
8 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.08%) Cisco
3 46 (17.56%) Juniper
4 34 (12.98%) VMware
5 22 (8.40%) CheckPoint
6 15 (5.73%) Aruba
7 13 (4.96%) Meraki
8 12 (4.58%) Dell
8 12 (4.58%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.67%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.91%) EMC
10 5 (1.91%) IFS
10 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.53%) F5
11 4 (1.53%) HP
12 3 (1.15%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.15%) Oracle
13 2 (0.76%) Avaya
13 2 (0.76%) IBM
13 2 (0.76%) NEC