Security Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 42 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -26
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 462 405 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.87% 6.68% 4.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.49% 16.27% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 338 273 131
10th Percentile £26,565 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,063 £41,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% -11.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 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 2,054 2,490 2,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.08% 41.08% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 964 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 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -4.12%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,399 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +9.09% -

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
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security 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 Security Cleared within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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 -15 168 £58,800 -5.92% 55
Staffordshire +1 109 £50,000 +25.00% 40
Warwickshire +81 84 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Solihull -4 31 £50,000 +1.01% 4
Worcestershire -14 28 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Herefordshire -1 10 £60,000 +12.15% 6
Shropshire -23 7 £60,000 - 3
Coventry +20 3 £41,536 -24.48% 4
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 33 (7.14%) IIS
2 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.73%) Apache
3 8 (1.73%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.08%) Appian
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.87%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (0.65%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 36 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.08%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.87%) EPLAN
6 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.25%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.65%) Maximo
2 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.65%) Azure
2 49 (10.61%) AWS
3 22 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 13 (2.81%) Entra ID
4 13 (2.81%) GitHub
5 12 (2.60%) PaaS
6 11 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.16%) IaaS
7 10 (2.16%) SaaS
8 9 (1.95%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.87%) dbt
11 4 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.43%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (16.23%) WAN
2 54 (11.69%) Firewall
3 34 (7.36%) SD-WAN
4 32 (6.93%) MPLS
5 30 (6.49%) IPsec
6 20 (4.33%) Wireless
7 14 (3.03%) Network Security
8 12 (2.60%) BGP
8 12 (2.60%) DNS
8 12 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.95%) LAN
10 7 (1.52%) DHCP
10 7 (1.52%) VPN
11 6 (1.30%) 5G
11 6 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.30%) VSAN
12 4 (0.87%) HTTP
12 4 (0.87%) SAN
12 4 (0.87%) VLAN
13 3 (0.65%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.25%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
4 7 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.30%) Power BI
6 4 (0.87%) MySQL
7 3 (0.65%) DB2
8 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.22%) GIS
9 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.81%) GitLab
2 10 (2.16%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.43%) Git
3 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.22%) Appium
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) JUnit
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) PVCS
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) TestNG
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.45%) Public Sector
3 64 (13.85%) Finance
4 50 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.28%) Police
6 26 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 25 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (5.19%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (3.90%) Games
11 17 (3.68%) Local Government
12 14 (3.03%) Retail
13 9 (1.95%) Military
14 7 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (1.52%) Back Office
15 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Electronics
15 5 (1.08%) Legal
16 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.65%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 65 (14.07%) Network Engineer
1 65 (14.07%) Senior
2 42 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 37 (8.01%) Systems Engineer
4 36 (7.79%) Consultant
5 27 (5.84%) Developer
6 26 (5.63%) Architect
7 24 (5.19%) Graduate
7 24 (5.19%) Graduate Consultant
7 24 (5.19%) Research Consultant
7 24 (5.19%) Resource Consultant
8 21 (4.55%) Analyst
9 19 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 16 (3.46%) Lead
11 14 (3.03%) WAN Engineer
12 13 (2.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 13 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.38%) Administrator
14 11 (2.38%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.25%) REST
1 15 (3.25%) WebRTC
2 12 (2.60%) .NET
2 12 (2.60%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.16%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.16%) Azure Blueprints
3 10 (2.16%) React
4 9 (1.95%) RESTful
4 9 (1.95%) SOAP
5 8 (1.73%) Web Services
6 3 (0.65%) Middleware
6 3 (0.65%) Node.js
7 2 (0.43%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.43%) Django
7 2 (0.43%) RSS
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Smart Forms
8 1 (0.22%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.22%) Spring
8 1 (0.22%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.55%) Management Information System
2 48 (10.39%) Driving Licence
3 28 (6.06%) Clustering
4 18 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.46%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.03%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (1.73%) PKI
10 8 (1.73%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.73%) SCADA
11 7 (1.52%) CMDB
12 5 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.43%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.43%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.39%) Windows
2 29 (6.28%) Windows Server
3 27 (5.84%) Linux
4 17 (3.68%) Unix
5 8 (1.73%) Solaris
6 4 (0.87%) Android
6 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (13.85%) Mentoring
4 62 (13.42%) Project Management
5 60 (12.99%) Agile
6 58 (12.55%) Software Engineering
7 54 (11.69%) Customer Service
8 46 (9.96%) ITIL
9 42 (9.09%) DevOps
10 38 (8.23%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.01%) Systems Engineering
12 33 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
13 30 (6.49%) ERP
14 28 (6.06%) High Availability
14 28 (6.06%) Risk Management
15 25 (5.41%) CI/CD
15 25 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (4.98%) Incident Response
16 23 (4.98%) Validation
17 22 (4.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.93%) SQL
2 21 (4.55%) Java
2 21 (4.55%) Python
3 16 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.16%) C++
4 10 (2.16%) TypeScript
5 9 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.73%) C#
6 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.87%) C
7 4 (0.87%) R
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) ABAP
9 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 263 (56.93%) SC Cleared
2 71 (15.37%) Degree
3 52 (11.26%) DV Cleared
4 23 (4.98%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (3.90%) CCNA
6 15 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.25%) CCNP
7 9 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.73%) CCSA
8 8 (1.73%) HND
9 7 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.08%) MCSA
12 4 (0.87%) CISM
12 4 (0.87%) CISSP
12 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.65%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (6.49%) ISO 9001
2 30 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 22 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (4.11%) Accessibility
5 14 (3.03%) NCSC
6 13 (2.81%) Def Stans
7 10 (2.16%) NIST
8 9 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.30%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.08%) QA
12 4 (0.87%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.65%) PMO
14 2 (0.43%) SLA
15 1 (0.22%) GDPR
15 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 34 (7.36%) Active Directory
1 34 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.90%) VMware NSX
3 14 (3.03%) Docker
4 12 (2.60%) vSphere
5 6 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (6.49%) EnCase
2 16 (3.46%) Ansible
2 16 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.60%) SCCM
3 12 (2.60%) Terraform
4 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.08%) VxRail
6 4 (0.87%) SCOM
6 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.65%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.65%) Nagios
8 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.43%) Grafana
8 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 108 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.47%) VMware
3 50 (10.82%) Cisco
4 49 (10.61%) Juniper
5 23 (4.98%) IFS
6 22 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 22 (4.76%) Oracle
7 17 (3.68%) NEC
8 16 (3.46%) Workday
9 15 (3.25%) Aruba
10 14 (3.03%) Fortinet
11 12 (2.60%) Dell
11 12 (2.60%) Meraki
12 9 (1.95%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.73%) Cellebrite
14 7 (1.52%) EMC
15 6 (1.30%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.30%) SAP
16 5 (1.08%) IBM
17 4 (0.87%) HP