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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 72 105
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 -55
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 249 267 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.35% 4.26% 2.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.57% 10.34% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 202 200 89
10th Percentile £26,700 £35,375 £31,950
25th Percentile £43,227 £46,214 £37,066
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 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +0.91%

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 1,981 2,582 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.64% 41.16% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 952 1,201
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,775 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.58% -2.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +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 16 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 16 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 -22 117 £46,500 -25.60% 31
Warwickshire +66 39 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Staffordshire -33 33 £55,000 +27.17% 20
Solihull +16 23 £51,250 -14.58% 5
Worcestershire -15 18 £55,000 -9.09% 2
Herefordshire -3 6 £50,000 +19.05% 3
Shropshire -22 6 £60,000 - 2
Coventry +26 2 £43,072 -21.69% 1
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 16 (6.43%) IIS
2 8 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.61%) Appian
4 4 (1.61%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.01%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.61%) EPLAN
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.52%) Azure
2 28 (11.24%) AWS
3 20 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 13 (5.22%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) dbt
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.80%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (0.80%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (0.80%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (0.80%) GitHub
11 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.80%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (22.89%) WAN
2 48 (19.28%) Firewall
3 32 (12.85%) SD-WAN
4 27 (10.84%) MPLS
5 26 (10.44%) IPsec
6 18 (7.23%) Wireless
7 12 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.61%) BGP
9 8 (3.21%) DNS
9 8 (3.21%) Network Security
10 6 (2.41%) LAN
11 5 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (2.01%) VSAN
12 4 (1.61%) DHCP
12 4 (1.61%) VPN
13 3 (1.20%) 3GPP
13 3 (1.20%) 5G
13 3 (1.20%) SAN
13 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.20%) Power BI
3 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.42%) GitLab
2 2 (0.80%) Git
2 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) Appium
3 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) JUnit
3 1 (0.40%) PVCS
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) TestNG
3 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (12.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (12.45%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.43%) Finance
4 17 (6.83%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.62%) Police
5 14 (5.62%) Retail
6 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Electronics
9 3 (1.20%) Military
9 3 (1.20%) Turkish Language
10 2 (0.80%) Local Government
10 2 (0.80%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 62 (24.90%) Network Engineer
2 44 (17.67%) Senior
3 25 (10.04%) Developer
4 19 (7.63%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.23%) Architect
5 18 (7.23%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (6.02%) Lead
7 14 (5.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
9 10 (4.02%) WAN Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) IP Architect
10 9 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (2.81%) Server Support
12 7 (2.81%) Windows Server Support
13 6 (2.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 6 (2.41%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 6 (2.41%) 3rd Line Server Support
13 6 (2.41%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.43%) REST
1 16 (6.43%) WebRTC
2 12 (4.82%) 802.1X
3 11 (4.42%) .NET
4 9 (3.61%) React
4 9 (3.61%) RESTful
4 9 (3.61%) SOAP
5 2 (0.80%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.80%) Django
5 2 (0.80%) Node.js
5 2 (0.80%) RSS
6 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.40%) Kafka
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.40%) Spring
6 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.44%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.23%) Virtual Team
3 16 (6.43%) Clustering
4 13 (5.22%) Driving Licence
5 10 (4.02%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.02%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.81%) CMDB
9 5 (2.01%) PKI
9 5 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.01%) SCADA
10 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.80%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (0.80%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.40%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.24%) Windows
2 19 (7.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.81%) Linux
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.20%) Android
6 2 (0.80%) Unix
6 2 (0.80%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.48%) Agile
1 51 (20.48%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (12.85%) ITIL
3 31 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (12.05%) Software Engineering
5 28 (11.24%) DevOps
5 28 (11.24%) Mentoring
6 26 (10.44%) Project Delivery
7 24 (9.64%) Project Management
7 24 (9.64%) Validation
8 21 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (8.03%) Change Management
10 19 (7.63%) Configuration Management
10 19 (7.63%) Load Balancing
10 19 (7.63%) Service Management
11 18 (7.23%) Systems Engineering
12 17 (6.83%) Customer Requirements
13 16 (6.43%) Customer Service
13 16 (6.43%) High Availability
14 15 (6.02%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.63%) SQL
2 14 (5.62%) JavaScript
3 13 (5.22%) Python
4 11 (4.42%) Java
5 9 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.61%) C
8 2 (0.80%) Bash
8 2 (0.80%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 249 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.65%) Degree
3 28 (11.24%) DV Cleared
4 23 (9.24%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.23%) CCNA
6 15 (6.02%) CCNP
7 9 (3.61%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.21%) CCSA
9 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.01%) HND
10 5 (2.01%) MCSA
11 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.80%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.80%) CCDA
13 2 (0.80%) PhD
14 1 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.22%) Def Stans
2 8 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.01%) NIST
3 5 (2.01%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.20%) NCSC
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (0.80%) QA
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (10.84%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.61%) vSphere
4 7 (2.81%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.20%) Docker
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) SCCM
2 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.61%) SCOM
4 4 (1.61%) VxRail
5 3 (1.20%) Nagios
6 2 (0.80%) Ansible
6 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.80%) Puppet
6 2 (0.80%) Terraform
7 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.68%) Cisco
3 44 (17.67%) Juniper
4 33 (13.25%) VMware
5 22 (8.84%) CheckPoint
6 14 (5.62%) Aruba
7 13 (5.22%) Meraki
8 11 (4.42%) Dell
9 10 (4.02%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.81%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.01%) EMC
11 5 (2.01%) IFS
12 4 (1.61%) HP
12 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.20%) F5
13 3 (1.20%) Infoblox
13 3 (1.20%) Oracle
14 2 (0.80%) Avaya
14 2 (0.80%) IBM
14 2 (0.80%) NEC