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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 49 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 -26
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 425 414 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.87% 6.13% 4.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.38% 14.85% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 335 269 130
10th Percentile £25,950 £30,150 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,966 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,056
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.38% -11.57%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +4.23% +0.30%

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 1,899 2,787 2,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.24% 41.26% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 969 1,145
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,900 £28,321
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,960 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +5.38% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -25 143 £57,500 -8.00% 43
Warwickshire +109 100 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Staffordshire +4 94 £25,450 -27.29% 24
Solihull -2 30 £50,000 +1.01% 11
Worcestershire -13 25 £55,000 -9.09% 3
Shropshire -18 7 £51,536 -14.11% 9
Herefordshire -9 4 £85,000 +102.38% 12
Coventry +25 3 £41,536 -24.48% 4
Wednesbury - 3 £32,500 -
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 34 (8.00%) IIS
2 8 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Appian
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.94%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (0.71%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.47%) Apache
5 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 52 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (9.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.18%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.94%) EPLAN
7 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.71%) Maximo
4 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 100 (23.53%) Azure
2 48 (11.29%) AWS
3 22 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (2.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (2.59%) GitHub
9 10 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (2.35%) PaaS
10 9 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.88%) IaaS
11 8 (1.88%) SaaS
12 6 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.41%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.18%) dbt
14 4 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CodeBuild
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.65%) WAN
2 51 (12.00%) Firewall
3 31 (7.29%) MPLS
3 31 (7.29%) SD-WAN
4 29 (6.82%) IPsec
5 20 (4.71%) Wireless
6 12 (2.82%) BGP
6 12 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (2.59%) Network Security
8 9 (2.12%) VPN
9 8 (1.88%) DNS
10 6 (1.41%) 5G
10 6 (1.41%) LAN
11 5 (1.18%) VSAN
12 4 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.94%) DHCP
12 4 (0.94%) HTTP
13 3 (0.71%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.94%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.71%) DB2
4 3 (0.71%) MySQL
4 3 (0.71%) Power BI
5 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.24%) GIS
6 1 (0.24%) Power Query
6 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.82%) GitLab
2 8 (1.88%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.47%) LSMW
3 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.24%) Appium
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) JUnit
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) PVCS
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
4 1 (0.24%) TestNG
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.29%) Public Sector
3 55 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.47%) Finance
5 26 (6.12%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 19 (4.47%) Games
10 18 (4.24%) Police
11 16 (3.76%) Retail
12 7 (1.65%) Local Government
12 7 (1.65%) Military
13 6 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (1.18%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Legal
16 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.71%) Turkish Language
17 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 61 (14.35%) Network Engineer
2 46 (10.82%) Senior
3 43 (10.12%) Project Manager
4 42 (9.88%) Systems Engineer
5 35 (8.24%) Consultant
6 24 (5.65%) Graduate
6 24 (5.65%) Graduate Consultant
6 24 (5.65%) Research Consultant
6 24 (5.65%) Resource Consultant
7 22 (5.18%) Architect
8 21 (4.94%) Developer
8 21 (4.94%) Lead
9 19 (4.47%) Analyst
10 17 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.06%) WAN Engineer
12 10 (2.35%) Senior Network Engineer
12 10 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 8 (1.88%) Digital Analyst
14 8 (1.88%) Forensic Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.47%) REST
1 19 (4.47%) WebRTC
2 11 (2.59%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.35%) .NET
3 10 (2.35%) React
4 9 (2.12%) RESTful
4 9 (2.12%) SOAP
5 8 (1.88%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.88%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (0.71%) Middleware
6 3 (0.71%) Node.js
7 2 (0.47%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.47%) Django
7 2 (0.47%) RSS
7 2 (0.47%) Web Services
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.24%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.24%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.12%) Driving Licence
2 51 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 35 (8.24%) Clustering
4 19 (4.47%) Virtual Team
5 15 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.88%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.88%) PKI
11 6 (1.41%) CMDB
11 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.47%) IBM Mainframe
14 2 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.94%) Windows
2 22 (5.18%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.29%) Linux
4 6 (1.41%) Unix
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.47%) Solaris
6 2 (0.47%) zOS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (25.18%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.59%) Project Management
4 61 (14.35%) Mentoring
5 53 (12.47%) Agile
6 52 (12.24%) Customer Service
7 43 (10.12%) Software Engineering
8 40 (9.41%) Incident Response
9 39 (9.18%) Data Collection
10 37 (8.71%) ITIL
11 35 (8.24%) High Availability
11 35 (8.24%) Project Delivery
11 35 (8.24%) Systems Engineering
12 34 (8.00%) DevOps
13 33 (7.76%) Customer Requirements
14 30 (7.06%) CI/CD
15 29 (6.82%) ERP
16 27 (6.35%) Validation
17 26 (6.12%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (6.12%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.94%) SQL
2 25 (5.88%) Java
3 13 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.59%) Python
5 7 (1.65%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.18%) C++
8 3 (0.71%) C
8 3 (0.71%) C#
9 2 (0.47%) Bash
9 2 (0.47%) R
9 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) ABAP
10 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.24%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 243 (57.18%) SC Cleared
2 64 (15.06%) Degree
3 29 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.18%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (4.00%) CCNA
6 15 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.53%) CCNP
7 9 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.88%) CCSA
8 8 (1.88%) HND
9 6 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.18%) MCSA
10 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.94%) APMP
11 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.71%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.29%) ISO 9001
2 47 (11.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 47 (11.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (9.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.06%) Def Stans
5 12 (2.82%) NCSC
6 9 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (1.41%) QA
9 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.94%) NIST
11 3 (0.71%) PMO
12 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS
12 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.47%) SLA
13 1 (0.24%) GDPR
13 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.24%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (7.29%) Active Directory
1 31 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.71%) VMware NSX
3 12 (2.82%) Docker
4 7 (1.65%) vSphere
5 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.47%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (11.06%) EnCase
2 14 (3.29%) SCCM
3 11 (2.59%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.35%) Ansible
4 10 (2.35%) Terraform
5 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.71%) SCOM
7 2 (0.47%) Nagios
7 2 (0.47%) Nessus
7 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.47%) VxRail
8 1 (0.24%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.24%) Grafana
8 1 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.29%) Cisco
2 48 (11.29%) VMware
3 46 (10.82%) Juniper
4 24 (5.65%) CheckPoint
5 23 (5.41%) IFS
6 16 (3.76%) Workday
7 12 (2.82%) Aruba
7 12 (2.82%) Meraki
8 10 (2.35%) Oracle
9 9 (2.12%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.88%) Cellebrite
10 8 (1.88%) Dell
11 7 (1.65%) EMC
11 7 (1.65%) SAP
11 7 (1.65%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.41%) NEC
12 6 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.18%) IBM
14 4 (0.94%) HP