SC Cleared Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 37 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 +34
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 68 112 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.74% 4.98% 9.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.71% 19.24% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 59 61 107
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £30,680
25th Percentile £56,625 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% +7.96% +6.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,032 £93,750 £69,550
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% +13.64% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 384 582 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.76% 25.89% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 221 202 324
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,611
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £42,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.07% +0.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,750 £75,875
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (36.76%) Confluence
2 4 (5.88%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.47%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Maximo
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.47%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) Amazon S3
3 25 (36.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (36.76%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (36.76%) AWS KMS
4 23 (33.82%) Amazon ELB
4 23 (33.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (27.94%) Amazon Glacier
6 18 (26.47%) Azure
7 8 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (8.82%) Route 53
10 4 (5.88%) GCP
11 3 (4.41%) dbt
11 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.94%) Pulumi
12 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (39.71%) Firewall
2 13 (19.12%) DNS
2 13 (19.12%) FTP
2 13 (19.12%) HTTP
2 13 (19.12%) SMTP
2 13 (19.12%) SSH
3 4 (5.88%) IMAP
3 4 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (4.41%) ATM
4 3 (4.41%) Frame Relay
4 3 (4.41%) LAN
4 3 (4.41%) SDH
4 3 (4.41%) VPN
5 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) VoIP
5 2 (2.94%) WAN
6 1 (1.47%) BGP
6 1 (1.47%) Internet
6 1 (1.47%) IPsec
6 1 (1.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) DB2
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (38.24%) Git
2 25 (36.76%) Jenkins
2 25 (36.76%) JIRA
3 23 (33.82%) Vagrant
4 4 (5.88%) JUnit
4 4 (5.88%) Maven
4 4 (5.88%) Mockito
5 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) DbUnit
5 2 (2.94%) jMock
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.47%) Gatling
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) JMeter
6 1 (1.47%) Locust
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
General
1 38 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.82%) Finance
5 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Architect
2 12 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 11 (16.18%) Support Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Lead
7 5 (7.35%) Network Architect
7 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Spring
2 6 (8.82%) EDI
2 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.35%) React
4 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.88%) LDAP
5 3 (4.41%) Django
5 3 (4.41%) Web Services
6 2 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.94%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.94%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.94%) JPA
6 2 (2.94%) PowerMock
6 2 (2.94%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) SOAP
6 2 (2.94%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.94%) Spring Integration
7 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Replication
2 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.94%) IoT
3 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.94%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.47%) NHS
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.18%) Linux
2 23 (33.82%) VMS
3 14 (20.59%) Windows
4 13 (19.12%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) DevOps
2 24 (35.29%) Change Management
3 23 (33.82%) Cloud Security
3 23 (33.82%) Configuration Management
4 15 (22.06%) Agile
4 15 (22.06%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (20.59%) Patch Management
6 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
7 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.29%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (10.29%) TDD
10 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.82%) Microservices
10 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
11 5 (7.35%) Incident Response
11 5 (7.35%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.35%) Product Management
12 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) Python
2 23 (33.82%) Groovy
2 23 (33.82%) PowerShell
3 19 (27.94%) Java
4 9 (13.24%) Perl
4 9 (13.24%) SQL
5 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.94%) Scala
9 1 (1.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) Degree
3 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.41%) CISM
6 3 (4.41%) CISSP
6 3 (4.41%) CITP
6 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) NIST
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.47%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (29.41%) Docker
2 19 (27.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (20.59%) DFS Replication
4 4 (5.88%) Dovecot
4 4 (5.88%) Postfix
4 4 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (39.71%) Terraform
2 24 (35.29%) Grafana
3 23 (33.82%) Prometheus
4 10 (14.71%) Ansible
5 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.88%) Nessus
6 4 (5.88%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.94%) Endace
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 13 (19.12%) Juniper
3 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (4.41%) Cisco
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) Planon
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) Aruba
7 1 (1.47%) Avaya
7 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.47%) HP
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.47%) RedGate
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds