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 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 42 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 50 97 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.90% 5.38% 6.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.99% 16.99% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 40 56 83
10th Percentile £45,975 £51,196 £30,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +1.81%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,014 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £72,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -

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 417 571 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.17% 31.69% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 217 187 277
10th Percentile - £33,350 £30,900
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -

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 12 January 2026.

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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) Maximo
2 1 (2.00%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 5 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
6 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (6.00%) dbt
7 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) FTP
2 5 (10.00%) HTTP
2 5 (10.00%) SMTP
2 5 (10.00%) SSH
3 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 3 (6.00%) VPN
4 2 (4.00%) IMAP
4 2 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.00%) BGP
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.00%) Internet
5 1 (2.00%) IPsec
5 1 (2.00%) Junos
5 1 (2.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
1 6 (12.00%) JUnit
1 6 (12.00%) Maven
1 6 (12.00%) Mockito
2 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) Vagrant
3 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.00%) Gatling
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) JMeter
4 1 (2.00%) Locust
4 1 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.00%) Finance
4 7 (14.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Senior
2 12 (24.00%) Architect
3 9 (18.00%) Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Analyst
7 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Lead
8 4 (8.00%) Security Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Consultant
9 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) Spring
3 5 (10.00%) EDI
3 5 (10.00%) React
4 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.00%) Django
6 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.00%) LDAP
7 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (2.00%) JSON
7 1 (2.00%) Node.js
7 1 (2.00%) Playwright
7 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) IoT
3 2 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (10.00%) VMS
3 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 14 (28.00%) DevOps
3 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.00%) TDD
5 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (16.00%) Microservices
6 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (14.00%) SDLC
7 6 (12.00%) Change Management
7 6 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (12.00%) Scrum
8 5 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 5 (10.00%) SOA
8 5 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Java
2 11 (22.00%) Python
3 10 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.00%) Bash
5 5 (10.00%) Groovy
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.00%) C
6 4 (8.00%) R
7 3 (6.00%) Perl
8 2 (4.00%) C#
8 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CISM
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) CITP
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (4.00%) Dovecot
3 2 (4.00%) Postfix
3 2 (4.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Grafana
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.00%) Endace
5 2 (4.00%) Nessus
5 2 (4.00%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.00%) Oracle
1 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.00%) Cisco
2 3 (6.00%) Juniper
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (4.00%) Planon
4 1 (2.00%) Aruba
4 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce