SC Cleared Jobs 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +58
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 82 153 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.00% 5.15% 6.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.53% 20.82% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 69 121 91
10th Percentile £54,980 £26,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,630 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £46,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.91% -25.60% -1.96%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,750
West Midlands median annual salary £67,626 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.96% -12.00% +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 496 735 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 36.28% 24.76% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 205 523 383
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £43,393
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +11.70%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 29 (35.37%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) nginx
3 2 (2.44%) CMS
3 2 (2.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.34%) AWS
2 30 (36.59%) Amazon EC2
2 30 (36.59%) Amazon S3
3 29 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 29 (35.37%) AWS KMS
4 25 (30.49%) Amazon ELB
4 25 (30.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 22 (26.83%) Amazon Glacier
6 11 (13.41%) Azure
7 7 (8.54%) Route 53
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.66%) GCP
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.44%) Contentful
10 2 (2.44%) Figma
10 2 (2.44%) Serverless
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.93%) Firewall
2 26 (31.71%) WAN
3 13 (15.85%) DNS
4 12 (14.63%) FTP
4 12 (14.63%) HTTP
4 12 (14.63%) SMTP
4 12 (14.63%) SSH
5 10 (12.20%) ATM
5 10 (12.20%) BGP
5 10 (12.20%) Frame Relay
5 10 (12.20%) LAN
5 10 (12.20%) MPLS
5 10 (12.20%) SDH
6 9 (10.98%) IPsec
6 9 (10.98%) Junos
7 8 (9.76%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (7.32%) VoIP
9 5 (6.10%) Network Security
10 3 (3.66%) IMAP
10 3 (3.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.80%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (6.10%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.22%) DB2
6 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.22%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (36.59%) Git
1 30 (36.59%) Jenkins
2 29 (35.37%) JIRA
3 25 (30.49%) Vagrant
4 5 (6.10%) Maven
5 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (4.88%) DbUnit
5 4 (4.88%) jMock
5 4 (4.88%) JUnit
5 4 (4.88%) Mockito
5 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.44%) Storybook
7 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (37.80%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 4 (4.88%) Advertising
4 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Legal
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (41.46%) Architect
2 31 (37.80%) Network Architect
3 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (17.07%) Support Engineer
5 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Support
5 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 12 (14.63%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Lead
10 6 (7.32%) Java Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (3.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.66%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
2 5 (6.10%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (6.10%) SOAP
2 5 (6.10%) Spring
2 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
2 5 (6.10%) Web Services
3 4 (4.88%) Bootstrap
3 4 (4.88%) Hibernate
3 4 (4.88%) JPA
3 4 (4.88%) PowerMock
3 4 (4.88%) RESTful
3 4 (4.88%) Spring Batch
3 4 (4.88%) Spring Integration
4 3 (3.66%) LDAP
4 3 (3.66%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) CSS
5 2 (2.44%) CSS3
5 2 (2.44%) Express.js
5 2 (2.44%) hapi
5 2 (2.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Replication
2 4 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.22%) NHS
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.02%) Linux
2 25 (30.49%) VMS
3 19 (23.17%) Windows
4 12 (14.63%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.22%) Unix
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.37%) DevOps
2 25 (30.49%) Change Management
2 25 (30.49%) Cloud Security
2 25 (30.49%) Configuration Management
3 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (15.85%) Patch Management
5 12 (14.63%) Network Management
5 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (10.98%) Network Design
8 8 (9.76%) Agile
9 7 (8.54%) BDD
9 7 (8.54%) Microservices
9 7 (8.54%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (7.32%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.10%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.10%) Open Source
11 5 (6.10%) Scrum
11 5 (6.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) Python
2 25 (30.49%) Groovy
2 25 (30.49%) PowerShell
3 15 (18.29%) Java
4 9 (10.98%) Perl
5 8 (9.76%) SQL
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.98%) CCNA
2 9 (10.98%) CCNP
2 9 (10.98%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (10.98%) JNCIS
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) CISM
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) CITP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) SLA
2 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.66%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) NCSC
3 2 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (28.05%) Active Directory
2 18 (21.95%) Docker
3 16 (19.51%) DFS Replication
4 3 (3.66%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.66%) Postfix
4 3 (3.66%) Squid
5 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (32.93%) Terraform
2 25 (30.49%) Grafana
2 25 (30.49%) Prometheus
3 13 (15.85%) Ansible
4 3 (3.66%) Nessus
4 3 (3.66%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 35 (42.68%) Juniper
2 26 (31.71%) Cisco
2 26 (31.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) VMware
6 1 (1.22%) Aruba
6 1 (1.22%) Avaya
6 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.22%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.22%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.22%) Meraki
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) RedGate
6 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.22%) Veeam