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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 46 103 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.54% 5.72% 5.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.19% 17.43% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 36 60 82
10th Percentile £43,497 £55,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +10.64% +4.02%
75th Percentile £80,342 £74,047 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £74,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,881 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.34% +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 411 591 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.71% 32.83% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 217 195 318
10th Percentile - £32,650 £30,925
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £42,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £83,250 £80,799
West Midlands median annual salary £47,292 £57,500 £49,532
% change year-on-year -17.75% +16.09% -0.94%

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 23 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 (10.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) Maximo
2 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.17%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.52%) dbt
6 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.35%) Pulumi
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) FTP
2 4 (8.70%) HTTP
2 4 (8.70%) SMTP
2 4 (8.70%) SSH
3 3 (6.52%) LAN
3 3 (6.52%) VPN
4 2 (4.35%) IMAP
4 2 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.35%) WAN
5 1 (2.17%) BGP
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.17%) Internet
5 1 (2.17%) IPsec
5 1 (2.17%) Junos
5 1 (2.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) Redis
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JUnit
1 6 (13.04%) Maven
1 6 (13.04%) Mockito
2 5 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.70%) Vagrant
4 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Gatling
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) Locust
5 1 (2.17%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Senior
2 12 (26.09%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Security Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) EDI
2 5 (10.87%) React
3 4 (8.70%) Spring
4 3 (6.52%) Django
5 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.35%) LDAP
5 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.17%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.17%) JSON
6 1 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) Playwright
6 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
1 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) IoT
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (8.70%) VMS
3 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.35%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (17.39%) Microservices
5 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.22%) Decision-Making
5 7 (15.22%) Scrum
5 7 (15.22%) SDLC
5 7 (15.22%) TDD
6 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (10.87%) AI
7 5 (10.87%) Change Management
7 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
7 5 (10.87%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) Java
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Python
4 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
5 5 (10.87%) Bash
6 4 (8.70%) C
6 4 (8.70%) Groovy
6 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.70%) R
6 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) DV Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CISM
4 2 (4.35%) CISSP
4 2 (4.35%) CITP
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) WCAG
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) DFS Replication
2 2 (4.35%) Dovecot
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
2 2 (4.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
4 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Endace
5 2 (4.35%) Nessus
5 2 (4.35%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.52%) Cisco
3 3 (6.52%) Juniper
3 3 (6.52%) Planon
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Aruba
5 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) IBM