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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +74
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 76 106 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.39% 4.66% 8.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.38% 19.34% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 69 66 114
10th Percentile £49,299 £37,500 £38,856
25th Percentile £62,500 £44,045 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £59,715 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.41% -0.48% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,955 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £69,550
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £58,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.30% -2.00% +9.09%

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 373 548 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.34% 24.07% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 208 284 360
10th Percentile £29,300 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £57,500 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +4.07% +0.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,625 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £53,594 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.56% +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

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 15 September 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 33 (43.42%) Confluence
2 5 (6.58%) nginx
3 2 (2.63%) CMS
3 2 (2.63%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.32%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.32%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 43 (56.58%) AWS
2 34 (44.74%) Amazon EC2
2 34 (44.74%) Amazon S3
3 33 (43.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 33 (43.42%) AWS KMS
4 29 (38.16%) Amazon ELB
4 29 (38.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (31.58%) Amazon Glacier
6 13 (17.11%) Azure
7 9 (11.84%) Route 53
8 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.26%) GCP
11 2 (2.63%) Contentful
11 2 (2.63%) Figma
11 2 (2.63%) Serverless
12 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 33 (43.42%) Firewall
2 17 (22.37%) DNS
3 16 (21.05%) FTP
3 16 (21.05%) HTTP
3 16 (21.05%) SMTP
3 16 (21.05%) SSH
4 10 (13.16%) ATM
4 10 (13.16%) Frame Relay
4 10 (13.16%) SDH
5 6 (7.89%) VoIP
6 5 (6.58%) IMAP
6 5 (6.58%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (6.58%) WAN
7 4 (5.26%) Network Security
8 3 (3.95%) LAN
8 3 (3.95%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.95%) VPN
9 1 (1.32%) BGP
9 1 (1.32%) Internet
9 1 (1.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.74%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (6.58%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.32%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) DB2
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (44.74%) Git
1 34 (44.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (43.42%) JIRA
3 29 (38.16%) Vagrant
4 5 (6.58%) Maven
5 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (5.26%) DbUnit
5 4 (5.26%) jMock
5 4 (5.26%) JUnit
5 4 (5.26%) Mockito
5 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.63%) Storybook
7 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (53.95%) Public Sector
2 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Finance
6 3 (3.95%) Advertising
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Architect
1 16 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (18.42%) Support Engineer
3 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure Support
3 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Network Architect
5 10 (13.16%) Developer
6 9 (11.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.53%) Lead
8 6 (7.89%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead Java Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior
9 5 (6.58%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (6.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) Spring
1 7 (9.21%) Spring Boot
2 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.58%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (6.58%) EDI
3 5 (6.58%) LDAP
3 5 (6.58%) SOAP
3 5 (6.58%) Web Services
4 4 (5.26%) Bootstrap
4 4 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.26%) JPA
4 4 (5.26%) PowerMock
4 4 (5.26%) RESTful
4 4 (5.26%) Spring Batch
4 4 (5.26%) Spring Integration
5 3 (3.95%) REST
6 2 (2.63%) Express.js
6 2 (2.63%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (2.63%) React Native
6 2 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Replication
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.63%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.32%) IoT
4 1 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (46.05%) Linux
2 29 (38.16%) VMS
3 20 (26.32%) Windows
4 16 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) DevOps
2 30 (39.47%) Change Management
3 29 (38.16%) Cloud Security
3 29 (38.16%) Configuration Management
4 17 (22.37%) Patch Management
5 16 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (18.42%) Agile
6 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.21%) BDD
8 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (9.21%) Microservices
8 7 (9.21%) TDD
9 6 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
10 5 (6.58%) Product Management
10 5 (6.58%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (6.58%) Scrum
10 5 (6.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Python
2 29 (38.16%) Groovy
2 29 (38.16%) PowerShell
3 19 (25.00%) Java
4 11 (14.47%) Perl
5 10 (13.16%) SQL
6 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.63%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.63%) Scala
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) Degree
3 7 (9.21%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.95%) CISM
6 3 (3.95%) CISSP
6 3 (3.95%) CITP
6 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.58%) NIST
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) NCSC
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 19650
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (27.63%) Docker
3 18 (23.68%) DFS Replication
4 5 (6.58%) Dovecot
4 5 (6.58%) Postfix
4 5 (6.58%) Squid
5 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (39.47%) Terraform
2 29 (38.16%) Grafana
2 29 (38.16%) Prometheus
3 13 (17.11%) Ansible
4 5 (6.58%) Nessus
4 5 (6.58%) Proxmox
5 2 (2.63%) Endace
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) ServiceNow
2 17 (22.37%) Juniper
3 6 (7.89%) Cisco
4 5 (6.58%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.63%) Google
7 2 (2.63%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) ADVA
8 1 (1.32%) Aruba
8 1 (1.32%) Avaya
8 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.32%) HP
8 1 (1.32%) IBM
8 1 (1.32%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle
8 1 (1.32%) Planon
8 1 (1.32%) RedGate
8 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.32%) VMware