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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 50 74 121
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.66% 6.57% 4.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.59% 18.55% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 33 58 108
10th Percentile £43,497 £58,875 £26,700
25th Percentile £53,000 £62,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £65,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +22.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £73,140 £74,014 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £79,600
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 472 399 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.64% 35.40% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 241 184 524
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £27,333
25th Percentile £37,577 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,763 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +10.48% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,000 £73,750 £70,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -4.76%

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 26 May 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 6 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.00%) Appian
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (2.00%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP GRC
2 1 (2.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) Google Docs
5 1 (2.00%) Google Drive
5 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.00%) DSLAM
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) JUnit
2 9 (18.00%) Maven
2 9 (18.00%) Mockito
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 13 (26.00%) Finance
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Games
4 1 (2.00%) Law
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Senior
2 17 (34.00%) Analyst
3 13 (26.00%) Developer
4 10 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (18.00%) Java Developer
5 9 (18.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Architect
6 6 (12.00%) Business Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Network Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Network Analyst
7 5 (10.00%) Lead
7 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) Data Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) REST
2 9 (18.00%) React
3 5 (10.00%) Spring
4 4 (8.00%) Playwright
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
6 2 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) SAP Basis
6 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (2.00%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (12.00%) Operational Technology
3 6 (12.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (28.00%) Scrum
3 14 (28.00%) Sprint Planning
4 13 (26.00%) AI
4 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (20.00%) Microservices
6 10 (20.00%) SDLC
6 10 (20.00%) TDD
6 10 (20.00%) Time Management
7 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (18.00%) LLM
8 8 (16.00%) ITIL
8 8 (16.00%) Migration
8 8 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (14.00%) Service Delivery
9 7 (14.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.00%) Java
3 10 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.00%) Bash
4 9 (18.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.00%) C
5 4 (8.00%) R
5 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) Degree
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.00%) CITP
6 2 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.00%) APMG
7 1 (2.00%) CBAP
7 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.00%) PMP
7 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) GRC
5 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.00%) NIST
5 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.00%) SLA
5 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Oracle
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Aruba
3 6 (12.00%) HP
4 5 (10.00%) SAP
5 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.00%) BT
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) Planon