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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -34
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 41 110 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.08% 6.36% 4.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.22% 19.20% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 63 77
10th Percentile £43,497 £56,495 £28,680
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,014 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,180 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -2.62%

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 401 573 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.37% 33.14% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 215 191 368
10th Percentile - £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,987 £82,500 £82,875
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +18.56% -3.00%

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 15 February 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 (12.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) Maximo
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.44%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.32%) dbt
5 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.88%) GCP
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.88%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) BGP
2 1 (2.44%) Broadband
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.44%) DSLAM
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Internet
2 1 (2.44%) IPsec
2 1 (2.44%) Junos
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) MPLS
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.88%) Redis
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JUnit
1 6 (14.63%) Maven
1 6 (14.63%) Mockito
2 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) Gatling
3 1 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) JMeter
3 1 (2.44%) Locust
3 1 (2.44%) Postman
3 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Law
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Senior
2 9 (21.95%) Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Java Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Architect
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 4 (9.76%) Lead
7 4 (9.76%) Security Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Penetration Tester
9 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) REST
2 5 (12.20%) React
3 4 (9.76%) Spring
4 3 (7.32%) Django
5 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) EDI
5 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) Playwright
6 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.32%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
4 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) CMDB
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Agile
2 9 (21.95%) Decision-Making
2 9 (21.95%) DevOps
2 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
3 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (19.51%) Microservices
4 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (17.07%) Scrum
4 7 (17.07%) SDLC
4 7 (17.07%) TDD
5 6 (14.63%) AI
5 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
5 6 (14.63%) Service Delivery
5 6 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.20%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) Java
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
3 5 (12.20%) Bash
4 4 (9.76%) C
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) R
4 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) CITP
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.88%) PMP
5 1 (2.44%) APMG
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CBAP
5 1 (2.44%) CISM
5 1 (2.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.32%) WCAG
4 2 (4.88%) GDPR
5 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.44%) GRC
5 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.32%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) Planon
4 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) Aruba
5 1 (2.44%) BT
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) HP
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Juniper