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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 38 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 -20 +41
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 84 101 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.37% 4.61% 9.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.05% 18.13% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 73 53 110
10th Percentile £53,120 £40,000 £34,111
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,713 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% +7.96% +6.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,225 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £68,830
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +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 399 557 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.25% 25.42% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 228 199 331
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,514 £58,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.54% +2.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £90,750 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.70%

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 7 November 2025.

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 33 (39.29%) Confluence
2 5 (5.95%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.19%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Maximo
2 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 49 (58.33%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 33 (39.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 33 (39.29%) Amazon EC2
3 33 (39.29%) AWS KMS
4 29 (34.52%) Amazon ELB
4 29 (34.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (28.57%) Amazon Glacier
6 19 (22.62%) Azure
7 9 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (10.71%) Route 53
8 8 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.76%) GCP
10 3 (3.57%) dbt
10 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 33 (39.29%) Firewall
2 16 (19.05%) DNS
2 16 (19.05%) FTP
2 16 (19.05%) HTTP
2 16 (19.05%) SMTP
2 16 (19.05%) SSH
3 10 (11.90%) ATM
3 10 (11.90%) Frame Relay
3 10 (11.90%) SDH
4 6 (7.14%) VoIP
5 5 (5.95%) IMAP
5 5 (5.95%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (4.76%) Network Security
7 3 (3.57%) LAN
7 3 (3.57%) VPN
8 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.38%) WAN
9 1 (1.19%) BGP
9 1 (1.19%) Internet
9 1 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (1.19%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) DB2
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (40.48%) Git
2 33 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 33 (39.29%) JIRA
3 29 (34.52%) Vagrant
4 6 (7.14%) JUnit
4 6 (7.14%) Maven
4 6 (7.14%) Mockito
5 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (4.76%) DbUnit
5 4 (4.76%) jMock
5 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.19%) Gatling
7 1 (1.19%) GitLab
7 1 (1.19%) JMeter
7 1 (1.19%) Locust
7 1 (1.19%) Postman
7 1 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (54.76%) Public Sector
2 30 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.33%) Finance
5 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Advertising
7 2 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Architect
2 16 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 13 (15.48%) Support Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) Network Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Senior
7 9 (10.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Lead
8 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) Spring
2 8 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 6 (7.14%) EDI
4 5 (5.95%) LDAP
4 5 (5.95%) React
4 5 (5.95%) Web Services
5 4 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (4.76%) Bootstrap
5 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
5 4 (4.76%) JPA
5 4 (4.76%) PowerMock
5 4 (4.76%) RESTful
5 4 (4.76%) SOAP
5 4 (4.76%) Spring Batch
5 4 (4.76%) Spring Integration
6 3 (3.57%) Django
7 2 (2.38%) REST
8 1 (1.19%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Replication
2 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.38%) IoT
3 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.38%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.38%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.19%) NHS
4 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.86%) Linux
2 29 (34.52%) VMS
3 18 (21.43%) Windows
4 16 (19.05%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (5.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) DevOps
2 30 (35.71%) Change Management
3 29 (34.52%) Cloud Security
3 29 (34.52%) Configuration Management
4 18 (21.43%) Agile
4 18 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (20.24%) Patch Management
6 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.71%) TDD
9 8 (9.52%) Microservices
9 8 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 6 (7.14%) BDD
11 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (7.14%) Open Source
11 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.67%) Python
2 29 (34.52%) Groovy
2 29 (34.52%) PowerShell
3 23 (27.38%) Java
4 11 (13.10%) Perl
5 10 (11.90%) SQL
6 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.38%) C#
9 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.38%) Scala
10 1 (1.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) Degree
3 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.57%) CISM
6 3 (3.57%) CISSP
6 3 (3.57%) CITP
6 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
1 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.95%) NIST
2 4 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) NCSC
3 2 (2.38%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) Docker
2 24 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (21.43%) DFS Replication
4 5 (5.95%) Dovecot
4 5 (5.95%) Postfix
4 5 (5.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (39.29%) Terraform
2 30 (35.71%) Grafana
3 29 (34.52%) Prometheus
4 13 (15.48%) Ansible
5 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.95%) Nessus
5 5 (5.95%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.38%) Endace
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 30 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 16 (19.05%) Juniper
3 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.95%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.57%) Cisco
6 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 2 (2.38%) Google
7 2 (2.38%) Planon
7 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 1 (1.19%) Aruba
8 1 (1.19%) Avaya
8 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.19%) HP
8 1 (1.19%) IBM
8 1 (1.19%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.19%) RedGate
8 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds