SC Cleared Jobs 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 44 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 +50
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 87 117 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.25% 4.20% 7.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.52% 17.81% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 65 105 96
10th Percentile £57,750 £26,700 £38,966
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -25.60% +12.08%
75th Percentile £74,014 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £78,750 £78,125
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +11.00%

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 599 657 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.03% 23.58% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 203 514 388
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,715 £28,123
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £51,474 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -4.76% +14.13%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Birmingham

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 May 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 9 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.30%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.54%) AWS
2 12 (13.79%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 8 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (9.20%) AWS KMS
4 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 7 (8.05%) Serverless
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 5 (5.75%) OCI
8 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.45%) Route 53
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.30%) Contentful
9 2 (2.30%) Figma
10 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (47.13%) WAN
2 12 (13.79%) IPsec
2 12 (13.79%) MPLS
3 11 (12.64%) BGP
3 11 (12.64%) LAN
4 10 (11.49%) Junos
5 9 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (8.05%) Firewall
7 6 (6.90%) ATM
7 6 (6.90%) Frame Relay
7 6 (6.90%) Network Security
7 6 (6.90%) SDH
8 4 (4.60%) DNS
8 4 (4.60%) VoIP
8 4 (4.60%) VPN
9 3 (3.45%) FTP
9 3 (3.45%) HTTP
9 3 (3.45%) SD-WAN
9 3 (3.45%) SMTP
9 3 (3.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
1 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 9 (10.34%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) Vagrant
3 3 (3.45%) Maven
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.30%) DbUnit
4 2 (2.30%) jMock
4 2 (2.30%) JUnit
4 2 (2.30%) Mockito
4 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.30%) Storybook
5 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.05%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Marketing
7 3 (3.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Architect
2 45 (51.72%) Network Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (6.90%) Designer
4 6 (6.90%) Network Designer
5 5 (5.75%) Developer
5 5 (5.75%) Senior
6 4 (4.60%) Consultant
6 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Lead
7 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) WAN Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
1 4 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (3.45%) REST
2 3 (3.45%) SOAP
2 3 (3.45%) Spring
2 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.45%) Web Services
3 2 (2.30%) CSS
3 2 (2.30%) CSS3
3 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.30%) hapi
3 2 (2.30%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.30%) HTML
3 2 (2.30%) Material-UI
3 2 (2.30%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (2.30%) MERN Stack
3 2 (2.30%) NestJS
3 2 (2.30%) React Native
3 2 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (4.60%) Replication
2 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.15%) CMDB
3 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Windows
3 6 (6.90%) VMS
4 3 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.15%) Unix
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.03%) Network Management
2 16 (18.39%) DevOps
3 14 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (11.49%) Network Design
5 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 8 (9.20%) Configuration Management
6 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.20%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (8.05%) Agile
8 6 (6.90%) Analytics
8 6 (6.90%) Change Management
8 6 (6.90%) Cloud Security
8 6 (6.90%) Microservices
8 6 (6.90%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.75%) BDD
9 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
9 5 (5.75%) Coaching
9 5 (5.75%) Data Development
9 5 (5.75%) Digital Identity
9 5 (5.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) Python
2 6 (6.90%) Groovy
2 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) Java
4 4 (4.60%) SQL
5 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.30%) Perl
5 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) CCNA
2 10 (11.49%) CCNP
2 10 (11.49%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (11.49%) JNCIS
3 3 (3.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.15%) APMG
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) CITP
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.15%) PMP
5 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) NCSC
2 2 (2.30%) NIST
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.05%) Docker
3 4 (4.60%) DFS Replication
4 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.15%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) Postfix
5 1 (1.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Grafana
2 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.75%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.15%) Nessus
5 1 (1.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (57.47%) Cisco
2 49 (56.32%) Juniper
3 8 (9.20%) Google
3 8 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle
6 4 (4.60%) Hyperion
6 4 (4.60%) JD Edwards
6 4 (4.60%) PeopleSoft
7 3 (3.45%) VMware
8 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.15%) Aruba
9 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (1.15%) Meraki
9 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.15%) SevOne
9 1 (1.15%) Veeam