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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 -23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 40 79 114
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.38% 6.27% 4.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.73% 18.12% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30 57 102
10th Percentile £43,497 £54,550 £26,700
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,243 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £65,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +39.78% -25.60%
75th Percentile £72,668 £74,014 £68,081
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 458 436 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.84% 34.63% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 235 200 496
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.69% -5.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,950 £82,500 £87,500
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 8 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 4 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Appian
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP BPC
2 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP GRC
2 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) Google Docs
6 1 (2.50%) Google Drive
6 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.50%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Broadband
2 1 (2.50%) DSLAM
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) Power Query
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
1 5 (12.50%) JUnit
1 5 (12.50%) Maven
1 5 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Senior
2 16 (40.00%) Analyst
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Architect
5 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Network Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Network Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Architect
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) React
2 2 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Playwright
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 5 (12.50%) Smartphone
3 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) CMDB
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (17.50%) Scrum
4 7 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (15.00%) Analytics
5 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
5 6 (15.00%) Migration
5 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 6 (15.00%) SDLC
5 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) AI
6 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.50%) Microservices
6 5 (12.50%) Time Management
6 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.00%) C
4 4 (10.00%) R
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.50%) CITP
5 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.50%) APMG
6 1 (2.50%) CBAP
6 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMP
6 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.50%) SLA
4 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Aruba
2 5 (12.50%) HP
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) BT
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Planon