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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 36 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +29
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 63 117 114
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.31% 5.42% 9.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.58% 20.28% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55 62 104
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,227 £30,680
25th Percentile £56,625 £51,196 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,887 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% +8.15% +6.23%
75th Percentile £74,256 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,516 £92,625 £69,310
West Midlands median annual salary £71,521 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.43% +13.64% -

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 380 577 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.99% 26.73% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 221 199 314
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,611
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,652 £57,500 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +0.37% +4.31%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,960 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,500 £75,875
West Midlands median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +5.26%

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 29 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 20 (31.75%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.59%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.59%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Maximo
2 1 (1.59%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) AWS
2 22 (34.92%) Amazon S3
3 20 (31.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 20 (31.75%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (31.75%) AWS KMS
4 19 (30.16%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (30.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (26.98%) Azure
6 16 (25.40%) Amazon Glacier
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.35%) GCP
8 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.35%) Route 53
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.76%) dbt
9 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.92%) Firewall
2 11 (17.46%) DNS
2 11 (17.46%) FTP
2 11 (17.46%) HTTP
2 11 (17.46%) SMTP
2 11 (17.46%) SSH
3 3 (4.76%) ATM
3 3 (4.76%) Frame Relay
3 3 (4.76%) IMAP
3 3 (4.76%) LAN
3 3 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (4.76%) SDH
3 3 (4.76%) VPN
4 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.17%) VoIP
4 2 (3.17%) WAN
5 1 (1.59%) BGP
5 1 (1.59%) Internet
5 1 (1.59%) IPsec
5 1 (1.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
5 1 (1.59%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) DB2
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Git
2 20 (31.75%) Jenkins
2 20 (31.75%) JIRA
3 19 (30.16%) Vagrant
4 3 (4.76%) JUnit
4 3 (4.76%) Maven
4 3 (4.76%) Mockito
5 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.59%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.59%) Gatling
6 1 (1.59%) GitLab
6 1 (1.59%) JMeter
6 1 (1.59%) jMock
6 1 (1.59%) Locust
6 1 (1.59%) Postman
6 1 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.52%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Architect
2 11 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Senior
4 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Lead
7 5 (7.94%) Network Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Spring
2 6 (9.52%) EDI
3 5 (7.94%) React
3 5 (7.94%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.76%) Django
4 3 (4.76%) LDAP
4 3 (4.76%) REST
5 2 (3.17%) Web Services
6 1 (1.59%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.59%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.59%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.59%) JPA
6 1 (1.59%) JSON
6 1 (1.59%) Node.js
6 1 (1.59%) PowerMock
6 1 (1.59%) RESTful
6 1 (1.59%) SOAP
6 1 (1.59%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.59%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Replication
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.17%) IoT
3 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.59%) NHS
4 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (36.51%) Linux
2 19 (30.16%) VMS
3 11 (17.46%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (17.46%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) DevOps
2 20 (31.75%) Change Management
3 19 (30.16%) Cloud Security
3 19 (30.16%) Configuration Management
4 15 (23.81%) Agile
5 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 12 (19.05%) Patch Management
7 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.52%) TDD
11 5 (7.94%) Incident Response
11 5 (7.94%) Microservices
11 5 (7.94%) Product Management
11 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
12 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) Groovy
2 19 (30.16%) PowerShell
3 17 (26.98%) Java
4 9 (14.29%) SQL
5 8 (12.70%) Perl
6 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.17%) C#
8 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.17%) Scala
9 1 (1.59%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.76%) CISM
5 3 (4.76%) CISSP
5 3 (4.76%) CITP
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (3.17%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
2 16 (25.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.46%) DFS Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Dovecot
4 3 (4.76%) Postfix
4 3 (4.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (36.51%) Terraform
2 20 (31.75%) Grafana
3 19 (30.16%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.70%) Ansible
5 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.76%) Nessus
6 3 (4.76%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.17%) Endace
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) ServiceNow
2 11 (17.46%) Juniper
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Planon
6 1 (1.59%) Aruba
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) HP
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.59%) RedGate
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds