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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 49 113 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.98% 5.91% 9.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.64% 20.25% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 43 58 98
10th Percentile £44,047 £51,196 £30,680
25th Percentile £55,925 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,506 £74,014 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,875 £69,800
West Midlands median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% +18.18% -

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 421 558 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.56% 29.20% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 219 188 300
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% +4.70%

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 18 December 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 9 (18.37%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (2.04%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) Amazon S3
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (18.37%) AWS KMS
4 9 (18.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (8.16%) GCP
7 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.12%) dbt
8 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.08%) Pulumi
9 2 (4.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) Firewall
2 7 (14.29%) DNS
2 7 (14.29%) FTP
2 7 (14.29%) HTTP
2 7 (14.29%) SMTP
2 7 (14.29%) SSH
3 3 (6.12%) LAN
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
4 2 (4.08%) IMAP
4 2 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.08%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) BGP
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.04%) Internet
5 1 (2.04%) IPsec
5 1 (2.04%) Junos
5 1 (2.04%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) Redis
4 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) DB2
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.37%) JIRA
2 9 (18.37%) Vagrant
3 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.08%) JUnit
3 2 (4.08%) Maven
3 2 (4.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.04%) Gatling
4 1 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) JMeter
4 1 (2.04%) Locust
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 22 (44.90%) Public Sector
2 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Law
6 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Senior
2 10 (20.41%) Architect
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) EDI
1 6 (12.24%) Spring
2 5 (10.20%) React
3 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.12%) Django
4 3 (6.12%) REST
5 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.08%) LDAP
6 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.04%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.04%) JSON
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) Playwright
6 1 (2.04%) PySpark
6 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.16%) Replication
2 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 9 (18.37%) VMS
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (8.16%) Windows
5 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) DevOps
2 14 (28.57%) Agile
3 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.41%) Change Management
5 9 (18.37%) Cloud Security
5 9 (18.37%) Configuration Management
5 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Patch Management
7 7 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
9 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.20%) Product Management
9 5 (10.20%) TDD
10 4 (8.16%) AI
10 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (8.16%) Security Testing
10 4 (8.16%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.16%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 9 (18.37%) Groovy
3 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
4 8 (16.33%) SQL
5 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.20%) Perl
7 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.08%) C#
8 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.08%) Scala
9 1 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.12%) CISM
4 3 (6.12%) CISSP
4 3 (6.12%) CITP
4 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.12%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) WCAG
4 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.16%) DFS Replication
4 2 (4.08%) Dovecot
4 2 (4.08%) Postfix
4 2 (4.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Grafana
3 9 (18.37%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.08%) Ansible
5 2 (4.08%) Endace
5 2 (4.08%) Nessus
5 2 (4.08%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) ServiceNow
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) Juniper
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (4.08%) Planon
6 1 (2.04%) Aruba
6 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.04%) HP
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.04%) RedGate
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds