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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 34 50
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 -26
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 43 109 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.27% 6.20% 4.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.46% 18.76% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 62 80
10th Percentile £43,497 £56,495 £29,670
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,014 £69,613
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,600 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 411 581 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.69% 33.07% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 217 188 372
10th Percentile - £34,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,825 £82,500 £83,625
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +18.56% -3.00%

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 February 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 5 (11.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) Maximo
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.33%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.98%) dbt
5 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.65%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) LAN
1 3 (6.98%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) BGP
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.33%) Internet
3 1 (2.33%) IPsec
3 1 (2.33%) Junos
3 1 (2.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Redis
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JUnit
1 6 (13.95%) Maven
1 6 (13.95%) Mockito
2 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Gatling
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) JMeter
3 1 (2.33%) Locust
3 1 (2.33%) Postman
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Law
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Senior
2 11 (25.58%) Architect
3 8 (18.60%) Analyst
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Business Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Penetration Tester
9 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) REST
2 5 (11.63%) React
3 4 (9.30%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) Django
4 3 (6.98%) EDI
5 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) Node.js
6 1 (2.33%) Playwright
6 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.98%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) IoT
4 2 (4.65%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
2 9 (20.93%) DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
3 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (18.60%) Microservices
3 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (16.28%) Scrum
4 7 (16.28%) SDLC
4 7 (16.28%) TDD
5 6 (13.95%) AI
5 6 (13.95%) Project Delivery
5 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.95%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (11.63%) Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) SOA
6 5 (11.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Java
1 9 (20.93%) SQL
2 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
3 5 (11.63%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) C
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) R
4 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) CITP
4 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.65%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) APMG
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CBAP
5 1 (2.33%) CISM
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 5 (11.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.98%) WCAG
4 2 (4.65%) GDPR
5 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.33%) GRC
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Endace
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco
4 3 (6.98%) Google
4 3 (6.98%) Juniper
4 3 (6.98%) Planon
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Aruba
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) IBM