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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 32 50
Rank change year-on-year -39 +18 -29
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 39 103 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.73% 6.72% 4.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.35% 19.22% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 66 91
10th Percentile £43,497 £54,125 £26,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £73,416 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% +20.93% -4.83%

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 417 536 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.45% 34.99% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 209 195 435
10th Percentile - £36,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,750
West Midlands median annual salary £44,543 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -19.01% +13.40% -4.34%

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 11 March 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 (12.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Maximo
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.69%) dbt
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.13%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.13%) PaaS
7 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.13%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) Broadband
2 1 (2.56%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JUnit
1 6 (15.38%) Maven
1 6 (15.38%) Mockito
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Gatling
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Locust
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Senior
2 9 (23.08%) Analyst
2 9 (23.08%) Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Security Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) React
3 4 (10.26%) Spring
4 3 (7.69%) Django
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) EDI
6 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.56%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) Playwright
6 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.56%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.56%) IoT
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.64%) Decision-Making
4 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (20.51%) Microservices
4 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.95%) Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
5 7 (17.95%) SDLC
5 7 (17.95%) TDD
6 6 (15.38%) AI
6 6 (15.38%) Data Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (12.82%) CRM
7 5 (12.82%) SOA
7 5 (12.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.82%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) C
5 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) R
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CITP
4 2 (5.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.56%) APMG
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CBAP
5 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.69%) WCAG
4 2 (5.13%) GDPR
5 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.69%) Google
5 2 (5.13%) Planon
6 1 (2.56%) BT