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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 -26
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 43 108 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.34% 6.05% 4.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.62% 18.31% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 34 63 84
10th Percentile £43,497 £56,495 £30,204
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,014 £69,613
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,920 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £61,761 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.98% +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 405 590 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.00% 33.05% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 211 190 372
10th Percentile - £34,400 £30,680
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,063 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £56,800
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +5.63% +8.19%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,563 £68,950
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,625 £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 2 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 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
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 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.98%) dbt
5 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
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
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) LAN
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) FTP
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) Internet
4 1 (2.33%) IPsec
4 1 (2.33%) Junos
4 1 (2.33%) MPLS
4 1 (2.33%) SMTP
4 1 (2.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
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 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Gatling
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) Locust
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 8 (18.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Senior
2 11 (25.58%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
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 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
3 8 (18.60%) Decision-Making
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%) Project Delivery
5 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.95%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (11.63%) AI
6 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) SOA
6 5 (11.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
4 5 (11.63%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) C
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.30%) R
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) CITP
5 1 (2.33%) APMG
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CISM
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
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 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Endace
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) Juniper
3 3 (6.98%) Planon
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Aruba
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) IBM