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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 34 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +27
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 55 115 114
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.59% 5.55% 9.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.82% 20.18% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 47 58 104
10th Percentile £45,149 £46,713 £30,680
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,495 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +10.64% +4.02%
75th Percentile £74,256 £74,046 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,274 £85,875 £69,310
West Midlands median annual salary £68,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.60% +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 398 570 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.98% 27.52% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 216 193 313
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,552
25th Percentile £29,170 £42,500 £41,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,980 £59,430 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.73% +9.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 6 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 15 (27.27%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.82%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.82%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Maximo
2 1 (1.82%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Amazon S3
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 15 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
3 15 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 15 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (21.82%) Amazon Glacier
5 7 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.27%) GCP
6 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.45%) dbt
7 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.45%) Route 53
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.64%) Pulumi
8 2 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) Firewall
2 10 (18.18%) DNS
2 10 (18.18%) FTP
2 10 (18.18%) HTTP
2 10 (18.18%) SMTP
2 10 (18.18%) SSH
3 3 (5.45%) IMAP
3 3 (5.45%) LAN
3 3 (5.45%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (5.45%) VPN
4 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.64%) WAN
5 1 (1.82%) BGP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.82%) Internet
5 1 (1.82%) IPsec
5 1 (1.82%) Junos
5 1 (1.82%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.64%) Power BI
4 2 (3.64%) Redis
5 1 (1.82%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) DB2
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Git
2 15 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 15 (27.27%) JIRA
2 15 (27.27%) Vagrant
3 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.64%) JUnit
3 2 (3.64%) Maven
3 2 (3.64%) Mockito
4 1 (1.82%) Gatling
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) JMeter
4 1 (1.82%) Locust
4 1 (1.82%) Postman
4 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 28 (50.91%) Public Sector
2 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.91%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Senior
2 9 (16.36%) Architect
3 7 (12.73%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) EDI
1 6 (10.91%) Spring
2 5 (9.09%) React
3 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.45%) Django
4 3 (5.45%) LDAP
4 3 (5.45%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.82%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.82%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) Node.js
6 1 (1.82%) Playwright
6 1 (1.82%) PySpark
6 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Replication
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.64%) IoT
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
4 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Linux
2 15 (27.27%) VMS
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (14.55%) Windows
5 3 (5.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 16 (29.09%) Change Management
3 15 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 15 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 14 (25.45%) Agile
5 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
5 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.09%) Incident Response
10 5 (9.09%) Product Management
10 5 (9.09%) TDD
11 4 (7.27%) AI
11 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) Groovy
2 15 (27.27%) Java
2 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.36%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Perl
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.64%) Scala
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 55 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.45%) CISM
4 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 3 (5.45%) CITP
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) WCAG
4 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
2 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.55%) DFS Replication
4 3 (5.45%) Dovecot
4 3 (5.45%) Postfix
4 3 (5.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Terraform
2 16 (29.09%) Grafana
3 15 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.09%) Ansible
4 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.45%) Nessus
5 3 (5.45%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.64%) Endace
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) ServiceNow
2 8 (14.55%) Juniper
3 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (3.64%) Planon
6 1 (1.82%) Aruba
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.82%) RedGate
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds