Security Cleared Jobs in Birmingham

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 33 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +46
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 129 157 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.21% 5.69% 11.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.72% 24.12% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 88 126 134
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,932 £35,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £74,014 £70,000 £72,356
90th Percentile £82,875 £79,600 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +15.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

Security 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 594 651 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.43% 23.58% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 197 509 386
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,700 £27,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +12.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +13.58%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Birmingham

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Birmingham

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.43%) Confluence
2 2 (1.55%) CMS
2 2 (1.55%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (3.10%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 4 (3.10%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.78%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.78%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.78%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.18%) AWS
2 14 (10.85%) Azure
3 9 (6.98%) Serverless
4 8 (6.20%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.20%) GCP
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (5.43%) AWS KMS
6 6 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (4.65%) OCI
6 6 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.88%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (3.10%) Boomi
8 4 (3.10%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.55%) Contentful
10 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.55%) Figma
10 2 (1.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 42 (32.56%) WAN
2 13 (10.08%) IPsec
2 13 (10.08%) MPLS
3 12 (9.30%) BGP
3 12 (9.30%) LAN
4 11 (8.53%) Junos
5 10 (7.75%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (5.43%) Firewall
7 6 (4.65%) ATM
7 6 (4.65%) Frame Relay
7 6 (4.65%) SDH
8 5 (3.88%) DNS
8 5 (3.88%) Network Security
8 5 (3.88%) VPN
9 4 (3.10%) VoIP
10 3 (2.33%) FTP
10 3 (2.33%) HTTP
10 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.33%) SMTP
10 3 (2.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.88%) DB2
4 4 (3.10%) MaxDB
4 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.10%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.78%) MySQL
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.20%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) JIRA
4 5 (3.88%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.55%) Maven
5 2 (1.55%) Storybook
6 1 (0.78%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.78%) GDB
6 1 (0.78%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.78%) jMock
6 1 (0.78%) JUnit
6 1 (0.78%) LSMW
6 1 (0.78%) Mockito
6 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.78%) WinDbg
General
1 39 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Finance
3 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Law
6 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Police
7 4 (3.10%) Marketing
8 3 (2.33%) Advertising
9 2 (1.55%) Legal
9 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Billing
10 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (44.96%) Architect
2 47 (36.43%) Network Architect
3 23 (17.83%) Consultant
4 17 (13.18%) SAP Consultant
5 10 (7.75%) Analyst
5 10 (7.75%) Change Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (5.43%) Designer
8 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Network Designer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior
9 6 (4.65%) Junior
9 6 (4.65%) Lead
10 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Change Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) SAP Analyst
11 4 (3.10%) Graduate Developer
11 4 (3.10%) Graduate Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) JPA
1 6 (4.65%) Middleware
2 5 (3.88%) GWT
2 5 (3.88%) J2EE
2 5 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.88%) Vaadin
3 4 (3.10%) SAP Basis
4 3 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.33%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) CSS3
5 2 (1.55%) Express.js
5 2 (1.55%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.55%) hapi
5 2 (1.55%) HTML5
5 2 (1.55%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (1.55%) Node.js
5 2 (1.55%) React
5 2 (1.55%) React Native
5 2 (1.55%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.10%) Replication
5 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Life Science
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.50%) Linux
2 11 (8.53%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Rocky
3 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) VMS
4 4 (3.10%) AIX
5 3 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.58%) Project Delivery
2 32 (24.81%) Collaborative Working
2 32 (24.81%) Project Management
3 31 (24.03%) Data Privacy
4 27 (20.93%) Network Management
5 19 (14.73%) Change Management
6 18 (13.95%) DevOps
7 16 (12.40%) Network Design
7 16 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (8.53%) Agile
9 11 (8.53%) ERP
9 11 (8.53%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.75%) Analytics
10 10 (7.75%) Journey Map
10 10 (7.75%) Line Management
10 10 (7.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (7.75%) User Journey Map
11 9 (6.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (6.20%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.63%) SQL
2 13 (10.08%) Java
3 10 (7.75%) Python
4 6 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.88%) ABAP
5 5 (3.88%) Groovy
6 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.55%) Perl
7 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) C
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) CodeQL
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) R
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 12 (9.30%) Degree
3 11 (8.53%) CCNA
3 11 (8.53%) CCNP
3 11 (8.53%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (8.53%) JNCIS
4 9 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.78%) APMG
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) CCA
6 1 (0.78%) CITP
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
6 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) SLA
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) PMO
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) NCSC
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 10 (7.75%) Docker
2 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.33%) DFS Replication
3 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Postfix
4 1 (0.78%) Squid
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (8.53%) Terraform
2 6 (4.65%) Ansible
3 5 (3.88%) Grafana
3 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.55%) Nessus
5 2 (1.55%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 53 (41.09%) Cisco
2 52 (40.31%) Juniper
3 30 (23.26%) SAP
4 13 (10.08%) ServiceNow
5 11 (8.53%) Oracle
6 8 (6.20%) Google
7 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.65%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.10%) Dell
9 4 (3.10%) Hyperion
9 4 (3.10%) JD Edwards
9 4 (3.10%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (2.33%) VMware
11 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.78%) IBM
11 1 (0.78%) Jaspersoft
11 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.78%) Veeam