SC Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 75 73
Rank change year-on-year -47 -2 +21
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 173 385 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.43% 3.18% 4.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.24% 12.89% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 131 230 234
10th Percentile £36,750 £29,670 £38,377
25th Percentile £49,335 £42,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +12.97%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.86% +12.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,077 2,987 3,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 57.38% 24.69% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,861 1,245
10th Percentile £27,150 £25,500 £27,850
25th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -3.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £74,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -5 146 £65,000 +18.18% 190
East Midlands -65 26 £52,000 +4.00% 80
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (6.94%) Confluence
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) CMS
3 2 (1.16%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.89%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.31%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.81%) Azure
2 30 (17.34%) AWS
3 14 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (8.09%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (6.94%) AWS KMS
5 10 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.20%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (5.20%) GCP
6 9 (5.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (4.62%) Amazon Glacier
7 8 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.05%) OCI
8 7 (4.05%) Serverless
9 6 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.89%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.89%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 57 (32.95%) WAN
2 26 (15.03%) Firewall
3 19 (10.98%) LAN
4 16 (9.25%) Network Security
5 15 (8.67%) MPLS
6 14 (8.09%) IPsec
7 13 (7.51%) BGP
8 12 (6.94%) Junos
8 12 (6.94%) VLAN
9 11 (6.36%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (6.36%) SD-WAN
9 11 (6.36%) VPN
10 10 (5.78%) Modbus
11 9 (5.20%) DNS
12 6 (3.47%) ATM
12 6 (3.47%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (3.47%) Frame Relay
12 6 (3.47%) SDH
13 5 (2.89%) SMTP
13 5 (2.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.47%) Power BI
4 4 (2.31%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.31%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.83%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.67%) Git
2 15 (8.67%) JIRA
3 9 (5.20%) Vagrant
4 5 (2.89%) Maven
5 4 (2.31%) JUnit
5 4 (2.31%) Mockito
5 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.73%) DbUnit
6 3 (1.73%) jMock
7 2 (1.16%) Selenium
7 2 (1.16%) Storybook
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.58%) GitLab
8 1 (0.58%) Subversion
8 1 (0.58%) TestComplete
General
1 37 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.56%) Finance
3 17 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.20%) Marketing
6 8 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Law
7 6 (3.47%) Legal
7 6 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Advertising
10 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.16%) Banking
11 2 (1.16%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.16%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Electronics
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (36.42%) Architect
2 47 (27.17%) Network Architect
3 14 (8.09%) Network Engineer
4 13 (7.51%) Senior
5 12 (6.94%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Lead
6 10 (5.78%) Designer
6 10 (5.78%) Developer
7 8 (4.62%) Analyst
7 8 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 8 (4.62%) Network Designer
7 8 (4.62%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.05%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (3.47%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) Lead Developer
10 5 (2.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.62%) SOAP
2 7 (4.05%) AngularJS
2 7 (4.05%) REST
2 7 (4.05%) Spring
2 7 (4.05%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.89%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (2.89%) JPA
4 5 (2.89%) RESTful
4 5 (2.89%) Web Services
5 4 (2.31%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.73%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.73%) PowerMock
6 3 (1.73%) React
6 3 (1.73%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.73%) Spring Integration
6 3 (1.73%) Vue
7 2 (1.16%) CSS
7 2 (1.16%) HTML
7 2 (1.16%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) SCADA
2 7 (4.05%) Replication
3 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.14%) Linux
2 18 (10.40%) Windows
3 9 (5.20%) VMS
4 6 (3.47%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Unix
7 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (15.61%) Network Management
2 23 (13.29%) DevOps
3 19 (10.98%) ITIL
3 19 (10.98%) Mentoring
4 18 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (8.67%) Agile
6 14 (8.09%) Change Management
6 14 (8.09%) Computer Science
6 14 (8.09%) Network Design
6 14 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (7.51%) Validation
8 12 (6.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (6.36%) Analytics
9 11 (6.36%) Cloud Security
9 11 (6.36%) Configuration Management
9 11 (6.36%) Migration
9 11 (6.36%) Network Monitoring
9 11 (6.36%) Problem Management
10 10 (5.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.56%) Python
2 19 (10.98%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.40%) SQL
4 14 (8.09%) Java
5 9 (5.20%) Groovy
6 5 (2.89%) Perl
7 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (0.58%) C
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) R
9 1 (0.58%) XAML
Qualifications
1 173 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.45%) Degree
3 22 (12.72%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (12.14%) CCNA
5 17 (9.83%) CCNP
6 14 (8.09%) JNCIS
7 9 (5.20%) CISA
7 9 (5.20%) CISM
7 9 (5.20%) CISSP
7 9 (5.20%) GIAC
7 9 (5.20%) ISACA
7 9 (5.20%) SANS
8 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.31%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.73%) MCSA
12 2 (1.16%) MCP
12 2 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) SLA
2 10 (5.78%) NCSC
3 9 (5.20%) GRC
4 8 (4.62%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.31%) QA
6 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) COBIT
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.83%) Docker
3 7 (4.05%) DFS Replication
3 7 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.16%) Postfix
6 1 (0.58%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Squid
6 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (9.25%) Terraform
2 11 (6.36%) Grafana
2 11 (6.36%) Prometheus
3 7 (4.05%) Ansible
4 6 (3.47%) Nessus
5 4 (2.31%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.31%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.73%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) Argo
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.58%) SCCM
8 1 (0.58%) SCOM
8 1 (0.58%) VxRail
8 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (38.73%) Cisco
2 53 (30.64%) Juniper
3 17 (9.83%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.94%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.20%) Google
6 8 (4.62%) SolarWinds
7 7 (4.05%) Oracle
7 7 (4.05%) VMware
8 6 (3.47%) Tenable
9 4 (2.31%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.31%) Hyperion
9 4 (2.31%) JD Edwards
9 4 (2.31%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.73%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.73%) Databricks
11 2 (1.16%) arcserve
11 2 (1.16%) F5
11 2 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.16%) Veeam
12 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint