SC Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 73 92
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 388 408 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.32% 4.30% 3.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.50% 10.79% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 231 231 165
10th Percentile £26,700 £37,500 £25,900
25th Percentile £42,139 £46,250 £37,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.97% -11.48%
75th Percentile £61,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £79,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,874 3,781 3,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.57% 39.83% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,858 1,278 1,706
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +2 245 £55,000 -8.33% 65
East Midlands +1 143 £50,000 - 27
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 28 (7.22%) ArcGIS
1 28 (7.22%) GeoServer
2 18 (4.64%) IIS
3 8 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.29%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Appian
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.03%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.52%) JBoss
6 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.55%) Simulink
3 5 (1.29%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.03%) EPLAN
4 4 (1.03%) Sketch
5 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 121 (31.19%) Azure
2 66 (17.01%) AWS
3 21 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.61%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.55%) GCP
9 6 (1.55%) Miro
10 5 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.03%) dbt
11 4 (1.03%) Figma
11 4 (1.03%) Heroku
11 4 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (14.95%) WAN
2 51 (13.14%) Firewall
3 31 (7.99%) SD-WAN
4 27 (6.96%) MPLS
5 26 (6.70%) IPsec
6 17 (4.38%) Wireless
7 13 (3.35%) BGP
7 13 (3.35%) DNS
8 12 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (2.58%) Network Security
10 6 (1.55%) LAN
10 6 (1.55%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.29%) DHCP
11 5 (1.29%) VPN
11 5 (1.29%) VSAN
12 4 (1.03%) SSL
13 3 (0.77%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.77%) 5G
13 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.22%) GIS
2 28 (7.22%) QGIS
3 26 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.29%) Power BI
4 5 (1.29%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.29%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.77%) MySQL
7 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Power Query
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.12%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (3.35%) GitLab
3 11 (2.84%) JIRA
4 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) Git
6 2 (0.52%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.52%) Selenium
6 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.26%) Appium
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) JUnit
7 1 (0.26%) Postman
7 1 (0.26%) PVCS
7 1 (0.26%) TestNG
7 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 34 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (7.47%) Finance
4 20 (5.15%) Retail
5 17 (4.38%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.12%) Police
7 15 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.61%) Military
9 10 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.32%) Electronics
11 4 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Turkish Language
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 91 (23.45%) Senior
2 61 (15.72%) Network Engineer
3 46 (11.86%) Architect
4 36 (9.28%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.51%) Developer
6 32 (8.25%) Lead
7 31 (7.99%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (6.96%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (5.93%) Project Manager
11 16 (4.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.35%) Analyst
13 10 (2.58%) Senior Network Engineer
13 10 (2.58%) WAN Engineer
14 9 (2.32%) Designer
15 8 (2.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.06%) IP Architect
15 8 (2.06%) Presales Solution Architect
16 7 (1.80%) 2nd Line Support
16 7 (1.80%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.79%) React
2 36 (9.28%) .NET
3 28 (7.22%) Leaflet
3 28 (7.22%) OpenLayers
3 28 (7.22%) PostGIS
4 26 (6.70%) .NET Core
5 25 (6.44%) CSS
6 20 (5.15%) REST
7 18 (4.64%) WebRTC
8 12 (3.09%) 802.1X
8 12 (3.09%) RESTful
9 11 (2.84%) SOAP
10 9 (2.32%) HTML
11 6 (1.55%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.55%) Django
11 6 (1.55%) XML
12 5 (1.29%) JSON
12 5 (1.29%) Node.js
12 5 (1.29%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.93%) Virtual Team
3 18 (4.64%) Clustering
4 13 (3.35%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.58%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.32%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.80%) PKI
8 6 (1.55%) CMDB
8 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.03%) SCADA
11 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.77%) IBM Mainframe
11 3 (0.77%) IoT
11 3 (0.77%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.54%) Windows
2 21 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.90%) Linux
4 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.77%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.90%) Agile
2 84 (21.65%) Actionable Insight
3 67 (17.27%) DevOps
4 62 (15.98%) Software Engineering
5 56 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (13.66%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (10.31%) Project Management
8 37 (9.54%) ITIL
8 37 (9.54%) Validation
9 34 (8.76%) Mentoring
10 33 (8.51%) Systems Engineering
11 29 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (7.22%) Change Management
12 28 (7.22%) Web Development
13 26 (6.70%) Project Delivery
14 25 (6.44%) Load Balancing
14 25 (6.44%) Service Management
15 24 (6.19%) Customer Requirements
16 22 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 20 (5.15%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.92%) JavaScript
2 51 (13.14%) Python
3 23 (5.93%) SQL
4 21 (5.41%) C#
5 19 (4.90%) Java
6 17 (4.38%) MATLAB
7 13 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.03%) C
10 3 (0.77%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.26%) PHP
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 388 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.75%) Degree
3 29 (7.47%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.90%) CCNA
6 15 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.87%) CCNP
7 13 (3.35%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.06%) CCSA
10 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.29%) HND
12 5 (1.29%) MCSA
13 4 (1.03%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.35%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 8 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.29%) WCAG
5 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) NIST
5 4 (1.03%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.03%) PMO
5 4 (1.03%) SLA
6 3 (0.77%) COBIT
6 3 (0.77%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) QA
8 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 28 (7.22%) Active Directory
1 28 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.58%) vSphere
3 7 (1.80%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.29%) Docker
5 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.61%) SCCM
2 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.29%) SCOM
4 4 (1.03%) Terraform
5 3 (0.77%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.77%) OpenView
5 3 (0.77%) VxRail
6 2 (0.52%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Nagios
6 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Nessus
7 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.63%) Cisco
3 43 (11.08%) Juniper
4 38 (9.79%) VMware
5 28 (7.22%) ESRI
6 24 (6.19%) CheckPoint
7 14 (3.61%) Aruba
8 13 (3.35%) Meraki
9 12 (3.09%) Oracle
10 9 (2.32%) Dell
10 9 (2.32%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.80%) HP
11 7 (1.80%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.29%) EMC
13 5 (1.29%) IFS
13 5 (1.29%) Sparx
14 3 (0.77%) F5
14 3 (0.77%) IBM
14 3 (0.77%) Remedy