Security Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 269 627 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.81% 5.18% 7.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.65% 21.01% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 188 393 328
10th Percentile £35,350 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,875 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +7.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,045 2,985 3,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 57.29% 24.68% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 840 1,858 1,244
10th Percentile £27,456 £25,500 £27,825
25th Percentile £35,500 £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 £63,188 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £74,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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 -6 232 £65,000 +18.18% 293
East Midlands -76 36 £52,000 +17.58% 151
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 16 (5.95%) Confluence
2 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
3 2 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.74%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.86%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 4 (1.49%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 50 (18.59%) Azure
2 43 (15.99%) AWS
3 16 (5.95%) Amazon S3
4 15 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (5.20%) AWS KMS
6 13 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.72%) PaaS
8 10 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.35%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (3.35%) GCP
9 9 (3.35%) GitHub
9 9 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.35%) SaaS
9 9 (3.35%) Serverless
10 8 (2.97%) Amazon Glacier
10 8 (2.97%) IaaS
10 8 (2.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (21.93%) WAN
2 30 (11.15%) Firewall
3 20 (7.43%) LAN
4 19 (7.06%) Network Security
5 17 (6.32%) MPLS
6 16 (5.95%) IPsec
7 15 (5.58%) BGP
7 15 (5.58%) DNS
8 14 (5.20%) VLAN
8 14 (5.20%) VPN
9 13 (4.83%) Junos
10 12 (4.46%) Cisco IOS
10 12 (4.46%) SD-WAN
11 11 (4.09%) Modbus
12 10 (3.72%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (2.60%) ATM
13 7 (2.60%) DHCP
13 7 (2.60%) Frame Relay
13 7 (2.60%) SDH
13 7 (2.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.23%) Power BI
4 6 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.86%) DB2
5 5 (1.86%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.49%) Big Data
6 4 (1.49%) MaxDB
6 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.49%) Redis
6 4 (1.49%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (7.81%) Git
1 21 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.43%) JIRA
3 14 (5.20%) SonarQube
4 9 (3.35%) Vagrant
5 7 (2.60%) Maven
6 5 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (1.86%) JUnit
6 5 (1.86%) Mockito
6 5 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.49%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.49%) jMock
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
8 2 (0.74%) Storybook
9 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.37%) GDB
9 1 (0.37%) GitLab
9 1 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.37%) WinDbg
General
1 72 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 33 (12.27%) Finance
4 25 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.06%) Law
7 9 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.35%) Marketing
8 8 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.97%) Legal
8 8 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.23%) Police
10 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Advertising
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.12%) Local Government
13 2 (0.74%) Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
13 2 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (24.91%) Architect
2 50 (18.59%) Network Architect
3 24 (8.92%) Consultant
4 23 (8.55%) Analyst
5 22 (8.18%) Developer
6 21 (7.81%) Senior
7 19 (7.06%) Designer
7 19 (7.06%) Lead
8 17 (6.32%) Network Designer
8 17 (6.32%) SAP Consultant
9 16 (5.95%) Network Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.72%) Change Analyst
13 9 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.35%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 7 (2.60%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.09%) JPA
2 10 (3.72%) Middleware
3 9 (3.35%) RESTful
3 9 (3.35%) SOAP
4 8 (2.97%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.97%) REST
4 8 (2.97%) Spring
4 8 (2.97%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.23%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (2.23%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.23%) Azure Blueprints
6 6 (2.23%) Web Services
7 5 (1.86%) Bootstrap
7 5 (1.86%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.86%) GWT
7 5 (1.86%) J2EE
7 5 (1.86%) Vaadin
8 4 (1.49%) Node.js
8 4 (1.49%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.83%) SCADA
3 11 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.35%) Cyberattack
5 8 (2.97%) Replication
5 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.75%) Linux
2 28 (10.41%) Windows
3 9 (3.35%) VMS
4 7 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.23%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.86%) Rocky
6 5 (1.86%) Unix
7 4 (1.49%) AIX
7 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.12%) Android
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.37%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (17.47%) Project Management
2 39 (14.50%) DevOps
3 38 (14.13%) Project Delivery
4 36 (13.38%) Collaborative Working
4 36 (13.38%) Network Management
4 36 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (13.01%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (12.64%) Mentoring
7 31 (11.52%) Data Privacy
8 30 (11.15%) Agile
9 28 (10.41%) Change Management
10 23 (8.55%) Software Engineering
11 22 (8.18%) ITIL
12 21 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (7.43%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.43%) Containerisation
13 20 (7.43%) Network Design
14 17 (6.32%) Analytics
15 16 (5.95%) Line Management
16 15 (5.58%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.13%) Python
2 35 (13.01%) SQL
3 29 (10.78%) Java
4 23 (8.55%) PowerShell
5 10 (3.72%) Groovy
5 10 (3.72%) Perl
6 9 (3.35%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.97%) C++
8 6 (2.23%) Bash
8 6 (2.23%) C#
9 5 (1.86%) ABAP
9 5 (1.86%) C
10 3 (1.12%) Go
10 3 (1.12%) Rust
10 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 175 (65.06%) SC Cleared
2 44 (16.36%) Degree
3 31 (11.52%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (9.29%) CCNA
6 20 (7.43%) CCNP
7 16 (5.95%) JNCIS
8 14 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.72%) CISM
10 9 (3.35%) CISA
10 9 (3.35%) CISSP
10 9 (3.35%) GIAC
10 9 (3.35%) ISACA
10 9 (3.35%) SANS
11 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.86%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.12%) MCSA
14 2 (0.74%) MCP
14 2 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.69%) SLA
2 17 (6.32%) NCSC
3 10 (3.72%) GRC
4 8 (2.97%) JSP 440
4 8 (2.97%) QA
5 7 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.49%) NIST
6 4 (1.49%) PMO
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.74%) MISRA
8 2 (0.74%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) GDPR
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.37%) JTAG
9 1 (0.37%) MISRA C
System Software
1 38 (14.13%) Docker
2 24 (8.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.60%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.12%) Postfix
6 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.37%) Firmware
8 1 (0.37%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (10.04%) Terraform
2 20 (7.43%) Ansible
3 19 (7.06%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.58%) Grafana
4 15 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.97%) Nessus
6 4 (1.49%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.49%) SCOM
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.74%) SCCM
8 2 (0.74%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.74%) SCSM
8 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.37%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (29.74%) Cisco
2 65 (24.16%) Juniper
3 34 (12.64%) SAP
4 24 (8.92%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.43%) ServiceNow
6 18 (6.69%) VMware
7 13 (4.83%) Oracle
8 10 (3.72%) SevOne
9 9 (3.35%) Google
9 9 (3.35%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.97%) Dell
10 8 (2.97%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.23%) Tenable
12 4 (1.49%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.49%) DocuSign
12 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.49%) Hyperion
12 4 (1.49%) JD Edwards
12 4 (1.49%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (1.49%) Splunk