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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 34 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +23
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 269 636 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.81% 5.35% 7.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.75% 21.62% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 186 406 328
10th Percentile £36,375 £25,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,313 £31,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,563 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

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 3,988 2,942 3,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 56.42% 24.75% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,868 1,266
10th Percentile £26,525 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +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 12 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 12 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 -11 231 £65,000 +18.18% 234
East Midlands -64 35 £52,000 +17.58% 113
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 12 (4.46%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
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
2 5 (1.86%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.37%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.70%) Azure
2 36 (13.38%) AWS
3 13 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (4.83%) GitHub
3 13 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (4.46%) PaaS
5 11 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.09%) SaaS
6 10 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (3.72%) IaaS
7 9 (3.35%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.35%) Boomi
7 9 (3.35%) GCP
7 9 (3.35%) Serverless
8 8 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.97%) OCI
9 7 (2.60%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.60%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (22.68%) WAN
2 28 (10.41%) Firewall
3 21 (7.81%) LAN
4 18 (6.69%) Network Security
5 17 (6.32%) MPLS
6 16 (5.95%) IPsec
6 16 (5.95%) VPN
7 15 (5.58%) BGP
7 15 (5.58%) VLAN
8 13 (4.83%) DNS
8 13 (4.83%) Junos
8 13 (4.83%) SD-WAN
9 12 (4.46%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (4.09%) Modbus
11 10 (3.72%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (2.97%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (2.97%) DHCP
13 7 (2.60%) TCP/IP
14 5 (1.86%) SAN
15 4 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.23%) Redis
5 5 (1.86%) DB2
5 5 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.86%) Power BI
6 4 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
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%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (5.95%) Git
1 16 (5.95%) JIRA
1 16 (5.95%) SonarQube
2 13 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.86%) Maven
3 5 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.49%) Vagrant
5 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.12%) JUnit
5 3 (1.12%) Mockito
6 2 (0.74%) DbUnit
6 2 (0.74%) jMock
6 2 (0.74%) LSMW
6 2 (0.74%) Selenium
6 2 (0.74%) Storybook
7 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.37%) GDB
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.37%) WinDbg
General
1 70 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.64%) Finance
3 31 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.95%) Law
7 9 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.35%) Legal
8 8 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.23%) Marketing
10 6 (2.23%) Police
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.12%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Electronics
12 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (23.79%) Architect
2 48 (17.84%) Network Architect
3 26 (9.67%) Consultant
4 23 (8.55%) Designer
5 22 (8.18%) Developer
5 22 (8.18%) Senior
6 21 (7.81%) Network Designer
7 20 (7.43%) Analyst
8 19 (7.06%) SAP Consultant
9 18 (6.69%) Network Engineer
10 17 (6.32%) Lead
11 13 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Change Analyst
13 10 (3.72%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) Security Engineer
15 7 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.60%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.72%) Middleware
2 9 (3.35%) JPA
2 9 (3.35%) RESTful
3 8 (2.97%) ARM Templates
3 8 (2.97%) Azure Blueprints
4 7 (2.60%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (2.60%) REST
4 7 (2.60%) SOAP
5 6 (2.23%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.23%) Django
5 6 (2.23%) Spring
5 6 (2.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.86%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.86%) Flask
6 5 (1.86%) Keycloak
6 5 (1.86%) pytest
6 5 (1.86%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (1.86%) Vaadin
6 5 (1.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.92%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.83%) SCADA
3 9 (3.35%) Cyberattack
4 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.23%) Replication
7 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
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%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.15%) Linux
2 26 (9.67%) Windows
3 8 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.86%) Rocky
4 5 (1.86%) Unix
5 4 (1.49%) AIX
5 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.49%) VMS
5 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.12%) Android
6 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Debian
8 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (19.33%) Project Management
2 41 (15.24%) Project Delivery
3 39 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (14.13%) Collaborative Working
5 37 (13.75%) DevOps
6 36 (13.38%) Network Management
7 35 (13.01%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (13.01%) Mentoring
8 33 (12.27%) Data Privacy
9 27 (10.04%) Agile
10 25 (9.29%) Software Engineering
11 23 (8.55%) Change Management
12 22 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 22 (8.18%) ITIL
13 21 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (7.43%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.43%) Network Design
15 16 (5.95%) Analytics
15 16 (5.95%) Line Management
16 15 (5.58%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 34 (12.64%) SQL
2 32 (11.90%) Python
3 24 (8.92%) Java
4 18 (6.69%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.97%) C++
7 7 (2.60%) Perl
8 6 (2.23%) C#
9 5 (1.86%) ABAP
9 5 (1.86%) Bash
9 5 (1.86%) C
9 5 (1.86%) Groovy
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%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 168 (62.45%) SC Cleared
2 44 (16.36%) Degree
3 31 (11.52%) DV Cleared
4 28 (10.41%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (10.04%) CCNA
6 22 (8.18%) CCNP
7 19 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (6.69%) JNCIS
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 5 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.12%) MCSA
13 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.69%) NCSC
2 15 (5.58%) SLA
3 10 (3.72%) GRC
4 8 (2.97%) JSP 440
4 8 (2.97%) QA
5 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.49%) PMO
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.74%) MISRA
8 2 (0.74%) NIST
8 2 (0.74%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.37%) JTAG
9 1 (0.37%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.37%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 36 (13.38%) Docker
2 21 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.49%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) Postfix
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (8.55%) Kubernetes
1 23 (8.55%) Terraform
2 22 (8.18%) Ansible
3 11 (4.09%) Grafana
3 11 (4.09%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.60%) Nessus
5 5 (1.86%) SCOM
6 4 (1.49%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) SCCM
7 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.74%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.74%) SCSM
8 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.37%) VxRail
9 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (32.34%) Cisco
2 69 (25.65%) Juniper
3 36 (13.38%) SAP
4 26 (9.67%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.06%) VMware
6 16 (5.95%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.83%) Oracle
8 11 (4.09%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.72%) Dell
9 10 (3.72%) SevOne
10 9 (3.35%) Google
11 8 (2.97%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.23%) Tenable
13 5 (1.86%) F5
14 4 (1.49%) DocuSign
14 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.49%) Hyperion
14 4 (1.49%) JD Edwards
14 4 (1.49%) PeopleSoft
15 3 (1.12%) Databricks