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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -44 -6 +30
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 242 652 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.56% 5.17% 7.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.11% 21.28% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 174 406 331
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,375 £33,813 £41,403
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 £77,500 £74,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 3,962 3,064 3,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 58.28% 24.30% 39.78%
Number of salaries quoted 794 1,889 1,254
10th Percentile £27,019 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,438 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -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 28 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 28 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 -14 209 £65,000 +18.18% 259
East Midlands -74 33 £52,000 +20.73% 145
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 19 (7.85%) Confluence
2 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.83%) nginx
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.65%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.83%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.07%) Azure
2 46 (19.01%) AWS
3 20 (8.26%) Amazon S3
4 19 (7.85%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (7.44%) AWS KMS
6 17 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (5.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (4.96%) Amazon ELB
9 11 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.13%) Amazon Glacier
11 9 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.72%) GCP
11 9 (3.72%) GitHub
11 9 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.72%) PaaS
11 9 (3.72%) Serverless
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.89%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.89%) IaaS
13 7 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.90%) WAN
2 30 (12.40%) Firewall
3 18 (7.44%) LAN
4 17 (7.02%) DNS
4 17 (7.02%) MPLS
5 16 (6.61%) Network Security
6 15 (6.20%) BGP
6 15 (6.20%) IPsec
7 13 (5.37%) Junos
7 13 (5.37%) VLAN
8 12 (4.96%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (4.55%) Modbus
9 11 (4.55%) SD-WAN
10 10 (4.13%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (3.72%) VPN
12 8 (3.31%) HTTP
13 7 (2.89%) FTP
13 7 (2.89%) SDH
13 7 (2.89%) SMTP
13 7 (2.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.48%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.07%) DB2
5 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.07%) Power BI
6 4 (1.65%) Big Data
6 4 (1.65%) MaxDB
6 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.65%) Redis
6 4 (1.65%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.33%) Git
2 24 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.09%) JIRA
4 15 (6.20%) SonarQube
5 12 (4.96%) Vagrant
6 8 (3.31%) Maven
7 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (2.48%) JUnit
7 6 (2.48%) Mockito
8 5 (2.07%) DbUnit
8 5 (2.07%) jMock
8 5 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.83%) Selenium
9 2 (0.83%) Storybook
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.41%) GDB
10 1 (0.41%) GitLab
10 1 (0.41%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.41%) WinDbg
General
1 64 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.16%) Finance
4 25 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.68%) Law
6 16 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.31%) Marketing
8 8 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.89%) Legal
10 6 (2.48%) Police
11 4 (1.65%) Advertising
12 3 (1.24%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.24%) Local Government
13 2 (0.83%) Aviation
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Retail
13 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (24.79%) Architect
2 45 (18.60%) Network Architect
3 22 (9.09%) Developer
4 21 (8.68%) Analyst
4 21 (8.68%) Consultant
4 21 (8.68%) Senior
5 20 (8.26%) Lead
6 16 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.61%) SAP Consultant
7 15 (6.20%) Network Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Designer
10 11 (4.55%) Network Designer
11 10 (4.13%) Change Analyst
11 10 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support
13 8 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 8 (3.31%) Support Analyst
14 7 (2.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.96%) JPA
2 9 (3.72%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.72%) RESTful
2 9 (3.72%) SOAP
2 9 (3.72%) Spring
2 9 (3.72%) Spring Boot
3 8 (3.31%) REST
4 7 (2.89%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (2.48%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.48%) Azure Blueprints
5 6 (2.48%) Bootstrap
5 6 (2.48%) Middleware
5 6 (2.48%) Web Services
6 5 (2.07%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.07%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.07%) J2EE
6 5 (2.07%) PowerMock
6 5 (2.07%) Spring Batch
6 5 (2.07%) Spring Integration
6 5 (2.07%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.37%) SCADA
3 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.72%) Cyberattack
4 9 (3.72%) Replication
5 7 (2.89%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.07%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.70%) Linux
2 28 (11.57%) Windows
3 12 (4.96%) VMS
4 8 (3.31%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.89%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.07%) Rocky
6 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.07%) Unix
7 4 (1.65%) AIX
7 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.24%) Android
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.41%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) Debian
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (18.18%) Project Management
2 37 (15.29%) DevOps
2 37 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (14.05%) Project Delivery
4 33 (13.64%) Change Management
4 33 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
4 33 (13.64%) Network Management
5 30 (12.40%) Data Privacy
6 29 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (11.57%) Agile
7 28 (11.57%) Mentoring
8 20 (8.26%) Network Design
8 20 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (7.85%) ITIL
9 19 (7.85%) Patch Management
9 19 (7.85%) Software Engineering
10 18 (7.44%) Computer Science
10 18 (7.44%) Containerisation
11 16 (6.61%) Line Management
12 15 (6.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.29%) Python
2 36 (14.88%) SQL
3 31 (12.81%) Java
4 26 (10.74%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.96%) Groovy
6 10 (4.13%) Perl
7 9 (3.72%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.48%) C++
9 5 (2.07%) ABAP
9 5 (2.07%) Bash
10 3 (1.24%) C
10 3 (1.24%) C#
10 3 (1.24%) Go
10 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.83%) Rust
11 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 156 (64.46%) SC Cleared
2 41 (16.94%) Degree
3 28 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 22 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (8.68%) CCNA
6 18 (7.44%) CCNP
7 14 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (5.79%) JNCIS
8 8 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.31%) CISM
9 7 (2.89%) CISA
9 7 (2.89%) CISSP
9 7 (2.89%) GIAC
9 7 (2.89%) ISACA
9 7 (2.89%) SANS
10 6 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.24%) MCSA
11 3 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.83%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.68%) SLA
2 15 (6.20%) NCSC
3 10 (4.13%) QA
4 8 (3.31%) GRC
5 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.48%) JSP 440
7 5 (2.07%) PMO
8 4 (1.65%) NIST
9 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.83%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.41%) COBIT
10 1 (0.41%) GDPR
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 39 (16.12%) Docker
2 26 (10.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.72%) DFS Replication
4 8 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.65%) Postfix
5 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.83%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.83%) Squid
7 2 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (11.98%) Terraform
2 18 (7.44%) Ansible
2 18 (7.44%) Grafana
2 18 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.44%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.89%) Nessus
4 4 (1.65%) SCOM
5 3 (1.24%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.24%) Puppet
5 3 (1.24%) SCCM
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.83%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.83%) SCSM
6 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.41%) Kibana
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (27.27%) Cisco
2 55 (22.73%) Juniper
3 30 (12.40%) SAP
4 22 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 19 (7.85%) Microsoft
6 18 (7.44%) VMware
7 10 (4.13%) Oracle
7 10 (4.13%) SevOne
8 9 (3.72%) Google
9 8 (3.31%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.31%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.65%) Dell
11 4 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (1.65%) Splunk
11 4 (1.65%) Tenable
12 3 (1.24%) Databricks
13 2 (0.83%) Avaya
13 2 (0.83%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.83%) JD Edwards