Security Cleared Job Trends in Solihull

Security Clearance
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Solihull with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 18 26 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 13.74% 17.11% 24.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.86% 30.59% 65.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 26
10th Percentile £56,500 £35,100 £46,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% +10.91% +2.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £81,250 £63,438
90th Percentile £98,750 - £65,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 43 85 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 32.82% 55.92% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 39 35
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £91,250 £81,250 £62,415
90th Percentile £96,875 £84,000 £65,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Solihull

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Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Security Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Solihull

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Solihull over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Solihull

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) AWS KMS
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) FTP
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
1 4 (22.22%) SMTP
1 4 (22.22%) SSH
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) IMAP
2 2 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 4 (22.22%) Vagrant
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (72.22%) Public Sector
3 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) VMS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (61.11%) Analytical Thinking
2 11 (61.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (61.11%) IT Strategy
2 11 (61.11%) Roadmaps
3 7 (38.89%) Information Management
3 7 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Technology Roadmap
3 7 (38.89%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) CRM
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Business Development
5 4 (22.22%) Case Management
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Time Management
5 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Groovy
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 14 (77.78%) Degree
3 6 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) DFS Replication
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) Dovecot
1 2 (11.11%) Postfix
1 2 (11.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) Nessus
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.11%) Proxmox
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow