SC Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +17
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 136 243 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.05% 3.36% 4.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.39% 12.78% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 93 199 195
10th Percentile £47,650 £26,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £42,139 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74,014 £62,200 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

SC 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the West Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham 0 82 £65,000 +39.78% 34
Warwickshire -25 32 £54,000 +2.86% 11
Solihull -6 7 £62,000 +24.00% 1
Shropshire +19 5 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Herefordshire +8 3 £61,000 -28.24% 1
Staffordshire -7 2 £51,447 -6.46% 34
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 6 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.47%) CMS
3 2 (1.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.94%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.06%) Azure
2 11 (8.09%) AWS
3 9 (6.62%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (6.62%) GCP
3 9 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.15%) Serverless
5 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.41%) OCI
5 6 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.41%) PowerApps
6 5 (3.68%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.47%) Contentful
8 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.47%) Figma
9 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 55 (40.44%) WAN
2 18 (13.24%) LAN
3 17 (12.50%) Firewall
4 14 (10.29%) IPsec
4 14 (10.29%) MPLS
4 14 (10.29%) Network Security
5 13 (9.56%) BGP
6 12 (8.82%) Junos
6 12 (8.82%) VLAN
6 12 (8.82%) VPN
7 11 (8.09%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (7.35%) SD-WAN
9 8 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.47%) SAN
12 1 (0.74%) DHCP
12 1 (0.74%) DNS
12 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.74%) OSPF
12 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.94%) Power BI
2 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) Selenium
2 2 (1.47%) Storybook
3 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (15.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.29%) Finance
3 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Legal
5 5 (3.68%) Marketing
6 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Advertising
7 1 (0.74%) Electronics
7 1 (0.74%) Law
7 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (44.85%) Architect
2 47 (34.56%) Network Architect
3 18 (13.24%) Designer
4 16 (11.76%) Network Designer
5 13 (9.56%) Network Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Senior
7 8 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Consultant
9 4 (2.94%) Data Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Developer
10 3 (2.21%) Analyst
10 3 (2.21%) Lead
10 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365 Expert
10 3 (2.21%) Oracle Architect
10 3 (2.21%) Senior Consultant
11 2 (1.47%) 1st Line Engineer
11 2 (1.47%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.47%) CSS
2 2 (1.47%) CSS3
2 2 (1.47%) Express.js
2 2 (1.47%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.47%) hapi
2 2 (1.47%) HTML
2 2 (1.47%) HTML5
2 2 (1.47%) Material-UI
2 2 (1.47%) MEAN Stack
2 2 (1.47%) MERN Stack
2 2 (1.47%) NestJS
2 2 (1.47%) Node.js
2 2 (1.47%) React
2 2 (1.47%) React Native
2 2 (1.47%) REST
2 2 (1.47%) Vue
3 1 (0.74%) Django
3 1 (0.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.94%) Cloud Native
1 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.21%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.47%) SCADA
4 1 (0.74%) Clustering
4 1 (0.74%) CMDB
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.74%) PKI
4 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 5 (3.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (19.85%) Network Management
2 19 (13.97%) ITIL
3 16 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 16 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 14 (10.29%) Network Design
5 12 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (8.82%) Network Monitoring
5 12 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (8.09%) DevOps
6 11 (8.09%) Problem Management
7 10 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (6.62%) Analytics
8 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (5.88%) Compliance Management
9 8 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
10 7 (5.15%) Software Engineering
11 6 (4.41%) Agile
11 6 (4.41%) Coaching
11 6 (4.41%) Project Management
11 6 (4.41%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 8 (5.88%) SQL
2 6 (4.41%) Python
3 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.74%) C
4 1 (0.74%) C#
4 1 (0.74%) C++
4 1 (0.74%) Java
4 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 136 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.18%) CCNA
2 22 (16.18%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (13.24%) CCNP
4 16 (11.76%) JNCIS
5 10 (7.35%) Degree
6 9 (6.62%) CISA
6 9 (6.62%) CISM
6 9 (6.62%) CISSP
6 9 (6.62%) GIAC
6 9 (6.62%) ISACA
6 9 (6.62%) SANS
7 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) SLA
2 9 (6.62%) GRC
3 8 (5.88%) JSP 440
3 8 (5.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) COBIT
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 12 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) Docker
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Ansible
2 5 (3.68%) Nessus
2 5 (3.68%) Terraform
3 4 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) SCOM
5 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.74%) VxRail
5 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (58.82%) Cisco
2 64 (47.06%) Juniper
3 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) Google
4 9 (6.62%) SolarWinds
5 6 (4.41%) Oracle
5 6 (4.41%) Tenable
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.94%) F5
7 4 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.94%) Hyperion
7 4 (2.94%) JD Edwards
7 4 (2.94%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (2.21%) Databricks
8 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.47%) Veeam
10 1 (0.74%) Aruba
10 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce