SC Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 73 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -41
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 242 274 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.35% 4.07% 3.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.76% 9.90% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 198 196 95
10th Percentile £26,700 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,139 £46,250 £37,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +12.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £62,200 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,896 2,768 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.23% 41.15% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 975 1,153
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £28,602
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -21 117 £46,500 -25.60% 29
Warwickshire +81 39 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Staffordshire -20 31 £55,000 +15.79% 15
Solihull +15 22 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Worcestershire -14 18 £55,000 -10.93%
Shropshire -12 5 £60,000 - 8
Herefordshire -3 3 £85,000 +102.38% 3
Coventry +34 2 £43,072 -21.69%
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 19 (7.85%) IIS
2 8 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Appian
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.65%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.07%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.65%) EPLAN
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.23%) Azure
2 27 (11.16%) AWS
3 22 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.79%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.07%) dbt
9 5 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.83%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (0.83%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (0.83%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (0.83%) GitHub
11 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.38%) WAN
2 50 (20.66%) Firewall
3 31 (12.81%) SD-WAN
4 27 (11.16%) MPLS
5 26 (10.74%) IPsec
6 17 (7.02%) Wireless
7 12 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.72%) BGP
8 9 (3.72%) Network Security
9 7 (2.89%) DNS
10 6 (2.48%) LAN
10 6 (2.48%) VPN
11 5 (2.07%) VSAN
12 4 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (1.24%) 3GPP
13 3 (1.24%) 5G
13 3 (1.24%) DHCP
13 3 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.83%) VoIP
14 2 (0.83%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.24%) Power BI
3 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) Appium
3 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) JIRA
3 1 (0.41%) JUnit
3 1 (0.41%) PVCS
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) TestNG
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (14.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.68%) Finance
4 16 (6.61%) Retail
4 16 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.79%) Police
6 12 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.13%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
10 3 (1.24%) Electronics
10 3 (1.24%) Local Government
10 3 (1.24%) Military
10 3 (1.24%) Turkish Language
11 2 (0.83%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (24.79%) Network Engineer
2 40 (16.53%) Senior
3 21 (8.68%) Developer
3 21 (8.68%) Systems Engineer
4 19 (7.85%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.44%) Architect
6 17 (7.02%) Lead
6 17 (7.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (4.13%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (4.13%) WAN Engineer
8 9 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (3.31%) IP Architect
10 7 (2.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 7 (2.89%) 3rd Line Server Support
10 7 (2.89%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (2.89%) Server Support
10 7 (2.89%) Windows Server Support
11 6 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.48%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.85%) REST
1 19 (7.85%) WebRTC
2 11 (4.55%) 802.1X
3 10 (4.13%) .NET
4 9 (3.72%) React
4 9 (3.72%) RESTful
4 9 (3.72%) SOAP
5 2 (0.83%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.83%) Django
5 2 (0.83%) Node.js
5 2 (0.83%) RSS
6 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.41%) Kafka
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.41%) Spring
6 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.74%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.85%) Clustering
3 18 (7.44%) Virtual Team
4 13 (5.37%) Driving Licence
5 10 (4.13%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.89%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.48%) CMDB
7 6 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.07%) PKI
8 5 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.83%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) SCADA
11 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.98%) Windows
2 20 (8.26%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.48%) Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) zOS
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.42%) Agile
1 47 (19.42%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (13.22%) ITIL
4 29 (11.98%) Mentoring
5 27 (11.16%) Software Engineering
5 27 (11.16%) Validation
6 25 (10.33%) DevOps
7 24 (9.92%) Project Delivery
7 24 (9.92%) Project Management
8 22 (9.09%) Load Balancing
9 20 (8.26%) Change Management
10 19 (7.85%) High Availability
11 18 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (7.44%) Service Management
11 18 (7.44%) Systems Engineering
12 17 (7.02%) Configuration Management
12 17 (7.02%) Customer Requirements
13 16 (6.61%) Customer Service
14 15 (6.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.09%) SQL
2 12 (4.96%) JavaScript
3 11 (4.55%) Java
3 11 (4.55%) Python
4 7 (2.89%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.48%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.24%) C
7 2 (0.83%) Bash
8 1 (0.41%) C#
8 1 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 242 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.46%) Degree
3 22 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.68%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.02%) CCNA
6 14 (5.79%) CCNP
7 9 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.31%) CCSA
9 6 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.07%) HND
10 5 (2.07%) MCSA
10 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.83%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.83%) CCDA
13 2 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.37%) Def Stans
2 8 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.65%) NCSC
5 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.24%) NIST
5 3 (1.24%) PMO
6 2 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.83%) QA
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) RMADS
System Software
1 29 (11.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (11.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.89%) VMware NSX
3 7 (2.89%) vSphere
4 3 (1.24%) Docker
4 3 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.37%) SCCM
2 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) SCOM
4 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Nagios
4 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.83%) Puppet
4 2 (0.83%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) VxRail
5 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (26.86%) Microsoft
2 47 (19.42%) Cisco
3 43 (17.77%) Juniper
4 33 (13.64%) VMware
5 24 (9.92%) CheckPoint
6 12 (4.96%) Aruba
6 12 (4.96%) Meraki
7 9 (3.72%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.31%) Dell
9 6 (2.48%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.07%) EMC
10 5 (2.07%) IFS
11 4 (1.65%) HP
12 3 (1.24%) Oracle
12 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.83%) Avaya
13 2 (0.83%) F5
13 2 (0.83%) Forcepoint
13 2 (0.83%) IBM
13 2 (0.83%) NEC