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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 68 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +65
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 148 276 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.53% 3.38% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.99% 12.33% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 119 197 204
10th Percentile £51,150 £26,700 £39,790
25th Percentile £56,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74,136 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%

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 2,117 2,238 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.50% 27.43% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 620 1,199 1,028
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £30,850
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £39,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,868 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -4.76% +12.98%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £75,125 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 £72,500 +55.91% 43
Solihull +10 17 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Warwickshire +1 14 £52,750 -8.26% 12
Shropshire +18 10 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Herefordshire +5 6 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Worcestershire +27 5 £80,000 +45.45% 17
Staffordshire -12 3 £75,000 +30.43% 39
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 36 (24.32%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.70%) nginx
5 2 (1.35%) CMS
5 2 (1.35%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.68%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.54%) AWS
2 46 (31.08%) Azure
3 39 (26.35%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (26.35%) Amazon S3
4 37 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 37 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 31 (20.95%) Amazon ELB
5 31 (20.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 27 (18.24%) Amazon Glacier
7 13 (8.78%) Entra ID
8 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (6.76%) Route 53
10 9 (6.08%) GCP
11 7 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.05%) OneDrive
12 6 (4.05%) Power Automate
13 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (3.38%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (26.35%) Firewall
2 35 (23.65%) WAN
3 17 (11.49%) DNS
4 16 (10.81%) FTP
4 16 (10.81%) HTTP
4 16 (10.81%) SMTP
4 16 (10.81%) SSH
5 14 (9.46%) Network Security
6 13 (8.78%) LAN
7 12 (8.11%) BGP
7 12 (8.11%) MPLS
8 11 (7.43%) IPsec
8 11 (7.43%) Junos
9 10 (6.76%) ATM
9 10 (6.76%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (6.76%) Frame Relay
9 10 (6.76%) SDH
10 8 (5.41%) SD-WAN
10 8 (5.41%) VLAN
11 6 (4.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.03%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.05%) Power BI
6 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.68%) DB2
9 1 (0.68%) GIS
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.68%) Redis
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (27.03%) Git
1 40 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 36 (24.32%) JIRA
3 31 (20.95%) Vagrant
4 8 (5.41%) JUnit
4 8 (5.41%) Maven
5 7 (4.73%) Mockito
5 7 (4.73%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.05%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (4.05%) DbUnit
6 6 (4.05%) jMock
7 2 (1.35%) Storybook
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) GitLab
8 1 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 43 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.78%) Finance
4 12 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Legal
7 5 (3.38%) Advertising
7 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.03%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (27.70%) Architect
2 34 (22.97%) Network Architect
3 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) Developer
5 15 (10.14%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure Support
6 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Senior
9 10 (6.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Lead
10 9 (6.08%) Network Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.73%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (4.05%) IT Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) Spring
1 12 (8.11%) Spring Boot
2 10 (6.76%) RESTful
3 9 (6.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (5.41%) JPA
4 8 (5.41%) SOAP
5 7 (4.73%) Bootstrap
5 7 (4.73%) Web Services
6 6 (4.05%) Hibernate
6 6 (4.05%) PowerMock
6 6 (4.05%) REST
6 6 (4.05%) Spring Batch
6 6 (4.05%) Spring Integration
7 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.70%) LDAP
8 3 (2.03%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.35%) Material-UI
9 2 (1.35%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Replication
2 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) PKI
8 1 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 47 (31.76%) Linux
2 34 (22.97%) Windows
3 31 (20.95%) VMS
4 17 (11.49%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.38%) Rocky
6 5 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.68%) Unix
8 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.76%) DevOps
2 35 (23.65%) Cloud Security
3 34 (22.97%) Change Management
4 31 (20.95%) Configuration Management
5 24 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (14.19%) Agile
7 19 (12.84%) Patch Management
8 17 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (10.14%) Microservices
11 14 (9.46%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.78%) BDD
12 13 (8.78%) Containerisation
12 13 (8.78%) Network Design
12 13 (8.78%) Network Management
12 13 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (8.11%) ITIL
13 12 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.11%) TDD
14 10 (6.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.70%) PowerShell
2 40 (27.03%) Python
3 31 (20.95%) Groovy
4 29 (19.59%) Java
5 18 (12.16%) SQL
6 15 (10.14%) Perl
7 2 (1.35%) Bash
7 2 (1.35%) C#
7 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) C
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 148 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.49%) Azure Certification
2 17 (11.49%) Degree
3 14 (9.46%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.78%) CCNA
4 13 (8.78%) CCNP
4 13 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.43%) JNCIS
6 6 (4.05%) CISSP
6 6 (4.05%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (2.70%) CISM
7 4 (2.70%) GIAC
8 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.03%) CISA
8 3 (2.03%) ISACA
8 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.03%) SANS
9 2 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) SLA
2 5 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.38%) NIST
3 4 (2.70%) GRC
3 4 (2.70%) NCSC
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
4 3 (2.03%) QA
5 2 (1.35%) COBIT
5 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.68%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.68%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.68%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (27.70%) Active Directory
2 32 (21.62%) Docker
3 23 (15.54%) DFS Replication
4 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.05%) Postfix
5 4 (2.70%) Dovecot
5 4 (2.70%) Squid
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (27.03%) Terraform
2 34 (22.97%) Grafana
2 34 (22.97%) Prometheus
3 16 (10.81%) Ansible
4 9 (6.08%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.70%) Nessus
5 4 (2.70%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.68%) SCCM
7 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (26.35%) Juniper
2 36 (24.32%) Cisco
3 32 (21.62%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.78%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.41%) SolarWinds
6 6 (4.05%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.05%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (3.38%) Dell
7 5 (3.38%) Google
7 5 (3.38%) Splunk
8 4 (2.70%) LogRhythm
9 3 (2.03%) RedGate
9 3 (2.03%) VMware
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle
10 2 (1.35%) SAP
11 1 (0.68%) Avaya
11 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.68%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.68%) Sage
11 1 (0.68%) Veeam