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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 74 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +56
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 145 271 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.58% 3.21% 4.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.85% 11.84% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 114 199 200
10th Percentile £50,900 £26,700 £39,630
25th Percentile £56,313 £42,195 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,627 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -12.00% +12.85%
75th Percentile £74,197 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £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 2,118 2,289 2,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 52.31% 27.11% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 595 1,239 994
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,108 £65,250
90th Percentile £75,750 £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 2 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 2 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 +4 81 £72,500 +55.91% 138
Warwickshire -1 19 £55,250 -3.91% 14
Solihull +6 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Shropshire +20 10 £65,000 +8.33% 51
Herefordshire +4 5 £75,000 +50.00% 5
Worcestershire +21 4 £80,000 +58.42% 20
Staffordshire -16 2 £63,224 +9.95% 50
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 34 (23.45%) Confluence
2 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.76%) nginx
5 2 (1.38%) CMS
5 2 (1.38%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.69%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.62%) AWS
2 43 (29.66%) Azure
3 37 (25.52%) Amazon EC2
3 37 (25.52%) Amazon S3
4 35 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (24.14%) AWS KMS
5 29 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
5 29 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 25 (17.24%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (8.28%) Entra ID
7 12 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.90%) Route 53
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (4.83%) GCP
9 7 (4.83%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (4.14%) OneDrive
10 6 (4.14%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (26.21%) Firewall
2 37 (25.52%) WAN
3 15 (10.34%) DNS
3 15 (10.34%) Network Security
4 14 (9.66%) FTP
4 14 (9.66%) HTTP
4 14 (9.66%) SMTP
4 14 (9.66%) SSH
5 13 (8.97%) LAN
6 12 (8.28%) BGP
6 12 (8.28%) MPLS
7 11 (7.59%) IPsec
7 11 (7.59%) Junos
8 10 (6.90%) ATM
8 10 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (6.90%) Frame Relay
8 10 (6.90%) SDH
9 9 (6.21%) SD-WAN
9 9 (6.21%) VLAN
10 6 (4.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.21%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.83%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.14%) Power BI
6 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) DB2
8 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.69%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (26.21%) Git
1 38 (26.21%) Jenkins
2 34 (23.45%) JIRA
3 29 (20.00%) Vagrant
4 8 (5.52%) JUnit
4 8 (5.52%) Maven
5 7 (4.83%) Mockito
5 7 (4.83%) SonarQube
6 6 (4.14%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (4.14%) DbUnit
6 6 (4.14%) jMock
6 6 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.38%) Storybook
8 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.69%) GitLab
8 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 39 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.97%) Finance
4 11 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Legal
7 5 (3.45%) Advertising
8 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (28.97%) Architect
2 35 (24.14%) Network Architect
3 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (11.03%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) Developer
5 15 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support
6 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Java Developer
8 12 (8.28%) Senior
9 10 (6.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Network Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead
11 8 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Lead Java Developer
13 6 (4.14%) Security Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) Senior Network Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.28%) Spring
1 12 (8.28%) Spring Boot
2 10 (6.90%) RESTful
3 9 (6.21%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (5.52%) JPA
4 8 (5.52%) SOAP
5 7 (4.83%) Bootstrap
5 7 (4.83%) Web Services
6 6 (4.14%) Hibernate
6 6 (4.14%) PowerMock
6 6 (4.14%) REST
6 6 (4.14%) Spring Batch
6 6 (4.14%) Spring Integration
7 4 (2.76%) LDAP
8 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.07%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Material-UI
9 2 (1.38%) MERN Stack
9 2 (1.38%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.17%) Replication
2 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.66%) Linux
2 32 (22.07%) Windows
3 29 (20.00%) VMS
4 15 (10.34%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.76%) Rocky
6 4 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.66%) DevOps
2 32 (22.07%) Change Management
2 32 (22.07%) Cloud Security
3 29 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (13.79%) Agile
6 16 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (11.03%) Patch Management
7 15 (10.34%) Microservices
7 15 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (9.66%) ITIL
8 14 (9.66%) Network Management
9 13 (8.97%) BDD
9 13 (8.97%) CI/CD
9 13 (8.97%) Network Design
9 13 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (8.28%) Containerisation
10 12 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.28%) TDD
11 10 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.90%) PowerShell
2 37 (25.52%) Python
3 29 (20.00%) Groovy
4 27 (18.62%) Java
5 18 (12.41%) SQL
6 12 (8.28%) Perl
7 2 (1.38%) C#
7 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.69%) Bash
8 1 (0.69%) C
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.69%) R
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.03%) Degree
3 14 (9.66%) Azure Certification
4 13 (8.97%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.97%) CCNA
4 13 (8.97%) CCNP
4 13 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.59%) JNCIS
6 9 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.52%) CISSP
7 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.14%) CISA
8 6 (4.14%) CISM
8 6 (4.14%) GIAC
8 6 (4.14%) ISACA
8 6 (4.14%) SANS
9 5 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.38%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) SLA
2 7 (4.83%) NCSC
3 6 (4.14%) GRC
4 5 (3.45%) JSP 440
5 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.07%) NIST
5 3 (2.07%) QA
6 1 (0.69%) COBIT
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.69%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (26.21%) Active Directory
2 30 (20.69%) Docker
3 22 (15.17%) DFS Replication
4 6 (4.14%) Postfix
5 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.76%) Dovecot
6 4 (2.76%) Squid
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (24.83%) Terraform
2 32 (22.07%) Grafana
2 32 (22.07%) Prometheus
3 15 (10.34%) Ansible
4 8 (5.52%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.14%) Nessus
6 4 (2.76%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.69%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.69%) SCCM
7 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (27.59%) Juniper
2 38 (26.21%) Cisco
3 30 (20.69%) ServiceNow
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.52%) SolarWinds
6 6 (4.14%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.14%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (3.45%) Google
8 4 (2.76%) Dell
8 4 (2.76%) Splunk
9 3 (2.07%) LogRhythm
9 3 (2.07%) Tenable
9 3 (2.07%) VMware
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle
10 2 (1.38%) RedGate
10 2 (1.38%) SAP
11 1 (0.69%) Aruba
11 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.69%) Meraki