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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 39 115 53
Rank change year-on-year +76 -62 +6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 195 229 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.97% 2.78% 5.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.38% 7.51% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 178 175 221
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,966 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,938 £44,657 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £69,860 £92,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,050
% change year-on-year - -4.25% +9.18%

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 1,122 3,049 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.34% 36.98% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 896 1,379 1,218
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -

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 December 2023.

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 December 2023. 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 +31 114 £58,750 +4.02% 30
Warwickshire +91 26 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Solihull +24 21 £55,000 +2.33% 3
Staffordshire +34 16 £43,250 -21.36% 26
Shropshire +5 3 £77,500 +31.36% 2
Coventry +37 2 £55,000 - 1
Herefordshire +5 2 - -
Worcestershire -2 1 £77,500 +19.23% 9
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 20 (10.26%) IIS
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) Appian
4 2 (1.03%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.08%) Azure
2 20 (10.26%) AWS
3 19 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (4.62%) OneDrive
6 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.08%) dbt
8 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.56%) Serverless
9 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.03%) GCP
11 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.03%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 56 (28.72%) WAN
2 47 (24.10%) Firewall
3 27 (13.85%) BGP
4 22 (11.28%) LAN
4 22 (11.28%) OSPF
5 16 (8.21%) Network Security
6 14 (7.18%) SD-WAN
7 13 (6.67%) VPN
8 10 (5.13%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (5.13%) MPLS
9 8 (4.10%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (4.10%) VLAN
10 7 (3.59%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (3.59%) Wireless
11 6 (3.08%) NGFW
11 6 (3.08%) SAN
11 6 (3.08%) Wireshark
12 5 (2.56%) IPsec
12 5 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.59%) GIS
2 7 (3.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.05%) MySQL
5 3 (1.54%) Big Data
5 3 (1.54%) Power BI
6 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.03%) Parquet
6 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (2.56%) GitLab
2 3 (1.54%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.51%) JIRA
4 1 (0.51%) JMeter
4 1 (0.51%) Postman
4 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.51%) Selenium
4 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (10.77%) Telecoms
4 19 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Retail
7 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.08%) Finance
9 3 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.03%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.03%) Military
10 2 (1.03%) Police
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (16.92%) Senior
2 23 (11.79%) Architect
3 17 (8.72%) Lead
4 16 (8.21%) Network Engineer
4 16 (8.21%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (7.69%) Network Architect
6 13 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Consultant
9 9 (4.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 9 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Developer
10 8 (4.10%) Network Security Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Deskside Support
11 6 (3.08%) Desktop Support
11 6 (3.08%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.67%) REST
1 13 (6.67%) WebRTC
2 11 (5.64%) .NET
3 9 (4.62%) Node.js
4 5 (2.56%) RESTful
5 3 (1.54%) SOAP
5 3 (1.54%) Web Services
6 2 (1.03%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.03%) Django
6 2 (1.03%) hapi
6 2 (1.03%) JSON
7 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.51%) CSS
7 1 (0.51%) Playwright
7 1 (0.51%) React
7 1 (0.51%) Velocity
7 1 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.85%) Data Centre
2 23 (11.79%) Management Information System
3 20 (10.26%) Clustering
4 11 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.62%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.62%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.59%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.08%) PKI
7 6 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.03%) Blog
11 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Android
2 14 (7.18%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.67%) Unix
4 9 (4.62%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.59%) Linux
6 5 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (16.41%) Agile
2 32 (16.41%) DevOps
3 23 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (11.79%) High Availability
4 22 (11.28%) Prototyping
5 19 (9.74%) ITIL
6 18 (9.23%) Mentoring
6 18 (9.23%) Software Engineering
7 16 (8.21%) Design Patterns
7 16 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (8.21%) User Research
8 15 (7.69%) Coaching
8 15 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 15 (7.69%) Project Management
9 14 (7.18%) Information Security
10 13 (6.67%) Availability Management
10 13 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 13 (6.67%) Load Balancing
10 13 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.36%) SQL
2 16 (8.21%) Python
3 14 (7.18%) Java
4 10 (5.13%) Go
5 8 (4.10%) C#
6 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.54%) Ruby
9 2 (1.03%) Bash
9 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 195 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (9.23%) CCNP
4 17 (8.72%) Degree
5 13 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
6 12 (6.15%) CCNA
6 12 (6.15%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.13%) CISSP
7 10 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.08%) PMI Certification
8 6 (3.08%) PMP
8 6 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (2.56%) MCSE
9 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.05%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.03%) CCIE
11 2 (1.03%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.03%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.62%) SLA
2 7 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.59%) NCSC
3 6 (3.08%) QA
4 3 (1.54%) COBIT
5 2 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 22 (11.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (10.77%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.10%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.03%) Docker
5 2 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (1.03%) KVM
6 1 (0.51%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) XenApp
6 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.62%) Puppet
3 8 (4.10%) SCCM
4 7 (3.59%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.08%) Cacti
5 6 (3.08%) Icinga
6 5 (2.56%) AirWatch
6 5 (2.56%) Terraform
7 2 (1.03%) Nessus
7 2 (1.03%) SCOM
8 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.51%) Nagios
8 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.51%) VxRail
8 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.41%) VMware
3 29 (14.87%) Cisco
4 22 (11.28%) Juniper
5 17 (8.72%) Aruba
6 16 (8.21%) CheckPoint
7 15 (7.69%) F5
8 14 (7.18%) ServiceNow
9 11 (5.64%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.62%) Remedy
11 8 (4.10%) Ericsson
12 5 (2.56%) Apple
12 5 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.56%) Samsung
13 4 (2.05%) Oracle
14 2 (1.03%) Dell
14 2 (1.03%) Forcepoint
14 2 (1.03%) Google
14 2 (1.03%) Meraki
15 1 (0.51%) EMC