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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 66 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +39
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 130 263 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.14% 3.34% 4.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.48% 12.80% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 99 209 201
10th Percentile £49,836 £26,700 £35,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,227 £46,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,014 £62,200 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.93% +13.55%

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 2,374 2,054 2,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.26% 26.08% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 550 1,293 964
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,575
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +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 30 May 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 May 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 79 £67,500 +45.16% 100
Warwickshire -8 25 £56,500 +7.62% 7
Solihull +4 12 £75,000 +33.33% 4
Shropshire +15 7 £70,000 +16.67% 134
Herefordshire +3 2 - - 5
Staffordshire -13 1 £51,447 -6.46% 64
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 17 (13.08%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.54%) CMS
4 2 (1.54%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.54%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.54%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.15%) AWS
1 34 (26.15%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (16.15%) Amazon S3
3 19 (14.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (14.62%) AWS KMS
4 14 (10.77%) Amazon ELB
4 14 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 12 (9.23%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (6.92%) GCP
6 9 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.38%) Route 53
7 7 (5.38%) Serverless
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.85%) OneDrive
9 5 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (36.92%) WAN
2 25 (19.23%) Firewall
3 15 (11.54%) LAN
3 15 (11.54%) Network Security
4 14 (10.77%) MPLS
5 13 (10.00%) BGP
5 13 (10.00%) IPsec
6 12 (9.23%) Junos
7 11 (8.46%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (7.69%) SD-WAN
8 10 (7.69%) VLAN
9 8 (6.15%) ATM
9 8 (6.15%) DNS
9 8 (6.15%) Frame Relay
9 8 (6.15%) SDH
10 7 (5.38%) FTP
10 7 (5.38%) HTTP
10 7 (5.38%) SMTP
10 7 (5.38%) SSH
11 5 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.85%) Power BI
6 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.77%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.77%) Redis
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.92%) Git
3 19 (14.62%) JIRA
4 14 (10.77%) Vagrant
5 7 (5.38%) Maven
6 6 (4.62%) JUnit
6 6 (4.62%) Mockito
6 6 (4.62%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (3.85%) DbUnit
7 5 (3.85%) jMock
8 4 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.54%) Selenium
9 2 (1.54%) Storybook
10 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.77%) GitLab
General
1 32 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 7 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.62%) Legal
6 4 (3.08%) Advertising
6 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Electronics
7 1 (0.77%) Law
7 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (43.08%) Architect
2 43 (33.08%) Network Architect
3 12 (9.23%) Senior
4 11 (8.46%) Network Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Developer
6 9 (6.92%) Lead
7 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support
10 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) AngularJS
1 8 (6.15%) Spring
1 8 (6.15%) Spring Boot
2 7 (5.38%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (5.38%) JPA
2 7 (5.38%) SOAP
3 6 (4.62%) Bootstrap
3 6 (4.62%) REST
3 6 (4.62%) RESTful
3 6 (4.62%) Web Services
4 5 (3.85%) Hibernate
4 5 (3.85%) PowerMock
4 5 (3.85%) Spring Batch
4 5 (3.85%) Spring Integration
5 3 (2.31%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.54%) hapi
6 2 (1.54%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.54%) MERN Stack
6 2 (1.54%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Replication
2 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.54%) SCADA
5 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) PKI
5 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.77%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.00%) Linux
2 18 (13.85%) Windows
3 14 (10.77%) VMS
4 8 (6.15%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.69%) DevOps
1 23 (17.69%) Network Management
2 19 (14.62%) Change Management
3 15 (11.54%) Cloud Security
3 15 (11.54%) Configuration Management
3 15 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (11.54%) ITIL
3 15 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
4 14 (10.77%) Agile
4 14 (10.77%) Network Design
5 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (7.69%) Microservices
6 10 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (6.92%) BDD
7 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (6.15%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (6.15%) Problem Management
8 8 (6.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.46%) PowerShell
2 23 (17.69%) Python
3 16 (12.31%) Java
4 14 (10.77%) Groovy
5 12 (9.23%) SQL
6 7 (5.38%) Perl
7 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.77%) Bash
8 1 (0.77%) C
8 1 (0.77%) C#
8 1 (0.77%) C++
8 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) CCNA
2 16 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (10.77%) CCNP
4 13 (10.00%) Degree
5 12 (9.23%) JNCIS
6 7 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.62%) CISA
7 6 (4.62%) CISM
7 6 (4.62%) CISSP
7 6 (4.62%) GIAC
7 6 (4.62%) ISACA
7 6 (4.62%) SANS
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) SLA
2 7 (5.38%) NCSC
3 6 (4.62%) GRC
4 5 (3.85%) JSP 440
5 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.31%) NIST
6 2 (1.54%) QA
7 1 (0.77%) COBIT
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.77%) GDPR
7 1 (0.77%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (16.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.62%) Docker
3 11 (8.46%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.08%) Postfix
4 4 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.54%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.54%) Squid
7 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (15.38%) Terraform
2 17 (13.08%) Grafana
2 17 (13.08%) Prometheus
3 7 (5.38%) Ansible
4 4 (3.08%) Nessus
5 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.54%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.77%) Kibana
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.77%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (38.46%) Cisco
2 43 (33.08%) Juniper
3 15 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.92%) Google
6 7 (5.38%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.08%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (3.08%) VMware
9 3 (2.31%) Databricks
9 3 (2.31%) Tenable
10 2 (1.54%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.54%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.54%) Oracle
10 2 (1.54%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (1.54%) Splunk
11 1 (0.77%) Avaya
11 1 (0.77%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.77%) SAP