Security Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security 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 31 48 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 427 421 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.91% 6.26% 4.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.52% 15.21% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 333 275 135
10th Percentile £25,950 £30,800 £31,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,333 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% -11.48%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Security 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% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the West Midlands

Security 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 Security 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 -20 147 £57,500 -8.00% 38
Warwickshire +112 98 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Staffordshire +8 95 £22,400 -37.56% 25
Solihull -2 29 £50,000 +1.01% 12
Worcestershire -10 25 £55,000 -9.09% 2
Shropshire -17 7 £51,536 -14.11% 8
Herefordshire -8 4 £85,000 +102.38% 12
Coventry +28 3 £41,536 -24.48% 4
Wednesbury - 3 £32,500 -
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 (8.43%) IIS
2 8 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Apache
3 4 (0.94%) Appian
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.94%) Office Communications Server
3 4 (0.94%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.70%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 50 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (9.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (8.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.17%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.94%) EPLAN
7 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.87%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.70%) Maximo
4 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 100 (23.42%) Azure
2 48 (11.24%) AWS
3 22 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (2.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (2.58%) GitHub
9 10 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (2.34%) PaaS
10 9 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.87%) IaaS
11 8 (1.87%) SaaS
12 6 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.41%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.17%) dbt
14 4 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CodeBuild
15 2 (0.47%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.56%) WAN
2 51 (11.94%) Firewall
3 31 (7.26%) MPLS
3 31 (7.26%) SD-WAN
4 29 (6.79%) IPsec
5 20 (4.68%) Wireless
6 12 (2.81%) BGP
6 12 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (2.58%) Network Security
8 9 (2.11%) VPN
9 8 (1.87%) DNS
10 6 (1.41%) 5G
10 6 (1.41%) LAN
11 5 (1.17%) VSAN
12 4 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.94%) DHCP
12 4 (0.94%) HTTP
13 3 (0.70%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.87%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.70%) DB2
5 3 (0.70%) MySQL
5 3 (0.70%) Power BI
6 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) Power Query
7 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.81%) GitLab
2 8 (1.87%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.47%) LSMW
3 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.23%) Appium
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) JUnit
4 1 (0.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) PVCS
4 1 (0.23%) Selenium
4 1 (0.23%) TestNG
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.91%) Public Sector
3 57 (13.35%) Finance
4 54 (12.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (6.09%) Manufacturing
5 26 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (5.15%) Police
8 21 (4.92%) Telecoms
9 19 (4.45%) Games
10 16 (3.75%) Retail
11 11 (2.58%) Local Government
12 7 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.64%) Military
13 6 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Back Office
15 4 (0.94%) Legal
16 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 61 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 46 (10.77%) Senior
3 43 (10.07%) Project Manager
4 42 (9.84%) Systems Engineer
5 36 (8.43%) Consultant
6 25 (5.85%) Graduate
6 25 (5.85%) Graduate Consultant
6 25 (5.85%) Research Consultant
6 25 (5.85%) Resource Consultant
7 22 (5.15%) Architect
8 21 (4.92%) Developer
8 21 (4.92%) Lead
9 18 (4.22%) Analyst
10 17 (3.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.04%) WAN Engineer
12 10 (2.34%) Senior Network Engineer
12 10 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 8 (1.87%) Digital Analyst
14 8 (1.87%) IP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.45%) REST
1 19 (4.45%) WebRTC
2 11 (2.58%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.34%) .NET
3 10 (2.34%) React
4 9 (2.11%) RESTful
4 9 (2.11%) SOAP
5 8 (1.87%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.87%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.94%) Web Services
7 3 (0.70%) Middleware
7 3 (0.70%) Node.js
8 2 (0.47%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.47%) Django
8 2 (0.47%) RSS
9 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.23%) SAP Smart Forms
9 1 (0.23%) Spring
9 1 (0.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.05%) Driving Licence
2 51 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 35 (8.20%) Clustering
4 18 (4.22%) Virtual Team
5 17 (3.98%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
8 11 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.34%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.87%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.87%) PKI
12 6 (1.41%) CMDB
12 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.94%) Low-Code
15 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
15 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.47%) IBM Mainframe
15 2 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.13%) Windows
2 22 (5.15%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.75%) Linux
4 10 (2.34%) Unix
5 4 (0.94%) Solaris
6 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.47%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (24.59%) Cybersecurity
2 88 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.52%) Project Management
4 61 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 55 (12.88%) Customer Service
6 53 (12.41%) Agile
7 43 (10.07%) Software Engineering
8 39 (9.13%) ITIL
9 38 (8.90%) Incident Response
10 37 (8.67%) Data Collection
11 35 (8.20%) High Availability
11 35 (8.20%) Project Delivery
11 35 (8.20%) Systems Engineering
12 34 (7.96%) DevOps
13 33 (7.73%) Customer Requirements
14 30 (7.03%) CI/CD
15 29 (6.79%) ERP
16 27 (6.32%) Validation
17 26 (6.09%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (6.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.90%) SQL
2 25 (5.85%) Java
3 13 (3.04%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.58%) Python
5 7 (1.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.17%) C++
8 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.70%) C
9 3 (0.70%) C#
10 2 (0.47%) Bash
10 2 (0.47%) R
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 242 (56.67%) SC Cleared
2 66 (15.46%) Degree
3 29 (6.79%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.98%) CCNA
6 15 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.51%) CCNP
7 9 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.87%) CCSA
8 8 (1.87%) HND
9 6 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.17%) MCSA
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.94%) APMP
11 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.70%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.77%) ISO 9001
2 45 (10.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 45 (10.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (8.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.04%) Def Stans
5 12 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.81%) NCSC
6 9 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (1.41%) QA
9 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.94%) NIST
11 3 (0.70%) PMO
12 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS
12 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.47%) SLA
13 1 (0.23%) GDPR
13 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.68%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.81%) Docker
5 7 (1.64%) vSphere
6 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (10.54%) EnCase
2 13 (3.04%) SCCM
3 11 (2.58%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.34%) Ansible
4 10 (2.34%) Terraform
5 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.70%) SCOM
7 2 (0.47%) Nagios
7 2 (0.47%) Nessus
7 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.47%) VxRail
8 1 (0.23%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.23%) Grafana
8 1 (0.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.24%) Cisco
2 48 (11.24%) VMware
3 46 (10.77%) Juniper
4 24 (5.62%) CheckPoint
5 23 (5.39%) IFS
6 16 (3.75%) Workday
7 14 (3.28%) Oracle
8 12 (2.81%) Aruba
8 12 (2.81%) Meraki
9 10 (2.34%) NEC
10 9 (2.11%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.87%) Cellebrite
11 8 (1.87%) Dell
12 7 (1.64%) EMC
12 7 (1.64%) SAP
12 7 (1.64%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.41%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.17%) IBM
15 4 (0.94%) HP