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

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 73 39
Rank change year-on-year +54 -34 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 291 328 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.85% 4.00% 6.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.89% 10.89% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 246 256 247
10th Percentile £30,680 £23,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £38,966 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £85,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

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 1,124 3,011 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.18% 36.75% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 898 1,368 1,211
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £27,500
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% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.81% +2.69% -

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 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 +21 131 £60,000 +20.87% 37
Warwickshire +113 63 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Solihull +31 40 £56,250 +4.65% 11
Staffordshire +27 31 £40,500 +8.00% 33
Worcestershire -6 4 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Wednesbury - 4 £32,500 - 1
Herefordshire -1 3 £28,500 -32.14% 2
Shropshire -4 3 £77,500 +24.00% 2
Coventry +38 2 £55,000 +10.00%
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 26 (8.93%) IIS
2 6 (2.06%) MS Exchange
3 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.69%) SAP FSCM
1 2 (0.69%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.90%) Azure
2 24 (8.25%) AWS
3 23 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.84%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.09%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.06%) dbt
8 6 (2.06%) Serverless
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.69%) GCP
11 2 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.69%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 64 (21.99%) WAN
2 61 (20.96%) Firewall
3 27 (9.28%) BGP
4 24 (8.25%) LAN
5 22 (7.56%) OSPF
6 16 (5.50%) Network Security
7 15 (5.15%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.47%) VPN
9 12 (4.12%) Wireless
10 10 (3.44%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (3.44%) MPLS
11 8 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (2.75%) VLAN
12 7 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (2.06%) DHCP
13 6 (2.06%) DNS
13 6 (2.06%) NGFW
13 6 (2.06%) SAN
13 6 (2.06%) Wireshark
14 5 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.41%) GIS
4 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.37%) MySQL
6 3 (1.03%) Big Data
6 3 (1.03%) Power BI
6 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.69%) Parquet
7 2 (0.69%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (1.37%) GitLab
2 3 (1.03%) Git
2 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.69%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (0.69%) LSMW
4 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.34%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) JMeter
4 1 (0.34%) Postman
4 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.34%) Selenium
4 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 112 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.24%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (9.62%) Finance
5 27 (9.28%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.19%) Banking
6 18 (6.19%) Games
7 17 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.09%) Retail
11 6 (2.06%) Law
12 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.69%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.69%) Military
13 2 (0.69%) Police
14 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (15.81%) Architect
2 39 (13.40%) Senior
3 23 (7.90%) Consultant
4 22 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
5 20 (6.87%) Lead
5 20 (6.87%) Network Engineer
5 20 (6.87%) Security Architect
6 16 (5.50%) Network Architect
7 13 (4.47%) Mobile Engineer
8 12 (4.12%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (3.44%) Graduate
9 10 (3.44%) Graduate Consultant
9 10 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.44%) Research Consultant
9 10 (3.44%) Resource Consultant
9 10 (3.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 10 (3.44%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.09%) Field Engineer
10 9 (3.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.81%) REST
1 14 (4.81%) WebRTC
2 11 (3.78%) .NET
3 9 (3.09%) Node.js
4 5 (1.72%) RESTful
5 3 (1.03%) SOAP
5 3 (1.03%) Web Services
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.69%) Django
6 2 (0.69%) hapi
6 2 (0.69%) JSON
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) CSS
7 1 (0.34%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.34%) Playwright
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) Velocity
7 1 (0.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.31%) Data Centre
2 28 (9.62%) Driving Licence
3 26 (8.93%) Clustering
4 23 (7.90%) Management Information System
5 16 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.78%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.06%) PKI
10 5 (1.72%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.37%) CMDB
11 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.69%) Blog
13 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.09%) Windows
2 16 (5.50%) Linux
3 15 (5.15%) Android
3 15 (5.15%) Apple iOS
4 13 (4.47%) Unix
5 9 (3.09%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (27.84%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (11.68%) DevOps
4 32 (11.00%) Agile
5 30 (10.31%) SIEM
6 28 (9.62%) High Availability
7 27 (9.28%) Prototyping
8 26 (8.93%) Asset Management
9 25 (8.59%) ITIL
10 24 (8.25%) Project Delivery
11 23 (7.90%) Containerisation
12 21 (7.22%) Customer Service
13 20 (6.87%) Incident Response
14 19 (6.53%) CI/CD
14 19 (6.53%) Data Collection
14 19 (6.53%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (6.53%) IT Asset Management
14 19 (6.53%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.53%) Software Engineering
15 18 (6.19%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.06%) SQL
2 19 (6.53%) Java
3 15 (5.15%) Python
4 9 (3.09%) Go
4 9 (3.09%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.75%) C#
6 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.37%) C
8 3 (1.03%) Bash
9 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.69%) Ruby
10 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 197 (67.70%) SC Cleared
2 25 (8.59%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (7.22%) Degree
4 19 (6.53%) CCNP
5 16 (5.50%) CCNA
6 15 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.47%) CTC Cleared
8 10 (3.44%) CISSP
8 10 (3.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.06%) CREST Certified
9 6 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (2.06%) PMP
9 6 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (1.72%) MCSE
10 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.37%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.69%) CCDE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.93%) ISO 9001
3 21 (7.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 9 (3.09%) SLA
6 7 (2.41%) NCSC
6 7 (2.41%) QA
7 3 (1.03%) COBIT
7 3 (1.03%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.69%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.34%) RMADS
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.47%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.06%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.69%) Docker
7 2 (0.69%) Firmware
7 2 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) XenApp
8 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.87%) EnCase
2 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.44%) SCCM
3 9 (3.09%) Puppet
4 6 (2.06%) Cacti
4 6 (2.06%) Icinga
4 6 (2.06%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.72%) AirWatch
6 4 (1.37%) Nagios
6 4 (1.37%) Terraform
7 3 (1.03%) SCOM
8 2 (0.69%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.34%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.34%) VxRail
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.78%) VMware
3 35 (12.03%) Cisco
4 24 (8.25%) Juniper
5 17 (5.84%) Aruba
5 17 (5.84%) CheckPoint
6 15 (5.15%) F5
6 15 (5.15%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.12%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.09%) Remedy
9 8 (2.75%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.72%) Apple
10 5 (1.72%) Oracle
10 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.72%) Samsung
11 4 (1.37%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.37%) SAP
12 3 (1.03%) Citrix
13 2 (0.69%) Dell
13 2 (0.69%) Forcepoint