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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 45 64
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 -27
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 438 420 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.03% 6.36% 4.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.90% 15.48% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 342 276 138
10th Percentile £25,950 £31,250 £31,925
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,516 £39,000
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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 1,913 2,714 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.33% 41.08% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 979 1,181
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,140 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
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 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -22 148 £56,250 -10.00% 43
Warwickshire +103 100 £55,000 +10.00% 11
Staffordshire +4 97 £30,000 -20.00% 24
Solihull 0 31 £50,000 +1.01% 12
Worcestershire -12 25 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Shropshire -24 8 £51,536 -14.11% 3
Herefordshire -8 7 £60,000 +42.86% 10
Coventry +27 3 £41,536 -24.48% 6
Wednesbury - 2 £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 35 (7.99%) IIS
2 10 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.91%) Apache
3 4 (0.91%) Appian
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.91%) Office Communications Server
3 4 (0.91%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.68%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 51 (11.64%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.14%) AutoCAD
5 5 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.91%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.68%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 103 (23.52%) Azure
2 48 (10.96%) AWS
3 24 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.51%) GitHub
8 10 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (2.28%) PaaS
9 9 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.05%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.83%) IaaS
10 8 (1.83%) SaaS
11 6 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.91%) dbt
12 4 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.46%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (17.58%) WAN
2 53 (12.10%) Firewall
3 32 (7.31%) SD-WAN
4 31 (7.08%) MPLS
5 29 (6.62%) IPsec
6 20 (4.57%) Wireless
7 12 (2.74%) BGP
7 12 (2.74%) Network Security
7 12 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (2.28%) DNS
9 8 (1.83%) LAN
9 8 (1.83%) VPN
10 6 (1.37%) 5G
10 6 (1.37%) DHCP
11 5 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.14%) VSAN
12 4 (0.91%) HTTP
13 3 (0.68%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.46%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.97%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.83%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.37%) Power BI
5 4 (0.91%) MySQL
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.68%) DB2
7 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.23%) GIS
8 1 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.74%) GitLab
2 8 (1.83%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.46%) Git
3 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.23%) Appium
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) JUnit
4 1 (0.23%) LSMW
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
1 143 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 56 (12.79%) Finance
4 53 (12.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.94%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (5.25%) Police
7 23 (5.25%) Telecoms
8 19 (4.34%) Games
9 15 (3.42%) Retail
10 10 (2.28%) Local Government
11 9 (2.05%) Military
12 6 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Electronics
14 4 (0.91%) Back Office
14 4 (0.91%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (14.16%) Network Engineer
2 49 (11.19%) Senior
3 43 (9.82%) Project Manager
3 43 (9.82%) Systems Engineer
4 35 (7.99%) Consultant
5 25 (5.71%) Graduate
5 25 (5.71%) Graduate Consultant
5 25 (5.71%) Research Consultant
5 25 (5.71%) Resource Consultant
6 23 (5.25%) Developer
7 22 (5.02%) Architect
8 21 (4.79%) Analyst
9 20 (4.57%) Lead
10 16 (3.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 13 (2.97%) WAN Engineer
12 10 (2.28%) Senior Network Engineer
12 10 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 8 (1.83%) Digital Analyst
14 8 (1.83%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.11%) REST
1 18 (4.11%) WebRTC
2 12 (2.74%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.28%) .NET
3 10 (2.28%) React
4 9 (2.05%) RESTful
4 9 (2.05%) SOAP
5 8 (1.83%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.91%) Web Services
7 3 (0.68%) Middleware
7 3 (0.68%) Node.js
8 2 (0.46%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.46%) Django
8 2 (0.46%) RSS
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.23%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.70%) Driving Licence
2 56 (12.79%) Management Information System
3 34 (7.76%) Clustering
4 18 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 17 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.97%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 11 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.28%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.83%) PKI
12 6 (1.37%) CMDB
12 6 (1.37%) SCADA
13 5 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
15 2 (0.46%) IBM Mainframe
15 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.05%) Windows
2 27 (6.16%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.11%) Linux
4 10 (2.28%) Unix
5 4 (0.91%) Solaris
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.46%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (26.03%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.16%) Project Management
4 61 (13.93%) Mentoring
5 55 (12.56%) Agile
6 54 (12.33%) Customer Service
7 44 (10.05%) Software Engineering
8 38 (8.68%) Incident Response
8 38 (8.68%) ITIL
9 37 (8.45%) Data Collection
9 37 (8.45%) Project Delivery
9 37 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
10 34 (7.76%) DevOps
10 34 (7.76%) High Availability
11 33 (7.53%) Customer Requirements
12 30 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 29 (6.62%) ERP
14 28 (6.39%) Risk Management
15 27 (6.16%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (5.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.45%) SQL
2 25 (5.71%) Java
3 13 (2.97%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.51%) Python
5 7 (1.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.14%) C++
8 4 (0.91%) R
8 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.68%) C
9 3 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 247 (56.39%) SC Cleared
2 67 (15.30%) Degree
3 34 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.25%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.88%) CCNA
6 16 (3.65%) CCNP
7 14 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.83%) CCSA
9 8 (1.83%) HND
10 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.14%) MCSA
12 4 (0.91%) APMP
12 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.91%) CISM
12 4 (0.91%) CISSP
12 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (10.50%) ISO 9001
3 45 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 37 (8.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.97%) Def Stans
6 12 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.74%) NCSC
7 9 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.83%) NIST
9 6 (1.37%) QA
10 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.14%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.68%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.68%) PMO
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
13 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.23%) GDPR
13 1 (0.23%) IFRS
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 36 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 33 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.57%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.74%) Docker
5 8 (1.83%) vSphere
6 6 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (10.27%) EnCase
2 13 (2.97%) SCCM
3 11 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.28%) Ansible
4 10 (2.28%) Terraform
5 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.68%) Backup Exec
6 3 (0.68%) SCOM
6 3 (0.68%) VxRail
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Nagios
7 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) Nessus
8 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 125 (28.54%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.64%) VMware
3 49 (11.19%) Cisco
4 47 (10.73%) Juniper
5 24 (5.48%) CheckPoint
6 23 (5.25%) IFS
7 16 (3.65%) Workday
8 14 (3.20%) Aruba
8 14 (3.20%) Oracle
9 13 (2.97%) Meraki
10 12 (2.74%) Fortinet
11 10 (2.28%) NEC
12 9 (2.05%) Dell
13 8 (1.83%) Cellebrite
14 7 (1.60%) EMC
14 7 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.60%) ServiceNow
15 6 (1.37%) SAP
16 5 (1.14%) IBM
17 4 (0.91%) HP