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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 41 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 -28
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 438 413 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.86% 6.61% 4.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.12% 16.06% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 331 276 132
10th Percentile £25,950 £31,250 £32,600
25th Percentile £36,875 £41,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +9.22% -14.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 1,980 2,571 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.51% 41.12% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 951 1,212
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,550 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.13% -3.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

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 18 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 18 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 -18 159 £57,500 -8.00% 56
Staffordshire -2 100 £44,750 +11.88% 32
Warwickshire +94 86 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Solihull -2 33 £50,000 +1.01% 8
Worcestershire -9 25 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Herefordshire -5 9 £60,000 +42.86% 8
Shropshire -26 7 £60,000 - 5
Coventry +20 3 £41,536 -24.48% 9
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 33 (7.53%) IIS
2 10 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.83%) Apache
3 8 (1.83%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.91%) Appian
5 4 (0.91%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (0.68%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (5.94%) 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 15 (3.42%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.68%) Maximo
2 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 96 (21.92%) Azure
2 46 (10.50%) AWS
3 22 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 13 (2.97%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.51%) GitHub
7 10 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.28%) PaaS
8 9 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.05%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.83%) IaaS
9 8 (1.83%) SaaS
10 6 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.68%) dbt
13 2 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.46%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (16.21%) WAN
2 50 (11.42%) Firewall
3 32 (7.31%) SD-WAN
4 31 (7.08%) MPLS
5 29 (6.62%) IPsec
6 18 (4.11%) Wireless
7 12 (2.74%) BGP
7 12 (2.74%) Network Security
7 12 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (2.51%) DNS
9 8 (1.83%) LAN
10 7 (1.60%) DHCP
10 7 (1.60%) VPN
11 6 (1.37%) 5G
12 5 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (1.14%) VSAN
13 4 (0.91%) HTTP
14 3 (0.68%) 3GPP
14 3 (0.68%) SAN
14 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.42%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.28%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.60%) Oracle Database 12c
4 7 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.37%) Power BI
6 4 (0.91%) MySQL
7 3 (0.68%) DB2
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 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%) 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
1 133 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 61 (13.93%) Finance
4 51 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.62%) Police
6 26 (5.94%) Manufacturing
7 24 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (5.48%) Telecoms
8 23 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.11%) Games
10 17 (3.88%) Local Government
11 14 (3.20%) Retail
12 9 (2.05%) Military
13 7 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.60%) Back Office
14 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.14%) Electronics
15 4 (0.91%) Legal
16 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 63 (14.38%) Network Engineer
2 51 (11.64%) Senior
3 43 (9.82%) Project Manager
4 37 (8.45%) Systems Engineer
5 34 (7.76%) Consultant
6 25 (5.71%) Developer
7 24 (5.48%) Graduate
7 24 (5.48%) Graduate Consultant
7 24 (5.48%) Research Consultant
7 24 (5.48%) Resource Consultant
8 21 (4.79%) Analyst
8 21 (4.79%) Architect
9 18 (4.11%) Lead
10 13 (2.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) WAN Engineer
11 12 (2.74%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.51%) Administrator
12 11 (2.51%) Senior Network Engineer
13 10 (2.28%) DBA
13 10 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.42%) REST
1 15 (3.42%) WebRTC
2 12 (2.74%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.51%) .NET
4 10 (2.28%) React
5 9 (2.05%) RESTful
5 9 (2.05%) SOAP
6 8 (1.83%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (1.83%) 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%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.23%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.79%) Management Information System
2 52 (11.87%) Driving Licence
3 28 (6.39%) Clustering
4 18 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 14 (3.20%) Operational Technology
5 14 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.28%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.83%) PKI
10 7 (1.60%) CMDB
10 7 (1.60%) SCADA
11 5 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.91%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.46%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.46%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.96%) Windows
2 27 (6.16%) Windows Server
3 22 (5.02%) Linux
4 17 (3.88%) Unix
5 8 (1.83%) Solaris
6 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.68%) Android
8 2 (0.46%) zOS
9 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.16%) Project Management
4 60 (13.70%) Mentoring
5 56 (12.79%) Agile
6 54 (12.33%) Customer Service
7 50 (11.42%) Software Engineering
8 42 (9.59%) ITIL
9 40 (9.13%) DevOps
10 38 (8.68%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
12 33 (7.53%) Customer Requirements
13 29 (6.62%) ERP
14 28 (6.39%) High Availability
14 28 (6.39%) Risk Management
15 27 (6.16%) Incident Response
16 26 (5.94%) CI/CD
16 26 (5.94%) Data Collection
17 24 (5.48%) Continuous Integration
18 23 (5.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.08%) SQL
2 22 (5.02%) Java
3 15 (3.42%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.97%) Python
5 9 (2.05%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.83%) C++
6 8 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.91%) C
8 4 (0.91%) C#
8 4 (0.91%) R
9 2 (0.46%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) ABAP
10 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 249 (56.85%) SC Cleared
2 71 (16.21%) Degree
3 42 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (4.11%) CCNA
6 16 (3.65%) CCNP
7 12 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.83%) CCSA
9 8 (1.83%) HND
10 7 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.14%) MCSA
13 4 (0.91%) APMP
13 4 (0.91%) CISM
13 4 (0.91%) CISSP
13 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (7.99%) ISO 9001
3 34 (7.76%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 26 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (4.34%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.97%) Def Stans
7 12 (2.74%) NCSC
8 9 (2.05%) NIST
8 9 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.37%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.37%) QA
11 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.68%) PMO
13 2 (0.46%) SLA
14 1 (0.23%) GDPR
14 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 35 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.88%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.74%) Docker
5 9 (2.05%) vSphere
6 6 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (7.76%) EnCase
2 13 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.97%) SCCM
3 10 (2.28%) Ansible
3 10 (2.28%) Terraform
4 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.91%) SCOM
5 4 (0.91%) VxRail
6 3 (0.68%) Backup Exec
6 3 (0.68%) Nagios
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.42%) Cisco
3 48 (10.96%) VMware
4 47 (10.73%) Juniper
5 23 (5.25%) IFS
6 21 (4.79%) CheckPoint
6 21 (4.79%) Oracle
7 17 (3.88%) NEC
8 16 (3.65%) Workday
9 14 (3.20%) Aruba
10 13 (2.97%) Meraki
11 12 (2.74%) Fortinet
12 11 (2.51%) Dell
13 8 (1.83%) Cellebrite
13 8 (1.83%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.60%) EMC
14 7 (1.60%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.37%) SAP
16 5 (1.14%) IBM
17 4 (0.91%) HP