SC Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 70 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 -50
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 267 259 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.33% 4.45% 2.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.87% 10.78% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 213 199 87
10th Percentile £27,280 £37,075 £32,200
25th Percentile £43,227 £46,214 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

SC 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 2,074 2,402 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.89% 41.24% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 959 1,269
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -2.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,470
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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 -16 126 £49,500 -20.80% 39
Staffordshire -28 39 £55,000 +27.17% 21
Warwickshire +51 38 £53,750 +7.50% 12
Solihull +7 21 £56,250 -6.25% 13
Worcestershire -21 18 £55,000 -6.38% 8
Herefordshire -1 8 £50,000 +19.05%
Shropshire -22 6 £60,000 - 8
Coventry +25 2 £43,072 -21.69% 5
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 14 (5.24%) IIS
2 8 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.87%) Appian
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.50%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.87%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.50%) EPLAN
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.09%) Azure
2 28 (10.49%) AWS
3 20 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 13 (4.87%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.87%) dbt
8 5 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (0.75%) GCP
10 2 (0.75%) GitHub
10 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (22.10%) WAN
2 49 (18.35%) Firewall
3 34 (12.73%) SD-WAN
4 28 (10.49%) MPLS
5 27 (10.11%) IPsec
6 20 (7.49%) Wireless
7 12 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.75%) Network Security
9 9 (3.37%) BGP
10 8 (3.00%) DNS
11 7 (2.62%) LAN
12 6 (2.25%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (1.87%) VSAN
14 4 (1.50%) DHCP
14 4 (1.50%) SAN
14 4 (1.50%) VLAN
14 4 (1.50%) VPN
15 3 (1.12%) 3GPP
15 3 (1.12%) 5G
15 3 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.12%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.37%) GitLab
2 2 (0.75%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.37%) Appium
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) JUnit
3 1 (0.37%) PVCS
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
3 1 (0.37%) TestNG
3 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (11.61%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.24%) Finance
4 17 (6.37%) Telecoms
5 15 (5.62%) Police
6 14 (5.24%) Retail
7 11 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Legal
10 3 (1.12%) Electronics
10 3 (1.12%) Military
10 3 (1.12%) Turkish Language
11 2 (0.75%) Local Government
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 63 (23.60%) Network Engineer
2 53 (19.85%) Senior
3 28 (10.49%) Developer
4 25 (9.36%) Architect
5 19 (7.12%) Project Manager
6 16 (5.99%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (5.62%) Lead
8 12 (4.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.12%) WAN Engineer
10 10 (3.75%) IP Architect
10 10 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (2.62%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.62%) Server Support
11 7 (2.62%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.62%) Technical Manager
11 7 (2.62%) Vulnerability Researcher
11 7 (2.62%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.24%) REST
1 14 (5.24%) WebRTC
2 12 (4.49%) 802.1X
3 11 (4.12%) .NET
4 10 (3.75%) React
5 9 (3.37%) RESTful
5 9 (3.37%) SOAP
6 3 (1.12%) Django
6 3 (1.12%) Node.js
7 2 (0.75%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.75%) RSS
8 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.37%) Kafka
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.37%) Spring
8 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.11%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.99%) Virtual Team
3 14 (5.24%) Clustering
4 13 (4.87%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.75%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.00%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.25%) CMDB
8 5 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.87%) PKI
8 5 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.87%) SCADA
9 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.75%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.37%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.74%) Windows
2 20 (7.49%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.00%) Linux
4 5 (1.87%) Android
5 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.60%) Agile
2 49 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (13.86%) ITIL
4 33 (12.36%) Software Engineering
5 31 (11.61%) Mentoring
5 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (10.86%) DevOps
7 27 (10.11%) Project Delivery
8 24 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (8.99%) Project Management
9 22 (8.24%) Validation
10 20 (7.49%) Change Management
10 20 (7.49%) Configuration Management
11 19 (7.12%) Systems Engineering
12 18 (6.74%) Service Management
13 17 (6.37%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (6.37%) Load Balancing
14 16 (5.99%) Customer Service
15 15 (5.62%) Business Development
15 15 (5.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.49%) Python
2 17 (6.37%) SQL
3 16 (5.99%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.12%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.37%) Java
5 9 (3.37%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.12%) C
7 2 (0.75%) Bash
7 2 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 267 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.61%) DV Cleared
3 35 (13.11%) Degree
4 21 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (6.37%) CCNA
6 14 (5.24%) CCNP
7 9 (3.37%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.00%) CCSA
9 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.87%) HND
10 5 (1.87%) MCSA
11 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.75%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.75%) CCDA
13 2 (0.75%) CCIE
13 2 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.87%) Def Stans
2 8 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.87%) NIST
3 5 (1.87%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) NCSC
5 3 (1.12%) PMO
6 2 (0.75%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.49%) vSphere
4 8 (3.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.12%) Docker
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (4.87%) SCCM
2 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.62%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.87%) VxRail
5 4 (1.50%) SCOM
6 3 (1.12%) Ansible
6 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.75%) Nagios
7 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 2 (0.75%) Terraform
8 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.98%) Cisco
3 46 (17.23%) Juniper
4 35 (13.11%) VMware
5 21 (7.87%) CheckPoint
6 15 (5.62%) Aruba
7 12 (4.49%) Dell
7 12 (4.49%) Fortinet
7 12 (4.49%) Meraki
8 6 (2.25%) IFS
8 6 (2.25%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.87%) EMC
9 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.50%) F5
10 4 (1.50%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) Oracle
12 2 (0.75%) Avaya
12 2 (0.75%) Citrix
12 2 (0.75%) IBM
12 2 (0.75%) NEC