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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 65 112
Rank change year-on-year -1 +47 -62
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 275 257 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.36% 4.44% 2.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.08% 10.70% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 214 199 87
10th Percentile £27,570 £37,075 £33,100
25th Percentile £42,682 £46,214 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £62,425 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £80,000 £80,100
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 2,102 2,402 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.65% 41.51% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 962 1,285
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £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% -4.12%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
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 6 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 6 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 -19 129 £46,500 -25.60% 41
Warwickshire +52 40 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Staffordshire -31 40 £55,000 +27.17% 25
Solihull +11 21 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Worcestershire -21 19 £55,000 -6.38% 7
Herefordshire 0 8 £50,000 +19.05% 1
Shropshire -24 6 £60,000 - 10
Coventry +22 2 £43,072 -21.69% 3
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 13 (4.73%) IIS
2 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.18%) Appian
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.45%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.82%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.45%) EPLAN
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.64%) Azure
2 29 (10.55%) AWS
3 23 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.09%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.82%) dbt
10 4 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.73%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (0.73%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (0.73%) GCP
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub
11 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (21.45%) WAN
2 49 (17.82%) Firewall
3 33 (12.00%) SD-WAN
4 29 (10.55%) MPLS
5 28 (10.18%) IPsec
6 19 (6.91%) Wireless
7 12 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.64%) BGP
8 10 (3.64%) Network Security
9 9 (3.27%) DNS
10 8 (2.91%) LAN
11 7 (2.55%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (2.18%) VSAN
13 5 (1.82%) DHCP
13 5 (1.82%) SAN
13 5 (1.82%) VPN
14 4 (1.45%) VLAN
15 3 (1.09%) 3GPP
15 3 (1.09%) 5G
15 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.09%) Power BI
3 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.27%) GitLab
2 2 (0.73%) Git
2 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.36%) Appium
3 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.36%) JIRA
3 1 (0.36%) JUnit
3 1 (0.36%) PVCS
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
3 1 (0.36%) TestNG
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (8.00%) Finance
4 17 (6.18%) Telecoms
5 15 (5.45%) Police
6 14 (5.09%) Retail
7 11 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Electronics
10 3 (1.09%) Military
10 3 (1.09%) Turkish Language
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.36%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (23.27%) Network Engineer
2 53 (19.27%) Senior
3 29 (10.55%) Developer
4 25 (9.09%) Architect
5 19 (6.91%) Project Manager
6 16 (5.82%) Lead
7 15 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.36%) WAN Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) IP Architect
12 7 (2.55%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (2.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Server Support
12 7 (2.55%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Technical Manager
12 7 (2.55%) Vulnerability Researcher
12 7 (2.55%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.73%) REST
1 13 (4.73%) WebRTC
2 12 (4.36%) .NET
2 12 (4.36%) 802.1X
3 10 (3.64%) React
4 9 (3.27%) RESTful
4 9 (3.27%) SOAP
5 3 (1.09%) Django
5 3 (1.09%) Node.js
6 2 (0.73%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.73%) RSS
7 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.36%) JSON
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) Spring
7 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.82%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.45%) Virtual Team
3 14 (5.09%) Clustering
4 13 (4.73%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.64%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.91%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.55%) CMDB
9 6 (2.18%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.18%) SCADA
10 5 (1.82%) PKI
10 5 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.73%) IBM Mainframe
12 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.36%) Acoustics
13 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.82%) Windows
2 22 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.27%) Linux
4 6 (2.18%) Android
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.73%) zOS
8 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.00%) Agile
2 53 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
3 39 (14.18%) ITIL
4 33 (12.00%) Software Engineering
5 32 (11.64%) Mentoring
5 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (10.55%) DevOps
7 27 (9.82%) Project Delivery
8 25 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (8.73%) Project Management
10 21 (7.64%) Validation
11 20 (7.27%) Change Management
11 20 (7.27%) Configuration Management
12 19 (6.91%) Service Management
12 19 (6.91%) Systems Engineering
13 17 (6.18%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (6.18%) Customer Service
14 16 (5.82%) Business Development
14 16 (5.82%) Load Balancing
15 15 (5.45%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.27%) Python
2 17 (6.18%) JavaScript
2 17 (6.18%) SQL
3 12 (4.36%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.27%) Java
6 3 (1.09%) C
6 3 (1.09%) C#
7 2 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.36%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 275 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.18%) DV Cleared
3 37 (13.45%) Degree
4 21 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (6.18%) CCNA
6 14 (5.09%) CCNP
7 9 (3.27%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.91%) CCSA
9 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.82%) HND
10 5 (1.82%) MCSA
11 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.73%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.73%) CCDA
13 2 (0.73%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.73%) Def Stans
2 8 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.18%) NIST
3 6 (2.18%) NIST 800
4 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 3 (1.09%) PMO
7 2 (0.73%) QA
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (10.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.73%) vSphere
4 9 (3.27%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.09%) Docker
6 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.45%) SCCM
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.18%) SCOM
4 6 (2.18%) VxRail
5 5 (1.82%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.09%) Ansible
6 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 2 (0.73%) Terraform
8 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.36%) Grafana
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 62 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.45%) Cisco
3 46 (16.73%) Juniper
4 37 (13.45%) VMware
5 20 (7.27%) CheckPoint
6 15 (5.45%) Aruba
7 13 (4.73%) Dell
8 12 (4.36%) Meraki
9 11 (4.00%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.18%) EMC
10 6 (2.18%) IFS
10 6 (2.18%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.45%) F5
11 4 (1.45%) HP
12 3 (1.09%) Citrix
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle
13 2 (0.73%) Avaya
13 2 (0.73%) IBM
13 2 (0.73%) Talend