SC Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 69 92
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 383 399 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.22% 4.32% 3.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.02% 10.84% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 229 231 164
10th Percentile £29,340 £37,500 £25,800
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £37,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.97% -11.48%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,125 £64,625
90th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,941 3,680 3,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.75% 39.84% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 1,257 1,699
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% +8.36% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands +1 245 £55,000 -8.33% 64
East Midlands -5 138 £50,000 -4.76% 27
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 28 (7.31%) ArcGIS
1 28 (7.31%) GeoServer
2 17 (4.44%) IIS
3 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.31%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Appian
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.04%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (1.04%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.57%) Simulink
3 5 (1.31%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.04%) EPLAN
4 4 (1.04%) Sketch
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 119 (31.07%) Azure
2 66 (17.23%) AWS
3 19 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 13 (3.39%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.35%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.57%) Miro
9 5 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.31%) GCP
9 5 (1.31%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.04%) Figma
10 4 (1.04%) Heroku
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 57 (14.88%) WAN
2 49 (12.79%) Firewall
3 31 (8.09%) SD-WAN
4 27 (7.05%) MPLS
5 26 (6.79%) IPsec
6 17 (4.44%) Wireless
7 13 (3.39%) BGP
7 13 (3.39%) DNS
8 12 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.35%) Network Security
10 6 (1.57%) LAN
10 6 (1.57%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.31%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.31%) DHCP
11 5 (1.31%) VSAN
12 4 (1.04%) SSL
12 4 (1.04%) VPN
13 3 (0.78%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.78%) 5G
13 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.31%) GIS
2 28 (7.31%) QGIS
3 26 (6.79%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.57%) Power BI
5 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.52%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Power Query
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.18%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (3.39%) GitLab
3 11 (2.87%) JIRA
4 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.78%) Git
6 2 (0.52%) Selenium
6 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.26%) Appium
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.26%) JUnit
7 1 (0.26%) Postman
7 1 (0.26%) PVCS
7 1 (0.26%) TestNG
7 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (7.31%) Finance
4 19 (4.96%) Retail
5 17 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.92%) Police
7 14 (3.66%) Military
8 13 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.35%) Electronics
11 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Turkish Language
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 91 (23.76%) Senior
2 61 (15.93%) Network Engineer
3 44 (11.49%) Architect
4 36 (9.40%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.88%) Developer
6 31 (8.09%) Lead
7 30 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (6.79%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (6.01%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.87%) Analyst
13 10 (2.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 10 (2.61%) WAN Engineer
14 8 (2.09%) Designer
14 8 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.09%) IP Architect
15 7 (1.83%) 2nd Line Support
15 7 (1.83%) Head of IT
15 7 (1.83%) Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.92%) React
2 37 (9.66%) .NET
3 28 (7.31%) Leaflet
3 28 (7.31%) OpenLayers
3 28 (7.31%) PostGIS
4 26 (6.79%) .NET Core
5 24 (6.27%) CSS
6 18 (4.70%) REST
7 17 (4.44%) WebRTC
8 12 (3.13%) 802.1X
9 11 (2.87%) RESTful
10 10 (2.61%) SOAP
11 7 (1.83%) HTML
12 6 (1.57%) Django
13 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.31%) Node.js
13 5 (1.31%) Spring Boot
14 4 (1.04%) JSON
14 4 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.57%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.01%) Virtual Team
3 17 (4.44%) Clustering
4 13 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.35%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (1.83%) PKI
8 6 (1.57%) CMDB
8 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.04%) SCADA
11 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.78%) IBM Mainframe
11 3 (0.78%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.40%) Windows
2 20 (5.22%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.96%) Linux
4 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.04%) Unix
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.78%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) Android
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.29%) Agile
2 82 (21.41%) Actionable Insight
3 69 (18.02%) DevOps
4 62 (16.19%) Software Engineering
5 53 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (10.44%) Project Management
7 36 (9.40%) ITIL
7 36 (9.40%) Validation
8 33 (8.62%) Systems Engineering
9 32 (8.36%) Mentoring
10 28 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (7.31%) Web Development
11 27 (7.05%) Change Management
12 26 (6.79%) Project Delivery
13 25 (6.53%) Service Management
14 24 (6.27%) Customer Requirements
14 24 (6.27%) Load Balancing
15 22 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (5.22%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.36%) JavaScript
2 52 (13.58%) Python
3 22 (5.74%) C#
4 21 (5.48%) SQL
5 18 (4.70%) Java
6 17 (4.44%) MATLAB
7 14 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.04%) C
10 3 (0.78%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 383 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.71%) Degree
3 31 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.96%) CCNA
6 15 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.92%) CCNP
7 12 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.09%) CCSA
10 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.31%) HND
12 5 (1.31%) MCSA
13 4 (1.04%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.39%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 8 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.04%) NIST
5 4 (1.04%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.04%) PMO
5 4 (1.04%) SLA
6 3 (0.78%) COBIT
6 3 (0.78%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 27 (7.05%) Active Directory
1 27 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.61%) vSphere
3 7 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.04%) Docker
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) SCCM
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.31%) SCOM
4 4 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.04%) Terraform
5 3 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.78%) OpenView
5 3 (0.78%) VxRail
6 2 (0.52%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Nagios
6 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.79%) Cisco
3 43 (11.23%) Juniper
4 37 (9.66%) VMware
5 28 (7.31%) ESRI
6 23 (6.01%) CheckPoint
7 14 (3.66%) Aruba
8 13 (3.39%) Meraki
9 11 (2.87%) Oracle
10 9 (2.35%) Dell
10 9 (2.35%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.83%) HP
11 7 (1.83%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.57%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.31%) EMC
13 5 (1.31%) IFS
14 4 (1.04%) Sparx
15 3 (0.78%) BMC
15 3 (0.78%) Databricks
15 3 (0.78%) Remedy