Security Cleared Jobs in the Midlands

Security Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 32 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 637 685 538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.36% 7.40% 4.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.72% 18.55% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 408 323 215
10th Percentile £25,675 £31,250 £28,044
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.65% +5.23% -

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,933 3,692 3,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.70% 39.86% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 1,258 1,686
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,501 £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 £54,995 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.73% +8.36% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the Midlands

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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 +11 443 £55,000 - 118
East Midlands -20 194 £44,362 -15.50% 42
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 36 (5.65%) IIS
2 29 (4.55%) ArcGIS
3 28 (4.40%) GeoServer
4 10 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.78%) Confluence
7 4 (0.63%) Appian
7 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.63%) Office Communications Server
7 4 (0.63%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.47%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.47%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 53 (8.32%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.94%) Simulink
7 5 (0.78%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.63%) EPLAN
8 4 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.88%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.47%) Maximo
3 3 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.31%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 154 (24.18%) Azure
2 94 (14.76%) AWS
3 26 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (2.83%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (2.04%) SaaS
7 12 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.73%) GitHub
9 10 (1.57%) PaaS
10 9 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (1.26%) IaaS
12 6 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.94%) Miro
13 5 (0.78%) GCP
13 5 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.77%) WAN
2 52 (8.16%) Firewall
3 31 (4.87%) MPLS
3 31 (4.87%) SD-WAN
4 29 (4.55%) IPsec
5 25 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (3.30%) DNS
7 18 (2.83%) Wireless
8 16 (2.51%) BGP
9 13 (2.04%) DHCP
9 13 (2.04%) Network Security
10 11 (1.73%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.26%) LAN
12 7 (1.10%) VLAN
12 7 (1.10%) VPN
13 6 (0.94%) 5G
14 5 (0.78%) 802.11
14 5 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.78%) VSAN
14 5 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.01%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (4.87%) GIS
4 28 (4.40%) QGIS
5 16 (2.51%) Oracle Database
6 13 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.41%) Power BI
8 6 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.78%) MySQL
9 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.78%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.47%) DB2
11 3 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.16%) Power Query
13 1 (0.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (3.14%) GitLab
2 16 (2.51%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (1.73%) JIRA
4 8 (1.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.47%) Git
7 2 (0.31%) Postman
7 2 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) Appium
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
8 1 (0.16%) PVCS
8 1 (0.16%) TestNG
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 95 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 69 (10.83%) Finance
4 52 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (4.24%) Police
6 26 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 26 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 25 (3.92%) Retail
8 24 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 23 (3.61%) Games
10 20 (3.14%) Military
11 15 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
12 14 (2.20%) Local Government
13 11 (1.73%) Electronics
14 6 (0.94%) Back Office
15 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.63%) Banking
16 4 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 97 (15.23%) Senior
2 69 (10.83%) Architect
3 62 (9.73%) Network Engineer
4 49 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 47 (7.38%) Project Manager
6 46 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 44 (6.91%) Lead
8 37 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.49%) Consultant
9 35 (5.49%) Developer
10 28 (4.40%) Analyst
11 25 (3.92%) Graduate
11 25 (3.92%) Graduate Consultant
11 25 (3.92%) Research Consultant
11 25 (3.92%) Resource Consultant
12 24 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.35%) Administrator
13 15 (2.35%) Security Architect
13 15 (2.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 13 (2.04%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.12%) React
2 37 (5.81%) .NET
3 28 (4.40%) Leaflet
3 28 (4.40%) OpenLayers
3 28 (4.40%) PostGIS
4 26 (4.08%) .NET Core
5 24 (3.77%) CSS
6 18 (2.83%) REST
7 17 (2.67%) 802.1X
7 17 (2.67%) WebRTC
8 11 (1.73%) RESTful
9 10 (1.57%) SOAP
10 9 (1.41%) Web Services
11 8 (1.26%) ARM Templates
11 8 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
12 7 (1.10%) HTML
13 6 (0.94%) Django
13 6 (0.94%) Node.js
14 5 (0.78%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.77%) Driving Licence
2 62 (9.73%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.18%) Clustering
4 25 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.51%) Private Cloud
7 14 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.04%) Operational Technology
9 11 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.57%) PKI
11 6 (0.94%) CMDB
11 6 (0.94%) SCADA
12 5 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.63%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.63%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (11.15%) Windows
2 38 (5.97%) Linux
3 27 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.51%) Unix
5 6 (0.94%) Solaris
6 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.47%) zOS
9 2 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (21.35%) Agile
2 126 (19.78%) Cybersecurity
3 112 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 84 (13.19%) Software Engineering
6 80 (12.56%) DevOps
6 80 (12.56%) Project Management
7 68 (10.68%) Mentoring
8 60 (9.42%) Customer Service
9 52 (8.16%) Systems Engineering
10 45 (7.06%) ITIL
11 43 (6.75%) Project Delivery
12 40 (6.28%) Customer Requirements
13 39 (6.12%) Incident Response
14 37 (5.81%) Data Collection
15 36 (5.65%) Validation
16 35 (5.49%) Risk Management
17 34 (5.34%) CI/CD
18 33 (5.18%) Continuous Integration
18 33 (5.18%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 62 (9.73%) JavaScript
2 55 (8.63%) Python
3 38 (5.97%) Java
4 37 (5.81%) SQL
5 27 (4.24%) C#
6 20 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.67%) MATLAB
8 16 (2.51%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.88%) C++
10 7 (1.10%) C
11 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.63%) R
13 3 (0.47%) Groovy
13 3 (0.47%) Rust
14 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 1 (0.16%) ABAP
15 1 (0.16%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.16%) SAPscript
15 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (60.28%) SC Cleared
2 102 (16.01%) Degree
3 50 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 30 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (3.77%) CCNA
7 21 (3.30%) CCNP
8 15 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.26%) CCSA
11 8 (1.26%) HND
12 7 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.78%) MCSA
15 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (7.22%) ISO 9001
3 45 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 37 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (4.08%) Accessibility
6 17 (2.67%) SLA
7 13 (2.04%) Def Stans
7 13 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.88%) NCSC
9 9 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (1.26%) NIST
11 6 (0.94%) QA
12 5 (0.78%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.78%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.78%) WCAG
13 4 (0.63%) PMO
14 3 (0.47%) COBIT
14 3 (0.47%) MISRA
14 3 (0.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 32 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.14%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.04%) Docker
4 13 (2.04%) KVM
5 10 (1.57%) vSphere
6 6 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.47%) Firmware
7 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (7.06%) EnCase
2 14 (2.20%) SCCM
3 12 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.88%) Terraform
4 10 (1.57%) Ansible
5 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.78%) SCOM
7 3 (0.47%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.47%) OpenView
7 3 (0.47%) VxRail
8 2 (0.31%) Grafana
8 2 (0.31%) Nagios
8 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 145 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.63%) Cisco
2 55 (8.63%) VMware
3 46 (7.22%) Juniper
4 28 (4.40%) ESRI
5 26 (4.08%) Oracle
6 23 (3.61%) CheckPoint
6 23 (3.61%) IFS
7 22 (3.45%) Dell
8 16 (2.51%) Workday
9 14 (2.20%) Aruba
9 14 (2.20%) NEC
10 13 (2.04%) Meraki
11 11 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.26%) Cellebrite
13 8 (1.26%) Veeam
14 7 (1.10%) EMC
14 7 (1.10%) HP
14 7 (1.10%) Palo Alto