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 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 31 43 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -20
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 442 418 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.99% 6.55% 4.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.54% 15.89% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 341 276 136
10th Percentile £25,950 £31,250 £32,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,991 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% -14.17%
75th Percentile £64,108 £68,750 £66,938
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £79,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

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 1,961 2,630 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.58% 41.22% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 959 1,187
10th Percentile £25,675 £28,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £62,813 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% +8.36% -

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 10 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 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
Birmingham -18 153 £57,500 -8.00% 47
Warwickshire +102 99 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Staffordshire -2 97 £28,700 -27.11% 25
Solihull -4 31 £50,000 +1.01% 9
Worcestershire -12 25 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Herefordshire -4 8 £60,000 +42.86% 9
Shropshire -24 8 £51,536 -14.11% 7
Coventry +24 3 £41,536 -24.48% 6
Wednesbury - 1 £32,500 -
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 36 (8.14%) IIS
2 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.36%) Apache
3 6 (1.36%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.90%) Appian
4 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.90%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (0.68%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 50 (11.31%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (8.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.13%) AutoCAD
5 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.90%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 12 (2.71%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.68%) Maximo
2 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 101 (22.85%) Azure
2 49 (11.09%) AWS
3 21 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 13 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.49%) GitHub
7 10 (2.26%) PaaS
7 10 (2.26%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.81%) IaaS
9 8 (1.81%) SaaS
10 6 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.68%) dbt
12 3 (0.68%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (16.97%) WAN
2 50 (11.31%) Firewall
3 31 (7.01%) MPLS
3 31 (7.01%) SD-WAN
4 29 (6.56%) IPsec
5 18 (4.07%) Wireless
6 12 (2.71%) BGP
6 12 (2.71%) Network Security
6 12 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (2.26%) DNS
8 8 (1.81%) LAN
9 7 (1.58%) VPN
10 6 (1.36%) 5G
10 6 (1.36%) DHCP
11 5 (1.13%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.13%) VSAN
12 4 (0.90%) HTTP
13 3 (0.68%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.71%) Oracle Database
4 7 (1.58%) Power BI
5 6 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
5 6 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.90%) MySQL
7 3 (0.68%) DB2
8 2 (0.45%) 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%) Power Query
9 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.71%) GitLab
2 8 (1.81%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.45%) Git
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) 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
1 143 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 58 (13.12%) Finance
4 52 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 26 (5.88%) Police
6 25 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (5.43%) Telecoms
8 23 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.07%) Games
10 14 (3.17%) Local Government
10 14 (3.17%) Retail
11 9 (2.04%) Military
12 7 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (1.36%) Back Office
14 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Electronics
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
16 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (14.03%) Network Engineer
2 48 (10.86%) Senior
3 43 (9.73%) Project Manager
4 42 (9.50%) Systems Engineer
5 35 (7.92%) Consultant
6 25 (5.66%) Developer
6 25 (5.66%) Graduate
6 25 (5.66%) Graduate Consultant
6 25 (5.66%) Research Consultant
6 25 (5.66%) Resource Consultant
7 20 (4.52%) Analyst
7 20 (4.52%) Architect
8 18 (4.07%) Lead
9 15 (3.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 13 (2.94%) WAN Engineer
11 10 (2.26%) Senior Network Engineer
11 10 (2.26%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.04%) Administrator
12 9 (2.04%) DBA
12 9 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.85%) REST
1 17 (3.85%) WebRTC
2 12 (2.71%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.49%) .NET
4 10 (2.26%) React
5 9 (2.04%) RESTful
5 9 (2.04%) SOAP
6 8 (1.81%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.81%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (1.36%) Web Services
8 3 (0.68%) Middleware
8 3 (0.68%) Node.js
9 2 (0.45%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.45%) Django
9 2 (0.45%) RSS
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.23%) SAP Smart Forms
10 1 (0.23%) Spring
10 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.80%) Driving Licence
2 56 (12.67%) Management Information System
3 33 (7.47%) Clustering
4 19 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 18 (4.07%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.94%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.26%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.04%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.81%) PKI
12 6 (1.36%) CMDB
12 6 (1.36%) SCADA
13 5 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.90%) Low-Code
15 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
15 2 (0.45%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.45%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.95%) Windows
2 25 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 20 (4.52%) Linux
4 14 (3.17%) Unix
5 6 (1.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.45%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (25.34%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.03%) Project Management
4 60 (13.57%) Mentoring
5 56 (12.67%) Agile
6 55 (12.44%) Customer Service
7 48 (10.86%) Software Engineering
8 39 (8.82%) ITIL
9 38 (8.60%) DevOps
10 37 (8.37%) Incident Response
10 37 (8.37%) Project Delivery
10 37 (8.37%) Systems Engineering
11 36 (8.14%) Data Collection
12 33 (7.47%) Customer Requirements
12 33 (7.47%) High Availability
13 30 (6.79%) CI/CD
14 29 (6.56%) ERP
15 28 (6.33%) Risk Management
16 27 (6.11%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (5.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.14%) SQL
2 25 (5.66%) Java
3 14 (3.17%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.71%) Python
5 8 (1.81%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.58%) C++
7 6 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.90%) C#
8 4 (0.90%) R
9 3 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 245 (55.43%) SC Cleared
2 68 (15.38%) Degree
3 37 (8.37%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.20%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.85%) CCNA
6 16 (3.62%) CCNP
7 13 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.81%) CCSA
9 8 (1.81%) HND
10 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.13%) MCSA
12 4 (0.90%) APMP
12 4 (0.90%) CISM
12 4 (0.90%) CISSP
12 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (10.18%) ISO 9001
3 44 (9.95%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 36 (8.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (3.62%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.94%) Def Stans
7 12 (2.71%) NCSC
8 9 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 8 (1.81%) NIST
10 6 (1.36%) QA
11 5 (1.13%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.13%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.68%) PMO
13 2 (0.45%) SLA
14 1 (0.23%) GDPR
14 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 34 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.52%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.71%) Docker
5 8 (1.81%) vSphere
6 6 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (9.95%) EnCase
2 13 (2.94%) SCCM
3 12 (2.71%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.26%) Ansible
4 10 (2.26%) Terraform
5 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.68%) Backup Exec
6 3 (0.68%) SCOM
6 3 (0.68%) VxRail
7 2 (0.45%) Grafana
7 2 (0.45%) Nagios
7 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.31%) VMware
3 48 (10.86%) Cisco
4 46 (10.41%) Juniper
5 23 (5.20%) CheckPoint
5 23 (5.20%) IFS
6 18 (4.07%) Oracle
7 16 (3.62%) Workday
8 14 (3.17%) Aruba
8 14 (3.17%) NEC
9 13 (2.94%) Meraki
10 11 (2.49%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.04%) Dell
12 8 (1.81%) Cellebrite
13 7 (1.58%) EMC
13 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.36%) SAP
15 5 (1.13%) IBM
16 4 (0.90%) HP