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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 37 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -30
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 470 400 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.85% 6.86% 4.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.65% 16.59% 14.30%
Number of salaries quoted 342 270 132
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,344 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,056
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.37% -9.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -1.18%

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 2,075 2,411 2,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.84% 41.36% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 969 1,270
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,700 £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 £66,000 £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% -

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 2 June 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 2 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 -17 173 £58,800 -5.92% 61
Staffordshire 0 113 £50,000 +25.00% 41
Warwickshire +78 81 £56,250 +12.50% 16
Solihull -4 31 £50,000 +1.01% 17
Worcestershire -12 28 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Herefordshire -2 11 £55,000 +2.80% 5
Shropshire -26 7 £60,000 - 9
Coventry +21 3 £41,536 -24.48% 8
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 31 (6.60%) IIS
2 11 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.70%) Apache
3 8 (1.70%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.28%) Appian
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.85%) Office Communications Server
7 3 (0.64%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 36 (7.66%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.06%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.85%) EPLAN
6 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.19%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.64%) Maximo
2 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.43%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.28%) Azure
2 52 (11.06%) AWS
3 24 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 13 (2.77%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.77%) GitHub
6 12 (2.55%) PaaS
7 11 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.13%) IaaS
8 10 (2.13%) SaaS
9 9 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.91%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.06%) dbt
13 4 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.43%) GCP
14 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (15.53%) WAN
2 52 (11.06%) Firewall
3 34 (7.23%) SD-WAN
4 32 (6.81%) MPLS
5 30 (6.38%) IPsec
6 20 (4.26%) Wireless
7 14 (2.98%) Network Security
8 13 (2.77%) DNS
9 12 (2.55%) BGP
9 12 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.91%) LAN
11 7 (1.49%) DHCP
11 7 (1.49%) VPN
11 7 (1.49%) VSAN
12 6 (1.28%) 5G
12 6 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.85%) HTTP
13 4 (0.85%) SAN
13 4 (0.85%) VLAN
14 3 (0.64%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.19%) Oracle Database
3 9 (1.91%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
4 7 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.28%) Power BI
6 4 (0.85%) MySQL
7 3 (0.64%) DB2
8 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.21%) GIS
9 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.77%) GitLab
2 10 (2.13%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.43%) Git
3 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.21%) Appium
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) JUnit
4 1 (0.21%) Postman
4 1 (0.21%) PVCS
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
4 1 (0.21%) TestNG
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 66 (14.04%) Finance
4 54 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.38%) Police
6 28 (5.96%) Manufacturing
7 25 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (5.11%) Telecoms
9 19 (4.04%) Games
10 17 (3.62%) Local Government
11 14 (2.98%) Retail
12 9 (1.91%) Military
13 8 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (1.49%) Back Office
15 6 (1.28%) Legal
16 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.06%) Electronics
17 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.64%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 65 (13.83%) Senior
2 64 (13.62%) Network Engineer
3 44 (9.36%) Project Manager
4 36 (7.66%) Consultant
5 35 (7.45%) Systems Engineer
6 29 (6.17%) Developer
7 28 (5.96%) Architect
8 23 (4.89%) Graduate
8 23 (4.89%) Graduate Consultant
8 23 (4.89%) Research Consultant
8 23 (4.89%) Resource Consultant
9 22 (4.68%) Analyst
10 20 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 18 (3.83%) Lead
12 14 (2.98%) WAN Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 11 (2.34%) Administrator
16 10 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.98%) REST
1 14 (2.98%) WebRTC
2 12 (2.55%) .NET
2 12 (2.55%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.34%) React
4 10 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 10 (2.13%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (1.91%) RESTful
5 9 (1.91%) SOAP
6 8 (1.70%) Web Services
7 4 (0.85%) Node.js
8 3 (0.64%) Django
8 3 (0.64%) Middleware
9 2 (0.43%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.43%) RSS
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.21%) SAPUI5
10 1 (0.21%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.77%) Management Information System
2 48 (10.21%) Driving Licence
3 26 (5.53%) Clustering
4 17 (3.62%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.98%) Operational Technology
6 14 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.91%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.70%) PKI
10 8 (1.70%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.70%) SCADA
11 6 (1.28%) CMDB
11 6 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.43%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.43%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.64%) Windows
2 32 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 26 (5.53%) Linux
4 17 (3.62%) Unix
5 8 (1.70%) Solaris
6 5 (1.06%) Android
7 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.43%) zOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (21.06%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (14.47%) Mentoring
3 67 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (13.62%) Project Management
5 63 (13.40%) Agile
6 59 (12.55%) Software Engineering
7 54 (11.49%) Customer Service
8 48 (10.21%) ITIL
9 44 (9.36%) DevOps
10 39 (8.30%) Systems Engineering
11 38 (8.09%) Project Delivery
12 33 (7.02%) Customer Requirements
12 33 (7.02%) ERP
13 30 (6.38%) Risk Management
14 26 (5.53%) High Availability
14 26 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (5.32%) CI/CD
16 23 (4.89%) Incident Response
17 22 (4.68%) Containerisation
17 22 (4.68%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.60%) SQL
2 23 (4.89%) Python
3 20 (4.26%) Java
4 17 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.13%) C++
7 9 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.70%) C#
8 8 (1.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.85%) R
10 3 (0.64%) C
11 2 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.21%) ABAP
12 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 268 (57.02%) SC Cleared
2 74 (15.74%) Degree
3 56 (11.91%) DV Cleared
4 22 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.62%) CCNA
6 15 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.19%) CCNP
7 9 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.70%) CCSA
8 8 (1.70%) HND
9 7 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.06%) MCSA
12 4 (0.85%) CISM
12 4 (0.85%) CISSP
12 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.64%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (6.38%) ISO 9001
2 30 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 22 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (4.04%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.98%) NCSC
6 13 (2.77%) Def Stans
7 10 (2.13%) NIST
8 9 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.28%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.06%) QA
12 4 (0.85%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.64%) PMO
14 2 (0.43%) SLA
15 1 (0.21%) GDPR
15 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 37 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.62%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.98%) Docker
5 13 (2.77%) vSphere
6 9 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (6.38%) EnCase
2 17 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.40%) Ansible
4 13 (2.77%) SCCM
5 12 (2.55%) Terraform
6 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.06%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.06%) VxRail
8 4 (0.85%) SCOM
9 3 (0.64%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.43%) Grafana
10 2 (0.43%) Nagios
10 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.43%) Puppet
11 1 (0.21%) Kibana
11 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 108 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.49%) VMware
3 49 (10.43%) Cisco
3 49 (10.43%) Juniper
4 25 (5.32%) IFS
5 23 (4.89%) Oracle
6 21 (4.47%) CheckPoint
7 17 (3.62%) NEC
7 17 (3.62%) Workday
8 15 (3.19%) Aruba
9 14 (2.98%) Fortinet
10 12 (2.55%) Dell
10 12 (2.55%) Meraki
11 9 (1.91%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.70%) Cellebrite
13 7 (1.49%) EMC
14 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.28%) SAP
15 5 (1.06%) IBM
16 4 (0.85%) HP