Security Cleared Jobs in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +47
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 228 233 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.42% 13.80% 8.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.24% 35.74% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53 42 35
10th Percentile £33,421 £24,614 £33,314
25th Percentile £41,200 £26,391 £37,057
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £30,630 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +91.97% -45.55% +33.93%
75th Percentile £70,250 £49,600 £71,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,523 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 504 652 641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.03% 38.60% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 188 227 232
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +11.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,890 £68,928 £71,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
South Wales +1 209 £58,800 +110.41% 25
West Wales +8 6 £46,131 -0.17% 2
Mid Wales - 4 £35,000 - 1
North Wales - 1 £33,500 - 3
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 38 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 30 (13.16%) Oracle Service Bus
3 27 (11.84%) ArcGIS
3 27 (11.84%) GeoServer
4 14 (6.14%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (14.04%) MS Visio
2 31 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.75%) Sketch
5 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 33 (14.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.81%) AWS
2 50 (21.93%) Azure
3 8 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.63%) Miro
5 5 (2.19%) Slack
6 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (1.75%) Azure API Management
6 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (1.75%) Figma
6 4 (1.75%) Heroku
6 4 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.32%) dbt
7 3 (1.32%) SaaS
8 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.40%) Firewall
2 18 (7.89%) DNS
3 16 (7.02%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.14%) IP Telephony
4 14 (6.14%) Wireless
5 12 (5.26%) LAN
5 12 (5.26%) WAN
6 11 (4.82%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (4.82%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (2.63%) SSL
8 5 (2.19%) SAN
9 4 (1.75%) BGP
10 3 (1.32%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (1.32%) VPN
11 2 (0.88%) Network Security
12 1 (0.44%) Internet
12 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.44%) SMTP
12 1 (0.44%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 30 (13.16%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (13.16%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (13.16%) VLDB
3 29 (12.72%) GIS
4 27 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (11.84%) QGIS
5 11 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.95%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.07%) MySQL
8 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.88%) Big Data
10 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) JIRA
2 5 (2.19%) GitLab
3 3 (1.32%) Git
4 2 (0.88%) JMeter
4 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.44%) MSTest
5 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.21%) Finance
3 21 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.51%) Games
7 6 (2.63%) Banking
8 5 (2.19%) Police
8 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (35.09%) Senior
2 50 (21.93%) Analyst
3 35 (15.35%) Architect
4 34 (14.91%) Applications Support
4 34 (14.91%) Applications Support Analyst
4 34 (14.91%) Support Analyst
5 30 (13.16%) Oracle Analyst
5 30 (13.16%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 30 (13.16%) SQL Analyst
5 30 (13.16%) SQL Support Analyst
6 29 (12.72%) Software Engineer
7 28 (12.28%) Lead
8 17 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Network Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Senior Network Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Consultant
11 12 (5.26%) Technical Leader
12 11 (4.82%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.47%) React
2 27 (11.84%) Leaflet
2 27 (11.84%) OpenLayers
2 27 (11.84%) PostGIS
3 23 (10.09%) .NET
3 23 (10.09%) .NET Core
3 23 (10.09%) CSS
4 8 (3.51%) Node.js
5 5 (2.19%) Django
5 5 (2.19%) HTML
5 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.75%) J2EE
6 4 (1.75%) Java EE
6 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.75%) Spring
7 3 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.32%) Express.js
8 2 (0.88%) Kafka
9 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.40%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.07%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.19%) CMDB
4 5 (2.19%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.75%) Robotics
6 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.44%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.44%) Life Science
7 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.05%) Linux
2 40 (17.54%) Unix
3 30 (13.16%) Solaris
4 8 (3.51%) Windows
5 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (69.30%) Actionable Insight
2 81 (35.53%) Agile
3 55 (24.12%) Incident Management
4 45 (19.74%) DevOps
5 42 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
6 38 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 37 (16.23%) Capacity Planning
8 36 (15.79%) ITSM
9 31 (13.60%) Performance Monitoring
9 31 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.16%) Capacity Management
10 30 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
10 30 (13.16%) Release Management
11 28 (12.28%) Change Management
12 27 (11.84%) Web Development
13 23 (10.09%) Migration
14 20 (8.77%) Project Management
15 19 (8.33%) ITIL
16 17 (7.46%) Mentoring
17 16 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.23%) JavaScript
1 37 (16.23%) SQL
2 32 (14.04%) Python
3 30 (13.16%) PL/SQL
4 19 (8.33%) C#
5 14 (6.14%) Java
6 8 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.88%) VBA
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 202 (88.60%) SC Cleared
2 56 (24.56%) Degree
3 11 (4.82%) CCNA
3 11 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.44%) CISSP
8 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.44%) GIAC
8 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.44%) PMP
8 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.35%) SLA
2 11 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.19%) WCAG
4 3 (1.32%) COBIT
5 2 (0.88%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (13.16%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (13.16%) Data Guard
1 30 (13.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (3.07%) Terraform
3 6 (2.63%) Ansible
4 4 (1.75%) OpenSSO
4 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.32%) OpenView
6 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (25.00%) Oracle
2 37 (16.23%) Remedy
3 31 (13.60%) Microsoft
4 30 (13.16%) Sun
5 27 (11.84%) ESRI
6 26 (11.40%) Cisco
7 14 (6.14%) Avaya
7 14 (6.14%) Mitel
8 12 (5.26%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.82%) Fortinet
9 11 (4.82%) McAfee
9 11 (4.82%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.19%) Sparx
10 5 (2.19%) VMware
11 3 (1.32%) Blue Prism
11 3 (1.32%) BMC
11 3 (1.32%) HP
11 3 (1.32%) UiPath
12 2 (0.88%) IBM