SC Cleared Contracts in Cardiff

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 10 35 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.50% 10.14% 10.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.81% 47.30% 57.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 50
10th Percentile £426 £375 £413
25th Percentile £481 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +6.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £648 £714
South Wales median daily rate £620 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +12.73% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.22 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £16.45 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - -35.51% +81.75%
75th Percentile - £16.67 £25.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £84.00 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +363.07% -60.78% +133.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cardiff

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 42 74 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.92% 21.45% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 75
10th Percentile £210 £209 £363
25th Percentile £380 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £615 £593 £638
90th Percentile £650 £626 £691
South Wales median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £18.75
25th Percentile £11.03 £16.22 £19.69
Median hourly rate £11.64 £16.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -26.91% +36.24%
75th Percentile £12.25 £16.67 £24.75
90th Percentile - - £25.35
South Wales median hourly rate £23.93 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +31.92% -60.78% +112.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Cardiff over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
2 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (20.00%) Line Management
1 2 (20.00%) PLM
1 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (20.00%) Scrum
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (10.00%) Brocade
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Dell
1 1 (10.00%) NetApp
1 1 (10.00%) Veritas