SC Cleared Contracts in South Wales

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 40 159 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 12.42% 33.13% 25.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.63% 76.44% 73.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 126 173
10th Percentile £460 £413 £364
25th Percentile £575 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +20.28%
75th Percentile £723 £636 £588
90th Percentile £725 £666 £677
Wales median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile £15.20 - £20.14
25th Percentile £17.96 £16.98 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.47 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% -60.78% +111.57%
75th Percentile £86.90 £19.98 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £37.44 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.47 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +12.84% -60.78% +111.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 79 208 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.53% 43.33% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 160 217
10th Percentile £160 £273 £293
25th Percentile £313 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +0.27% +21.78%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £589
90th Percentile £725 £650 £675
Wales median daily rate £515 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -1.90% -3.23% +20.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 12
10th Percentile £11.02 - £19.94
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.98 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.18 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -60.78% +111.96%
75th Percentile £85.00 £20.10 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £22.83 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +25.83% -60.78% +118.52%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -2 22 £600 +9.09% 4
Bridgend 0 9 £700 +41.77%
Cardiff -12 9 £525 -10.41% 6
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 12 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 11 (27.50%) Local Government
1 11 (27.50%) Marketing
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Legal
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Senior
2 11 (27.50%) Bid Manager
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Manager
4 8 (20.00%) Consultant
5 6 (15.00%) Data Scientist
6 5 (12.50%) IAM Consultant
6 5 (12.50%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
6 5 (12.50%) Identity Management Consultant
7 3 (7.50%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Business Consultant
9 1 (2.50%) FPGA Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Mainframe Consultant
9 1 (2.50%) Security Officer
9 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (2.50%) FPGA
1 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
1 6 (15.00%) Unix
2 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (30.00%) Project Management
3 11 (27.50%) PRINCE2
3 11 (27.50%) Value Proposition
4 10 (25.00%) Psychology
4 10 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 9 (22.50%) Identity Management
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) Data Science
9 5 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (10.00%) Agile
10 4 (10.00%) Analytics
10 4 (10.00%) Bill of Materials
10 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
10 4 (10.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
11 3 (7.50%) Budget Management
11 3 (7.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) R
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) Degree
3 11 (27.50%) PMI Certification
3 11 (27.50%) PMP
4 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.00%) PhD
6 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) Adobe
3 2 (5.00%) Brocade
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Dell
3 2 (5.00%) NetApp
3 2 (5.00%) Veritas
4 1 (2.50%) Altera
4 1 (2.50%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Microsemi
4 1 (2.50%) Xilinx