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

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 46 142 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 13.33% 26.94% 26.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.11% 73.58% 76.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 108 179
10th Percentile £476 £337 £368
25th Percentile £575 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £723 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £691 £680
Wales median daily rate £615 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 9
10th Percentile £14.36 - £20.17
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £84.00 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +363.07% -60.78% +133.29%
75th Percentile £87.80 £19.98 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.84 £37.44 -
Wales median hourly rate £84.00 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +363.07% -60.78% +161.52%

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 90 193 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 26.09% 36.62% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 143 224
10th Percentile £217 £210 £293
25th Percentile £473 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £646 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £669 £678
Wales median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 13
10th Percentile £11.01 - £19.98
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.93 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% -60.78% +112.35%
75th Percentile £85.75 £20.10 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +25.03% -60.78% +158.81%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -1 25 £600 +9.09% 2
Bridgend 0 11 £700 +40.00% 2
Cardiff -9 10 £625 +6.66% 4
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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 (26.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) Azure
1 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
1 1 (2.17%) SAN
1 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (23.91%) Local Government
1 11 (23.91%) Marketing
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.87%) Legal
5 4 (8.70%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 11 (23.91%) Bid Manager
3 9 (19.57%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (19.57%) Senior Manager
4 8 (17.39%) Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) IAM Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Identity Management Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.52%) Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Programme Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Specialist
9 1 (2.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) PySpark
2 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.17%) CSS
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (2.17%) FPGA
1 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
1 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Unix
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (32.61%) Project Management
3 12 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (23.91%) PRINCE2
4 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (23.91%) Value Proposition
5 10 (21.74%) Psychology
5 10 (21.74%) Risk Management
6 9 (19.57%) Identity Management
7 8 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) Agile
10 5 (10.87%) Analytics
10 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (10.87%) Data Science
10 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (8.70%) Bill of Materials
11 4 (8.70%) Visualisation
11 4 (8.70%) Work Breakdown Structure
12 3 (6.52%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) PMI Certification
2 11 (23.91%) PMP
3 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) Adobe
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Altera
4 1 (2.17%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.17%) Brocade
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco
4 1 (2.17%) Dell
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Microsemi
4 1 (2.17%) NetApp
4 1 (2.17%) Veritas
4 1 (2.17%) Xilinx