SC Cleared Contracts in Wales

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 50 154 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 12.47% 24.29% 25.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.50% 68.75% 74.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 117 195
10th Percentile £475 £274 £321
25th Percentile £559 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £708 £625 £632
90th Percentile £725 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
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% +161.52%
75th Percentile £87.80 £19.98 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.84 £37.44 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 224 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.19% 35.33% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 163 250
10th Percentile £220 £186 £234
25th Percentile £466 £383 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £625
90th Percentile £724 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
10th Percentile £11.01 - £19.98
25th Percentile £15.51 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -60.78% +150.88%
75th Percentile £85.50 £20.47 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.73%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
South Wales -6 47 £625 +13.64% 11
West Wales +1 3 £500 -1.23% 1
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UK

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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 12 (24.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) Azure
1 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.00%) CA Gen
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Local Government
2 11 (22.00%) Marketing
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Legal
5 4 (8.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Senior
2 11 (22.00%) Bid Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Senior Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) IAM Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Identity Management Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Data Scientist
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Programme Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) Node.js
2 1 (2.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (2.00%) FPGA
1 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Unix
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (30.00%) Project Management
3 12 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) PRINCE2
4 11 (22.00%) Value Proposition
5 10 (20.00%) Psychology
5 10 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 9 (18.00%) Identity Management
7 8 (16.00%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Agile
9 5 (10.00%) Analytics
9 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.00%) Data Science
9 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (8.00%) Bill of Materials
10 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Visualisation
10 4 (8.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.00%) Ruby
3 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.00%) PMI Certification
2 11 (22.00%) PMP
3 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Adobe
3 2 (4.00%) Brocade
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Dell
3 2 (4.00%) NetApp
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Veritas
4 1 (2.00%) Altera
4 1 (2.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.00%) CA
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Microsemi
4 1 (2.00%) Xilinx