Security Cleared Contracts in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 60 168 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 14.96% 26.62% 27.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.41% 76.02% 80.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 122 208
10th Percentile £450 £219 £342
25th Percentile £475 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £689 £625 £629
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 12
10th Percentile £11.00 - £19.94
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £20.62
Median hourly rate £52.24 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +187.95% -60.78% +112.35%
75th Percentile £87.35 £19.98 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.82 £37.44 -
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £60.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.29% +15.62% +23.53%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 221 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.19% 35.02% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 160 248
10th Percentile £220 £185 £245
25th Percentile £466 £386 £422
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 £663 £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% +5.06%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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 -5 54 £615 +11.82% 13
West Wales 0 6 £500 -1.23% 2
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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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Acrobat
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
1 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (3.33%) GitHub
3 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) PBX
1 2 (3.33%) SAN
1 2 (3.33%) VoIP
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.67%) Metadata
1 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) CA Gen
1 2 (3.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.33%) Local Government
4 11 (18.33%) Marketing
5 5 (8.33%) Legal
6 4 (6.67%) Finance
7 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Senior
2 11 (18.33%) Bid Manager
3 9 (15.00%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (15.00%) Senior Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Consultant
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Architect
6 5 (8.33%) IAM Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Identity Management Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Design Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Mechanical Design Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Mechanical Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Programme Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) PySpark
2 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) Node.js
3 1 (1.67%) React
3 1 (1.67%) RESTful
3 1 (1.67%) Spring
3 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.67%) FPGA
2 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Unix
2 6 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (25.00%) Project Management
3 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (21.67%) Value Proposition
4 12 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (18.33%) PRINCE2
6 10 (16.67%) Psychology
6 10 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 9 (15.00%) Identity Management
8 8 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
8 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 7 (11.67%) Agile
10 5 (8.33%) Analytics
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) Data Science
10 5 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (6.67%) Bill of Materials
11 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.67%) Visualisation
11 4 (6.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) Java
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.33%) Ruby
2 2 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) Degree
3 11 (18.33%) PMI Certification
3 11 (18.33%) PMP
4 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Adobe
3 2 (3.33%) Brocade
3 2 (3.33%) CA
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco
3 2 (3.33%) Dell
3 2 (3.33%) NetApp
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) Veritas
4 1 (1.67%) Altera
4 1 (1.67%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Microsemi
4 1 (1.67%) RedGate
4 1 (1.67%) Xilinx