SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Dyfed

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Wales > Dyfed

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dyfed with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dyfed 28.57% - 9.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Wales median daily rate £625 £469 £575
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.48% +0.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Dyfed

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Dyfed.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dyfed 28.57% 20.00% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £925 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Dyfed

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dyfed.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Dyfed

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dyfed by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk