Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Monmouthshire

Security Clearance
South Wales > Monmouthshire

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Monmouthshire 50.00% 60.00% -
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 60.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.77 - -
25th Percentile £23.28 - -
Median hourly rate £28.95 - -
75th Percentile £35.98 - -
90th Percentile £39.32 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £38.70 £22.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +75.91% -38.03% +78.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Monmouthshire

Security 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 Monmouthshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Monmouthshire 50.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.77 - -
25th Percentile £23.28 - -
Median hourly rate £28.95 - -
75th Percentile £35.98 - -
90th Percentile £39.32 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £21.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.79% -38.61% +77.50%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Monmouthshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Monmouthshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Monmouthshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Monmouthshire citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Monmouthshire citing Security Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Monmouthshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Monmouthshire over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Monmouthshire

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Contract Job Locations in Monmouthshire

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 Monmouthshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Ebbw Vale +1 2 £600 -14.29%
Usk - 1 - -
Chepstow - 1 - -
Security Cleared
South Wales

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Monmouthshire 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Case Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) logstash