Security Cleared Contracts in South Wales

Security Clearance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 1
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 24 54 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 9.92% 16.12% 28.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.43% 60.67% 76.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 107
10th Percentile £173 £450 £367
25th Percentile £248 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +11.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £703 £628
90th Percentile £696 £725 £693
Wales median daily rate £533 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 15
10th Percentile - £11.00 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.24 £52.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -61.26% +187.95% -60.78%
75th Percentile £21.50 £87.35 £19.98
90th Percentile £22.20 £87.82 £37.44
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £52.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year -61.26% +187.95% -60.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 112 89 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 46.28% 26.57% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 65 140
10th Percentile £177 £220 £210
25th Percentile £285 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £537
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +2.42% -2.36%
75th Percentile £489 £646 £616
90th Percentile £613 £725 £669
Wales median daily rate £400 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 16
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.93 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +31.92% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.75 £20.10
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.38
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security 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 Security Cleared in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Security 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 Security Cleared within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Newport -2 14 £600 - 24
Cardiff -2 5 £269 -56.65% 20
Gwent - 3 £540 - 9
Bridgend -3 2 £294 -58.04% 2
Monmouthshire - 1 £700 -
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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 1 (4.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Publishing
3 1 (4.17%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.17%) Database Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Graduate
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Research Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) Angular 2
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) EntireX
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) HTML5
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Linked Data
1 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Rocky
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
1 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
2 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (16.67%) Data Collection
2 4 (16.67%) Data Science
2 4 (16.67%) Statistics
3 3 (12.50%) Agile
3 3 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Multithreading
3 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) OO
4 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
1 2 (8.33%) Sophos
2 1 (4.17%) Dell
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Software AG
2 1 (4.17%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) webMethods