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 18 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 68 68 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 21.79% 20.42% 28.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.52% 62.39% 80.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 49 142
10th Percentile £200 £398 £351
25th Percentile £300 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £615 £560
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +9.82% +8.74%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £638
90th Percentile - £728 £688
Wales median daily rate £500 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -18.70% +11.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 6
10th Percentile £15.20 £12.58 £15.72
25th Percentile £20.12 £17.29 £17.04
Median hourly rate £20.24 £33.50 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -39.60% +67.88% -56.85%
75th Percentile £22.00 £48.88 £20.49
90th Percentile £25.36 £55.25 £22.75
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £33.50 £19.96
% change year-on-year -39.60% +67.88% -56.85%

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 132 109 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.31% 32.73% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 85 170
10th Percentile £172 £168 £304
25th Percentile £250 £305 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £513 £542
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% -5.44% +6.69%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £715 £688
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 8
10th Percentile £15.20 £12.73 £15.92
25th Percentile £20.12 £21.25 £18.68
Median hourly rate £21.59 £33.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -35.55% +65.55% -56.25%
75th Percentile £28.75 £52.50 £24.44
90th Percentile £45.00 £55.25 £25.00
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £33.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year -34.33% +65.55% -56.25%

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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 18 January 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 January 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 January 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 0 30 £425 -33.33% 4
Gwent - 20 - - 3
Cardiff -3 12 £297 -30.12% 6
Monmouthshire - 4 £700 -
Bridgend -2 3 £350 -48.91% 2
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Wales

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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 (1.47%) SAS
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 5 (7.35%) AWS
3 4 (5.88%) Azure Stack
3 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.41%) dbt
4 3 (4.41%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.94%) Azure App Service
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.47%) GitHub
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
1 2 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) SAN
2 1 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) MySQL
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.47%) RStudio
3 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.82%) Social Science
5 4 (5.88%) Finance
5 4 (5.88%) Military
6 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Analyst
2 8 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Lead
4 5 (7.35%) Administrator
5 4 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Programme Planner
6 3 (4.41%) Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Developer
6 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Statistical Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Research Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) PySpark
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) CSS
2 2 (2.94%) HTML
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) YAML
3 1 (1.47%) Angular 2
3 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.47%) HTML5
3 1 (1.47%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) Pandas
3 1 (1.47%) SPFx
3 1 (1.47%) WF
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.47%) Linked Data
2 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Rocky
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Statistics
2 12 (17.65%) Data Analysis
2 12 (17.65%) Data Science
3 9 (13.24%) Data Collection
4 8 (11.76%) Agile
4 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
5 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
5 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
6 6 (8.82%) Data Modelling
6 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (8.82%) Mathematics
7 5 (7.35%) Applied Mathematics
7 5 (7.35%) Business Case
7 5 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (7.35%) Data Architecture
7 5 (7.35%) Machine Learning
7 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.35%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.35%) Project Management
7 5 (7.35%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 5 (7.35%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) C#
4 2 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (1.47%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) R
5 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (89.71%) SC Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) Degree
3 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) CCIE
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Grafana
2 2 (2.94%) Kibana
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Matomo
2 2 (2.94%) Packer
2 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.94%) Google
1 2 (2.94%) Sophos
2 1 (1.47%) Blue Prism
2 1 (1.47%) Dell
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle
2 1 (1.47%) VMware