Security Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 20 7
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 61 15 44
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 14.49% 6.33% 13.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.01% 15.46% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 22
10th Percentile £366 £237 £343
25th Percentile £375 £309 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -11.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £675
90th Percentile - £699 £725
Wales median daily rate £490 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +3.16% -20.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 13
10th Percentile £20.50 - £11.84
25th Percentile £25.77 - £15.81
Median hourly rate £53.75 £23.00 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +133.70% +12.36% +12.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £86.00
90th Percentile - - £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £20.47
% change year-on-year +108.75% +22.86% +12.84%

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 107 97 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 25.42% 40.93% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 66 51
10th Percentile £363 £243 £130
25th Percentile £375 £305 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -21.95% -6.65%
75th Percentile £669 £486 £625
90th Percentile £775 £625 £690
Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £503
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.40% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 17
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.08 £11.02
25th Percentile £25.77 £20.52 £15.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £37.50 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.23% +48.93% +38.81%
75th Percentile £53.75 £42.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £36.70 £25.15 £22.83
% change year-on-year +45.92% +10.19% +25.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Security Cleared

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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 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Security Cleared

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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 11 June 2026.

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 11 June 2026. 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 +11 28 £400 -33.33% 8
Cardiff +8 26 £750 +140.00% 10
Monmouthshire 0 4 - -
Bridgend -2 3 £600 +71.43%
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (16.39%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) GCP
5 3 (4.92%) BrowserStack
5 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.92%) SonarCloud
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Run
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.28%) Miro
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.64%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.64%) DHCP
1 1 (1.64%) DNS
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) SAN
1 1 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Metadata
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) Db2
3 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) JMeter
2 2 (3.28%) MSTest
2 2 (3.28%) Selenium
2 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (27.87%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Military
4 2 (3.28%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.64%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Senior
2 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Architect
3 7 (11.48%) Technical Architect
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Software Developer
4 4 (6.56%) Administrator
4 4 (6.56%) Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Developer
4 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Software Developer
4 4 (6.56%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (6.56%) Test Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Playwright
2 4 (6.56%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) Web Services
3 3 (4.92%) ADO
3 3 (4.92%) Middleware
4 2 (3.28%) Flask
4 2 (3.28%) Jinja
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
4 2 (3.28%) Spring
4 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.28%) NHS
1 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.64%) Clustering
2 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
1 15 (24.59%) ITSM
2 14 (22.95%) DevOps
2 14 (22.95%) Test Automation
3 11 (18.03%) Decision-Making
3 11 (18.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (16.39%) Agile
4 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (16.39%) Service Delivery
5 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.75%) Workflow
6 8 (13.11%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.48%) Migration
7 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.48%) Workflow Management
8 6 (9.84%) User Research
9 5 (8.20%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (8.20%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
9 5 (8.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
2 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.20%) Python
5 4 (6.56%) C#
6 3 (4.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (91.80%) SC Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) CCNA
2 8 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) SLA
2 3 (4.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) NFS
3 1 (1.64%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Ansible
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) SCCM
4 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.64%) SnapMirror
4 1 (1.64%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Salesforce
2 8 (13.11%) Cisco
3 6 (9.84%) VMware
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) Google
5 2 (3.28%) Remedy
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Apple
6 1 (1.64%) BMC
6 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.64%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) NetApp
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.64%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) Veeam