Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Security Clearance
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swansea with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 7 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 18.92% 57.14% 16.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 77.78% 88.89% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 2
10th Percentile £455 £425 £408
25th Percentile £488 £484 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.59% -15.12%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £508
90th Percentile - £575 £514
West Wales median daily rate £525 £500 £456
% change year-on-year +5.00% +9.59% -15.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9 18 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 24.32% 64.29% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 6
10th Percentile £457 £335 £178
25th Percentile £500 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £180
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +177.78% -63.08%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £401
90th Percentile £653 £575 £497
West Wales median daily rate £575 £500 £180
% change year-on-year +15.00% +177.78% -63.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.38 - £14.86
Median hourly rate £16.75 - £15.42
75th Percentile £17.13 - £15.97
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £19.51 - £15.42

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Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Swansea

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Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Swansea

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Swansea over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Swansea

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Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (14.29%) Agile
1 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
1 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Ruby
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) PagerDuty
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow